May 28, 2026: Canucks dreams of 2nd overall? 2nd AND 3rd?
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Should the Canucks try to move up from 3rd to 2nd overall in the 2026 draft?
Matt Siqueiros and Price for Thursday, May 28th, 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 Siqueiros virtually alongside Blake Price, Mike Rogerson, all his Junos and accolades hitting switches and conducting things. Welcome back to Canada.
Thank you for having me. Yes, it's good to be back. Nothing like flying back into Vancouver looking at the beauty of the ocean and the mountains and thinking, it's all right.
Not that Switzerland isn't beautiful. You spent a lot of time in Switzerland this year between Davos, right? Remember, Mikey schooled us. No, don't call it Davos. That's what North Americans call it. The Swiss call it Davos. For the Spengler. And this is Freiburg or Freiburg? Not to be confused. Freiburg. Freiburg, Germany. Not to be confused. Could you live there?
I could. I could. Very, very easily. Here's a strange little, we consider Switzerland.
Let us know. I mean, you'd be recording pretty late in the day over there. But, you know, you could ski in the morning. Play golf in the morning.
We consider Switzerland pretty expensive. We bumped into a Portuguese family that had moved from Portugal, which I would consider a pretty economical, not super cheap, but it's an economical place to travel. They moved from Portugal to Switzerland to get ahead in life. Their salaries doubled. Taxes cut by 75%. They see it to live there as a cheap place.
How many billion are they sitting on in that bank? No, they were a working class family. Working class family. Wow. How about that? Okay. So apologies off the front end here. I have the man flu. Not just the flu, but as I'm told in my house, no, no, no. You have the man flu. It is a particularly virulent strain of the flu. It not only has all the symptoms of the flu, the congestion, the coughing, the headache, the body aches, but involuntary bitching, whining, moaning, complaining, periodic taking the back of my hand, placing it against my forehead and just letting out big sighs. Do you medicate, though? I'm trying to medicate, Blake. I have been medicating for 18 hours plus here. Okay, okay. And yet the man flu is winning.
So we're going to try and get through today's show. We're hoping the voice holds up. You may have to do more talking. Okay, I'm just telling you right now.
I'm hearing it sounds like a long weekend is what I'm hearing. But we digress. We digress.
Oh, you think I'm going to take tomorrow off? Yep, that has crossed my mind. Goodness knows there's no breaking news to cover.
There's no breaking news to cover with this hockey team, my God. Although Friday is the news drop day for this team.
Yeah, not yet anyways. We'll see. Start with the Daily Poll question. Should the Canucks explore moving up to second overall to draft one of McKenna or Stenberg? You can vote yes. You can vote no. We're asking this in part because yesterday we asked, can they afford to let Stenberg pass them by? And like 90% of you said no. But here's the thing. So many of you just assumed that Stenberg would be there at three. Yeah. I'm not sure everyone is acutely aware enough of it is more than possible that somebody trades into number two with San Jose and takes Denver. You may have to do that if you're the Vancouver Canucks to guarantee your guy. If your guy is Ivar Stenberg, although there's also a school of thought, you may have to get to two to take to Caleb Melhalter if the Canucks are...
so inclined on taking Caleb at number three. Now, somebody jumps ahead, trades into the shark spot at number two to take Caleb. I suspect it's ECPC. You just turn in the card with Ivar Stenberg. So there are many different ways this could all go, right? As we have been talking about since the draft lottery three plus weeks ago. And, uh, We have talked about Ivar Stenberg's great goal in the World Championships the other day. We did not talk about the great call. We missed the audio. I'm sorry about that. We played it twice, Blake.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Should the Canucks try to move up from 3rd to 2nd overall in the 2026 draft?
0:15–20:38
2
What do scouts say about Ivar Stenberg vs. Gavin McKenna after the World Championships?
20:38–42:51
3
How much would it cost and what trade packages could get Vancouver the 2nd overall pick?
42:51–1:07:45
4
Why is Malhotra’s coaching deal still delayed and could money or draft strategy be the cause?
1:07:45–1:08:56
5
What are the risks of hiring Manny Malhotra if his son Caleb could be drafted by the Canucks?
1:08:56–1:17:40
6
How feasible is it for the Canucks to trade up to No. 2 or acquire two top picks, and what assets would that cost?
1:17:40–1:46:12
7
Why are FIFA FanFest tickets and World Cup stadium seats struggling to sell in Vancouver?
1:46:12–2:16:27
Speakers
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