May 27th 2026

On today's show Donnie and Rick chat about the longer than expected search for the next Canucks Head Coach and Vegas punching their ticket to the Stanley Cup Finals last night.

Joining the show is Luke Schenn (16:24), Moj (47:57) and Todd Bertuzzi (58:21).

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Speaker 1: Couldn't better?

Speaker 3: It's the latest on Many Maulhult. What's taking so long

with the Canucks? We just assume and maybe we shouldn't assume,

you know the old saying there with assuming the latest

on Manny at Mulhult. We assume he's going to be

the next head coach of the Vancouver Canucks. They want

to get these sort of things out of the way

to stop the speculation.

Speaker 4: Why is it taking so long? You're assuming right, everyone is.

I still be surprised if they don't get it done.

Don I haven't heard they've talked to anybody else. But

if I was Manny, and if you were Manny at Don, well,

you know what I mean, wouldn't you ask for big

term four or five years?

Speaker 1: If I'm mad?

Speaker 4: You know, keep it a hold on a sack. They

gave their last coach.

Speaker 3: And I'd ask for a lot of money too, Doney,

Thanks for that.

Speaker 4: They gave their to hold it a second.

Speaker 1: Back it up? How are we maker? Back it up?

Back it up?

Speaker 4: They just gave their last coach a three year deal.

They fired him after one year. So if I'm Manny,

I'm sitting there going are you guys going to do

that to me? That's one two. This team is looking

for their fifth coach in five years. If I was Manny,

I'd be saying, Hey, why the hell are you guys

hiring new coaches every year? I want some security. I

want some term and I also don't want to be

the lowest paid coach in the NHL. We do know

they didn't pay much money for the GM job, right, right,

So if I'm Manny, I'm not just jumping in and

taking the first offer that they make.

Speaker 3: Of course, going to negotiate don And but does he

have leverage? That's the big question.

Speaker 1: Yes, he does.

Speaker 3: Well, the leverage would be do you have a job

offer from somewhere else?

Speaker 5: Yes?

Speaker 3: But so does.

Speaker 4: He know what teams have to call? I talk. I

don't know if they've get they're given permission, anyone to

talk to him. I'm going to say this, I'll be

surprised if it's not many. And that's what you talk

to people in the know, I'll be surprised. It's a negotiation.

They're they're talking and and let's see if they can

get it done. But the general feeling is they should

get it done with Manny.

Speaker 3: Would they be waiting Rick for the maybe the end

of the conference finals?

Speaker 1: Yeah, that I don't know.

Speaker 3: I don't know breaking in NHL news. I'm just trying

to think you used. It just seems so obvious that

he's going to be the next.

Speaker 4: Everyone is assuming, right, it should be him, But you

and I know, you know, we've seen many negotiations fall

at the very end.

Speaker 1: I don't.

Speaker 4: I don't know, but if I was Manny, I'd be

asking for a hell of a lot of term and

I'd be asking, of course, look it done. The last

guy got three years. Foot You keep saying, of course

Foot got three.

Speaker 3: Of course he's the money and the word is Ryan

Johnson got three years.

Speaker 4: So if I wouldn't accept three. In Vancouver, they change

coaches like people change underwears. You know, it's just it's

all the time, you know what I mean. But these

guys really well you know what I mean that daily daily,

But these guys change coaches.

Speaker 3: Ye go daily, do DoD.

Speaker 4: I would be asking for security and a long term

if I was Manny, knowing how these guys change coaches

all the time.

Speaker 1: It's not good.

Speaker 4: It's not a good look don changing having five coaches

in five years.

Speaker 3: I know that that's obvious. But of course Many's going

to go for the best deal possible if indeed he's

the guy. And the thing is with Many Maholtra is

that here's where I think the leverage is for many. Mahultra,

I'm not. I don't know. If you hear whispers out

of Toronto maybe he's in line for the Leaf's job.

There's there's the King's okay, But I think the leverage

is this. It's a deal that the fan base wants. Yes, yes,

customers want Manny Mahultra to be the next head coach

of the Vanker for Cannucks. Ownership and management should know that.

They just know. They're smart people.

Speaker 4: It's the right fit. Management, it fits, it's the right fit.

It is the thing to do. But there's something called

the negotiation.

Speaker 3: Absolutely so if this somehow went side sideways, David carl Well,

there's Jay McKee, Jeremy Carleton, but but there's j Woodcroft

would have to be the next guy on the list.

When you know you're here and he's interviewed with LA reportedly.

Speaker 4: You're hearing Woodcroft's name out there quite a bit. He

did a tremendous job with Anaheim this year, you know,

knocking out his old team, the Oilers in round one

two don So.

Speaker 3: Other than the lack of playoff success, most people feel

that he did a pretty good job with the Oilers

as well. Adam Foot. You wanted to talk about.

Speaker 4: Their Adam Foot was let go by the Vancouver Canucks.

I am hearing there is interest in Adam Foot. Not

sure as a head coach, but teams value him don

and they understand how the goalposts were changed on him

in Vancouver. They understand why it didn't go well from

Vancouver they were supposed to win for Quinn. Then they

go in to rebuild. They're in thirty second. Teams respect

Adam Foot. He does want to get back into it.

He's not hearing that he wants to take like a

year offt on. We will see where it goes. But

it's not like there is no interest in Adam Foot.

There is interest in Adam.

Speaker 3: Foot and a real supporter of Adam Foot. There are

several It's Todd Bertuzzi, former Vancouver Canuck now a coach

and Junior B hockey and just won a championship and

we recorded this interview about an hour ago and he

is a big fan of Adam Foot. And Todd who's

going to join us around eleven fifteen or so, that's

when we're going to run the interview. He has a

lot to say about the Kannuck's situation and his belief

in his former teammates Daniel and Hendrick City and Todd

will talk about how you know, when Daniel and Hendrick,

despite the fact when they joined the Knucks, despite the

fact they were drafted second to third overall, they had

a lot of work to do, they had a lot

of developing to do. So here they are in a

situation where they've been, you know, developing players for the

Canucks down at Atmospherd. They still have a lot of

developing too, no kidding with this organization. And Todd's a

big fan of theirs, not only because he knows them

as people and they're friends, but he saw what they

went through and how they had to develop, but how

they committed to that develop and look what they're in

the Hall of Fame both. So Todd's going to talk

about it, and you'll talk about Adam Foot as well. Okay.

Ian McIntyre meanwhile has written an article. It's on sports

that dot ca A. The title of the article is

we Believe in the Plan. Hendrik Sedeen says the Canucks

are locked in on a rebuilt And we're going to

show some quotes in a second here, but I've said

this before on this show. I do on six point

fifty when we go on that radio station. But how

I think the most important moment of what we saw

when the connuction, well, actually you don't when they let

go of Jim Rothiford, going back here, when the season ended.

From that point on, and when Ryan Johnson and Hendrick

Sadean were introduced as general manager and co presidents of

this organization. I thought the most important moment was when

Francesco Aquallini introduced those three gentlemen and used the word rebuild.

I think he used the word rebuilding, but he finally

used the big R word, not small R. Rebuilt, not retool,

not a hybrid retool, whatever that was. He used the

word rebuilding. That was a big, big deal. So Henrick

talked with our friend Ian McIntyre and came up with

a couple of quotes that we've pulled from that article

that we thought were significant.

Speaker 4: Guys, absolutely, So here's what Ian McIntyre talking to Henrik

Sedin and Hendrick said. After Jim decided to take a

step back, I think they were already ready to do

a rebuild, but we at a meeting and they told

us they want to do it the right way. They

were retired of missing the playoffs year after year while

at the same time trying to win. They wanted to

have a fresh start, built from the ground up and

put the care back into the cress where you get

players that are proud to play for the city and

have this city and the team be a place where

players will want to play again.

Speaker 3: There are so many people looking at the first part

of that quote and saying to themselves, and I would

imagine Trevor Lindon is one of them saying, yeah, no kidding,

what took so long? They were tired of missing the

playoffs year after year, well at the same time trying

to win. There were even times when you know, they

made the playoffs and you know, some people would be saying,

look that the approach isn't great. You're not there yet,

you know, quit trying to you know, win now or

win it all now, you know, draft and develop, and

they didn't do that. So finally the light bulb went off.

You get a quote like this from Henrik and he

made it clear in that article by Ian McIntyre that

they and again we've heard this before, but you've got

to believe it's true. This time around, that they weren't

going to take these jobs unless that that plan was clear.

There was a clear focus, and they were going to

do the thing that they should have been doing a

long time ago and rebuilt like Trevor Linden wanted all

those years ago before he quit. So, speaking of which,

there's another quote from that article that we pulled out

on talking on Hendrick talking Endrick and Daniel talking to

Trevor Lindon after they accepted the co president's job.

Speaker 4: Yes, and so this one says, this is Hendrick speaking

talking about talking to Trevor. Yes, so they had a

chit chat with Trevor Lindon. We talked to him about

it afterwards. This rebuild was a plan that was put

in front of us, and I believe that it's a

different plan than when Trevor took over. But for sure

he's happy for us. He and reached out and congratulated us.

We talked regularly to Trevor and I'm sure we're going

to talk to him.

Speaker 1: More in the future as well. There you go.

Speaker 4: I thought they would talk to Trevor before accepting him.

He made it clear in this article that they didn't

talk to Trevor before happened very very quickly. But again,

these are very smart people.

Speaker 3: They were not going to take this job unless there

was a clear focus, a plan something. I'm repeating myself

left and right here. I do that a lot, and

I apologize. Unless there was a clear plan here, a

focus on a rebuild as opposed to, Hey, we got

into the playoffs. We're there. You know, we just have

to add a free agent on July first and we'll

be fine. And how has that worked out?

Speaker 1: Yeah?

Speaker 4: Right, absolutely, And you talk about alignment. People talk about alignment.

Alignment means that the owner, the president, the GM and

the coach have to be on the same page. That

hasn't been the case the last seven eight years. Now

they are.

Speaker 3: Yeah, But Ian McIntyre excellent read sportsnet dot c A.

Did you watch the game last night, Vegas over Colorado?

Speaker 1: Of course, absolutely so.

Speaker 3: It looks and Carolina Montreal play tonight. If you had

to guess, it's going to be a Vegas Carolina Stanley

Cup fight? Is that fair?

Speaker 1: Yes?

Speaker 3: All due respect to the Montreal Canadians. Look, I want

I grew up in a time I liked Montreal for

as a kid growing up, I was a Habs fan

when the Big M was there. But Frank Mahovlitz was there,

Oh yeah, Oh, he was just absolutely tremendous, and they

were rolling off Stanley Cup titles, and then you know,

it got to a point in the late seventies, especially

when they reeled off four in a row. I got

a little tired of Montreal when you're the Stanley Cup.

The Big M had moved on the seventies by then.

But I just love to see Montreal and the Stanley

Cup playoffs just because of that building and the passion there.

But I does it look like it's gonna happen right now?

I mean, they've had twenty five shots total over the

last two games. It doesn't It doesn't look great at

this point. But I got to ask you, are you

and this is with all due respect, and I want

to talk more about the Vegas gold Knights as the

day goes on. Should we introduce the poll question this segment? Okay,

we'll do We'll do that later. Are you gonna watch

a Vegas Carolina Stanley Cup? Finally? Are you gonna be

Are you gonna be interesting? Of course?

Speaker 1: Of course? Or why wouldn't you?

Speaker 3: Well, no, versus Vegas, versus Vegas because I've bet look

the final four. I wanted to see Carolina in Montreal,

you know, Quebec versus the halfs. That would have been amazing.

There's story lines there. Does Vegas Carolina excite you? Come

on be Ones?

Speaker 4: Sure, sure it does. It does because of Vegas, not

so much Carolina. Who's holding teams to twelve shots on goal?

That's not great, but they're doing a good job. But

these guys they played defensively well, they got all their

star players are two hundred foot players, Donnie. Do you

see how they check block shots? They do everything. I

have no issues watching Vegas. I have no issues watching

Vegas at all.

Speaker 3: Vegas Carolina at all floats your boat? Does it?

Speaker 1: I did no issues.

Speaker 3: Here's what's coming up. I'm not so sure. I have

to be convinced. I hope I'm wrong. D Timsey is

and a lot of it has to do with a fan.

But this is again all due respect, but there's nothing

like Montreal. Yeah, well maybe Vancouver and other Canadian cities,

but I mean that that building over twenty one thousand,

and the passion the ceremonies are just tremendous.

Speaker 1: Is it just me?

Speaker 3: Dtmz coming up in the eleven o'clock hour along with

Todd Bertuzzi, former Knuck's going to say a lot of

things about he's up too lately. I don't know if

you know this, folks, but wait, you'll see what Todd

looks like these days. Handsome is always, but with a

different feel, a different look. Really good at doing a

really good job of coaching junior hockey players. We'll get

into that with Todd around eleven fifteen or so. Mojes

will join us just after eleven o'clock. Lions lose their

preseason opener last weekend on the Island to Edmonton. They

played their second and final preseason game Friday in Winnipeg.

Mo is going to talk to us about that and

about the Canucks as well. Big Ride the Twitter guy

coming up later this hour, and up next another former

Vancouver Canuck, Luke Shen, who had Manny Maholtra as an

assistant coach in both Toronto, Bingo and Vancouver, just finished

a short stin with the Buffalo Savers. We'll see what's

happening with his career. He's a UFA in his mid thirties.

Speaker 1: YEP.

Speaker 3: Luke shen is next. Thanks so much for tuning in, Folks, Donnia,

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in Luke schen eighteen seasons as an NHL defenseman over

eleven hundred games, split this past season between Winnipeg and Buffalo.

He will be a UFA in the offseason, of course, Luke,

with a couple of stints with the Canucks. Luke, thanks

for doing this, sir.

Speaker 1: How are you good?

Speaker 5: How are you guys?

Speaker 3: Very good? Very good? What was this a past season

like for you? Playing on a Winnipeg team that had

a tough go and then going to Buffalo and seeing

some playoff action there.

Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it was kind of it almost just

feels to get blended into the previous year where you're

you know, trade deadline again and on the move and

uh kind of caught off card last year being traded

to Winnipeg and then uh, you know, had a year

left on my deals, so moved the family in Winnipeg.

And obviously we had a great team last year and

won the President's Trophy and for whatever reason, not not

the best uh here this year as a team, and

got flipped again at the deadline, you know, obviously to

a team that you know has so much young young talent. Uh,

missed the playoffs for a long stretch, and getting there,

there was so much buzz in the city. It was pretty, uh,

pretty incredible to be obviously a part of you know,

a city that was so hungry for playoff hockey and

a great group of guys there, and obviously would have

been nice to uh to keep going. But you know,

it's uh, it's it's come to an end now, and uh, yeah,

we'll see, we'll see what the future breaks.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 3: Where where's your game at right now?

Speaker 7: Uh?

Speaker 3: Luke, last time I checked, thirty six years old, and

I imagine there's the hope for another NHL job.

Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean obviously the next thing, you know, I'm

being thirty six. I don't feel worn down injury wise,

so that's that's the positive. A lot of guys, you know,

with the miles on him at this age, you know,

probably fought through quite a bit injuries. Luckily, for me,

I've I've been pretty good for the most part of

my career, So that's the positive. Physically, I still feel good,

you know, still love the game, still love competing. On

the flip side of that, it's been a lot of

trades and a lot of moving with the young families.

So yeah, we'll just kind of see where everything shakes

out here. And you know, back training and feel, like

I said, really good mentally and physically.

Speaker 8: But it'll be a decision that we'll have to make.

Speaker 6: Well, I guess to see what opportunities, you know, when

the opportunities present themselves, and go from there.

Speaker 4: Hey, Luke, I've got you as one of the better

dressing room guys in Vancouver. In the last seven years,

guys like you and Stature and ten of were really

important in the Canucks dressing room. How about if the

Canucks call, they they're trying to improve their culture, Luke,

what if the Canucks call?

Speaker 5: You know, I, you know what.

Speaker 6: I don't want to get caught in any sort of tapper,

but I will say I, uh, I love playing in Vancouver.

When anyone asked me, you know what what my favorite

spots to play, Vancouver's are at the top of the

list for me. Uh, you know, I I love I

actually love playing in Canadian markets. I know that some uh,

some guys don't enjoy it as much as others, but

for me, playing in Toronto and in Vancouver in particular,

those are some of my fondest memories. Kind of consider

myself a bit of a BC guy now playing junior

here in Kelowna and uh spending my off seasons in Kelowna.

Speaker 8: I love everything about.

Speaker 6: Uh you know what it what it means to be

a Vancouver Canuck. It's a special organization. And you know,

I had a great time there. They gave me my

second opportunity when I was kind of down and out

a little bit. And uh, actually the one guy who

I can't say enough good things about. You know, I

think you know a lot of people probably know sort

of my path where I got traded, but have to

start in Utica and work my way up, and uh,

you know, Jim Benning ultimately traded for me and gave

me the opportunity, and and Travis Green played me, but

the guy behind everything and really helping.

Speaker 8: Me out behind the scenes and Utica and just being

there for me.

Speaker 6: And an unbelievable guy was Ryan Johnson, so uh he

was incredible to me and uh always kept in touch

with him, and I'm so pumped that he got the

uh the GM job there, and uh, I think he's

you know, he's gonna do an unbelievable job obviously along

with the Sidens, but RJ has been Uh he's just

such an easy guy to talk to, He cares about

his players, He's he's personal. Uh, he just you can

tell he's he's truly genuine and cares and and uh

obviously knows the game too.

Speaker 8: So I'm pumped to see him get the job there.

Speaker 6: And they with those guys at the Helm, with between

RJ and and the Sedens. Uh, you know, the cultures

is already in a in a much probably better spot

and and only going to get better with those guys.

Speaker 1: And are you surprised, Luke? Uh?

Speaker 4: You know two years ago the Canucks were a game

seven against seven to another thirty second. You've heard the

stories about the dysfunction in the dressing room. You surprised

it went downhill so fast here?

Speaker 6: I mean yeah, I mean we you know we played

them in that in that playoff run.

Speaker 8: Yeah, when I was with Nashville, so uh, they were incredible.

I mean they were.

Speaker 6: They were big and heavy on the back end, obviously

with Quinn a part of that. And then you know

they had Demmer who he got hurt I think in

our series, but lankan and played great for them. And yeah,

I mean obviously their their forward lines real deep too

and big and heavy too. So am I surprised that

went down like that. I mean, you know it did

go down. I guess, uh, maybe a little faster, and

guys kind of left town a little quicker than you'd think.

But in saying that, I don't I don't know what

behind this, uh went on behind the scenes as far

as you know, a certain contract negotiations or guys wanting

out and things like that.

Speaker 8: I have a bit of an idea, but obviously they

are where there are now. And like I said, they

got the right guys in charge.

Speaker 6: They got some really good young players attached to the organization.

And you still got a guy like you know dem

and you know Brock, and you know some other guys,

some veteran guys that maybe you can can help steer

the ship in the right direction, and some good young

guys and like I.

Speaker 8: Said, some great leadership.

Speaker 6: And I think who fans should be pumped with who

they got at the Helm now?

Speaker 4: Uh, you played in Buffalo with a kid named Zach Benson.

He's from Chilliwac, not too far from here. What a

great playoff he had, Luke, what do you think his

future holds?

Speaker 8: I gotta kick on a talking to this guy.

Speaker 6: He's so yeah, I found out he was from Chiliac

and he's like, yeah, I come up to Clone a

little bit in the summer. And then you find out

a little bit of his his past, how his family ran,

you know, carnivals and all this sort of stuff, and

you're just like, what an interesting way to grow up

and as a player. And I said this the other

day in the media when I was asked about actually

during the playoff Seris versus Montreal. But to me, he's

one of the guys that I didn't really know much

about coming there. There's a couple of guys that really

stood out to me, and he's right at the top

of the list as far as you know. Obviously he

made the NHL and was a high pick for a reason,

but you know, a little smaller guy and you're not

really sure you know how that contributes that that's young

of an age, but he's so mature beyond his years

as far as as far as his game with just

like he's he's so crafty, like stick battles, like knocking

the other guys stick away or in front of that

he's battling guy, but he's smart enough to push off

the defenseman and kind of create some space and he's

not afraid to go to the net.

Speaker 8: And for me, I would kind of think down the

road he would.

Speaker 6: Be like a Marshan or a Hagel or guys like that,

where you want him on a you know, a Canadian

team and he can play in your fourth line or

you can also play with the best player in the

first line and can kill penalties. And yeah, I just

think he's such a gamer and he's he was really

really impressive and he's he's uh, he's got a little

bit of well a lot of swagger and some some

calkiness in a good way that I think you want.

Speaker 8: And uh yeah, he was.

Speaker 6: He he really really impressed me and arguably our best

player in the playoffs for a lot of it.

Speaker 3: Is there an NHL player that doesn't spend the off

season in Colonna? Do you know anybody like that?

Speaker 9: Uh?

Speaker 6: Well, guys are getting smarter and smarter and they're coming here.

So yeah, it's not the it's not the best cap

secret anymore like it was at one point. But uh yeah,

I mean there's more and more guys coming here. Actually

a lot of guys from Saskatchewan, Manitoba obviously, guys like that.

I mean, just in the last couple of years, you know,

you like Shaye Theodore moved out here and Tanners, you know,

and uh, well so obviously Meyers, Damon Steverson, Goel Edmondson,

white clouds out here now. So yeah, there's there's some

pretty good skates going on here in the summertime.

Speaker 8: It's it's good.

Speaker 3: I was just going to say the summer skates was

something special. Hey, you had Manny Malholtra as an assistant

coach in both Vancouver and Toronto, reportedly on the verge

of landing the head coaching job with the Canucks. How

do you think he'll do as a as an NHL

head coach, Luke, if indeed that.

Speaker 6: Happens, Yeah, if that wud happened, I mean, I think

Mannie's unbelievable, kind of similar to our jan of sense,

where you know, obviously he's he's got the authority in

the power, but you know, obviously it's you feel like

you're kind of a partnership with him, you're not working

against him, like you might feel like that and maybe

some other, you know, other style of coaching or management

where you know they got the power.

Speaker 8: But it feels like you're not working towards the same goal.

Speaker 6: I feel like with a guy like Manny, you know

he's always working with guys before and after practice.

Speaker 8: Uh real, real good talker in the room.

Speaker 6: When he's doing video, the message is clear, not screaming

and yelling, but you know, still stern and.

Speaker 8: Gets his message across.

Speaker 6: So yeah, I had him, and and then like you said,

I had him in Toronto too when I got traded there,

and he was he was awesome to me. So it's

only a matter of time before he, you know, he

were to get an NHL coaching job.

Speaker 8: You know, I thought obviously you know, he was on

he was in the mixed.

Speaker 6: Last time from from what I've heard, But probably the

best thing and the blessing the guys to go to

Avasford and win there. And now you've got that sort

of under your name. You know, you're a winner, winner

attached to it. So if it were to happen, I mean, uh,

you know, between him and r J, it's my opinion,

a no brainer, and I would be, uh, like I said,

very excited as a Canuck fan to have those guys

running at.

Speaker 3: Yeah, so many people who know everybody involved with the

Canucks now say the same sort of thing, Luke, And

before we let you go halves, you're down to one

to Carolina. In the Stanley Cup playoffs, they knocked out

you and the Buffalo Sabers and run two. What impressed

you about Montreal.

Speaker 6: Well, first of all, they're getting really really good goaltending,

clutch goaltending. I mean, uh, you know, he's dovis big guy,

but he's pretty calm back there, and he's he's stole

them some games for sure, especially some games and the

you know, the two game sevens you look at in particular.

I think their back end obviously is is elite. I

mean they're they're young and obviously mobile. But then you

know they got a little grit back there. Obviously. You know,

I'm I'm a I like an I'm a Jackie fan

over jack guy or however he pronounced it, I mean

little old school.

Speaker 8: Obviously he's not playing right now.

Speaker 6: But you know, when you got a smaller guy like

Leane Hudson, who he reminds me of, you know, obviously

hughesy a little bit where you can control the game.

And on top of that, their their power play is

really dynamic.

Speaker 8: It's not a traditional power.

Speaker 6: Play where you know you've got a guy running it

through the half wall. They've got a ton of movement

and really hard to defend, and you know, dangerous from

all five guys, and.

Speaker 8: Really good first line.

Speaker 6: Obviously a fifty goal scorer and a top two way

centerman in the league with Suzuki, and then they just

got a lot of speed, throw through lineup and sort

of some guys that are kind of sneaky playing physical

like you wouldn't think.

Speaker 8: I mean, obviously Anderson stands out, but even.

Speaker 6: Like Bull Duke, who's a physical guy, he was you know,

he was taking some runs like guys and playing a.

Speaker 8: Little heavier game. And yeah, they just got death.

Speaker 6: And obviously, you know Marty saying he's their coach, and

everyone knows how how much guys respect them or respect

Marty and his messaging and the way he thinks the

game and kind of like you know, Manny in a

sense where he played, so guys can relate to that.

And it's not coming from a place where you know,

you're asking a guy to do a thing, do.

Speaker 8: Something what he hasn't done, you know, in his time playing.

Speaker 6: So yeah, they're just well balanced and obviously they're got

some confidence after he went in a few.

Speaker 3: You're wondering about how to pronounce arbor jack eye. This

is the wrong show to get proper pronunciation, Luca just

is not gonna happen. Thanks for this, buddy, appreciate it.

Outstanding as always.

Speaker 8: Okay, guys, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3: You bet. Luke Shan still at this point a member

of the Sabers Organization UFA in the summer, boy that

he has some nice things to say about Ryan Johnson.

Speaker 4: Who solicited and who doesn't. And I keep saying this.

I talked to a lot of people in the hockey

world and I have not found anybody to say a

bad word about Ryan Johnson. I don't think it's humanly

humanly possible. He's a good person. He cares about his players.

You heard what Luke said, and you know what, Donnie,

Luke Shan, Troy Stetcher, Chris Tanna, they were the guys,

the culture guys, Cannucks have a chance to get one

of those two guys back stature or shen they're both UFAs.

Speaker 3: Yeah, and then the other thing Luke said that stuck

out for me amongst them a lot of things. And

by the way, I thought he was going to go

through the entire population of the NHL population of Klowna.

Speaker 1: He did.

Speaker 3: Loves You don't hear this all the time? Loves playing

in a Canadian market thanks to Luke shn All. Right,

break pole question and you talk about Canadians playing in

the National Hockey League or pole questions? Something to do

uh with that? We'll introduce it next to waddling dog

pole question.

Speaker 10: Tonny Dell the team my check, oh Rick oh age

six nine.

Speaker 3: And I went through most of my life thinking this

was a person. Tommy is the name of the band? Yes,

like Pink Floyd?

Speaker 1: Yes?

Speaker 3: Did you know that? Ryan?

Speaker 1: I think I've got that right. I didn't. That would

be an amazing name for an artist.

Speaker 3: Why why are you playing this?

Speaker 1: Just guys?

Speaker 3: Such a good tune.

Speaker 4: When I'm on the bike in the gym. This this

is my check.

Speaker 3: I would love to know what's your playing this that

the ac DC money talks about.

Speaker 1: No stop, I don't let that. No, it's it's it's

all eighties you love? What are you talking about?

Speaker 4: I I do like Wham, but it's not Jim music.

You gotta have Jim music that pumps you up, Jacks Yop,

Somebody Talks, Money Talks.

Speaker 3: This Money Talks is your number one A CDC song?

Speaker 4: Oh yeah, are you kidding?

Speaker 1: And Thunderstruck, and then when John Cougar after.

Speaker 4: This, obviously Pink Houses, I'll go there, Pink Housing. Authority

song is a must for me on the bike.

Speaker 1: Authority, so.

Speaker 3: John Mellencamp, so sorry, authority years old.

Speaker 4: Donny gets it. Authority songs a must on the bike.

Speaker 1: I'll do. I'll go around the circuit.

Speaker 3: You know any I don't even want to mention what

song I've rediscovered. I talked to it about you before the.

Speaker 1: Show, rediscovered it.

Speaker 3: Well, one of my kids started listening to Chumbawamba.

Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's a good tune. Yeah, read did and

heard it before, which makes sense out of his Yeah, yeah, yeah,

it's it's not a good.

Speaker 3: You know what I think like it. It's it's one

of those songs where you listen to it and you

say to yourself, Canucks coming out of the tunnel. Oh,

oh it could work. Now there's some words in there

that maybe wouldn't go over well with everybody, but oh,

if you haven't heard it, I remember this song. It

picks up. Yeah, it does pick up coming out of

the tunnel lights. Oh yeah, it works.

Speaker 1: Okay, what do they have?

Speaker 3: But I don't even know what they come out to now?

I well, sometimes I can't remember.

Speaker 1: Sometimes it's streets. I know that, but you do.

Speaker 3: Yeah, but they did that. They did it during a

regular season game.

Speaker 1: No, digitally, no, when they originally were doing it. It

was their song all the time. It wasn't a playoff

on these songs. You were ten, but I remember it

because it was so good.

Speaker 3: This would work, Oh yeah.

Speaker 4: Canucks play this a lot in the late nineties at

Rogers Arena.

Speaker 3: Bornaby Alive would be better than this.

Speaker 1: What's the what's the fire?

Speaker 3: Young Cannaba is a good thing?

Speaker 1: Nohing no, no, the one.

Speaker 3: She drives Me crazy?

Speaker 2: Yeah?

Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, that's a good song.

Speaker 3: That was. That was their dressing room song. That or that,

those two songs. I think in eighty nine when they

went to the playoffs for the first time. In Trevor

Lennon's first.

Speaker 1: About ninety four, I can't remember. I can't. You can't remember.

Speaker 3: Really, you were in there all the time, in your butt,

very hard. It was focused.

Speaker 1: I was in with task in the ninety four, so

I wouldn't know this would work. Okay, you know what?

Speaker 3: Okay, I watched Elvis's documentary Elvis c.

Speaker 1: C Ryder, Great Too, Great Too.

Speaker 3: It was the first song he played during his Hawaii

concert that would work as an intro song. I'm in

the minority. I realized that.

Speaker 1: Because you just watched epic and if you haven't seen it,

by the way, it's amazing.

Speaker 3: It is he does.

Speaker 1: He does a mashup of Little Sister and Get Back

Yeah by the Beatles CC riders.

Speaker 4: Good though, yea, you you were playing it a couple

on Monday, I think before the show.

Speaker 3: I think I was.

Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, you're right, Yeah, you were playing it's corney.

Speaker 3: It would work. Yeah, it works as people change the

channel left and right. Do we want to get to

the pole question?

Speaker 1: Yeah? You get you get holds in a jumpsuit? Oh yeah,

you imagine?

Speaker 3: Yeah, the women.

Speaker 1: And this was like this, He's got the cape two in.

Speaker 3: The splits karate moves all right, experience one of Victoria's

iconic destinations. It's the Waddling Dog poll question. It took

us ten minutes to get here, sleep ship stock up

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the dog today.

Speaker 1: Rick Ryan got her up.

Speaker 4: What's the number one reason for the Golden Knights playoff success?

Is it the head coach Carter Heart, heavy Canadian roster

or is it the management moves?

Speaker 1: Look at management moves.

Speaker 4: Leading at forty three percent but not far behind is

heavy Canadian roster. And then comes Carter Hart and then

John Tordereillau the Canadian roster. Don and I were talking

before the show. Ten Western Canadian kids, fourteen Canadians. Kelly McCrimmon,

who did a great job in Brandon. I'll go back

to the ninety five Memorial Cup and Kamloops because you

have Brandon, they're keeping Peter Chris Dingman. It was a

great Brandon team. But anyways, Kelly McCrimmon gets it.

Speaker 1: He gets it.

Speaker 4: He knows Western Hockey League inside out, he knows the

value of Western Canadian kids.

Speaker 1: And there it is right there.

Speaker 4: And the Canucks they got two Canadians on the roster,

none from the Western Hockey League. They don't draft out

of the dub anymore.

Speaker 1: Dawn.

Speaker 4: It's ridiculous, ridiculous, And there's the team going to the

Stanley Cup Finals with a heavy, heavy Canadian roster and

a heavy Western Canadian a roster as well.

Speaker 1: Boom, they get it.

Speaker 3: And when we say heavy Canadian roster, we don't mean

literally heavy, we mean a lot of Canadians, several Canadians

on the roster. Management moves, they take chances like no

other organization right now, Risky moves, unpopular moves. See Carter Hart,

and they've they've worked out. Carter Heart's been really good.

You know, say what you want about the controversy, all

all of that. He just seems to get better and

better as these playoffs go on, which which makes sense.

He was out of the game for a while.

Speaker 4: Before they got Carter Hart. They were one of the

worst teams in the NHL and goaltending done. He turned

it around, especially in the playoffs.

Speaker 3: Well you think about who he's out playing or who

Towards prefers over him. Probably who he prefers over Aiden Hill, Right,

he prefers Carter over Hill, who got them a Stanley Cup.

And then there's John Toroderella. What a story I heard

Alfred and Broff talking this morning on six fifty towards

is the good Cup versus Bruce Cassidy. How strange is that?

But he just seems very comfortable. And you know, I

forgot until last night. This is his first time in

the Stanley Cup finals since Tampa Bay won the Stanley

Cup in.

Speaker 4: Four nineteen four, and one since he took over with

eight games left. Remember, can I go back to eighty two?

Roger Nielson took over with five games left. These guys

are doing the same things. No, they Aren'tney. What's happened

before Larry Robbins, Larry Robinson, New Jersey, Roger Nils in

Vancouver eighty two, five games left, Harry Neil went into

Quebec and you know what happened.

Speaker 1: And this guy, look what he's doing.

Speaker 3: And I'll say what I always say when it comes

to people who roll their eyes when people who are

Canadian want more Canadians on a NHL roster? What's wrong

with that? What's wrong with natural? It's just it's emotional.

You'd like to see that. It's okay. Look, I don't

want to be, you know, prejudice against anybody, or obviously

I'm obviously biased, but I think it's okay to say that.

And they've been locking Canadians on their roster.

Speaker 4: Canucks are small, they're easy to play against. Going into

Rogers Arena is the easiest thing to do in the

NHL and grab two points. How about grabbing some big,

tough Canadian guys making it harder to play against? Is

there something wrong with that? Is it bad of us

to ask for more Canadians? And so who do you draft?

Speaker 1: Then?

Speaker 3: Well, okay, the draft at third overall? Well, third overall?

There you go, Well, no Ivers Stanberg. But you're not

getting up. You're getting skale at three. You're getting skating

at three, you're getting hockey censor three. You're not necessarily

getting a big tough Canadian guy. Get ultra yeah not yeah, yeah,

you can get those guys in rounds three, four, five,

But start like, where's the Western Hockey League scouting for

the Canucks down? You used to say to me all

the time, they don't get en up Vancouver Giants.

Speaker 4: The Giants are in their backyard. Well, hello, hello, the

Vancouver Giants are two feet away from you. How about

scouting some of their name?

Speaker 3: You were saying before the show and in the breaks

that you'd love to see them sign Brendan Gallagher as

a US.

Speaker 4: Hey, there's a great Canadian tray. He's got one, he's

got one year left. You want to improve the culture,

get the dressing better, Go get a guy like Brendan Gallagher.

Speaker 3: There you go, as you were saying before the show. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I mentioned this yesterday on the program. We

got some new items on the Donnie, Donnie and Dolly

online store that actually winning effect I think last week,

but I was off. I talked to Morano right before

I was off, and so we're debuting them now officially

on the program. So we got a quarters quarter zip

now very popular.

Speaker 3: Quarters I never owned a quarter zip.

Speaker 1: What really there's under armour? Quarter quarter zips are good. Yeah,

they're very comfortable, especially golfers. A lot of golfers love

the quarter zip. Start, start you around with it, a

little chili boom, Off comes the quartership. And I gave

a concept, so the quarter zip in navy or gray.

And then these new hats. It's like it's like a

bigger version of our bucket hat. It's called a boonty hat.

Uh again, a boony hat.

Speaker 4: Boonie booty rhymes of goony like the movie Goonies.

Speaker 1: I think it's actually a I think it's an uhy,

says Cindy Love. It was a big hit in the eighties.

Speaker 4: I think it's like like, uh you remember that.

Speaker 1: I think then Crocodile Dundee you have kind of.

Speaker 3: A hat like that.

Speaker 4: Yeah, and Westerns, right, how many Westerns have you seen?

Speaker 1: Uh?

Speaker 4: What was the one with Morgan Freeman? They wore that

in the Western.

Speaker 3: They were cowboy hats.

Speaker 4: Yeah, cowboy had and this too, which you get a

cowboy hat that would be something.

Speaker 3: Oh yeah, But anyway, ten Gallon has just massive like

bum Phillips used to wear.

Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that would be pretty amazing.

Speaker 5: Uh.

Speaker 1: But so those are both on the Donnion Doll the

online store.

Speaker 3: Now.

Speaker 1: I'm sure Brandon will have them at the Dog and

Baside soon, but if you want to get them right now,

they're on the Donning Doll the online store. There's the

link there. If you want to find the link, though,

you can head to our Twitter account. The link tree

at the top of our Twitter account has all of

our links in it, so click that you'll find it,

or you can go on the check website as well.

Our links on there.

Speaker 3: Okay, so what about does this hat fit big heads?

Speaker 1: I think so? This is our biggest hat. This is

our biggest hat. So if you you can't fit, you

made big.

Speaker 3: Hat interim of the brim. But what about the actual

hat size?

Speaker 1: Yeah, the circumference, Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure it's large.

Speaker 3: But to find I've got one hat that I wear

all the time. It's the only hat in the world.

Speaker 1: That fits your home depot hat.

Speaker 3: Well, okay, it's kind of it's semi in your days. Yeah,

you know what. I was wearing that hat without realizing

it at home depot and had nobody come up to

me go, hey, can you tell me where the you know,

the lumber is.

Speaker 1: Did you help them? No, that's I mean, have you

have you done that? I've done that before. You go

up to somebody you think is a worker and they're

not a worker. You just feel two feet small.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't have an apron on it, like one

of those orange home carrying a hammer. Yes, well, well.

Speaker 1: You've never done that. Are you paying attention? Attention? I'm

telling us.

Speaker 4: I I like skinny hats where you can curve the

curve at the at the front. These hats nowadays, the

kids were flat brand. They're fat. They're yeah, no, not fat.

But they're they're big. They're too big.

Speaker 1: Back in the eighties we had the skinny hats you

curve at the front.

Speaker 3: They don't see what about the giant hats. They sell

his novelty items as prob.

Speaker 1: Like Norm McDonald had on on Celebrity.

Speaker 3: Also, we're talking Aboutdumb and Dumber. Yesterday it was featured.

Do you want to be sitting behind no one of

those people? No giant hats?

Speaker 1: No, No, that's the other thing right there, top hat.

Maybe you get a DONNYA.

Speaker 3: And Deli fedora and a cowboy hat.

Speaker 1: Wow, two for one by one, get one free. Speaking

of hats, I want to mention two companies. Okay, this

first company, Westwood Motorcycle Racing Club. Here's the hat right here. Okay, Tony,

our good pal Tony and his dog Ella. We've showed

them before on the program. Tony dropped this stuff up

stuff off to us again. Westwood Motorcycle Racing Club. They

race out a mission speed way out there mission. I

can get more info on them by visiting w m

r C dot c A. So thank you to Tony

for dropping off some hats, some shirts. We appreciate that

we also got stuff from l mg N Golf Company.

Look at this. Ryan sent us this stuff. He came

in the mail yesterday. We got hats and golf shirts. Uh,

there's a there's their logo on the side that it's

kind of hard to see, but uh, I should have

grabbed the other happen anyway.

Speaker 3: It's a golf a golf ball with a mustache and

golf club. Long time baseball player. Yeah, like Craig Standler.

Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, so Ryan sent us this again. He's based

out a cologne. Uh. And you can get t shirts,

golf shirts, hats, it's like a it's a it's one

of these lifestyle golf companies that are kind of up

and running. But it's a BC company. So if you

want to support it again, it's m l g N

Golf Company. If you go to his Twitter account, he's

got a little putting or shooting thing in his backyard

at home and he's always what's his Twitter handle, Ryan Hank.

I think I think you're right. Actually I think it's

Ryan Hank. I know Ryan, good guy. I've been on

his podcast.

Speaker 3: Where that where that had that apparel at the Whistle

Golf Club.

Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, definitely, yeah, absolutely, finitely And Rick is right.

It's his Twitter handle if you want to go see

his buddy Green if you want, it's his Twitter handles. Actually,

always ninety four, that's it, Okay, Yeah, I know him.

Speaker 3: He's that's Ryan's I referred to the score or ninety

four the Canucks there, it is Ryan. It's a golf company.

Speaker 1: Yeah, but his personal Yeah.

Speaker 3: I'd love to be always ninety four anyway.

Speaker 1: Yes, no, kidding me too. So anyway, thank you both

to Tony and Ryan for sending us some goodies. We

appreciate that. Okay, quickly because we got to get out

of here because we've got two interviews coming up in

the eleven o'clock hour. I want to mention quickly the

white Caps. Yesterday was a big day for Sebastian Burhalter. Guys. Yes,

officially named to the World Cup roster for Team USA.

So they had the big sare yesterday. They had them

all on a stage. They unveiled the roster and Sebastian

Berholter officially heading to the World Cup for Team USA.

We don't know again, we mentioned yesterday Ralph Priso of

the white Caps. He's part of Canada's pre World Cup

training camp. But they haven't released their roster yet. I

think that's Monday, I want to say, if I have

that right, or maybe two weeks.

Speaker 3: Thomas Miller's endorsement.

Speaker 1: Yeah, he was all over him. And by the way,

Muller's doing TV work for the World Cup. During the

World Cup, he's gonna be a broadcast. I saw that

one of us for I believe it's a German TV network.

Speaker 3: Have three assists last time hop Yeah.

Speaker 1: Well, I mean he's been spectacular for the white Caps.

So congratulations to Sebastian Burholter. All the best, except if,

of course, the United States faces Canada. Not gonna be

too many people cheering from during that. Okay, up next

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black press voice of the BC I to play their

second and final preseason game Friday in Winnipeg. Bob and

Janovian Chimoch, How are you, sir? What do you got first?

Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Winnipeg.

Speaker 9: No, no, no, that's exclusive photo that I got. I

know agents as well. Right, that's from last year when

you're hanging out with your agent buddies in Vegas at

the Bellagio.

Speaker 4: Oh okay, every year I thought it was I thought

it was Winnipeg.

Speaker 1: What's that?

Speaker 4: What's a Palamino club in Winnipeg? Nineteen o oh, Bob bo.

Speaker 9: Bob, that's I can't tell any of those stories.

Speaker 1: Stop stop, stop getting nervous.

Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, you can tell some Vegas stories too, Rick,

Actually you can't because you probably don't remember.

Speaker 4: I don't remember much of Vegas. I'll never go back

there again. Ever, they won't let you in.

Speaker 3: Hey, Manny Malholtro, what's taken so long?

Speaker 1: Mojes? What do you know?

Speaker 9: I don't know, although I just did manage to send

a text into somebody with the organization. I haven't heard

back yet, but I imagine they're doing their due diligence

and if they have maybe agreed to terms with Manny,

maybe now it's just getting a coaching staff together, coming

to terms with those individuals. Maybe it's logistical. Maybe he's

out of town. I don't know where his whereabouts are

right now, So there's probably just some things that are

being taken care of. But you know, everyone believes that

it's going to be Malhotra. Although the longer this goes on,

maybe the more concern you have.

Speaker 3: So who would be the logical choice if Manny Mololtra

doesn't get promoted? Jay Woodcroft, David Carl Has anybody come

to mind? Or does it seem like a slam dunk.

Speaker 11: No.

Speaker 9: To me, it seems like Malhotra is the slam dunk.

Although I will say this, I don't know how many

people would be enthusiastic to show up to Vancouver and

be the head coach. There's an old adage in sports,

a job where you know he can't win, and right

now the Canucks aren't winning. But you also have to

look at the resources. There hasn't been alignment within the

organization in terms of their goals, and I think until

alignment is something that is seen, I don't think this

is a job where a coach would like to come to.

I mean, if you're a proven coach in the National

Hockey League, is this year landing spot? And I know

what people say there's only X amount of coaching jobs

in the NHL, but trust me, there have been coaches

that have turned down jobs because they know they don't

have the resources to win it. It'd be a blemish

on their record. So I mean, look at Rick Tockett.

He was offered a bundle full of money to stay

here last off season and he looked at the scenario.

Star defenseman's probably going to walk your star forward, your

big ticket item is playing below par, you got an injury,

real goaltender, and by the way, you don't have a

practice facility. So you look at those factors, and Rick said,

how do you Ospuchuccos and Bob?

Speaker 4: They're looking for their fifth coach in five years, Like

any guy come of heres, like why are you guys

firing coaches every year? Why would I go to Vancouver

to get fired in a year?

Speaker 9: Well, it's stability, right, And maybe that's where the relationship

between Ryan Johnson and Manny Malhocher comes in. And you know,

everything you hear about Manny is you know, top notch,

first class. But I thought Ryan Johnson had a really

good tell on Malhotra and the type of coach he is.

And he talked about his work at that effort last year,

in his attitude last year and you know, focusing on

the process despite the fact they weren't getting the results.

So for me, that spoke a lot. And I know

you had Brandon Assel talking about, you know, the fact

that here he was before practice working with some of

the younger guys as scratches or whatever. So it just

goes to show you that he's invested, he believes in

the process, and I think he'd be a great choice

for the Vancouver Canucks.

Speaker 1: Hey, we just I don't know if you know this.

Speaker 4: We just had Luke schen on and you know, the

Canucks have major issues culture wise. We're stressing him in

the last two years in the NHL. It's not even close.

A guy like Luke schen would help, Troy Stetcher would help.

Speaker 1: That's the type. I know.

Speaker 4: They are going to be six seventh defenceman, but those

are the type of guys that are good teammates and

help turn around a bad culture bomb.

Speaker 9: Well yeah, and you know I remember talking and Rick

you can add in on this, and we were chatting

with Rick Talckett prior to last year when he thought

he was going to come back to Vancouver. He said,

you know, we've got to improve our room and we

might go out and sign somebody and people will be

shaking their heads, but we're signing the guy because he's

going to bring stability to our locker room. And you know,

you probably one of the biggest hits that Canucks took

and the reason why that locker room probably went south

in the span of a year. Losing Ian cole Right

losing a guy like the door off. Those were huge hits.

Speaker 1: Yeah, people don't.

Speaker 9: Realize what Ian Cole. I remember talking to Cole one

time and I said, so, what's it like. You know,

what's the room like now? The temperature of the room.

And he says, honestly, he goes, when I first showed

up here, they'd lose a game and these this was

his exact words. He said, this place was like a

trauma unit. He goes, and it's gotten so much better

in the sense. And you know, Rick Tackett talked about

that guy staying even keel not getting too high after

wins and losses in that successful year that they had.

But when you have a player on the team talking

about the fact that after a loss it seemed like

a trauma unit, it just tells you, you know how

the Canucks were approaching things, and you know how much

leadership was needed in that room.

Speaker 4: All right, Lions first preseason game in Victoria over the weekend,

what did you like? Who was there is that? You said,

Holy smokes, this guy's good. He's going to win a

roster spot.

Speaker 9: Well, you know, I mean, first off, their first round

draft pick, Nate de Montinaca. I thought made a couple

of great catches. He looked pretty good. He seems like

he's ready, although he did get hurt. He dove for

a football later on in the game and hurt his shoulder.

I haven't heard anything yet in terms of what his

status is going to be for the game in Winnipeg.

I don't think he'll play. If I just had to guess,

he's won player. It was a little disappointed in the

defensive line. They look pretty good in practice and they

couldn't get any pressure on Edmonton with four Now, granted,

Edmonton had more of a veteran team and particularly on

the offensive line. And the other thing too is they

were playing soul Vanilla. There were no blitzes. It's just

straight man up, you know coverage, zone coverage and you know,

straight rushes. So that's kind of to their defense. But

Demontinax is probably they got to stut out.

Speaker 11: You know.

Speaker 9: The other guy too that looked pretty good, even though

he only rushed for like fifty four yards was a

Moni Bailey, And in talking to Buck Pierce after the game,

he said, you know, the thing that really impressed him

is how quickly he got to the next level, Like

to the depth of the linebackers, and you know, longest

run was nine yards, but it seemed like every time

he got tackled it was an eight yard pick up

at the next level. So those are two guys that

stuck out, stuck out for me and you know, and

plus a couple of nice returns. So we'll see what

happens with some of these returners and you know, some

of the receivers as well.

Speaker 3: The atmosphere or over there in the Victoria area.

Speaker 9: It was actually a lot of fun. I mean, you know,

kind of a Friday night lights field to it Starlight

Stadium only seats six thousand, and it was you were like, honestly,

we were right on top of the action. We were

in the scalp, the temporary scaffolding. We're probably about, I

don't know, twenty feet up and like maybe twenty feet

from the bench, so you didn't even need binoculars, just

looked out on the field and saw what was happening.

Although there were times it was extremely windy and Julia

O Caravanta thought we were going to go for a ride,

but once the wind started gusting up, we got a

little nervous.

Speaker 3: Yeah, is anybody ever everybody. Can anybody tell the difference

between gray Goose and a cheaper vodka? Like honestly, oh no,

there's no chance that if we had a taste test

you would fail you there's no queste no, but there's

no difference.

Speaker 9: Come on, we had this argument when it came the

red wine, and you told me I couldn't tell the

difference a thirty dollars bottle of Jaylor and a one

hundred dollars bottle of Camus.

Speaker 1: I don't even know what you said, Dax.

Speaker 3: How have you able to tell the difference?

Speaker 1: I would moge on gray Goose.

Speaker 3: You know you don't remember anything about gray Goose.

Speaker 4: Grey Goose, I moje, I'm with you.

Speaker 1: You could. It's more expensive for a reason.

Speaker 9: Yes, thank you. And when it comes to red wine,

trust me, you can tell the difference between a thirty

dollars bottle of Jaylor and something that's you know, one

hundred and fifty strong, whatever the case might be.

Speaker 3: All right, Well we'll have a taste test one day,

mister red wine. All right, save travels to Winnipeg, moje.

Speaker 9: Yeah, my favorite city.

Speaker 1: Chuchows. Have a good week.

Speaker 3: Barber jonaviag Lions and Bombers a final preseason game for

the Lions Friday in Winnipeg. Who's Next?

Speaker 1: Who's next?

Speaker 3: Bertucci?

Speaker 1: No, I know, I.

Speaker 3: Remember when we recorded that day interview.

Speaker 1: I was playing.

Speaker 3: He knows a lot about the Sedines. He knows a

lot about the National Hockey League. He also knows a

lot about coaching junior hockey players. Todd Bertucci, the bearded one.

He's next, Donny Delly the team on.

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Bertuzzi eleven fifty nine NHL games, eight seasons with the Canucks,

five with Daniel and Hendrik Sdeen's Sadean as a teammates.

That was in the early two thousand. Now head coach

of the Cambridge RedHawks of the Greater Ontario Hockey League. Todd,

thanks for doing this, sir, Long time no'll talk to

How are you, gentlemen?

Speaker 11: Long time no talk. I hope you're doing well. I'm

actually doing fantastic. I'm having myself with Pironi and I

got a match with my son at twelve thirty.

Speaker 5: So life's pretty good.

Speaker 3: It certainly sounds that way. It sounds perfect. As a

matter of fact, Todd's let's focus before we get to

the Canucks on the Cambridge RedHawks. Actually your first year

as head coach and you lead the team to the

Sutherland Cup, emblematic of the championship of the Greater Ontario

Hockey League. What's that experience been like for you?

Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 11: I appreciate and actually, I appreciate the exposure for our

league and for our team.

Speaker 5: It was. It was awesome.

Speaker 11: I actually started the process when I was living in Florida.

I had a took a couple of years off and

traveled around in a sprinter and I got.

Speaker 5: Approached about taking this team on.

Speaker 11: And I took a year to do a lot of

uh investigating and processing on how I wanted to do this,

and it was actually a lot of fun. I took

pretty much all the coaches that I've ever had, good, bed, evil, great, happy,

whatever it was, and I spent a full year dissecting

what and how I felt them and how I saw

them treat my other teammates and other teammates reactions and

all that, and I kind of put the portfolio together

on what kind of coach I wanted to be. And

the first thing I did, I just came in and

built relationships with these kids and then allowed these kids

to become men and make decisions on their own and

gave them a platform to have a voice. And in

the meantime, I just asked them to come to work

each and every day treat it like a pro team.

Speaker 5: I always emphasized.

Speaker 11: On making sure that our team was like an NHL

team who's run properly with our ownership and our management,

and I think that they did a hect of a

good job. I could have been more proud of the

result in my players.

Speaker 3: And we mentioned your team wins the championship, the Sutherland Cup,

and I got to say, we're looking at a picture

of you, Todd. Your playoff beard is really really impressive.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 11: Unfortunately we didn't go far enough when I was there

that I could have grown that thing. But no, it

was something you know what we had. We had a

terrific year. I had a really good group of kids

who bought in, understood the process, and I really made

it about them and I thought it was very efficient

and we had a very very good season and looking

forward to coming back and repeating.

Speaker 3: Okay, the connacshare looking for a head coach right now.

They haven't made any official announcement. What's in your coaching future, Todd?

Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, I know that's something I can handle.

Speaker 3: I know that.

Speaker 11: Market better than most and I'm quite confident in my

ability and my understanding of the game.

Speaker 1: Now.

Speaker 11: I think I've been with enough organizations were I've played

with the Red Wings and I've had Nick Lidstrom's the

Zeteberg and then obviously playing with Marcus and mo I

get Djovo, and then over in Anaheim had Pronger and

Nita Myers and all that. So I've been around, I've

been around a lot of leaders, Drow Mcginnland, Calgary, Craig Conroy.

So I basically just taken a lot of that information

and all that and tried to put in my development

as a coach.

Speaker 5: And I think last year was a.

Speaker 11: Time, Like I'm a big Adam Foot fan, and I

think from the Talcket era to transition over to the

Foot era was tough for both because I think they're

both extremely terrific coaches player coaches, and I just can't

figure what went wrong.

Speaker 5: So, you know how it is.

Speaker 11: Sometimes you're in a situation where you're you as an

organization are looking for an identity and trying to figure

out what path to take, what avenue to take, do

we rebuild we blow it up? And I think it

was a cross between a lot of uncertainty and them

not really knowing which way to kind of go, and

then obviously losing Miller and then losing Hughes. You're losing

two world class character players and then the result is

what the result is. But like I said, I'm a

big fan of talking and foot and it was unfortunate

that they were part of that process.

Speaker 4: Todd, you know the CityIn twins inside out there, the

President's of Hockey operations. When you heard they were taken over,

what did you think and what kind of job you

think they can do?

Speaker 5: I was extremely excited.

Speaker 11: I think the more that my generational players can step into.

Speaker 5: Higher end roles.

Speaker 11: And remember when I say all this, because I know

how some people take it sometimes, but I think it's

a good thing that you got ex players who have

played in our era's also played in the new era,

this fast era.

Speaker 5: We know these this age group very very well.

Speaker 11: We're all around the same age and I think they

have an understanding of it. And there's no two kids

who I couldn't be more proud of, who went through

a lot through their career and never wavered and stayed consistent.

And I listened to a couple of their things about

getting back into the community and all that. I know

when we were there with the West Coast Express days

and all that with Brian Burke, it was the first

thing that was always said, as we get into that

community and we become family. And I think the more

you become family and inside the community, they have a

little bit more of an understanding when things go wrong.

So it's not as difficult throughout the year when they're

not connected to the team. And I'm not saying that

they haven't been the past couple of years, but it

seems to be the question of doubt lately. But I

think if there's two guys who can come in with

and I think those three can do a tremendous job.

Speaker 4: I guarantee you your dressing room was great. You just

want a championship. The Canucks have had the worst dressing

room in the NHL the past two years, just tons

of problems. I think the Sadeine twins taught are going

to really help. How do you change a culture and

a dressing room.

Speaker 11: Well, the culture starts from the top, and I think

you have two of the most dedicated understanding the process

of what a dress room should look like. And I

know Daniel and Hendrick were part of our air and

then they also they also took on their own air

with the Ryan Kessler's Juice. Alex Burrows. They had robertol

long ago, so they've had two different decades of what

a dress room should look like.

Speaker 5: And act like and be like.

Speaker 11: And them being Swedish players and being part of the

Swedish teams and all that, whether it was Olympics or

the World Championships. Those teams are successful for reason because

they're close knit and they get together. And I'm believing

that that was the right decision bringing those three.

Speaker 5: And it's a culture thing.

Speaker 11: If your culture has a crack in it, it leaks out.

Speaker 5: That's not a.

Speaker 11: Team and that's not something you want to be a

part of. And I don't think that they would allowed

that to happen.

Speaker 1: You said, you're Adam Foot fan. Why is that?

Speaker 5: Todd Well?

Speaker 11: I played against him, I went, I had many many

battles with him and all that, and I played with

them at the Olympics and I spent a little bit

of time with him and all that, and I was

just a fan of him as a as a guy

and a man's man. And I just think that unfortunately

he was put into a almost a no win situation

with everything that was going on. When you have uncertainty

up above that uncertainly leaks into the room. You have

to have concrete from top to bottom and you have

to have no leaks.

Speaker 5: And that's why I.

Speaker 11: Believe that the Sadeens, through all the decades of our

era and their own era, with their groups and all that,

they're very familiar on how a dressrooms should look and act.

Speaker 3: Like talking with Todd Bertuzzi, Todd, back to the Sadeens

for a second. Actually you just talked about them. But

when you first met them, what were your first impressions

and what do you think they learned about development, because

early on it was pretty clear they had some work

to do on the ice.

Speaker 5: For me, it was.

Speaker 11: About five to six years of all the years and

no mouth, which was very impressive for a hockey player

to do, to be able to come into an environment

and use their eyes and their ears more than their

mouth and kind of figure it out that way. I

think they spent a lot of time watching a lot

of the top players that they played with or against,

and they were student of the game, and to be honest,

they perfected the game those two and made that team

one heck of a team in the end, and was

that close from conquering the Stanley Cup and I know

the one thing we always talked about it was I

think we're just a little bit too late on both

of our sides, because I think we could have had

a pretty good six guys going out quite often if

it ever crossed pass and all that, but their dedication

to the game, the fact that they're into fitness, they're

into the health things, they're into the changing of the game.

Speaker 5: The game has changed so drastically. If you can't change with.

Speaker 11: The game or or keep the movement going, then you're

stuck in. You're stuck in quicksand. And I think that

those two will move the needle for sure.

Speaker 3: All Right, Vegas, Carolina, Montreal the three teams left standing.

What sticks out for you when you watch the Stanley

Cup playoffs? HESI I was shocked.

Speaker 11: I'm still shocked that the Abs got slept and for

I am I.

Speaker 5: Just didn't see that coming.

Speaker 11: I think when they went and got Cadre, I thought

that was the kind of meat and potatoes that would

take it.

Speaker 5: Over the top.

Speaker 11: And then I'm pretty sure ninety five percent you're gonna hear.

Speaker 5: A very high.

Speaker 11: List of very severe injuries that were taken on by Colorado,

And you know what, that's not taking away anything from Vegas.

Vegas certainly came in and absolutely dominated. I was very

excited to see Marner perform the way he did. I'm

in Ontario quite a bit, so I hear a lot

about the Leafs, which I'm not a big fan of obviously,

you guys know that make it very clear every time

I'm on a radio, and I was quite excited to

see him succeed thrive. And you can see look on

the face of relief when they won it last night,

and he knows and they know that they got a

tougher task ahead. And I think this Carolina Montreal think

could goes seven games. It's kind of a coin slip

to me, but for a while I thought Carolina looked

like the team to beat, very steady four lines. Everyone

plays two hundred feat which I love and what you

have to do to be successful. And I think it's

going to be a heck of a series, and Vegas

is gonna be tough to beat, though, I'll tell you.

Speaker 5: And I think they got they got everything running.

Speaker 11: And it's just bizarre how they make a coaching change

eight eight games or whatever it is, and it turns

it around that quick. From a coach who I think

he's coached six, seven, eight teams or whatever, And how

quick that was just turned around with these guys.

Speaker 3: So we can go on and on, Todd, this has

been outstanding, just great. Best luck with the red Hawks.

And again, thanks so much.

Speaker 5: Yeah, awesome, awesome.

Speaker 11: I wish uh the Canucks best of luck. I'm a

huge fan. I'm always paying attention to all that, and

these these fans deserve better, and I know the Citians

will bring it back. It's a great city and it's

a great city when they're in the mix always, and

hopefully this thing gets turned around and get back in

the mix, because hockey's better when the Canucks.

Speaker 5: Are on top.

Speaker 3: So well said, thanks Todd.

Speaker 5: All right, guys, you guys take care.

Speaker 3: Todd Bertuzzi, former Vancouver Canuck head coach of the Sutherland

Cup champion Cambridge RedHawks, maybe one of Many's assistants.

Speaker 4: If that, if that happens, he's going to climb. Do

you you hear him talking about kids.

Speaker 3: He clearly loves coaching. He's gonna whether he wants to

do it at the well, she's only fifty one only

for me. If he wants to try it, at the

NHL level, I'm not sure, but he clearly clearly enjoyed

it at the junior I.

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Only the Beatles You've Heard of Them? What Sit ahead

overall with their record nineteen number one albums, also the

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ones on the Billboard Hot one hundred by a solo

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records doing well.

Speaker 1: Not a big fan.

Speaker 4: I don't know any of his song so I'm not

gonna sit here and talk about Drake. He's got a

song apparently called passion Fruit.

Speaker 1: Is that right? Is it a song or an album?

Speaker 3: So you do know something?

Speaker 1: I'm passionate about fruit food every day. I'm a fruit guy.

Speaker 4: Passion is a fruit don He's got a song called

passion Fruit.

Speaker 3: Why would you name a song passion fruit? I don't know,

but it did it do well?

Speaker 1: Yeah, it's apparently one of his biggest hits.

Speaker 3: There you go.

Speaker 1: This is passion Fruit and this is good. This is

not bad.

Speaker 3: I thought you heard of it before. What are you

talking about?

Speaker 1: This is the last record maybe or maybe this is

this is nothing for me, This is this is Lawrence

Welk stuff.

Speaker 3: It is Yes, I agree, it's soft.

Speaker 1: And what is this?

Speaker 3: Okay? Are you sure you can play this?

Speaker 1: Yeah? Well this is laybeled clean so.

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Speaker 1: He does nothing for me. This guy is.

Speaker 3: You know what he is? His appearance when he didn't

host it Saturday.

Speaker 1: Ryan.

Speaker 3: Quit trying to be young and hip. This song is

about come on, I'm not a huge drake guy. You

want to go to sleep?

Speaker 1: Put this song on? You could?

Speaker 3: Yeah?

Speaker 1: I might?

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shop louis base there and Pitcher Crack.

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That move is illegal by that.

Speaker 4: I'm sure there's a town called pincher Crack as well.

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pitcher Crack, give your head a shaking him of the

movie there, Yeah, picture Crack. Anyways, a seventh thro out

pick of the Kings in two thousand and nine, two

thousand and nine, he's still playing today. He played one

year for the one Acchi wild just down the highway there,

just across the border.

Speaker 1: Third it is. You know where what Acchi is.

Speaker 4: He's a third NHL player from the state of Alabama.

Twenty third team, a finalist for the Hoby Baker for

Saint Cloud University. Three years with the LA Kings, then

traded into the Canucks in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 1: Doubt Jordan suban.

Speaker 4: Nick d Doubt played last night, still playing in Vegas.

That guy spent eight years in Washington. You know, you

know people want He carved out a great after the

Canucks as a fourth line guy. Just one of the

best fourth line players in the NHL.

Speaker 1: Good for him.

Speaker 3: Was frustrating for knuck fans, yeah, among other things.

Speaker 4: And Canucks anyways, this guy was the second round pick

of the Penguins in nineteen ninety four. Played fourteen years

in the NHL, six different teams, including you're Vancouver Canucks

played in the Quebec TV Peewee Tournament two years in

a row with Clue Is.

Speaker 3: The Quebec Tournament. Like, honest, you know what that tells you?

He's good.

Speaker 4: Kids that go to the Quebec Tournament, a lot of

them end up in the NHL. That's what it tells you.

He bounced around. In two thousand and five, he signed

with the Canucks one year in Vancouver, then.

Speaker 1: He left for the Islanders.

Speaker 4: Good Penley killer scored two short handed goals on five

on three is a very rare feat in the NHL.

Currently a pro scout Minnesota. The second Korean born person

to play in the NHL after Jim Pack, Richard Park.

Richard Park, Yeah, I remember when the Canucks signed him.

Was a Brick Brian Brick got him right?

Speaker 1: Where is it? When did he play for the Kicks?

Speaker 3: Jim Pack won a Stanley Cup of Pitts.

Speaker 4: I would have been like two thousand and five, who

was a GM in two thousand and five?

Speaker 1: No, it would have been on us. There you go,

Jim Pack.

Speaker 4: All right, this NFL quarterback after red shirting his first

year at Duke in twenty thy fifteen.

Speaker 1: He became the starting quarterback the year after MVP.

Speaker 4: Of the twenty seventeen Quick Laying Bowl against Northern Illinois.

Speaker 1: Good basketball player.

Speaker 3: What University.

Speaker 4: Duke good basketball player was at AAUT He was at

AAU teammate with Celtics forward Grant Williams.

Speaker 1: Played with Grant pitcher crack. He isn't the only athlete

in his family.

Speaker 4: Three siblings played d one sports high pick in the

twenty nineteen NFL Draft, fifth rookie quarterback in the NFL

history to throw five touchdown passes in a game. Six

tough years in New York, he would move on one

season as the Vikings backup break through the Colts.

Speaker 1: Are you too serious? Are you? Daniel Jones?

Speaker 4: Daniel Jones, what are you guys serious? He went to Minnesota,

wrote the we got it. Yeah, he got it, not you. You

should have got it. Last guy. This guy's one of

my favorite baseballs. This guy's one of my favorite baseball players.

Only player in Major League history to have seven consecutive

seasons with at least a three hundred batting average and

one hundred runs batted in won the AL batting title

in ninety seven with a three forty seven back. Two

time al MVP won World Series in two thousand.

Speaker 1: And five with the White Sox.

Speaker 4: Frank Thomas, Frank, as soon as I said White Sox,

I knew you're gonna get.

Speaker 1: It at the Big Hurt. Played with the Blue Jays.

Speaker 4: Remember his time with the Blue Jays, Tony he hit

his five hundred homer as a member of the Blue Jays.

Speaker 1: So there you go, Frank Thomas, the Big Hurt. There

you go.

Speaker 3: Yeah, as soon as you said yeah, White forget they

won a World Series like it's so forgettable, it really is.

And you know it was a long time but you know, gosh,

I can remember a long time between World Series for them,

but it just wasn't even close to being as big

a deal as the Cups. There's been a I understand that.

There they you know this year they're better, the more

fans there.

Speaker 1: Yeah they are.

Speaker 7: They are the right track, but it's still a long

way to good un But there's Donny, there's so many

forgettable World Series titles.

Speaker 3: Arizona Diamondbacks, Florida twice three in a row, one, Arizona two, Anaheim, but.

Speaker 1: Oh three from they're allowed to win. No Yankees? Do

you want the Dodgers to win every year? How fun

is that?

Speaker 3: But like he says, they are forgettable.

Speaker 1: They're forgettable.

Speaker 3: Fro Remember the Diamondbacks because they had Kurt Schilling and

Randy Johnson. Randy Johnson, Yeah, basically won it with those two.

But if I'm not mistaken, those two were co World

Series MVPs and it was only like four or five

years into their existence. The Arizona Diamondbacks and just.

Speaker 1: You just get these blip titles like the Kansas City

Royals in twenty fifteen one.

Speaker 3: Yeah they won. The White Sox won on five and

before that was nineteen seventeen. Yeah, when they won a

World Series.

Speaker 1: You I think you covered that, didn't you?

Speaker 3: The one in ninety They used the same joke every time.

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last time you went to a nightclub. The last time

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so that tells you all you need to know about it.

Speaker 1: Which, by the way, speaking of nightclubs, Roosters in pitt Meadows,

the country Bar, it's a supermarket. Now you don't have

that bizarre anyway.

Speaker 3: Oh you're kidding as you crossed the bridge right, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 4: I think Aaron and South van is trying to make

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Like I'm not gonna lie to you. It pisses me off.

The Tampa Bay and Florida one Cups Vegas has and

Vancouver is still like it bothers me. It bothers me

to no end, no end, and the Vegas third time

the Cup. Thanks Aaron in South Bend for making us

all mad.

Speaker 3: It's funny. I was gonna read that one too. It's

a it's frustrating, but it's a good point. Unsigned is

it just me? But forty six years ago yesterday, the

Great Jim Robson called the game seven winning overtime goal

for the first of Forest Towley Cups. So the Islanders

nicstrom from Tanelly, God bless the late great Jim Robson.

Speaker 4: That was nineteen eighty and Jim was doing the CBC

game and Tanelly on nisro a was such a and

we remember we saw it nineteen eighty. Jim Robson great call,

way to go Okay, So it's just me, But if

the Canucks get Stamburg at three, they can then take

a Canadian and a BC boy who plays in their

backyard at number twenty four. I made this, uh math

mathis Preston, who played for the Bank of Giants, came

over from Spokane and.

Speaker 3: The injury issues he dropped in a lot of mock drafts.

That's funny, he says that, because I saw a mock

draft recently, I can't remember who. There's a million out there.

I can't remember who it was, but they had Matthus

Preston being taken by the Canucks at twenty four. Who

knows Caprice and Cowichan Valley? Is it just me? Or

will the Sedines believe that to do this rebuild as

fast as possible, we need to be careful as go

and go slow, be tested at the draft, or we're

going to do this rebuild right and do it slow.

We need to go for the best player available instead

of positional need at center. I thought that. I think

it was Henrik who said it. The best way to

go fast with the rebuild is to go slow, because

otherwise the rebuild is not going to be It still

won't be a rebuild. It won't be successful. I couldn't

agree more thanks to Caprice. What do you got all right?

Speaker 1: I got this?

Speaker 4: Gallagher really Rick, he can't play anymore. Guys who can

play get them. Guys don't respect, guys who shouldn't be

on the ice. Stephen Vancouver, Steve, I couldn't disagree with

you any anymore. The Vancouver Canucks have had the worst

stressing room in the history of their franchise. Last two years.

It's been a discrease soap opera. Know guys like Gallagher,

Luke Shan, Troy Stetcher, good teammates, do good things.

Speaker 1: Arc I have no issues.

Speaker 3: Maybe one of them at the very least, very quickly,

Mike and a Similkamen, is it just me but the Canucks?

You could use Bertuzzi's toughness. Sign Mccaerrn and Raves to

pair with Douglas for a monster fourth line. You'd love

that role. Let's take a break and one. We'll wrap

up the show in the pull question next, Donnie and

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Speaker 4: Pole, Rick Ry, get her up the waterling dog pop

pole question, and it is concerning Vegas. What's the number

one reason for the Golden Knights playoff success? And look

at this management moves forty leading the way they fired

the coach with eight games to go. Another going to

the Cup final. Heavy Canadian roster fourteen Canadians, ten from

Western Canada. Kelly McCrimmon did so well in Manitoba. He

gets it. And then comes car Canadian kick Kelly McCrimmon,

great hockey family, Carter Hart and then John Tortorella.

Speaker 3: Yeah, uh that I know, I said it earlier. But

the whole situation with the Canadians it's just at the

very least, it's it's interesting. You got pictures.

Speaker 1: First.

Speaker 4: We got a birthday shout out to Joanne from her

husband Elvio. Happy sixtieth birthday on North Burnaby, Galton and

Tott's Country.

Speaker 1: Yeah, happy happy birthday.

Speaker 4: To sixtieth birthday from her husband Elvio Ryan. Where we're

going a dog? Not enthused about a dog. Look at

this beautiful dog. He can't beat this that. The dog's

name is Mojo, and Mojo thinks that when I first

read it, I looked like moj the dog that well, yeah,

Mojo does a little bit like my or yeah, Iggy.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 4: But dogs will do that anywhere they want sleep, sleep

anywhere anywhere they want in the house.

Speaker 1: They just that's it.

Speaker 3: I'm a fascinating fact.

Speaker 1: It is anywhere, Yeah, anywhere.

Speaker 4: Okay, this is Mojo. He thinks that Carter Hurt's the reason.

Speaker 3: People off at sleeping when they're watching our show.

Speaker 4: Mojo just fell asleep watching us. Anyways, beautiful dog. Treat

your dogs well, they're good. They're great, great, great, great panties, Yes, exactly,

great pets.

Speaker 3: Got another picture, all right? Is it just me? From

Bruno at seven bills or is this management coaching ritool complete?

Only when Cohen the barb bradberryan is somehow in the fold.

Speaker 1: Con No, No.

Speaker 3: No, Jeff cop Berry and Jeff Cowen, Jeff oh the

broad thing.

Speaker 1: Yeah, they're throwing it from the stands. There you go.

Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a short lived era.

Speaker 1: I knew the person that did throw it.

Speaker 4: Well, they picked him up on waivers and Donnie remember that,

the guy through the person the guy that through the

bron guy ConA or No cow Jeff Cowen, they picked

up on waivers and he became a big hit.

Speaker 1: And remember they had like they fit some cult heroes.

Fitzpatrick remember him.

Speaker 3: Yeah, the T shirts. They all start voting, all.

Speaker 1: Start voting with him. Yeah.

Speaker 4: Absolutely, Hi, guys, let's not pick a smaller skilled perimeter

forward a number three instead, pick one of the big, fast,

talented defenders, which are gold Roger from Delta.

Speaker 3: Well, when we were talking about picking Canadians, or probably

pointing out how many Canadians Vegas had on its roster,

we had a cute A few people say, pick up

the kid from Prince George, the Couvers, Carson Carls.

Speaker 1: Big Kid, Strong Kid Farm from the Prairies farmer.

Speaker 3: I'm kid.

Speaker 1: Those kids go what they do well, we'll.

Speaker 3: See, we'll see what happens. Thanks so much for tuning in, folks.

Lots of fun today Lushan and Todd, Bertucci and moch

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