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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
You're listening to Halford & Brough. Underneath, puts it up, puts it in! Jalen Brunson does it again! It's a six-point lead with 37 seconds left. We've been down in a series before, never in the finals, obviously, but I'm not kicking myself about anything, really. I mean, I'm not worried the slightest.
All right! You lose. What? Didn't you hear what he said? Good morning, Vancouver. 6.01 on a Thursday. Good pull. Happy Thursday, everybody. It is Halford. It is Brough. It is Sportsnet 650. We are coming to you live from the Kintec Studios in beautiful Mount Pleasant in Vancouver. Jason, good morning. Good morning. Ada, good morning to you. Good morning. Laddie, good morning to you as well.
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Chapter 2: What happened in the NBA Finals Game 1?
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Chapter 3: What are the Vancouver Canucks doing at the NHL Draft Combine?
We will begin with our morning guest list. It's the Duik Morning Drive brought to you by the Duik Auto Group. It begins at 7 o'clock this morning. That's right. First hour, all uninterrupted Halbro. First guest goes at 7. It's Adnan Virk from MLB Network. So after winning 8 of 10, Laddie, the Jays have now lost 4 in a row. We got some audio. Things are getting a little spicy in Toronto.
Meanwhile... They're getting healthier. They're getting healthier. They sure are, but they're not winning the baseball game. It's still good.
It's still good.
Meanwhile, the Mariners had their eight-game win streak snapped last night with a loss to the Mets. So we got a lot to get into all that and more with Adnan at 7 o'clock this morning. 7.30, James Myrtle's going to join us. Senior writer from The Athletic. He's going to join us live from Carolina, the site of this year's Stanley Cup final. Game two goes tonight.
Golden Knights hold a one-games-to-none series lead. We're also going to talk to James Myrtle. about his recent piece profiling Canes owner Tom Dundon. Very interesting piece, not just because of, you know, the fact that Dundon's very much in the news right now with his ownership of the Portland Trailblazers, but he's not doing a lot of media, if any media at all right now.
As a matter of fact, James classified it as a rare recent instance of him granting an interview request. I think it's hard to get a hold of Dundon because of all the scrutiny he's under right now. So James got that access, wrote a very cool article for The Athletic. We're going to talk to him about it. at 7.30.
8 o'clock, Thomas Drance is going to join the program from Canucks Talk and The Athletic. Today at 11 a.m., so five hours from now, Manny Malhotra will meet with the media where he will be formally, officially introduced as the 23rd head coach in franchise history. Drance wrote about the Malhotra hire and a whole lot more in his latest Canucks Notebook. which dropped last night on The Athletic.
So big Canucks talk with Drance coming up at 8 o'clock this morning. And then a reminder, three hours later, Manny meets with the media at 11 o'clock. Drance is in Buffalo right now, right? That's right. He is in Buffalo. Now, did Drance get a dinner date with the Canucks? That's going to be something that we talk about and what happened. I'd highly doubt it, but we'll wait and see.
Okay, so there's the guest list. We got a lot to get into in the program. So without further ado, Laddie, tell everybody what happened. Hey, did you guys see the game last night? No. What? Why don't we begin with the Vancouver Canucks and the NHL Scouting Combine in Buffalo? All the stars are there. Thomas Drance, others. The Canucks have apparently lined up a handful of dinner dates.
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Chapter 4: What can we expect from Manny Malhotra's press conference?
San Jose can really add to a young, exciting group with the second overall pick. But given where the Canucks finished, what their offseason has entailed, a complete overhaul, almost top to bottom in terms of executive, management, general manager, now coach overall. This draft in this first round is extremely important.
And, you know, when you talk about having your draft list and the guys that you like, and I've had so many people come up to me. I was playing basketball last night and I had a couple of people come up to me and they're all asking about Caleb Alhotra, right? And I say the same thing every time. I don't think that the Canucks have talked themselves into the potential of taking him third overall.
I think they firmly believe, along with a lot of other draft pundits, that his rise up the draft rankings to where he could be a very viable third overall pick has to do with the fact that there's a lot of people that genuinely believe he's a high-end talent.
The player himself said this yesterday in an interview with Mike Morial from NHL.com, which we relayed where he talked about the potential of playing with his dad in Vancouver. At the very end, he talked about where his floor and ceiling was as a prospect, and Caleb said he models his game in terms of the high end of it to being like an Alexander Barkov. I mean, that's an amazing comp.
Granted, it's coming from the player himself, but good on him for having the confidence. But there are some scouts out there that think that he's got real high-end talent here. Anyway, back to the list as it's drawn up. So again, it's Sandberg, Malhotra, Reid, and McKenna as the four guys that the Canucks have taken, let's call it, special interest in.
I was told they didn't take Malhotra out for dinner. Okay. So, I mean, it doesn't really matter. But I'm pretty sure they know him. They do. And they've also met with him and had a one-on-one interview already. That was one of the first ones that they did in Buffalo. Like, I think people need to understand that The teams have talked to these guys before.
Someone texted in a few days ago and said, you know, like, are they allowed to talk to these guys before the combine? Yeah, they can. And in that McKenna documentary, they were asking him about who he's spoken to. And he said, well, most of the bottom teams right now, right? Like that's who I was talking to.
So these dinners really, I don't want to say they're not a big deal because I think there is potential for the dinners to go badly, right? But that's the only thing, right? There's a potential downside if the dinner doesn't go well. And maybe you're left after that dinner going like, did he not like the food or did he not like us? We were going to draft Caleb, but he set his thing on fire.
What's it called? Keep going. I'm glad you interrupted for that. Why? His menu.
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Chapter 5: Who are the key prospects the Canucks are interested in?
They don't even understand Michelin stars because they... They have no culture in their lives. If they pass, if they pass, the storylines become, I mean, from a personal perspective, 10 times more intriguing if they pass on Malhotra. Because the big question then is why? If you had him this highly rated. What happened? Yeah. Or were you as comfortable as you said publicly? Right.
And I mean, they might end up saying, well, you know, on our draft boards, we had player X, be it Chase Reed or somebody else higher. Yeah. But that is not going to take away from the narrative. The follow-up question, why are you such a liar? Yeah, because right now... Why does this organization continue to lie? I thought things were going to be different.
Right now, they have made it pretty abundantly clear that they've discussed the possibility of taking him at three and that everyone, and we'll hear from Manny today to confirm this, but everyone's on board and comfortable with the dynamic. Finally, third question that I want to hear Manny answer today. Have you talked to Petey yet?
If you haven't, when are you going to and what is that conversation going to be like? Because that to me is the one where the messaging could go the most astray because they have left it pretty wide open. Here's the thing. When the Sedins have talked about Petey, I would say that there was an air of critique in the reply, right?
Talking about it's up to Petey and he needs to come in and be prepared. When Ryan Johnson talked about him earlier this week, it was more of a let's throw an arm around the kid and tell him you be whoever you want to be. We're going to be here to support you. I had a great, encouraging conversation.
Drance framed it as maybe the most encouraging public remarks that any Canucks management has had in the last five years when it comes to Petey. And you could throw Talkett in there as a coach slash management, right? Others have been critical. Johnson was pretty positive. But they also left the option open to, you know, we'll see what happens in the fall.
I like that Johnson, I know he was talking a bit in the conversation, but I think the way he went about it was just like, what do you think, Elias? Because what I got from that was that Pettersson or Johnson felt that Pettersson had just been told what to be as opposed to asking his opinion.
Now, I have also heard that sometimes when they ask Pettersson for his opinion in the past, he's kind of shrugged his shoulders and hasn't really been you know, for example, on the style of play, you know, and he's been like, well, I don't know. Well, that could go to your earlier theory yesterday about like shutting down.
Yeah.
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Chapter 6: What are the stakes for the Canucks in the upcoming draft?
This includes Wemby himself. This is Victor Wemby from after yesterday's game in which the Spurs had a pretty comfortable lead in the third quarter, only to see the Knicks close on an 11-0 run to win 105-95 and steal home court in game one. Here's Wemby.
It's obviously, I mean, we've been down in a series before, never in the finals, obviously. But I'm not kicking myself about anything, really. I mean, I'm not worried the slightest.
I threw it over to NBA TV yesterday after the game. They play all of the postgame media availabilities. And while he was very short in his answers, although except with the French-speaking reporter who he was quite loquacious with, Wemby was short, but he was like defiant about this being an aberration. He's like, I'm not worried. I'm not the slightest bit concerned. I was terrible.
And then he just kind of went about his business. So part of the reason they didn't play especially well yesterday. And a couple of pundits in the post were talking about this. The play of Carl Anthony Towns. Cat. They call him cat. Yeah. Who did a really nice job defensively on Wemby, especially in the second half. where he got some key defensive stops.
He was making things happen with second chances on the rebounds. The Knicks rebounded the ball awesome yesterday. He's got good reflexes. Cat? Yeah, like a dog. So here is Carl Anthony Towns after the game, talking about his teammate Jalen Brunson, who went for 30 in last night's win. Here's Cat from the podium.
I've seen it now for two years, but you see Jalen limp to the locker room, comes back out. Fourth quarter heroics. Is there ever a doubt in your mind, one, he's coming back, or two, you put the ball in his hands, he's going to do what he did?
No, with the balls in his hands, I'm never surprised. I'll tell you that last shot, I think it was like a shoot floater. That was nasty.
Brentson really personifies that like hard scrabble, you know, heart of a champion type Knicks team where they're like, they're not, they're not super high on raw physical tools and talent, this team, but they've got a great bench. They play with a real energy. They play with the toughness and determination. So he didn't,
shoot great or quite frankly play great last maybe 12 or 31 but he finished with 30 points but in that game he got rolled up on in the first quarter Harrison Barnes fell into his knee Brunson leaves everyone's like oh my god like can you imagine another NBA finals where this massive injury happens everyone take a deep breath Brunson comes back finishes with 30 ton of huge shots in the fourth quarter and the Knicks take it 105 95
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