Cam Robinson: How long will Gallagher play for the Canucks and a HEATED discussion about the future of EP40
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This is Kirsten Price from the Historic Wall Center. Time to welcome back the director of everything at Elite Prospects, home on Vancouver Island from Buffalo. I'm going to guess Vancouver Island never looked as good as when the plane was coming down. Here's Cam Robinson after his weekend at the draft. Hello. Buffalo's great this time of year. Oh, yeah.
Said no one ever. The weather held, at least. But I will mention this real quick, though, boys. Director of Everything is starting to catch on. They introduced me as that on MSG Network when I was there in Buffalo, too. I was like, oh, man, it's starting to pick up steam. I'm probably going to get a meeting with HR after this or something.
If that is not your title, don't falsely advertise yourself.
Thank you, MSG, for listening to the show. Shout you out. Yeah, exactly. No, but we can joke about Buffalo, but from what I've been able to pick up, Cam, more so than the host city, it's the loss of the decentralized draft that just about everyone who is an NHL general manager hates. Including, like, some people thought, like... the commissioner was being passive-aggressive about it in the arena. Like, just everyone except for the 32 general managers, and I'm not even sure it's 32 general managers. I think it's just the squeakiest wheels of that lot have gotten their way here and diminished something that was uniquely NHL and a whole lot of fun for so many.
What do you think the split is for GMs? What do you think the split is? How many teams are for the centralized and how many are against?
Yeah, so unfortunately, I don't have 32 GMs that'll pick up the phone for me. But I mean, I pulled, I think I talked to seven different GMs slash presidents of hockey ops at the Combine. Six of them told me that they felt it should come back. Six of seven. Three of them said they voted to stay decentralized last year. And then the draft hadn't even happened, obviously, at the Combine. And they were saying, they're like, you know what? I think it needs to come back. And one of them said, we can't make this the annual event where everyone comes together, the draft Combines. to try to get work done. It's too early. This isn't the right forum for it. So I certainly think that there is an appetite from some execs.
And then some of them, even after last year's, were passionate about it coming back. They're like, this is crazy that we're not doing it. And now my hope is diminished. I don't think Gary's even going to do a vote this summer. I think it's just going to run it back decentralized.
He said he wasn't going to. He said he's not going to pull them on a yearly basis. But here's the problem, especially on the Saturday, day two. Oh. You get the overhead shot that's panning the arena. And especially as you get into round six or seven, there's nobody in the chairs near the front of the stage. There's nobody in the bowl. And of course, because you don't have 32 operating teams and all their personnel around tables, it's really footage of nobody. It looks so Mickey Mouse.
What did Cam Robinson observe about the NHL draft setup in Buffalo and centralized vs decentralized formats?
It looks so small time. It makes the NHL look like minor sports. That's what has been lost. Like, they either got to find a way to dress it up the way the NBA, the NFL do their draft set, or they have to go back to what they have just for the purposes of the images that are coming out of the draft camp.
Boys, they, on day two, went outside of the arena. and they were recruiting people to come inside, giving them free tickets to come and sit in those seats right on the floor, not up in the stands. They were pulling people out off the street to fill those seats. We were watching them do it. They're walking right by me. These people are like, oh, they grabbed us. They asked us if we wanted to come. And then they put them right on the floor. It's just a bunch of random people wearing like just maybe not dressed up for the occasion. How about that? We could say that mingled with some of the kids and their families that are dressed to the nines, hoping to hear their name called, you know, something they've worked for.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–3:03
2
What did Cam Robinson observe about the NHL draft setup in Buffalo and centralized vs decentralized formats?
3:03–5:14
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Why do NHL GMs prefer returning to a decentralized draft according to elite sources?
5:14–9:42
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How did the arena atmosphere and TV presentation diminish rounds six and seven of the draft?
9:42–17:27
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Why did the Canucks trade Nils Höglander and acquire Brendan Gallagher — what was the rationale?
17:27–20:07
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