Craig Button: Another set of twins for the Canucks? Breaking down the final Craigslist before the Draft.
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to Carson price from the historic wall center. And the draft is coming. Everybody knows this, the nation network, your destination for all the action, June 26, the sheet, which you have miracle and live from Toronto with Pierre McGuire for pre and post draft coverage, plus custom player profiles for each of the picks in the first round. Um, Of course, there's a lot of Canadian content in this draft with the Leafs picking first, the Canucks picking third, Calgary's picking sixth. I mean, there is all sorts of intrigue across the fleet of Canadian seven. And a gentleman who has been on the NHL draft for decades, one of the innovators of public scouting, brought scouting to the networks recently. TSN's Director of Scouting, Mr. Craig J. Button, joins us for one last hit before the draft.
How you doing, my friend?
I'm doing really, really well. How are you guys doing? Vancouver. Soccer fever has hit out there.
Has it been something to watch? This is quite a week in our city, Craig, with the Canada match going down tomorrow and the Canucks holding their highest pick in 27 years. Not to mention two first-round picks, four in the top 41. There is a lot of sporting excitement. in this city this week, so we're absolutely stoked. Talk to me. You've been a scouting director. We're 90-some hours away from the draft going live. Craig, what's the process from here? Is the hay in the barn? Do you know what you're doing? Do you know who you're selecting? Or is there any sort of final meetings that take place with the scouting staff before we get going for real on Friday afternoon?
Yeah, there's a couple of things that are going on. And number one is teams are trying to ascertain. They have their group of players. You know, again, you can't lock in. The only team that can lock in right now is the team picking first. They know that no matter what else, they can say, this is our guy. Do the discussions continue on? Yeah. But right now, the teams have their group of players, and they've got to wait for some things to unfold. So you're debating, discussing, okay, if this scenario happens, if that scenario happens, how do we feel? Are we comfortable? And really, you shouldn't be lacking confidence at this point in time. You should just be trying to solidify the confidence you have because the process you put in for a long period of time
the course of, it's not just one season, it's a number of years you've been watching these players. So that's where you're at with respect to that. You're also evaluating, you know, what possibilities exist for trades. And I'm not talking in the top five or, you know, rarely do we see anything like that happening. But it's with other picks, you know. You've got the Vancouver Canucks who have the 25th pick, you know. Would they package the 25th pick in one of their seconds to move up? Is somebody interested in giving them a couple more picks? I'll give you an example. The Calgary Flames, who have 30th, would they give the two, I think 35 and 36, to get to 25, which gives the Vancouver Canucks a couple more picks?
Because the one thing that I always... that I've always learned and I always felt is that when you get to that point in the draft, you know, there's a group of players that fall into a range from 21 to 50. And why do we hear, we can't believe he was there? Do you know why you hear that? Because teams have rated players differently. And so now there's this maneuvering. Who do we think could be there? Well, if we get a chance to get two of our players in our group of five or six instead of one, why don't we try to give ourselves that chance? So I think those are the discussions. Those are the considerations you're looking at at this point in time. But The vast majority of the work is being done. The other area that you're trying to guard against is those players you really like that you think he can get, and I'm talking about through the draft after the, I guess, 8, 10, whatever, is that you're making, okay, are we sure we can get them here?
Do we have to move up?
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–6:26
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How are teams finalizing their draft boards and trade scenarios in the last 90 hours?
6:26–10:53
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What strategic reasons would the Canucks package pick 25 to move up in the draft?
10:53–19:18
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Does a decentralized remote draft help or hinder teams like the Canucks?
19:18–29:15
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