June 8, 2026: The Canucks' draft dilemma; World Cup Countdown!
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All the goals came quick, actually. Yeah. More on what is turning out to be an all-time cup final here through three games later in the program. Matt Sakaris with Blake Price, Mike Rogerson hitting switches, conducting things. We'll start with our top story today, brought to you by Yellow Dog Brewing, Neighborhood Brewing, Foolish Winery. Season complete. There are no more hockey games. Combine over. Every data point is now in. So time to start building your list, your draft list. And of course, on June 26, make your selection. It's getting real now for the Vancouver Canucks. who have their highest draft pick, third overall since 1999 when they took Daniel and Henrik Sedin, second and third overall, respectively.
The NHL Draft Combine happened over the, well, late last week and through the weekend in Buffalo, which is also the home of this year's draft. Not that it's a centralized draft. much to our chagrin. Presumptive first overall pick, Gavin McKenna, aced the fitness testing. He finished first in the VO2 max test. If you're not familiar, that's the one on the stationary bike with them having to go as hard as they possibly can for as long as they possibly can. This is the test where Henrik and Daniel put a lot of their Canucks teammates to shame. over the years. Anyways, McKenna led all of the draft prospects in the VO2 testing. He also did quite well in the squats. He finished fourth. Eighth in the no-arm jump, which must look really, really strange.
Arms at your side and you jump.
Right. Like an Irish dancer. Right. They do, yeah.
Good visual. Very well put. Mm-hmm. What's Michael Flatley? The Riverdance. Got a little bit of Riverdance going. And those guys pop up high, so it can be done. They also do a vertical jump, but they do a no-arm jump, and they also do a broad jump, which they call a horizontal jump. The big question for me... The verticals don't look very good in comparison to the NFL and NBA.
No, no, they don't have quite the hubs. But the wonder I do have about McKenna's testing, and we're going to have Stephen Ellison, we'll ask him about what a good tester, no tests, can do for a player. But if there's any doubts about Gavin McKenna, it is, and despite the fact he socked the guy in the face and got in all that trouble over... Which helped his stock in the eyes of many. It did, because it also addressed the concern I'm about to bring up is, is he a battler? Is he strong enough, A, like actually just physically strong enough, of which he answered some of those questions here at the comment, and can he battle? The fight sort of answers some of the questions as well, because it's not necessarily in his every minute of every shift that you see examples of that, and people are worried that because he is a more perimeter setup guy –
Can you win with him in the playoffs?
Yeah, I mean, it's a great question. I mean, the playoffs are going on right now. I mean, you have examples before your eyes every second night, or I guess third night with the two-day break here. Of guys that are visible and guys that aren't.
And reasons why that may be the case for each player. Now, of course, that was a Marner criticism, and the guy's probably going to win the conspite.
Yeah, he's looking okay. So McKenna... Eighth in the no-arm jump. Sixth with 14 pull-ups. This is of about 90 players who were in attendance at the draft combine. Not all of them did the fitness testing. More on that later with Stephen Ellis. Okay, let me put it out there.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–8:44
2
How did the NHL Draft Combine results reshape the top prospect conversation?
8:44–20:13
3
Why is Gavin McKenna still the presumptive No. 1 and is doubt creeping in?
20:13–46:09
4
Should the Canucks pick a center or a winger at third overall — Stenberg or Malhotra?
46:09–1:40:45
Speakers
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