June 18, 2026: Canada vs Qatar preview! Canucks deals to come? Babcock on the brink
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Zach Harrison-Price for Thursday, June 18th, 2026. Presentation of Bet365. At Bet365, boring games a thing of the past. Now, there's always a reason to tune in, even if the score isn't one of them. Download the app today. It must be 19+. Please play responsibly. Matt Zacharis alongside Blake Price. Four-time Juno Award winner Mike Rogerson hitting switches and conducting things today. On, well, a historic day for our city and potentially for our country as well as Canada faces Qatar at the FIFA World Cup. BC plays 55,000 and oh my goodness, the sights and sounds of this. smack you right in the face as soon as you cross one of the bridges or viaducts and get into downtown.
It is something else. Everything, every avenue in downtown is flooded with red, and you actually don't even have to be downtown. There's so many other places to watch the match here in town that it seems like every corner of the Lower Mainland is being touched by this right now. It is going to be a day. Yeah. Yeah.
Can't wait. And spectacular weather, and you know how our city turns out when the sun comes up. Wow. With what you've got going on here today, could very well be a memorable day in our city and, of course, in our sporting history. Let's start with our daily poll question. Bigger games for you. Canada. So national country and any sport doesn't have to be soccer or club. You can vote at the secure some price X and YouTube channels, the saying in England club over country tells you just how fiercely passionate they are about these soccer clubs of theirs. Um, Because God knows they're passionate about the Lions each and every time they're at a World Cup. But talk to me.
I think I know your answer, but you go... Hey, even the Canucks going to Game 7 with the Oilers a couple years ago, fun ride for sure. The Whitecaps making it all the way to the MLS Cup, fun ride.
How is Vancouver preparing for Canada vs Qatar at BC Place?
And I'm not saying I didn't get swept up in... Any NHL run before this or the MLS Cup run?
I can also remember you gripping in some of these Blue Jays playoff games over the years, Blake. It's very fun. He's a rather placid guy when he's watching. Like when Blake gets excited watching something on TV, you know it's meaningful at a big game. Generally just pace. Generally just pace and quiet. When Canada scored that goal last week, he and I had a very awkward Tiger Stevie high five missed on first attempt.
High five versus fist bump.
What are we doing here?
It was not very athletic. Nothing makes me nauseous. Like country, though. Yep. Watching the best on best. And generally speaking, it has to be best on best. I love the World Hockey Championships. It was just there. When I watch Canada there, hey, do I want them to do well? But it doesn't feel like life or death. But best on best at the Olympics, that hockey tournament this year, at Four Nations even. Yep. And then Canada qualifying for Qatar in Qatar. And then these matches here, I am nauseous physically. And so it's country for me.
Yeah. I mean, I love the teams that I've adopted and held close for almost five decades now. And I've enjoyed watching them play and cheer them on. But I'm like you, Blake. There is something that when Canada hits the... In today's case, the pitch. Other cases, the ice, the court, the diamond. That stirs something in me that just cannot be replicated by a privately owned business in one of the big four sports leagues.
I am interested to see what the folks out there say, because I think both of us are, jaded's the wrong word, are a It's different in sports media. It's really verboten to have any sort of bias, but to outwardly cheer.
No pom-poms in the press box. No cheering in the press. That's how we were raised. It's a little bit different now, but yes.
Yes. And in national team settings, it's still not kosher to cheer in the press box, but it does happen.
It does happen. I've told the story before, but like I... I couldn't help myself. I was a bag of nerves covering the 2010 gold medal game with Canada in the United States. And when Sydney scored, I immediately leapt to my feet.
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