Jeff Marek: Trading season has begun! Hronek and other Canucks vets have interest
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How did recent Canadian sports celebrations set the tone for this NHL trade conversation?
This is Harrison Price from the Historic Wall Center. We welcome in Jeff Merrick, his show, The Sheep Daily, here on The Nation Network. Hello, hello. Good to see you.
What's going on, boys? How are you? You guys were happy off the beginning of the show yesterday. I bet you're happy today as well.
Yeah. Well, hey, that was quite a day. Quite a day for the country, our sporting history. Absolutely. Especially if you were on the ground here in Vancouver. I don't tend to party like that very often, so it very much was a 2010 redux.
It's amazing. I mean, you as a hockey guy, you must be fascinated a little bit just looking and going, another sport made Canadians act like this. Like, that's pretty weird.
And it's a different kind of vibe too, right? Like I just love it when I see other sports that are successful in Canada because we're just so used to like how Canadian hockey fans celebrate, which is completely different than NBA fans or soccer fans. So like, I love it. Now I grew up in Toronto. So that is like the heart of, you know, multicultural Canada. So there was always, like I used to love hanging out a little Italy for the world cup for the obvious reasons, but there are all of those pockets. So I got a taste of it, but I just love, how different sports in this country celebrate success because it is profoundly different than it is in hockey. So I love it and love what I saw. It's fantastic.
Sign me up.
We're going to do that hockey here, though, with Jeff. And boy, Jeff, I'm getting excited, buddy. The Stanley Cup final ends today. We have had five trades since the end of the Stanley Cup final. We still have a week before the draft. That hot stove that is steaming hot that people have been predicting for some time may actually be in our midst here. We may have a fun summer of player movement.
Transactional summer.
In the National Hockey League. Talk to me. The summer.
This system has been lubricated with more cap space. And it's amazing what happens when teams get a little bit more cap space. Like, look, there's a couple of things happening here. So, and this is all documented. You guys have talked about this forever. A couple of things. One, there's more cap space in the system. That's the obvious one. Two, and here's another obvious statement, the free agent class, and it just got weaker today, the free agent class is nothing really to write home about whatsoever. It is a weak free agent class. So if you're a general manager whose owner is breathing down his neck to improve the team and we need postseason or we need a deeper run, I mean, the only way to do it is by way of trades or, dare we say, the dreaded offer sheet term.
But maybe leave that one for another conversation. But that's the only way you can do it right now. is going to be through trades. And I think what we're seeing now, we always look for the lessons, right, guys? Whatever team is successful in the Stanley Cup final, whatever, we learn the lessons. And isn't one of the lessons of the Carolina Hurricanes, don't be afraid to take big swings. Don't be afraid to take massive swings, and don't be afraid, and this is the Rantanen situation, don't be afraid to admit that you made a mistake and go about correcting it instead of trying to double down on it. I think those are some of the major lessons we'll take from the Hurricanes here.
And Toronto did that with Darren Radish, and it makes me, the first thing I thought of when I saw the Darren Radish trade for Toronto is, if they're happy with that, with that guy at that age, Wouldn't somebody want Philip Roenick? It's a $7.2 million deal for a 28-year-old guy who's got six years to go. That's a better deal for a similar kind of player because I don't know if Roenick can score 22 goals, but he's got a great shot. He can score 12, I think. He may defend better. Yeah, exactly. He would defend better than Radish, too. I can't help but think if that's the value of Radish, not the fifth-round pick so much, but the contract, You'd think people would want Philip Roenick.
Don't disagree with anything that you said.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did recent Canadian sports celebrations set the tone for this NHL trade conversation?
0:03–6:06
2
Why are five trades since the Stanley Cup final signaling a ‘transactional summer’ in the NHL?
6:06–8:03
3
How does increased cap space and a weak free-agent class drive more trade activity?
8:03–13:16
4
Could Toronto’s Raddysh sign-and-trade inform a potential Vancouver trade for Hronek?
13:16–19:14
5
Why might Buffalo GM Jarmo Kekalainen be central to this hot stove and draft-day maneuvering?
19:14–19:51
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