June 15, 2026: All the trophies! Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe, World Cup, NBA Finals!
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What trophies and major sports events are being celebrated this weekend?
Matt Sikerson-Price for Monday, June 15th, 2026. Presentation of Bet365. Check out Bet365's three-goal early payout. When your team goes up three, you get paid. It's that simple. Download the app today. Must be 19+. Please play responsibly. Matt Sikerson alongside Blake Price. Four-time Juneau Award winner Mike Rogerson hitting switches. and conducting things as we hit the middle of June, Blake, and are through the Stanley Cup final, the NBA final, and the opening weekend of the World Cup alongside the BC Lions home opener, or season opener, I should say.
Everything is happening. It's not the first time we've said that this year. If you notice this trend, you're close to 50.
A little too close for some light, yeah.
As soon as you hit 50, I've noticed this more. Here we go. Here we go. Time speeds up like you wouldn't believe. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, you know the math. Every day is now a smaller portion of your life than it once was. Weeks just blur.
every day is now shorter in terms of being a pain-free day. Like something hurts or something's not right. Also, I would prefer to be unconscious for most of the day as well. Yesterday I was. I got up. I watched some of the first match. We were going to go to the beach. I had breakfast. A little cat nap. I had a little cat nap. I wake up. She's like, thanks for that. We were going to go to the beach. I'm like, yeah. There'll be more beach days. Let's start. We're going to start Canucks here before jumping into all that happened.
All the trophies.
Yeah, exactly. Tons of trophies. Can the Canucks still trade Elias Pettersson to the Hurricanes? That's our daily poll question. You can vote yes. You can vote no. Do so at the X and YouTube channels. This, of course, after the Carolina Hurricanes break through and win a Stanley Cup championship. Minus number 40. of the Vancouver Canucks. Of course, they have long been rumoured to be interested in Elias Pettersson. It is the mystery team, everybody suspects, reportedly, that made that call to the Vancouver Canucks a couple of years ago before the trade deadline when Elias was marching towards free agency, still without an extension, and put an offer, or at least expressed a strong enough interest to Jim Rutherford, Patrick Alveen, and the former
Canucks management group that had them thinking and ultimately got Elias to the table for that rich eight-year extension at $11.6 million. But they have broken through, and they have not just broken through, Blake, but have you looked at how the Carolina Hurricanes set up for next season? There is not a single free agent of consequence on this team, unrestricted free agent, I should say. other than goaltender Freddie Anderson, whom, of course, they didn't need for the final three games after... Perfect timing for that. And they've got Kachetkov signed for next year alongside Brandon Bussey. Everybody else on this Hurricanes team is either under contract. Alexander Nikishin, the fine young Russian defenseman, is a restricted free agent.
I mean, they have some bit parts who are UFA players. But effectively, they can run it back, skater 1 through 18 next year if they so choose.
The only burr in the saddle for the Carolina Hurricanes is the unused Jesperi Kukkaniemi and the almost $5 million cat pit that he still has for four more years. And he is now 25 years of age. You want to feel old again. I can't believe he's only 25, though, given that. how long he is. But my, my greater point is he's not probably developing any more than what he is right now. You could make the argument. He just has not been given a chance in the last two years. And that that's why his, but this was his worst year in the NHL. Um, Long gone are the 18 goal seasons from yesteryear for Jesperi Kakaniemi. And that was, you would think, part of the return in any Elias Pettersson trade. I can argue with myself on this until I'm blue in the face, Matt, because I think you could spin it any number of ways.
As you say, they are good to go. They can just run this thing back. They know they're good enough to win the cup.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What trophies and major sports events are being celebrated this weekend?
0:14–8:22
2
Could the Carolina Hurricanes still trade for Elias Pettersson after winning the Cup?
8:22–21:12
3
How did Carolina build a sustainable, data-driven championship model?
21:12–1:00:36
4
How did Carolina’s Stanley Cup build inform lessons for the Canucks rebuild?
1:00:36–1:06:39
5
Which Canucks veterans are most likely to be traded and why is DeBrusque the top candidate?
1:06:39–1:14:28
6
What are the biggest takeaways from BC Place and Vancouver’s World Cup opening weekend?
1:14:28–1:30:50
7
Which other local sports stories and results round out the episode (CFL, MLB, golf, minors)?
1:30:50–2:05:14
Speakers
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