Jeff Paterson: What can the Canucks learn from the 'Canes? Rod the Bod and a former Canuck win the Cup.
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What did Jeff Paterson identify as the central question after Carolina won the Cup?
Our Canucks reporter, the host of Rinkwide Vancouver, Jeff Patterson, who joins us here. Jeff, how goes?
Good.
Yeah, good. Hockey season is finally over. And what do we get? Two weeks and two days until it all kind of ramps up again. Actually, shorter than that, I guess, with the draft. Yeah, a week from Friday. Yeah, I was thinking ahead to July 1st. So good on the Carolina Hurricanes. Congratulations to them. But now we can once again focus all of our energy and attention on the rebuilding Vancouver Canucks.
And I have been hesitant to go down this road because the Canucks are just so far away from contention that lessons learned, a topic we often do during the Stanley Cup playoffs and the Stanley Cup final, seems a little more distant this year than it has been. Different years because, let's face it, just talent accumulation, I think, is the immediate need and lesson. But, Jeff, you're always a sharp eye on all of this. And let's face it, this is a much different constructed Carolina Hurricanes than a lot of Stanley Cup champions. Is there anything that you've picked up during the playoffs and the final that you think could be... trendy going forward for the National Hockey League in terms of teams building clubs?
Because let's face it, the Canucks are pretty close to a blank slate right now in terms of the construction of a contender.
Yeah, there is a lot of ground to cover for the Vancouver Canucks before they're back in that kind of conversation. But I will say this, that as I watched the Carolina Hurricanes demolish four opponents in the playoffs, I actually thought that maybe there was some good news in all of this for the Vancouver Canucks. And that is that the Carolina Hurricanes achieved greatness this year and finally got it done successfully. without absolute game-breaking, top-of-the-line-up talent. And we know that the Vancouver Canucks lack that. And the Carolina Hurricanes just assembled the best team. And they truly were a team. But if you sit here and wonder who are the best players on the Carolina Hurricanes, most people would say Sebastian Ajo, Svechnikov.
Seth Jarvis. And they all had their moments in the playoffs, but really, you look at their box car numbers, the takeaway totals on their stats page, they don't jump off the page at you. That second line was incredible. And I was so happy to see Logan Stankoven get his hands on the Stanley Cup, and there's certainly a lesson there as well. I think what I like about the Hurricanes is, you know, so many shrewd, calculated moves. We understand... the guys at the top that are doing the operating here. But they also know when to take their swings. And so, you know, they lock up both Logan Stankoven and Jackson Blake. Jackson Blake was a fourth round draft pick. And this guy was an absolute monster for them.
And he isn't even out of his entry level contract yet. Him and Stankoven's extensions kick in next year and they're tied up long-term. It's funny. I, Had the chance, and I think I've told you guys this, I had the chance last year to go back to the Kamloops Blazers alumni golf tournament. Just happened to be in a foursome with Logan Stankhoven. I'd never met him before, but had a great day on the golf course. At that point, he was weeks removed from signing this $48 million extension as a 22-year-old. He had just gone out and bought a big boat that he was going to use up and down the shoe swap. That's what you do. Right. And I think in those moments, he thought he had it all. And here we are, not even a year later, and he's a Stanley Cup champion.
He's going to get his day with the Cup, probably on his boat in the shoe swap. So I was happy for him. But again, getting Jackson Blake in the fourth round speaks to talent identification, the scouting systems, and then placing these big bets on young guys. at that point in time like those are big swings for the caroline hurricanes but they look like they've knocked it out apart out of the park with both of those guys you know identifying keandre miller who uh was available they went out they got him they paid a price to get him but he came into his own man and he logged some big ferocious minutes in the playoffs and you know again how many times have we had this conversation guys about uh you know what are the ingredients of every stanley cup winner and it almost always comes back to well you need a norris trophy caliber defenseman
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