Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What updates are there on the Canucks coaching search involving Manny Malhotra?
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Chapter 3: How is the coaching carousel affecting NHL teams right now?
Let's go now to that Able Auctions hotline. Frank Zervalli joins us now on the Halford & Breff Show on Sportsnet 650. Good morning, Frank. How are you? Pretty good. How are you guys doing? We're well. Thanks for taking the time to do this. We want to start with the coaching carousel that's going on in the National Hockey League, specific Vancouver.
Give us everything you know, everything you've got on the Canucks coaching situation as it pertains to Manny Malhotra, and I guess anything or anyone else that might be involved.
Yeah, I wish I had some new news for you. I think the best way to explain it is that the Vancouver search, such as it is, I don't know how deep it is, there hasn't been much noise from it. And I think part of the reason for that is I don't have any evidence that they've talked to anyone else outside of their own internal candidate at this point in time.
So is it just a negotiation that's going on right now with Manny Malhotra?
I don't, that part isn't clear.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Avalanche being swept by the Golden Knights?
I mean, I can't imagine that the negotiation takes five days or six days to do. I don't know what their thought process is, where things stand, what the vision is, is part of it. Manny Malhotra filling out his staff, as you know, a clean slate and bench. I mean, there's probably lots of layers to it. But I can't imagine that the negotiation part of it is what's holding this up.
Is it tough to get information out of the Canucks right now? What's it like when there's a regime change and you're an insider and you are suddenly trying to find new information out of new guys?
Well, there's a path. There's a pecking order. There's a I think the most interesting thing to figure out as a, as a reporter is like where, who's the point person. Right.
I mean, the thing is like typically when there's multiple people at the top of an organization, you know, you just for consistency sake as a team, and I'm not saying me, like you want to make sure that that message is consistent. And so part of it is relationships. Part of it is, you know, making sure that you're getting to the right person.
And so when that happens, just to be totally transparent from my end, when you have a big change like the Canucks did, it typically takes a few weeks for a lot of that to settle in. So my read on it would be that there probably isn't a whole lot of talking being done by anyone.
Yeah.
Just because we're on this topic, who is the toughest team in the NHL to crack as an insider?
I think there's some teams that most people don't even bother with. Right. Like one would be the Detroit Red Wings. I don't think a lot of people spend time trying to crack Steve Iserman, for instance.
He's just never going to give you anything.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Frank Cervalli provide about coaching negotiations?
Like it's it's firsthand direct knowledge is very powerful. And a lot of times it's like, again, not to share too much, like it does come directly from the horse's mouth itself.
okay who are some other coaching candidates that you're curious about not necessarily for Vancouver but I've heard the name Jay Woodcroft quite a bit lately and I wonder if he's going to be back in the league soon because I don't think anyone thought he did a horrendous job in Edmonton no and his record would actually indicate that he did a tremendous job in Edmonton I mean it's I believe is the highest
regular season points percentage in league history for someone that has only ever had one stint as an NHL head coach. I think it's in the six forties. Uh, so his, his numbers were really good. Didn't have the playoff success that Chris Knobloch did, but a lot of people thought that Jay Woodcroft got the short end of the stick in terms of tenure based on the success that he had.
And then took a little bit of time off, joined Joel Quenville's staff and, uh, Obviously, with the success that Anaheim had this year, that's propelled him into a position to step back in as a head coach. I fully expect that Jay Woodcroft will be a head coach in the league next season. The question is where.
I believe he interviewed last week in Los Angeles, and my expectation is that he interviews shortly after.
um in toronto um let's i want to kind of go like west to east here and go through some of these other coaching searches and just see what's going on maybe not necessarily as it pertains to malhotra and the canucks but it's always good to get a gauge of the market so woodcroft in la who else are they talking to have they narrowed the list is there a leading candidate right now the consensus has been that the leading candidate is jay woodcroft in la okay
They've talked to a number of different people, I believe including Peter Laviolette, who I expect to interview if he has not already in Edmonton as well. I don't know how big LA's list is. It sounds like it's relatively sizable, and I believe interim coach DJ Smith is still in the mix as well. So my read on the situation would be
it sounds like Jay Woodcroft is the front runner, but he may end up with a different job. So how, how hard will LA push in between now and then, if that's their choice to see if they can make that happen.
What about Craig Berube moving to Edmonton?
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Chapter 6: What are the challenges of getting information from the Canucks organization?
And you go, that's the longest gap between any head coach in league history ever. if he wins after only being on the job for two plus months, does he just add at 68 years old, right off into the sunset and say, Hey, you know what? I I've, I've done it. It's never going to be better than this run just was with the golden Knights.
But then I do my show every day with John Butcher Ross, who sat next to him for the last number of months in ESPN studios late at night. And he's just talks about how much the passion burns bright and in Tortorella, like, chomping at the bit to get another opportunity.
And so if that's what drives you, like, I can't imagine that just winning again snuffs that out, that you're probably really interested in continuing on because this is what you do. This is your life's work. So based on that intel, I would guess that he's back.
Yeah.
We're speaking to Frank Cervelli, our NHL insider from Victory Plus here on the Halford & Breff show on Sportsnet 650. Another coaching question. Who's going to be the next bench boss in Toronto?
Their search is incredibly varied and wide open.
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Chapter 7: How does Frank assess the performance of Jared Bednar during the playoffs?
I couldn't begin to hazard a guess. Here's my understanding. I'll just give you some insight on process. And I was about to tweet this out after the show. They're conducting Zoom interviews this week. They're taking next week off for the draft combine. And then once the draft combine wraps up, the expectation is that they are down to three to five finalists.
And that's when they'll pick up with in-person interviews. So it's not going to be today or this week that you're going to see a hire, I don't believe, unless they really narrow in on someone and is a clear-cut favorite.
But, I mean, I'm hearing all sorts of names from all over the league that are talking to or the Toronto Maple Leafs are planning to interview that it's a very wide net that's being cast.
Okay. I know that, first off, is David Carl an option at all or potentially in Toronto? And then I'll pivot to Jared Bednar in Colorado.
I don't have full clarity on that yet. I think it's actually waffled a little bit, even in David Carl's own world. Okay. there were some that believed last week that he was going to interview. Then I heard a couple of days ago that the smart money was on him, not interviewing. It hasn't, we haven't come to a determination yet.
I don't believe, and I don't know if the Leafs have been notified one way or the other yet as to whether or not David Carl's going to take them up on the invite to interview. which then connects us to, well, what if the Colorado Avalanche do decide to make a change with Jared Bednar? I would think that's the sweet spot for David Carl.
It de-risks a lot of the things that he's been concerned about. Don't have to move, can live in Denver. He's got a great setup. I think that, and not only that, but a team poised to win and has a real authentic chance that the chance to work with some superstars that they have, I can't imagine a much more attractive opportunity without having to move.
Would they seriously consider moving on from better? I know they got eliminated less than like 12 hours ago, so it's still pretty fresh and everything, but it was, it wasn't just losing and falling short of the goal. It was maybe the way that it happened. Um, do you have a sense on if the abs would seriously consider moving off Jared Bednar?
I think everything has to be on the table. Um, Look, I think he's a great coach, and I think one of the most underrated things about him is how he's been able to keep their emotions in check. We know how Nathan McKinnon runs. He runs hot. He controls everything in that organization. And so he's able to keep all that on the rails.
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Chapter 8: What potential coaching changes could the Colorado Avalanche consider?
But then he would like have a setback because he overextended his knee. With this technology, what it does, it factors in. Just everything that he's on, you know, on ice stuff, just it looks as a cemetery, which makes sure he's not like favoring one leg over the other. And through that, what he can do is he can see the hotspots. He can he can basically detect the red flags.
They can detect the red flags through the software before it becomes a problem. And that's what, you know, for two years he's been utilizing. And that's what helped him get out back on the ice is, you know, maximizing his effort, but not over maximizing.
So this company, Plantiga, they have sensors in your shoes and your skates. And essentially what it monitors your gait. And, you know, sometimes you can even you don't even recognize that you're doing it. But if you're dealing with an injury, maybe sometimes you start walking a tiny bit differently. And does it does it recognize that and tell you like, hey, man, you're doing this differently.
Maybe you need a rest day or is that oversimplifying it?
Exactly. But what it does is it detects smoke before fire. So what you're seeing is it's like a cellular thermometer, a gyroscope, and a magnemometer all in one. And what it does is, I mean, the reason why is because it's not linear. It's not, you know, on ice it's hard because you're moving, you're doing things that it's hard to track because you're always moving, your skate's moving.
And so you can't wear like a monitor because it won't track what's going on with your feet. And so what happens is you have this insole and the chips are basically like, it's just like a chip and it's on the bottom. And so it's just recording all your measurements, even when you're like flying through the air, it can record all of that.
And then you plug it, you take the chip out and you plug it into a little machine and it goes on the computer and boom, you have instant data that will upload to the cloud and anyone can look at. And he has this, you know, his strength and conditioning team. He has researchers looking at that and just looking for hot spots in ways that, you know, keeps the knee basically fresh.
It's a very cool story. I highly recommend all of our listeners check it out. It's up on the Associated Press website right now. Pat, thank you very much for taking the time to do this today. We really appreciate it. Enjoy the offseason and whatever it brings. It should be an interesting one in Denver.
Hey, thank you very much for having me on. It was a pleasure chatting with you guys. Thanks, Pat.
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