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Chapter 1: What key lessons can the Canucks learn from the Carolina Hurricanes?
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Our next guest is the Canucks play-by-play man here on Sportsnet 650, Brendan Batchelor on the Halford & Brough Show. Good morning, Batch.
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Chapter 2: How is Brendan Batchelor adjusting to the current NHL offseason?
How are you? I'm doing well. How are you guys? We are well. Are you in NHL off-season mode yet, or are you firmly in World Cup mode?
Oh, World Cup mode completely. Especially like yesterday, all four games were excellent. I know they were all draws, but I thought they were all pretty entertaining and had lots of great storylines. And I think the quality of play thus far in the tournament has been really, really good. And there's been a lot of good games. So, yeah, I'll be glued to my TV all day today.
Is this a year for England? Oh, is it ever the year for England? I don't know. Short answer, no.
No.
Well, here's what I'll say. I saw yesterday that there was a report from Ben Jacobs, I believe, who you guys have had on your show before, that Donald Trump is going to be part of the trophy lift like he was at the Club World Cup last summer. So if there's a year for England to win it and Donald Trump to ruin it, then this is that year.
They wouldn't even get to keep the trophy because didn't he keep the Club World trophy or something like that?
He kept it on his mantle. He got one of the medals, yeah. So, yeah, I don't know. It'll be interesting to see. I think there are a lot of expectations around England. I think they should come pretty, you know, easily out of their group. And then it's kind of hard to predict what the knockout round will look like beyond that because of all the third place teams and the moving parts.
But, you know, I think it would be likely a tough road for them to get there. But that said, they are one of the favorites. So we'll see. But I always temper my expectations.
Yeah. I always get them up, and then they come crashing down on me. Okay, let's talk about the next, I don't know, 10 days for the Vancouver Canucks. Do you think they'll make a big trade at the draft?
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Chapter 3: What are the expectations for the Vancouver Canucks in the upcoming draft?
That's Brendan Batchelor, the play-by-play voice of the Vancouver Canucks here on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. I know we're only one day into the offseason, but for the listeners out there, you got to remember the NHL offseason is so compressed in terms of when the majority of things happen.
You got that window between the end of the Stanley Cup final and July 1, and it's two weeks of let's get all of our business done. The NHL's never really figured out how a calendar works. I know guys want to go on vacation. I know it's a long season. I know everyone needs to get to Muskoka by July 2nd. But everything happens in the next 16 days.
You know what I'm going to be really curious about is how much news we get out of this new front office. We've already talked about this in that there seems to be less leaks coming out of the Canucks front office. And I...
and i guess we'll wait on the insiders to see if anything comes up but this is the time where the insiders go back home from the stanley cup final they're like oh god it's a good thing i get paid quite a bit of money because this is never ending you just have a stanley cup final where you're traveling between carolina and vegas and vegas must have been kind of exhausting to go to and then and then you're back and like you said the expectation from everyone right now is like all right
Give us the news. Yeah, make some trades. Give us the speculation. What's going on? Who's talking to who? Who might move? Because the NHL draft, for me, is now the biggest trade time. The deadline kind of stinks now. You mean July 1st?
Oh, the in-season trade deadline.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's okay. There's some big deals that happen, but for the true blockbusters... It's now the offseason and the draft when everyone is kind of decompressed from the season and there's a lot of availability and there's a lot of hope out there. You know, the deadline. Some teams are like, we're not going to win anyway.
So I'll be curious to see what comes out in the next few days because this is the time when we're going to start to overreact. We're going to get, as some people on the station call pre-mad about some or... Maybe even pretty excited about some of the moves that the Canucks are going to make.
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Chapter 4: How can the Canucks improve their team speed and defensive strategy?
What do you think about the job that Benavides is doing?
I think he's been absolutely excellent. So we've got a different team, and they're trying some new things on defense. Frankly, I think we didn't execute in areas that we needed to. That's both a personnel issue and a coaching issue. And so we've got to clean things up. We've got to execute better. But again, Saskatchewan's a tough opponent.
And the fact that we were in that game that late with everything that had happened, I couldn't be more proud of the guys.
I'm not asking you to provide the playbook or anything, but what are some of the new things that you're trying on defense?
Yeah, it's matching the skill set with some of the new players. You know, like we've got Darnell Sinke and Casey Sayles. We've got a younger secondary. And they're trying new things to get the most out of these guys. You know, in terms of the specific X's and O's, I'm not going to shoot that. But remaining flexible is something that we've got to do.
At the end of the day, we have to execute better. We've got to be more consistent, especially in the first half.
Have any of the new rules been hard for the players to kind of get under their hats? I mean, it's always a concern. Not a concern, but it's a challenge when you've got new players to the Canadian game. They've got to learn all these new rules, but now there have been some other rule changes as well.
Yeah, you know, you can see that in one of our returns. You know, we frankly should have let one of the returns go out of the back end of the end zone, and we didn't do that. It's usually a young player thing. But, you know, in the heat of the moment, there's going to be some mistakes that are made. And so I think everybody was guilty of that across the board to a certain extent.
But you can also see that with Sask. And so it's something we've got to get used to. It's something that the coaches have been emphasizing since training camp started. And we've just got to keep moving forward.
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