Jeff Marek: Will the Canucks 'budget' impede the rebuild? Are they willing to take on bad contracts to gain assets?
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So, Garrison Price from the Historic Wall Center. We welcome in our dear friend, Mr. Jeff Merrick.
Who is Jeff Marek and why is he on the show?
The Sheep Daily on the Nation Network.
I got a gripe. You have a gripe? What's up? I got a gripe. I heard something on your show the other day that deeply offended me.
Offended? Deeply offended me.
As a Canadian... As a Canadian consumer of Canadian music, I found out that Mike Rogerson has never seen Rush. Oh. Listen, I hate to do this publicly. This is not best aired out publicly. I'm not so sure how I feel about coming on this program knowing the guy conducting things. Exactly. Yeah, and the switches and the conducting things and the Junos and has never seen Rush live.
He calls himself a musician. He calls himself a producer, an arranger.
Yeah.
This is harsh, guys. This is rude. He calls himself a studio guy. Like, if you appreciate musicianship.
Funk faker, Mike Rogerson.
Mike. Never, never dis the guy who controls your microphone.
Yeah, true. No, I know. Trust me, the first thing I do on set is always go and introduce myself or say hello to the camera operators. No, I know. They're the ones who can make you look great or bad. No, I respect that. But Mike, dude, like, seriously. He's got another chance. He's got one last chance. And you get to see Annika Niles, who's just like crushing it right now in Vanille Park. And the clips have been fantastic. I can never get enough of her watching her play Tom Sawyer. So you have a chance at redemption here. Will you take it, Mike Rogerson? Will you take it? 100%. 100%.
I think... I think that's going to be my Christmas gift to them because they're here in December. And they had to stop a song last night. And the crowd went, oh, what's going on? And everybody assumed it was the new young drummer. Getty's bass wasn't working. It was all on the guitar tech who screwed up Getty's bass. Oh, wow. It was not playing.
No way.
And so they restarted, and it was not the rookie drummer's fault.
Hey, even the best screw-up was at Stone Gossard that fell off the stage in Vancouver last year. Oh, my goodness.
The edge fell off the stage here.
We've had a lot of guys fall off the stage here. Oh, yeah. No, it's real. First night of the Pearl Jam tour, they were still getting their... Boundaries set.
Make sure I don't mute any basses today. Yes. You don't mute anyone. I could use all the bass in my voice I can get, Mike. Please, I got this nasally, trebly voice. I could use more bass, Mike Rogers said. Hey, you guys want to feel old today? Everyone, Vancouver fans listening, you want to feel old today? Today is round one of the OHL draft, or as they call it. The OHL priority selection. The OHL draft. Kane Cloutier will most likely go first overall to the Oshawa Generals, son of Dan Cloutier and Riker Kessler. will most likely go in the first round as well, son of Ryan Kessler. So this happens every year around draft time. We see the second-gen guys, and we've talked so much about Caleb Malhotra and Manny, et cetera.
I thought I'd throw a little bit of spice here. A couple more ex-Vancouver Canucks sons poised to be drafted.
What's Cluchey's first name? Kane?
Yeah, it's 2010. My oldest kid played against him when he played Oakville. He plays with Vaughn Kings of the GTHL.
Oh, so Dan settled in Toronto.
Did he? Yeah, he did. So he's, what's the official title? It's like special advisor to the general manager with the Guelph Storm. I think there's probably bigger things on the horizon with Guelph for Dan Cloutier. But yeah, I see him on the rinks all the time. My kid used to play against him when he was playing in Oakville. Oh yeah, great guy. Kane is not a goalie, I presume? Kane is no, sir. Kane is a high-scoring forward. Man, this guy can skate. Oh, what a player. What a nice player. Yeah.
Yeah, real nice player. We will look for him. Yeah, absolutely. In fact, the Canucks might still be in their rebuild when he's eligible for the NHL Entry Draft.
I'm not lying. You laugh. I'm not lying. Start watching your Oshawa Generals games, folks, to get your King Cloutier fix.
We already know Liam Pugh and Maddox Schultz around these parts.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–0:06
2
Who is Jeff Marek and why is he on the show?
0:06–18:41
3
What was the Belfast Giants Christmas video story about new Canucks AGM Richard Seeley?
18:41–31:57
4
How does adding diverse voices like Richard Seeley affect the Canucks rebuild?
31:57–33:23
Speakers
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