Jeff Marek: Stenberg vs Malhotra - what is hype and what is real? Need to fix the Memorial Cup format.
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How did the hosts introduce Jeff Marek and set the show’s tone?
This is Harrison Price from the Historic Wall Center. We're welcome in Jeff Merrick of The Sheets daily here on The Nation Network. And we were very amused at the... animation Berkey story of the 99. We saw that that got repurposed this week with you and Berkey.
Yeah. Talking city draft. It's going to be filed, fired. I know. So that was the, the brainchild of Amal Delich, who's now all of our bosses and Nils Brits actually, who works with us now as well as the, the animator out of Winnipeg. And yeah, That was just me and Berkey. We banged off a bunch of them in a studio one day, and then Amal handled all the audio, and Nils handled all the animation. We had a big plan to expand this all out, not just to Brian with the Hey Berkey series, but other people around the National Hockey League. But as many things along the way, they kind of get scuttled as other things start to take priority, but... That was one of the more popular ones. The Ron Wilson Christmas Day contract story was another one.
And no one can ever get enough of the Kevin Bieksa punch up in Winnipeg in the parking lots. That story, Fedor Fedorov. Yes, absolutely. That one with the punch in the parking lot heard around the world and Dallas Aikens saying, I don't think you know who I – because Bieksa came back into the bar and said, like, I think I'm getting cut. Like, I'm never going to play for Vancouver. And Dallas Aikens, who would have been the coach in Manitoba at the time, said, I don't think you understand who our general manager is. You're probably going to get called up now for doing that. Nonetheless, yes, that was one of the things that I was most proud of back at the old shop was doing the Hey Berkey animations.
Those were fun. Those were good. By the way, let's get into it. Hang on, hang on. Two things. You're playing hurt. Good for you, Matty. And welcome back, Blake. Thank you. I see you've fallen in love with Stenberg in your travels.
Well, you were telling us, you were listening to yesterday in our opening segment about Stenberg, and then we're chit-chatting with someone about it. And you love this idea of the Canucks trying to get two top three picks.
Yeah.
Your A block yesterday was a banger. I just loved it. And so I was talking to someone about it this morning. I'm like, I got to hop in on this conversation. Like, how can this happen? How can Vancouver end up getting two picks early? They're keeping their own third and then grabbing another one to make sure they get Caleb Malhotra and Stenberg or a defenseman, take your pick. Now, I always get in trouble here because people repurpose this as Merrick is reporting that this is being talked. I am not doing that. This is all it's a Friday afternoon, a couple of guys hanging out, wondering how Vancouver can do this. Let's get as creative as possible. And this is a really creative idea. It's funny, you just mentioned the Sedins and Brian Burke orchestrating that, because what I'm gonna propose here, as told to me this morning, I had a great conversation about your show yesterday, is sort of Burke-esque.
There's a lot of moving pieces. It's gonna take a whole lot of creativity. Before you get into it, the symmetry of the Sedins doing that, having been that elegant. Bingo! That's exactly what I was going to say. The Sedins know firsthand how creativity like that can lead to brilliance. So this proposal is a combination of old something old school, which we never see anymore, but you're still allowed to do. It's very old school and it's very new school. It involves one deal and then a three way deal. So it involves two different transactions. By the way, the idea of flipping for next year's pick. Oh man, that is dangerous. Oh, when I heard that one, I was like, oh, man. Okay, no, when you see what's Alexi Joseph and Landon Dupont, like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay, so the first part of this one, the first thing you need to address is San Jose, who hold pick number two. So right away, what you do is, because you don't focus on the second overall pick, you focus on the fourth.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did the hosts introduce Jeff Marek and set the show’s tone?
0:02–8:02
2
What creative draft strategy does Jeff propose for the Canucks to land two top-4 picks?
8:02–19:32
3
Why might teams agree to ‘not take’ a prospect and how has that tactic worked historically?
19:32–23:11
4
How could a 3‑way trade involving Chicago and Dallas help Vancouver draft Stenberg or Malhotra?
23:11–33:20
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