Maxim Lapierre: Max speaks on his former teammates now running the Canucks bench and front office.
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Who is Max Lapierre and why is he on the show discussing the Canucks?
secure some price from the historic wall center we welcome in a gentleman who played a hundred and eighty three games for the vancouver canucks was the Stanley Cup hero in Game 5 with the only goal and a 1-0 victory to give the Canucks a 3-2 series lead. He has turned into a most popular podcaster in his native province, La Poche Bleue, Quebec's number one hockey podcast. Mr. Max Lapierre back here with Sakaris and Price. Max, how are you doing? Good to see you again.
I'm doing great, guys. Thanks for having me again.
You're more than welcome. We wanted to bring you on because, of course, you saw Manny and the way he operated as a player with the Vancouver Canucks. And you were just telling us off air, you would have bet 100% he was going to be a head coach in the NHL one day.
100%. And, you know, like there's many guys that are challenging coaches with their structure and their systems in between periods. And they're not always right. But Manny, you could tell like he knew exactly what a team needs to do to win hockey games. And it's always the way he does it. You know, it's always with a lot of respect. It's always like he's never stepping on toes. He's always understanding the other side, what they're thinking and how they see the game. And it's always well done. And I knew for sure he was going to have a role at one point in the NHL as a head coach. Honestly, I thought it was going to be way faster. But, you know, the game, sometimes you got to go through it to learn and to become a head coach in the NHL.
I think he's done a great job as assistant coach in Toronto and then came back, won the Calder Cup in DHL, which is a perfect experience for a coach to move into the NHL at one point.
Do you remember any suggestions or any sort of thoughts that he had during the course of the Stanley Cup playoffs? Or him coming back from the eye injury when he was injured, was he around the team still offering that leadership?
Yeah, I still remember like it was yesterday, the moment he sat down in front of us and told us he wasn't going to play for a while because of the eye injury, obviously. And it was a very sad moment. But then you knew like he was a leader just by the way he was expressing himself and the way people were listening to him. You know, like it wasn't like, OK, we get it. Like guys were sad, guys were at tears.
What qualities did Manny Malhotra show as a player that hinted at NHL coaching potential?
And we understood that we were losing, obviously, a great player, but a lot of leadership and this guy is a special person you know like he I always said in Vancouver there was a great leadership group and leading is one thing but making the team feels feel like it was a family that's that's another level because it's not every veteran player or it's not every good player that goes around the room every single morning and drink their coffee with players for 20 30 minutes and talk and understand what's going on and this is what Manny was doing right like how do you feel What do you think? It would always ask the same question. What do you think? Your opinion matters, right? Where we're going with this.
What do you think we should do? But you knew we had this answer, but it was still asking just to make sure that we were going to be on the same page. And all those little meetings as a line, I've played on a lot of good teams and it wasn't always like every day you had a meeting with your line discussing where we can go and what we can improve and how we're going to improve it. This is what Manny was doing, right? It was a true professional. And like I said, his biggest quality is respect. He always does it with the right tone and it's never yelling or making someone feel like they were wrong. It's always about a very genuine discussion.
Him and Ryan Johnson seem similar in that regard, which is probably why they get along so well. The two of them seem to have that same ability to find the right way to deliver the message.
Yeah, I just think they're the new generation of hockey, right? At one point, you need to understand that yelling doesn't accomplish anything.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Max Lapierre and why is he on the show discussing the Canucks?
0:03–2:25
2
What qualities did Manny Malhotra show as a player that hinted at NHL coaching potential?
2:25–7:53
3
How did Manny lead the 2011 Canucks locker room after his eye injury?
7:53–16:15
4
What coaching style do Manny and Ryan Johnson bring as part of the 'new generation'?
16:15–16:51
Speakers
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