October 9th 2025

On today's show Donnie and Rick setup the Canucks season opener vs. the Flames tonight and talk about the Blue Jays punching their ticket to the ALCS.

Joining the show is Ray Ferraro (12:04) and Trevor Linden (49:13).

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
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be the winner of a two.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
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little Ricky. I used to go up that tree and
just sit there for hours and munch on those cherry years.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
Ten o'clock in downtown Vancouver, one of the Paul Carton Studio.
Thanks for tuning in, folks. It's Donnie and Dolly the
team on Check. Gon Taylor, along with Brick Dolly Wall.
Ryan Henderson is our producer. He's the man at the controls,
our director, the voice of God. It's his birthday today,
Derek the Happy Birthday to Darek's birthday. He's got the
day off, a sage in his place.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
How are you game day? The season starts tonight. Excited positive?
I took my positivity pills this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, you're on side all. You don't even mention, You
didn't even mention the team that's playing tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
What team are you talking? Cannocks Cannocks positivity. They're gonna
do good.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Their fifty fifth season of Operation begins tonight versus Calgary,
a team that came back and won last night in Edmonton.
They were down three to nothing. They end up winning
in a shootout that went eight rounds. Dustin Wolf was
sharp as can be. Boy, he's athletic, but he won't

(01:39):
be playing tonight against the Canucks. I guess you'd call
it a break for the Canucks. The journeyman backup, Devin
Cooley Will who's also like Dustin Wolf from California, will
get the start. From what we understand for the Calgary Flames.
He did not go to Cooley High. You have no
idea what I'm talking about. I do remember the movie

(02:00):
He's fun High, Richmond High. No, Cooley High was a
movie in the eighties.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
No, I don't. I'd never heard of Coolie High, Ridgemont High.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
That's an altogether different That was a good movie. But
you see Stuart Skinner on that third.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Goal, Just what's he doing? What are you doing? Skinner?
Three goals in fifteen shots last night, Dawn, What is
he doing?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I think a little more than fifteen. But the point
is that the first thing that went through everybody's mind.
I'm sure when they saw that was here we go again. Yes,
I got a hand that with Stewart. Skinner, though faces
the media as pleasant as can be talking about that goal,
broke it down. He is good that way. I think
people at Edmonton would rather him be super cranky and

(02:43):
make that safe.

Speaker 6 (02:44):
Well was it even?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
It is the way he handled the puck that was
that was the problem. So Devin Cooley and goal tonight
Flames versus the Canucks, season number fifty five. I know
you hate doing this, Ryan, but it's October ninth. Okay,
October ninth, So let's go back to nineteen seventy. Okay,
if you don't mind. Lian does not appreciate history.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Like Brick and I care. He doesn't care. But it's
October ninth.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
And the Canucks have played a few season openers on
October ninth, So let's go back to October ninth, nineteen seventy.
The Canucks versus the Los Angeles Kings on the call
on television, not on radio on television, Jim robson, this
is the Canucks first ever goal.

Speaker 5 (03:28):
Lunday over the Los Angeles line.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
It's do nothing for the Kings.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Lundy's passed across the Wilsons.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Getting set, You gonna shoot it, Here goes go.

Speaker 7 (03:48):
Here's a replay, recons been a reverse on that.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Love that, and you know what, I got to say,
the TV coverage was way better back then. Why in
God's name did they do this? Somebody would take a shot.
I have never understood it. They would take a shot
and they'd cut to the net, right, they'd go to
the close up of the net and you kind of
lose track of what was actually happening. Was Andre Boudera
in there looking for a rebound? Didn't have to worry

(04:15):
about it. Dennis to Jordie. Let the Barry Wilkins backhander
go in. Len Lundy on the assist from Campbell River
on Vancouver Island. Both Len and Berry have left us,
God rest their souls. Fifty five years ago.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
I loved the Spinorama.

Speaker 8 (04:28):
The Spinorama, Bobby or At, Serge Savard maybe exactly Dennis
Vard too, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Okay, So that was fifty five years ago. Today they
haven't had a lot of luck. On October ninth, they
lost that game three to one to the Kings. Back
in nineteen ninety five opening of GM Place, they lose
five to three to Detroit. That was the first Contuck
game at GM Place. Mike Ridley scored the Cutucks first goal.
They lost that game. And I always remember going to

(04:57):
a game October ninth, twenty ten. That was the year
the Canucks went to the Stanley Cup in twenty eleven,
twenty ten, twenty eleven. It was a really great night
to be there October ninth, twenty ten because the two
teams were their retro uniforms Kings and Canucks, and they
were replicating what happened in nineteen seventy the purple and

(05:18):
gold uniforms for the Kings, and they ended up winning
that game that night, and the Canucks wore their old
with the old uniforms with the V on the That
one the one we saw stick stick and rink And
it was the first night that Henry Cedeen I believe
was captain of the Caducks. Wow, they had a big
ceremony night. Okay, this is what we all we got

(05:41):
to hear. Hurry here folks, because we've recorded an interview
with Ray Ferraro and Ray is not always the most
positive guy. Well, he's very honest when it comes to
comes to the Canucks. Boy, he's got some real positive
things to say about then about the Caducks in particular,
two players. All this talk about what's happening with the
Senate ice position. Ye, he's a fan of what Elias

(06:03):
Peterson is up to and Philip Heedle. So stick around
for that. That's that's in our next segment. Also, Jim
Ruththerford was on I know you were listening. You were
all years yesterday Sportsnet six fifty Uh. Jim Rutherford, President
Grand Puba of the Vancouver Canucks. Here's what Jim Rutherford

(06:23):
had to say. We've got this clip right right, the
clip clip to talk.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
About this before the show.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
My gosh, Frankenstein crank clip three.

Speaker 8 (06:38):
We've got this clip right, there's three of them, but
we've got this clip.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Well, like you gotta say, yeah, have you got the
clips ready to go? Yeah? But we talked about the clips,
the lack of respect. You're over there daydreaming, what do
you what you're doing on you? I'm working, I'm on
my Internet, Yeah, or whatever.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Your Google, Google machine, interweb. This is Jim Rutherford yesterday.
You know what, I'll deal with Nina right now, Nina.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
We got the.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Clip Jim Rutherford talking about how he believes Elias Patterson.
This is good news for Canuck fans. He's in a
different place mentally.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
P D is in a totally different place than he
was a year ago. And he's done everything he can
to prepare himself for the season. Everything that that he
was advised to do, he was asked to do. He worked,
he got he got stronger, he looks better, but mentally

(07:35):
he just he's just he's just a different guy, a
lot more relaxed. The guy he can talk to a
lot more now, and he's, uh, he's excited about getting going.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
What you reading.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
I like that clip. In a lot of ways, you
can't be confident and you can't play at the NHL
level if your mind is all screwed up, and his
was last year because of the stuff going on with Miller.
Miller's gone. You know, he's gone. Talckett wasn't a great
This isn't a big revelation. And by the way, Talckett
wasn't a big fan of Peterson's everybody.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Knows what does he know about?

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Well, but and everybody that's been covering this team, that's
not a big revelation. Who I mean yesterday, Oh my goodness,
talk It didn't like Patterson. We've known that for a
long long time.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Well, there were comments that he made aut moving his
feet and look at the way Talkett played the game
of hockey.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Honest, hard working, you know, balls to the walls, go
in the corners front of than that, you defend teammates
just you know, care about the crash, not that the
name on the back. Yeah, he didn't see any of
that from Petterson last last year. That's why he wasn't
a big fan of his. That's nothing new. We've known
that for a long time.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah. Well you hope it all works out. But I
just try to figure out. You know again, I know
not everything comes down to money, but I'd be in
a pretty good place. Mess lif it was the first
year of it.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Yeah, but don pressure it's you. I know, you don't
consider the Canadian market. The Miller's on his case. You know,
he's not producing. As Brian Burke tells us every year,
the worst place to be is in a Canadian market,
underachieving on a big contract. That's what he did.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Like all those players in Winnipeg decide to stick around.
All America's economy gave us here.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
They don't have the media in Winnipeg, that the media
and Vancouver, they don't have Cannucks Twitter.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Come on down, No, they have Jets Twitter.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
Which is not a psycho is Canuck's Twitter.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
But I look, like I said, Referral has a lot
of positive things to say about Elias Petterson. That's in
our next segment. Same with the same with Jim ROUTHI
ferd and and good good for Lias Petterson if he's
in a different place mental good for him. He needs
to be he needs to be good for him if
indeed it leads to aid him doing a better job

(09:47):
of earning his contract exactly. And I know, people, when
you're talking about that contracts nothing. Now look at the
you know what Chael's getting and caprisof, but it's still
it's still a lot of money, but hopefully a better
mental state for him. I'm with you too, Like it
just didn't seem that Talckett, Miller and Peterson, when you're

(10:07):
talking about Peterson, didn't seem like that was a fit
long term talk.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
It wasn't.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
So you hope for the sake of the Canucks and
their fans that it all works out for him. Rayferrow
expecting big things. Here's what's coming up on the show.
We got a roll here because the raised interview was
a lot of fun. We might have went a little
along with it. Okay, And Trevor Linnen is going to
join us as well. DTMZ is it just me in

(10:32):
the eleven o'clock hour. Trevor Linnon will join us just
after eleven. He's got some things to say about men's
health and about the Canucks season opener, and with Braiden
kots in mine, Trevor, like Brayden, made his NHL debut
as an eighteen year LL so we'll get a story
or two from Trevor regarding that. Regarding that situation, Big

(10:56):
Rye the quitter guy later before I go any further,
both Trevor and Ray Big baseball fans, Congratulations the Blue
Jays move on to the Alcs, and especially congratulations for
us to John Schneider who worked with the Vancouver Canadians.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Yes for a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Twenty ten, twenty eleven. He came across sub that guy
so well yesterday. We hope to talk about that some
more as the day goes on. But up next, as
mentioned from the NHL on THEESPN, He's going into the
bc A Sports Hall of Fame next week. Our friend
Ray Ferraro, thanks so much for tuning in, folks. Donnie
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Speaker 5 (12:46):
Ray Ferraro, thanks for doing this, sir. How are you?

Speaker 9 (12:49):
I'm good. I hope the weak things got a new
bus from the one that we used to take around.

Speaker 5 (12:53):
What was the problem with the old one school bus?

Speaker 9 (12:57):
It was old in nineteen eighty four, and I'm telling
you this thing was it was a step up from
the bus and slap shot, but it was. It was
not much further than that. Like when we bust from
there to Calgary, it was like freezing and it was
like miserable. It was wrong. It was terrible.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Things work. Things worked out for you, hey, Ray, With
eighteen year old Braden Kots in mind, how old were
you when you broke into the National Hockey League And
what do you remember about your first game back in
eighty four?

Speaker 9 (13:33):
Yeah, it was December of eighty four, I was twenty,
and quite honestly, when I think back to the difference
from being eighteen years old playing in Portland to twenty
when I made my debut, I mean I was miles.
The difference was miles. It wasn't just the two years.
It was like, you know, physical maturity, experience. You know,

(14:00):
I'd been knocked down and traded and you know, like
I had a little more I don't know, maybe a
little more backbone by the time.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
I was twenty.

Speaker 9 (14:10):
I I can't these kids that are you know, there's
going to be at least four of them that are
going to be out of this draft that are going
to play. I was in New York the other night,
and I think it's I was telling land In and
and Cammy actually when I when I finished the game,
so Pittsburgh played there. Uh they're their opener in New
York and Ben Kendall played, and Ben's Vancouver kid, and

(14:33):
I saw his mom and dad on the flight out there.
They were so excited right to go watch Ben play
and he was awesome, Like he was terrific. And the
reason I was telling Landing and Camy about it is
that you know, Ben, I would say, is similar in stature,
maybe even a little smaller than h than Boots is.

(14:55):
And so the thing that I noticed was how we
got around the ice, Like he never put himself in
like a position where he was really fighting for position.
You know, he was in position so he could only
once did he get kind of trapped in his zone.
The ability that some of these kids have to read
the play at eighteen and nowhere near what I had, Like,

(15:20):
nowhere near what I was really impressed with Coots in
the preseason watching Kindle play, I was like, Wow, there
is something to this ability. These kids have the IQ
some of these kids have. Some of them just aren't
ready to play. And they might be terrific players and
have long careers, they're just not ready to play. They

(15:44):
just can't do it. You know. Again, I'll go back
to Kindle and they had a nineteen year old defenseman,
Harrison Brunnick, And You're like, wow, I can see why
the Penguins are both surprised that they're here and excited
to see what they can do. And I mean, there's
no way the Canucks, uh this this could be right?
Like maybe you think in the off like, hey, maybe

(16:06):
he could be ready. I don't know, but you don't
plan for it, you don't think of it. And then
he just like every hurdle he just coats, just climbed
over the hurdle and was like, we'll take the next
challenge on him. So I'm excited to watch him playtime.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Imagine how good he'd be if he had the experience
of driving on that or running on.

Speaker 10 (16:24):
That Brandon yes, yes, or that would have read yeah,
he would have had he would have eaten a lot
more McDonald's and Burger King, which is our meal of choice.

Speaker 9 (16:35):
Back then you do you do you ever.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Read on this conduct team under Adam foot.

Speaker 9 (16:41):
Ray a little bit. I want to see it because
the the preseason, of course, is is just so much
different than the than the games will be the the
opposition will be stiffer, you know, everything will be more engaged.
It's like I've I've often talked about at the different
stages of the season. There's the preseason, there's early season,

(17:04):
there's that mid season, right after the All Star break,
the stretch run, and then the playoffs, and each one
of them elevates themselves through through the course of the season.
What I see as a far more aggressive team, a
team that looks less stressed in the game that they're playing.
You know, like the talk system was really demanding, and

(17:26):
it was really demanding from off the puck defensive perspective.
It was really effective. But it's kind of like Barry
Trot's system. You know, you've got to be at the
You've got to be on your marks for that to work.
This system is a little more fun to play. It's

(17:47):
a little more free flow. Will it work, We're going
to find out. But what you'll find is the players
will generally play without as much thought. And this maybe counterintuitive.
The less you think, the better the system is. So again,
I was in New York the other night and Mike

(18:09):
Sullivan told us before the game his most concerning thing
was that it was a completely new ranger system and
he was worried his guys were going to be thinking
their way through it. And when you think your way,
you become slow. And the Rangers looked like they were
stuck in the mud. And that's one game, right, I mean,
it's whatever's going to happen tonight, there's going to be
this wild reaction. Kots can play, coots can't play. The

(18:32):
system's great. The system's no good. Den Goo was awesome,
Demco sucked Like whatever it is going to be, it's
one game, right, Like, it's just it's just one game,
and it gives you a better picture than preseason, but
it's just a one game picture. And h everything I
read feels like the vibe around the team is a

(18:56):
little more easy. If that's not easy, like oh, it's
going to be, but just more relaxed, and that certainly
can go a long way.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
Ray, you know, all eyes are going to be on Peterson.
Did you see enough from him in the preseason where
you said to yourself, Hey, you know what, he's on
his way back to being a eighty ninety hundred point guy.

Speaker 9 (19:19):
I'll be shocked if he's not eighty to ninety points
this year. I first of all, I can't quite explain,
other than the health part of it, what happened to
him last year, right, Like that's just not It wasn't
like a one year seventy five point guy that went
to forty points and you're like, oh, yeah, that was
his career year and he'll never get to seventy points again.

(19:40):
Like none of it made sense to me. And what
I saw was clearly a quicker, more engaged player. I
thought Petterson had a really good preseason because like those
stages of the season, he's not hitting the peak of
his game. You sure hope he's not in preseason. I
think he'll have a very good year. I really do.

(20:02):
I'd be more surprised if he didn't than if he did.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
Ray they're gonna have maybe six Abbsburg guys. You know,
they won the Calder Cup, which was so good. Is
there any of the abby guys in your mind that
could take off? And but the key is not making
the NHL staying in the NHL. Yeah, which one of
these guys do you say is gonna take the role

(20:28):
and stay all year?

Speaker 6 (20:31):
Well?

Speaker 9 (20:31):
I would say the defenseman, but that is pretty clear.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (20:35):
But but I think Mancini is a hell of a player.
I really do. I think this system is built for him.
You've got this logjam of defenseman and really good prospects
that are all kind of mixed together. And you know
you're you're not just gonna blow out a couple of

(20:57):
defensemen to get a forward and then maybe you need
those defensemen in the future. Right, Because no matter what
we talk about or don't talk about until Quinn's situation
is settled one way or the other. You need all
of these players because you've got to figure that out,

(21:18):
and you can't figure it out until time allows you
to figure it out. So while most Cannuck fans want
the answer today, unfortunately it's not going to be that way.
But I think those two defensemen are legit NHL defenseman,
like I really do. I think there you could plug
them in as a third pair today you'd have some

(21:38):
growing pains, but that's a legit pair, like legit defenseman
up front. I do think Carlson is going to find
his way into a regular spot somewhere. I like the
way he plays. I think he's gotten a little quicker
right now. He's just on the outside. I know they
say they don't want, they don't necessarily need Banes to score,

(22:00):
but in the role he's in, if he's going to
stay there, he's got to provide some. But I think
he's I think he's a legit player. I think he's
a middle six player that can play like I. I
like his smarts to the game, and I also think
he's learned that you can't compete part of the time.
You have to compete all of the time. A star player,

(22:24):
they can compete some of the time during the regular season.
A player like arshdiep Bains has to compete one and
three percent of the time or else they're going to
get somebody else to do it. Right. The guy to
me that I was really intrigued with because he looked
a little different as camp went on, was Lequermackie. They

(22:46):
need goals, right, they need offense. That kid has a
special gift when he shoots the pot. The way he
stays in the NHL is to stay in a battle,
not get blown out of the You don't have to
win everyone. And as a smaller guy, I know that
every time I lost one, I'd get up and I'd

(23:06):
be like, I know what.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
I know.

Speaker 9 (23:09):
They're saying I lost that battle because I'm small. Like
I knew it. They when a big guy loses a battle,
they just say he lost the battle. When a small
guy loses it, they say, see, he lost the battle
because he's small. Lecermack. He has to be able to
compete on the boards when the puck comes around the
boards or when he's got a d pinching down and
he's going to crush him. He's got to get the

(23:30):
puck out. He's got to retrieve a puck now and
then because his skill at the other end is going
to open up again. I like to watch players around
the league and compare people, so you know, like I'm
watching Montreal play last night, and I know he's a
different bill, but Colekawfield's tiny, right, He's a small guy.

(23:51):
There was a play in the first period. I rewound
it and I watched it again. It was just a
power play and he's in there battling for the loose
puck right around the front of the net, like one wha,
two wats, three whacks. Nothing happened. But I'm like, if
Lequermack he can do that, If he can inside, like
inside himself, will himself into that, that kid's gonna play

(24:12):
and he's going to score. So all of them have
the chance to stay and to compete for the stay
part of the job. But it's good. The proof is
going to come out in the first ten or fifteen games, right,
and then we're going to say, Yep, that guy's ready
to do it. That guy can't do it, that guy
won't do it. There's a coach who told us last

(24:35):
year one thing that the NHL does. It separates the
guys that can and can't and the guys that will
or won't, and those are two different things.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Ray, you could argue a lot of people who could
argue that the most impressive cannot in the preseason was
Philip Heatl health health permitting, what do you think he's
capable of?

Speaker 9 (24:55):
He's sixty plus points for sure. He You know, that
might not sound like a lot. Sixty points is a
lot in today's In today's world because the guys that
score point the game stuff or near point of game stuff,
they play on the power play all the time. Heatl's
going to be in a second power play group, right,

(25:16):
He's not going to get premier power play minutes, and
so you might lose ten or twelve points by doing that.
The way he transports the puck through the ice will
open up the ice. The give and goal that he
seems to be getting better at, like you know, when
to get rid of it as he's transporting it up
the ice so the winger doesn't lose speed at the

(25:37):
other blue line. That stuff seems to be coming a
little better for him. The want to shoot I think
is key for him is that you don't shoot as
a last resort with your speed, you shoot on the move.
I think he's going to have a well. I think
he's a really good player. I saw it a couple
of years ago in New York. I saw it in

(25:57):
the playoffs when he played with LAFRONIIR and Cocko. That
line was their best line in the playoffs. And then
he got hurt a couple of times. And so, as
you mentioned, Donnie, like the health part of the equation
is is really is really the hindrance. It's not the ability,
it's not the speed, it's not the side, it's not
the shot. And so you know, people, if you follow

(26:20):
this team, or if you get to know him at all,
you'd be hoping that he has a good run of
health because he's the hell of a kid and he's
a good player.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
One more ray, if you don't mind, Connor McDavid. We
haven't had you on since the contract was signed, But
to what a stunner. That was two years, no raised
twelve to five per same as his previous contract. I
get the feeling that wasn't a hard decision for him.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
What about you.

Speaker 9 (26:46):
I really never had a feel, Donnie on any of
that process, because it felt like to me, at any
point the deal, the negotiation, if you will, was going
to be thirty seconds, because it's kind of like Quinn,
if he's going to stay here, he's going to slide
a piece of paper across the table and the management's

(27:06):
going to sign it and send it back like that,
that's really the negotiation. So whatever number Connor was going
to put on that piece of paper, what were the Oilers.

Speaker 6 (27:16):
Going to do?

Speaker 9 (27:18):
Not sign it?

Speaker 1 (27:19):
What he did.

Speaker 9 (27:21):
There's a couple of things to this I'd like to
get out if we at the time. It is like,
one is that he gave the Oilers a get out
of jail free card for the next couple of years.
The decision to leave millions of dollars on the table
is one that is a very personal one for him
and his wife. There can be never any question anymore

(27:47):
about what Connor McDavid's commitment is to the Edmonton Oilers
and whether he wants to win. There can be no question,
no doubt anymore. He gave them the opportunity to go
out and sign Jake Wellman, Wallman eck Home and they signed.
You know, Roslovic said, you know, that's an easy one.
But they you know, they get him done last night.

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He gave them millions of dollars of room to go
and create a better team. I mean, hell, they've been
in the finals the last two years. It's not like
they're they're trying to go and like I read some
of these things, they're like all the pressure's on management now.
Of course it is. They got to the finals. Like
if they get knocked out in the first round, well
then that's allows a year for them. They're not trying

(28:31):
to make the playoffs. So that's the first thing. The
second part is I already saw it in Montreal. Ken
Hughes had a press conference and he said, you know
the you know McDavid leaving the money on the table.
That's what star players have to do if they want
their teams to win. Like, this is exactly what the
hard cap does. He was, he's putting pressure on Lane

(28:53):
Hudson to take a team friendly deal. So all the
time it's team friendly, team friendly, team friendly. This this
is what the salary cap pressures players into doing. Why
should Lane Hudson have to do Kent Hughes' job, right,
So why would the players have to do the manager's job,
like Stan Bowman's not helping Connor McDavid score, right, he's

(29:16):
wearing a suit up in the press box, So the
cap puts undue pressure on the players to make it fit.
And now, so what happens if you're so You're not
You're not a Connor McDavid. You're not a you know,
one of those high end guys like took. Michael took
thirteen million dollars thirteen point five million dollars last last

(29:39):
night in Vegas. They have no tax so that's a
you know, it's a it's a capriz Off style deal,
like should capriz Off have taken less money? No chance,
no chance. Who's to say the manager is not going
to go sign a lousy winger, terrible d with the money, right,
you don't have any impact on that. You're not the
general manager. Sydney Crosby the other night, who's taken team

(30:01):
friendly deals forever lined up with Billy coyvenan on his wing.
Do you think he signed up for that? Sid Is?
I think he is the greatest generational teammate and player
that we've seen in the last twenty years, bar none.
I think he is an amazing player. And an amazing

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person to do what he's done for the Penguins. But
he gave them cap room after cap room after cap room.
They haven't won a playoff series since twenty eighteen. It's
no guarantee, is my point. And the pressure sits with
the player, not with the management when someone like McDavid
takes a deal like this. I think Connor's awesome. He's

(30:45):
the greatest player in the history of the game. I
think his work ethic and commitment is unquestioned. He clearly
is committed to that group of players and to the
place he plays, and for that he should be commended.
But there's lots of pressure that's going to fall on
other players because of the deal that he took.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
When you were on that bus from Brandon to Calgary,
and this was the case when I covered the Red
Deer Rustlers back in the day, did you stop at
Peter's Drive in in Calgary for their burgers? It's famous.

Speaker 9 (31:20):
I think we did. Everybody, Okay, So let me tell
you about this trip though bus. We played in Brandon,
and the only reason I know this is because you'll
hear this. I got seven goals against Prince Albert. We
bus right, after the game to Calgary. I think it
was like fourteen hours. We play that night, after the

(31:43):
first period, we're losing for nothing and our coach has
given us crap about we've you know, we've got to
start skating. Oh yeah, we got to start skating, do we?
We just bust fourteen hours? Right, there's no sleeper beds there.
We played the game, we lost, stayed over night, and
the next day drove to Portland on this so whatever

(32:05):
we ate. By the time we got off the bust done,
you had twenty two teenagers with a bunch of zits
all over their face. I guess it was a grease
pile on that bus. That's Donnie, what we ate?

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yeah, Hey, I loved how you slipped in that seven
goal game with that story.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
Very good, very good.

Speaker 9 (32:22):
That's why I can remember it. Otherwise I can't remember
last Tuesday, So you know, that's that's just the way
that goes.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Impressive. Hey, Ray, thanks for this, and congrats on the
BC Sports Hall of Fame again.

Speaker 9 (32:34):
Thank you. We're going to get that done next week. Unfortunately,
as I knew it was going to happen, I'm not
going to be able to be there.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
We're gonna.

Speaker 9 (32:41):
I've got something taped and ready to go, but I'm
really proud and really honored to be able to go in.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Thanks for this, Ray, appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (32:48):
Take care, guys, you'd be well.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Ray for our NHL on ESPN and he talked about
a sixty point season, the possibility of a sixty point
season for Philip heatel We'll talk more about that next time.
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Speaker 8 (34:16):
Ryan, get her up the Waddling Dog pop pop question.
Will the Canucks make the playoffs this season?

Speaker 5 (34:20):
Yes or no? And seven hundred votes already eighty three
percent people confident and ready to go that they're gonna
make it, but seventeen percent say no, they're not going
to make the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
And there you go, and what what what says you?

Speaker 5 (34:36):
I think that the answer is yes if they're healthy.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Oh you can't say that.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
There's got to be a caveat about hell no.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
They because you can say that about any team. Creative
come on something different. Depth is the depth there when
the injuries hit? You know the injury is gonna hit
on at some point. Look at the white Caps, they
got nine guys hurt and they keep winning.

Speaker 5 (34:56):
That's depth. They keep winning. Can they win?

Speaker 1 (35:00):
So the Canucks have depth and they're going to make
the playoffs. You said, yes, if they're healthy, they're a
playoff team.

Speaker 8 (35:05):
But when that injury bug hits, they see Donnie Donnie.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yes, they'll make the playoffs. With the caveat if they're healthy, yes,
they'll make the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
That's what I will say. Somebody has to drop. Uh,
the the King's won.

Speaker 5 (35:21):
Who's dropping?

Speaker 1 (35:22):
A lot of people think the Kings will drop and
that Jim Hiller's job is on the line. There maybe
the Blues, the Flames who tied with the Blues last
year but did make the playoffs. The Blues at the tiebreakers.
So there's two teams that could very well drop in
order to allow the Canucks to make it. Uh, the
Canucks making the playoffs. Dempko will stay healthy and by

(35:44):
the end of the year, he'll will be the number
one center. Oh my, so you're saying unless he gets injured,
So what are you saying.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
That he's going to outproduce eleven point six.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
I guess so.

Speaker 5 (35:57):
Yeah, in order to be number one center.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
He's tough. Bold prediction as opposed to you know me, Yeah,
I I think you.

Speaker 5 (36:06):
Ray had to well hold on a second.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Ray had a lot of positive things to say about
Elias Petterson. And this is somebody who knows more about
hockey than anybody or that you know, than most people.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
He thinks Elias Petterson is going to bounce back eighty
ninety points and he says Hetal's going to get sixty.
Maybe I'm going a little too.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
Far with that.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
I think the Canucks are going to make the playoffs.
I know, but there's a lot of negativity on the
show when it comes to the Canucks. But if Petterson improves,
if stays healthy, if and I think they have to
do this, if they commit to team defense. Look, I
don't think they're going to score a lot up front.
Everybody knows that. I've talked a lot about how I

(36:46):
think this team is a lot like the six or
seven team, strong goaltender, strong defense, team defense under Adam
Foot is going to be is going to be and
and you know, you kind of read between the lines
of terms on what he want once out of his team.
But it's pretty clear the focus of this team or
the strength of this team. Goal tanning in the blue line.

(37:07):
You know, you use that and move forward and again
Depko staying, staying healthy and maybe a trade for for
another center. That's what people have look he looked at
for a long time. Rosslovic, as we talked about with Ray,
is off the board now because he's gone to Edbington.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
That guy was looking for three or four years.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
In the summer. He got one.

Speaker 5 (37:26):
He got one at one point five million mile my
and that's why he fired his agent. There was some
bad It.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
All comes down to the agents.

Speaker 5 (37:34):
He fired his agent Don because you couldn't get a
deal in the summer.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
The Canucks ran on him. Canucks ran on him in
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Speaker 5 (38:20):
What is going on? Not yourself?

Speaker 1 (38:23):
You just rolled your eyes at us. Again, I saw that.

Speaker 5 (38:25):
You rolled your eyes. We saw that.

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Speaker 1 (39:31):
Just before we get to Big Rye the Critter Guy
Bayside Oceanfront Resort inbox. This is one of the things.
You were rolling your eyes at us for a lot
of a lot of people talking about Peter's drive in
in Calgary. It's legendary there. I don't even I think
it's still open, but back in.

Speaker 6 (39:50):
The day, good big Rye.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
It is still open. Okay. Wow, it's very it's very
old school esque.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Kind of looks like it reminds me of an in
and out burgers.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
Yeah, boy, in a way, in a way, this is
what it looks like.

Speaker 8 (40:08):
It looks like if you've been I know you're gonna
rip me because I'm going to say the state the
States has Dick's Driving.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
Washington State is Dick's Driving. It looks almost identical.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
SA's a franchise Dick.

Speaker 8 (40:19):
It's got like four or five locations, I think, or
something like that. But it's very throwback. You go to
the counter, you know, no drive through throwback.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Well, and I used to cover the red Dear Rustler's
Britaginia Hot they go down to the bus to Calgary.
I swear to God, players and coaches, especially the coaches,
they were more into the drive in than the actual hockey.

Speaker 5 (40:39):
Of course, of course.

Speaker 8 (40:41):
And I appreciate them because they've got like the throwback
menu too, Like the prices are really cheap, like burgers
are like four bucks.

Speaker 9 (40:48):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (40:49):
I like it.

Speaker 8 (40:50):
Okay, but you're getting ripped by the way for your
playoff thing. It's just ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
And everybody's sitting here. You're cranky because your Mariner's long. No, no,
I'm not cranky because the Mariners lost. They did.

Speaker 8 (41:01):
They choked it up yesterday and so unfortunately now Game
five tomorrow night, more people are ripping you.

Speaker 5 (41:07):
Though.

Speaker 8 (41:07):
If they're healthy, no kidding, if that guy, I agree
with Rick. If they're healthy, they make the If they're healthy, yeah,
no kidding. If they're healthy, they say about every single team.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
Can you say that about Chicago right now? If they're healthy,
they're gonna make the playoffs? No, make a stand on
their their roster tonight. They're healthy. They're healthy tonight they're
healthy and not healthier, two different issues, because they don't
have the depth what they already got half of Abosphord
up with the main roster.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
You know what you say that, but and you know
what I remember in eighty two one of your favorite teams.
They had a lot of injuries, Kevin McCarthy and they
ended up making the playoffs. Neil belland on defense, and
they lost Harry Neil in Quebec City too, who wasn't
a player. But yeah, I know, but they lost the coach.

Speaker 8 (41:55):
But you make a prediction tonight they're healthy outside of
Teddy us. If they're healthy, caveat. They won a lot
of games exactly, they'll make the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
Said that. Okay, so we get ripped a lot on
the show.

Speaker 8 (42:08):
We're too negative. You know, you should be nicer to
the Canucks. Blah blah blah.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
We are nice to the Cannucks. We give them coverage
two hours every day. How about this out of Cleveland.

Speaker 8 (42:18):
This is a full page ad taken out in the
Cleveland Plane Deither calling out Guardians owner Paul Dolan. I
don't think it's the same one uh to either invest
in their franchise or sell the team. So the the
the main point of the article or sorry of the
ad is Jose Ramirez says, we'll be remembered as the

(42:40):
city's greatest player of all time. Paul Dolan is wasting
his career again. Not that Paul Dolan, no vision, no investment.
Jose deserves better, The fans are better. Cleveland Desert is better.
Either commit to winning or sell the team. Paul, seventy
six years.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
Is long enough? Didn't they just made the playoffs? They
made the playoffs?

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (43:01):
Yeah, but Rick, they squeaked into the playoffs. They made
the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, but they's more about Detroit collapsing.

Speaker 5 (43:07):
Detroit collapse, Troy ends up beating.

Speaker 8 (43:10):
I can't remember the statistics, but in August they were
like fifteen games back or something Cleveland was So it
was more on Detroit collapsing than anything else. So look
at Cleveland fans are unhappy. And look, I know Kuduck
fans here. Remember they flew that banner a few years
ago outside Rogers. Yeah, so they have been moments, but
this is.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
Pretty strong for That's not the Guardians fans. No, that's
not the media. This is is a fan saying enough
is enough, sell the team, get out, Paul Dolan.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
See, but I look at that, and I say to myself,
if I'm mister Dolan, like, hey, there's passion out there. Yeah,
okay with you, You're okay with it.

Speaker 8 (43:50):
Passion people care somebody's spending their harder dollars to tell
you to get out of here.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
People care that the people care. It's when nobody knows
who you are, nobody and even can you know, pick
you out of where you pick out of a line
of nobody. Nobody knows where your stadium is. Like, it's
okay for people to be this passion, you know, because
it's ebbs and flows and whoever came up with this.
If they end up winning a World Series next year,

(44:16):
it will be right right there. Yeah, yeah, you're probably
right with these only like owners, some of them around
here way too sensitive. This thankful people care and as
bad as this owner can be, and there's a lot
of negativity about him, he is going to spend the cap.

Speaker 5 (44:33):
That is something Jim Rutherford said.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
We're talking about owners.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
We're talking about owners done.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
If the guardians good, if the owners, if the guardians
stay away from injuries, they're going to make the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
Nex Listen.

Speaker 8 (44:45):
It's a different situation than no wrecked is in the
MLB because there's no cap. There's a luxury tack situation.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
So that's where there's new Mets spent three hundred and
thirty I know, I don't the owner pub We apologized
on Twitter for that, thank you.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
I don't think the issue here is the owner spending
to the cap. It's owner and management spending wisely to
the cap.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
To the well and other investments with the franchise practice facility.
We're not finishing the sea. We can we can't go through.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
No, I'm just saying we've talked about the seats every
d that's your favorite subject.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
I've got another. I've got another Cleveland tweet. It's a
lot of Cleveland today and big. But we're in Vancouver.
I know, I know what. There's roll fame.

Speaker 8 (45:27):
No, it's not involving the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
It's something we didn't we actually, I don't even know
if we talked about this week. Joe Flacco getting traded Incinnati.
He's getting trade. He's out of Cleveland being traded to Cincinnati.
But how about this hold on here? How about this?
This is courtesy spot spot Rack. They cover usually sports
business contracts, that sort of thing. This The Cleveland Browns

(45:51):
are paying eight different quarterbacks this season. Wow, eight different
quarterbacks are on your payroll. So you know what we
talk about dead money here with the Canucks on their roster.
That ain't nothing compared to this. You got DeShawn Watson,
you got Jameis Winston, Dylan Gabriel, Joe Flacco, Shoe Sanders,

(46:11):
Bailey ZAPPI uh uh, Thompson Robinson, I'm forgetting out his
forgetting his first name. But it's Thompson Robinson, his dtr
And Kenny Pickett, Kenny Pickett, Kenny Pickett is now he's
with the Giants.

Speaker 5 (46:25):
I want to say he's in.

Speaker 8 (46:26):
Pickett is uh pic Was he in the Steelers? No, No,
he's somewhere else. I can't even know where he's at.
Rost Ross brought him up on Monday. But anyway, eight
different cap hits. He's Jameis Winston. Jameis Winston is with
the Giants.

Speaker 5 (46:43):
He's with the Giants.

Speaker 8 (46:43):
Yeah, he's with the Pickets Ves and a lot of
people thought, by the way, before the Joe Flacca move
has made that maybe they might try and get Jameis
Winston because Jackson Dart is the big thing with the Giants,
who of course played tonight. But eight different salaries being
paid by the Cleveland Browns this year on quarterback and
the Connucks are paying two guys this year not to
play in Vancouver. Mckaeff five point four million to oe

(47:05):
L and Micaiff Yeah and wisely to the Cat and
four point seven is to Oel. So the Canucks are
paying oe L four point seven million this year the
Oel one.

Speaker 5 (47:14):
It's truly amazing.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Well, you know what, he buy him out. He made
a mistake yesterday and in the game against the Habits.
But I'm watching him, he's like aggressive and he's yeah,
not getting booed stand the Cup champion. Well with another team.

Speaker 5 (47:28):
I mean, it's insane, it's very connuck.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
I'm trying to think of the last time. Bernie Kozar
was their last. Vinnie Testa Verdi was there for all
those guys were good Kozar and Man had Brian Site
before that. It's been a lunch oh yeah, well yea.
And since they had a consistently stable well they had
a good quarterback Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
Well that's true, no doubt. But then bye.

Speaker 8 (47:52):
But and you see these fans usually with the jerseys
that have all the name plates on the back, since
usually Bernie Kozar, it's usually where it starts. Then it
goes from there. Because they've had nine million guys that
just turn over and turn over to Johnny Manzil.

Speaker 6 (48:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
I mean he was supposed to be the answer and
look like he was the answer in Hamilton and Montreal.

Speaker 8 (48:12):
He stunk the joint note in Canada, Rick's favorite shaduis
anders on the roster. Now, so he's he number two now?
I guess yeah, he would be number two.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
So there you go.

Speaker 8 (48:22):
That's uh the situation in Cleveland. And by the way,
Cincinnati already named Flacco their starter. They apparently named him
starter on his while he was driving from Cleveland to Cincinnati.

Speaker 5 (48:34):
Good luck with that.

Speaker 8 (48:35):
We'll see how that goes. Coming up next, Cannock's legend. Yep,
it's good numbers in the rafters, number sixteen and your
lucky number program. As Donny would say one of his
buddies Trevor lind He's up next.

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Speaker 5 (49:31):
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Speaker 1 (49:32):
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(49:54):
against the Calgary Flames at Rogers Arena. I joined now
to talk about that, among other things, by former Canucks
captain and president Trevor Lindon. Trevor, thanks for doing this, sir,
How are you.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
It's good to be with it. The old Keystone Arena
in Brandon, Manitoba. You've been there? No, no, yeah, they
got it.

Speaker 11 (50:15):
So you walk in there and it stinks like Coyle
manure because they got cows and bulls and everything in
and it's it's a.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
It's the I think it's the house that Ray Ferrero built.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Well, there are a few good Brandon whet Kings. Let's
not forget about Builder Lego and allis Brian prop Krimin.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
Hey, Donnie, you are a legend. And but you're old,
so you know.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
All yeah, yeah, all right, all right, Hey you're not
getting any younger, buddy, Yes, yeah, I'm right.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
But let's go back to when and we're going to
talk about men's health in a second, but let's go
back to when you were eighteen. Look at Braden Coots today,
eighteen year old making his debut nineteen eighty eight, October sixth,
the two to two tie against Winnipeg, game win into overtime.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
You took a penalty in overtime.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
What do you remember about that night as an eighteen
year old?

Speaker 11 (51:05):
Well, I'm glad we're talking about this because I didn't
want to start off talking about the club sixteen traveling
and fitness and so Surrey and the door and Dolly's
problem with the door, like.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
It's too heavy, Yeah, too heavy, complaining.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
So I'm glad We've getten some hockey talk.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
Here and we'll get to that.

Speaker 11 (51:21):
Yeah, okay, So yeah, I think it was a Tuesday night.
I think there's like, I don't know, ten thousand people
that you know what I mean, it was kind of
a non game.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Imagine that ended in a tie.

Speaker 5 (51:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (51:36):
To be honest, guys, that I don't remember much. I
you know, I I mean that was the first time
I walked in the dress room that night and hanging
in my first time i'd seen number sixteen in my
stall because if you recall that training camp, I wore
forty seven and obviously as a kid as a big

(51:57):
Bobby Clark fan and Pat knew that and so walked
in and that was my number.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
So that was pretty special. But yeah, it's a great story.

Speaker 11 (52:05):
I mean, Brandon's got a you know, obviously he's played
very well and you know it's his first game and it's, uh,
it's it's pretty special for sure.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
And what advice would you give him, Trevor, given your
experience as an eighteen year.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
Old, I would just say, you know, take it all in.

Speaker 11 (52:25):
I think, continue to learn, you know, continue to watch
the guys around you. For me, it was guys like
Stan Smeil and Richie Sutter and Doug Goodster and and
you know those were the people that kind of showed
me the way and and you know there's a good
solid group.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Of people in that locker room, and so I would,
you know, and I would.

Speaker 11 (52:50):
I think it's it's a tough spot to be and
I think it's harder today as an eighteen year old
the British National hockeyling that was for me, like, and
I say this all the time, guys like it was
pretty much handed to me and I was lucky enough
to walk through the door. But it's it's a much
harder league to break into as an eighteen year old

(53:10):
now than it was thirty five years thirty seven years
ago when I.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
Did was that door?

Speaker 5 (53:15):
Was that door heavy? Tripp?

Speaker 4 (53:19):
Well?

Speaker 11 (53:19):
No, Well, even if it was, I wouldn't have complained
about it, Like, hey, you bang down the door and
you get in there and you get after it.

Speaker 5 (53:27):
I gotta bump shoulder, listen, Trevor Bob McCammon said of
you after training camp. We knew he was good in
the corners, we knew he was good defensively. The offense
was incredible. Harrold Snap said your maturity was through the roof.
I see that maturity and Coots the way he talks.
He doesn't talk like an eighteen year old. He talks
like he's been in a league veteran. How important the mindset,

(53:51):
the maturity and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
It's huge, It's very important.

Speaker 11 (53:55):
I mean I think of you know, I think of
the time I was with the team as in the
president role, and you saw that on the opposite side
with some of our first round picks. And I'm not
going to name names, but just the lack of self awareness,
the lack of understanding what it takes. And that's hard
to teach, you know what I mean, Like, you know,

(54:16):
you can teach defensive structure, you can teach little nuances,
but that ability to have that maturity, be realistic, understand
the situation you're in. And and then I think for me,
I mean, I don't know braidon that well, but for me,
it was just understanding how I can apply myself and

(54:37):
and be effective and use my skills to.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
Open the door for me if you will.

Speaker 11 (54:44):
And I think that that's what you're talking about, guys,
And and that's a big, big, big component to playing
in the national hockey league at all, and certainly as
a young player.

Speaker 5 (54:55):
Yeah. Absolutely, Hey did you see enough of Patterson in
the pre season to think he can get back to
his old form? Trevor, I think that.

Speaker 11 (55:03):
I think, you know, it's a short sample, but I
do think that. I you know, people come up to
you all the time and want to ask you, and
they ask what's gonna happen with the Canucks? And I
love I love talking sports, as you know, and I
say this, I mean, they're Their success this year.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Will depend on two things, two people.

Speaker 11 (55:21):
For that matter, that they need Thatcher to be healthy
and be in the business trophy conversation, which is very realistic.
And they need Alas to get back to where he
needs to get back to. I mean like and that's
that's just being a consistent performer. And you know he's
got to be that guy and he's got the skills

(55:43):
and the capability, but he can't.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
You know, he's got to be that guy for this team.

Speaker 11 (55:48):
And you know, I would say last year, yeah, things
didn't go well, but I always say, you're never as
bad as you think you are, and you're probably not
as good as you think you are. That Toronto Blue
Jays missed the playoffs last year and horrific and changes
and they got their game on. And I see the
same thing could be true for the Vancouver Canucks if
they get goaltending and they can stay healthy. Their defense

(56:10):
is very good and in order. And I think Patrick's
done an excellent job. There's the first year. We're not
talking about, you know, what they need on the back end.
Now it's about goals. I'm not worried about goals if
PD is the guy that he can be And I'm
not talking out worldly, I'm just talking, you know, an
eighty ninety point guy that is, you know, driving the offense,
you know, on a on another basis, I mean, that's

(56:32):
going to make so many people around him better.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
So, but I think it hinges on those two guys specifically.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Trevor bring up a bit of a sore point for you.
You didn't win a Stanley Cup in your career. Connor
McDavid shocks everyone. Okay, two year extension, no rays, twelve
point five per He hasn't won a Stanley Cup. Do
you understand where he's coming from with that deal?

Speaker 3 (56:58):
Absolutely?

Speaker 5 (56:59):
So.

Speaker 11 (57:02):
I I knew that, I said, this kid, he's gonna
sign a short short deal. He wants, he wants to lead.
I mean, and it's the Lebron James method, you know,
shine shorts, sign a short deals because the look where
the CAP's going in three two to three years. So
he's gonna he wants to see what this window looks
like for him in Edmonton and it's perfect. So he's

(57:25):
got he signed a two year extension. Guys, yeah, two
year point, so he's got three years left. And after
three years he's going to be thirty years old and
he can say and right in his wheelhouse and at
that point he'll decide where he wants to be and
and you know, do an eight year and at that
year that at that time the CAP's going to be I.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
Don't know, one hundred and twenty whatever million, you know.

Speaker 11 (57:48):
So, and I think about this. You know, he went
to the Stanley Cup finals two times in a rown lost.
That is crushing. I mean I did it once and
it's two times as hard. And you think about how
hard it is to get there, guys, and you know
how much you need to go right, you know, goaltending
and staying healthy. If you know Zach Hyman stays healthy,

(58:10):
maybe they win you know what I mean, you don't know, right,
But then you can say, on the flip side.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Of that guy's as great as Connor McDavid is. This
guy's been to back.

Speaker 11 (58:20):
He may there's a chance throughout his career. You just
don't know, he may never get back there. You don't
like I mean, you know, like Ray Bork was the
greatest defense I've ever played. It took him going to Colorado,
you know, his last year to get a cup. And
because it's hard, it's really hard, and so I think

(58:41):
it's a prudent play by him, makes total sense.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
And I think it puts the.

Speaker 11 (58:46):
Onus on management and ownership and that that group of
players to say, hey, we've got three years here, We've
got to and at that time he can reassess and
and see what the landscape books like.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Then Okay, before that you go. You're involved with the
Canadian Man's Health Foundation. Friday is World Mental Health Day
and part of the focus forever is something called exercise snacks.
Exercise snacks, What can you tell us, Well.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
Don you love some snacks?

Speaker 1 (59:15):
Right?

Speaker 11 (59:15):
You like a little you know we all do, Yeah, yes,
these are these are exercise snacks. So the Canadian Men's
Health Foundation, which I've been with since twenty fourteen, advocate
for men's health, not only their physical health, but their
mental health. Teamed up with Club sixteen, Trevelin and Fitness
and we've built these three to five minute videos and

(59:35):
they're super super easy, super straightforward. Go online Trevelin dot
com or the Canay Men's Health Foundation, and I just
it's just the emphasis on, you know, taking time for yourself.
Exercise is not only physical, it's for your mental health,
as Dolly knows, so you know, just it's you know,

(59:56):
with World Mental Health Day tomorrow, men's health and mental health.
You know, dudes want to talk about the Jays and
the upcoming hockey season, but they don't want to deal
with their mental health or.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Talk about what's going on.

Speaker 11 (01:00:07):
So the campaign is all about moving your body for
mental health and and you know, preempting get to your doctor,
you know, investigate if you've got some problems. Lots of
resources on the Canadian Men's Health Foundation for mental health,
physical health. Just you know, it's your responsibility to your
friends and family and kids to take care of yourself.

(01:00:30):
So I urge all men out there and and and
women for that matter, as well, take a take a
mental break.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
And a lot of times a mental break is getting outside.

Speaker 11 (01:00:39):
Going for a walk around the block, going to the
gym for a workout, getting away from your device, your phone,
your work, just being just present and breathing and moving
your body.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
So move for your mental health.

Speaker 11 (01:00:52):
Everyone and Canadian Men's Health Foundation Club sixteen Travel and
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Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
There you go, okay, And before I let you go, Trevor,
you mentioned the Blue Jays and I remember this. You
grew up in medicine hat, Blue Jays farm team, the
medicine hat blue Jays.

Speaker 11 (01:01:12):
Was that in your wheelhouse, Shaker Moseby, like in play
in medicine hat in this the seventies, going to those games.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
So yeah, I mean.

Speaker 11 (01:01:23):
I was a huge Expos fan in the seventies. You know,
Blue Monday and eighty one crushed me. You know, the
Jays winning the American League East in eighty five was amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
So it's been fun. I love baseball, so it's been
Uh yeah, it's a great game. It's stressful, man, jeez,
fun fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
My take on baseball is what makes it kind of
maddening in the regular season, like does this pitch really matter?
Makes it so exciting in the playoff because every pitch
does matter. Just the tension is amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
And that's the thing. Like I think about that last night.
I so like, is that in a in a hockey game,
there's so much action. It's happening so quick, which is
great and that's why we love it. But it's like
this in baseball.

Speaker 11 (01:02:10):
You're like, oh my god, it's it's three and two.
If he walks, this guy judges up next, and you're
just just egging over it. Right, You're like, and then
it the fact that the game moves slow actually builds
builds the tension, which I think is the beauty.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
So it works in October baseball, boys.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Okay, looks like the door is open for the Toronto
Blue Jay.

Speaker 5 (01:02:32):
Thanks for this, Trevor thks, guys, have a good run.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
You Thanks Trevor Linden, former Connucks captain and president. Much
like Ray Ferrow we went over time with, but Trevor
Lindon will take a break and update the pull question next.
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Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
It's bopping on a Thursday morning connects with the morning
skate today. We didn't get a lineup set out, but
we have. We ran this yesterday as well. We showed
this yesterday, the lines from practice yesterday. Is it Curtisy
of Brandon. Yeah, there you go, Brandon Bachelor, our friend
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Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
So this is it, don this is your opening roster.
We think, yeah, because no changes this morning. So the
top line we've said together since day one, a camp
de Brus, Petterson, Besser, Heatl who you love and thinks
is gonna have a breakout season. He's been Garland and
Baines on the second line. Then comes Kots, the eighteen
year old kid. I think he's gonna wear number eighty eighty.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
What has been working?

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
I thought there was rumors that he was gonna it
was between eighty and eighty six or something to do
with the Seattle number. Thanks for that anyways, Cain Lakara Macki.
You got your fourth line, then you got their defense.
You're extra us tonight. Carlson and Mancini. Ray Ferraro thinks
man glowing about manowing about. Mancini just loves him. He

(01:05:08):
thinks he's an excellent, excellent player. And then your goaltender.
By the way, we have confirmation Adam Foot that Dempko
is starting.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
No surprise again, no surprise there. I'm a little surprised.
I think a lot of people are with Mancini. I
guess you know well e. P. Twenty five. I know
you don't like calling him that, but e. P. Twenty
five a lot of people do. Was so impressive at
the NHL level last year. I think you have a
hard time keeping him off that roster. Forward kills penalties,

(01:05:36):
they see they need that. So we'll see what happens
with Mancini. But Ray Ferral again, who knows the thing
or two about monkey, loves.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
The guy Apps and Petterson too. Rady said, both those guys,
and here's the quote. Mancini is a hell of a player.
Him and Peterson are legit defenseman. So the future looks
right and well Lander too. The time on eleis Petterson
and will Lander to. This is why I hate the Petterson.
There's too many Pettersons.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
And that's why I don't understand. You don't why don't
you go ep Twenty five.

Speaker 5 (01:06:06):
It's just because look, I'm seeing his name and don't
count out with Lander. There's a lot of good young
d Donny Good, a lot of good young.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
Okay, so let's talk about Marcus Peterson, veteran top four
defenseman acquired from Pittsburgh last year a part of the JT.
Miller Transactions. Uh Marcus Patterson on what he likes about
this team and what he saw on in preseason in training.

Speaker 12 (01:06:31):
Camp, I think really did. I think we started off
good and take them there. A lot of energy there
and good pace we had over there. So I think
it's been good, you know, healthy competition throughout camp and
everybody's looking ready to go now. I think we've had
a few days here between the last preseason game in
the first game, so everybody's on their tolls, they're ready,

(01:06:53):
getting ready to go.

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
A few young kids have cracked the roster too.

Speaker 12 (01:06:56):
How exciting is that for the veteran guys to have
some of that you know, you fully through he has
them around.

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
Now, that's awesome to see.

Speaker 12 (01:07:01):
You see you see a guy like Cootsie, you know,
first camp eighteen year olds and then playing like he belongs.
So that's that's always fun to see. And you're really
impressed by his camp so far. And we'll do everything
we can to help them out in the and when
the season got cold here because it's it's another level too,
so he'll do greatful.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
That happened a lot in training camp and preseason. And
what I'm talking about is unsolicited how players and coaches
would talk about Braiden Coots. Obviously, you have members of
the media who would ask a question about Braiden Coots
and the players of the coaches would go on about
the eighteen year old. But that was unsolicited, and that
happened a lot. Where you know a player, a veteran

(01:07:45):
player like Patterson talking about what went right during training camp,
the preseason, and all the time, you'd see them bring
up Braiden Coots without being asked about it. So, see,
it seems like they could have the real deal here.

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
Management, coaches and players did a great job with Coots.
Don It's like that sixteen year old in the dub
the nineteen twenty year old's got to help them out,
and that's what they did with Coots.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
Okay, Blue Jays, we haven't talked to him. Let's find
this John Schneider clipping if you don't mind, guys and girls,
Blue Jays advanced to the Alcs five to two over
the Yankees in New York. Boy, those shots of the
New York fans leaving early not happy said it all
booing going on, So they will play the winner. The
Blue Jays will of Game five between the Mariners and

(01:08:29):
Tigers Friday in Seattle. A lot of tension down in
Washington State because it looked like the Mariners had that
series wrapped up. Not the case. Tigers have come back,
and I think most of us here and we kid
around a lot about, you know, the Mariners and how
much we love them here. I know you're a big
Jays fan, but you want to see the Mariners in Jays,
don't you. It'll just I mean, nothing against the Tigers.

(01:08:51):
And I'm sure a lot of people in Toronto would
rather see the Tigers and the Mariners just so they
can travel. They can drive down to Detroit and watch
your road game. But happy for John Schneider used eight
pitchers yesterday. No shortage of people in the Toronto market
saying that was John Schneider's finest moment as manager of
the Toronto Blue Jays. A lot of criticism. It's a

(01:09:12):
bullpen game. What are you talking about? He used eight pictures.
They ended up winning convincingly, five to a little snippet.
We edited this. We do be not Ryan, Okay, So
this is John Schneider has some fun, having some fun
in the locker room after the victory over the Yankees.
Every single one bullpen game, Nathan Lucas, Miles Straw all
you texts everybody every day starts brend the news. He

(01:09:43):
had another Jays celebration and my boy and I we
were thinking, you know, you clinch the division. Yep, uh,
probably you clinch a playoff spot, you clinch a vision vision,
you win a first round series, which they didn't have
to because they weren't a wildcard team. But it is
possible if if you were you win an AL or
NLCS or Primy Division series, that a championship. You could

(01:10:06):
be celebrating six seven times. Oh last celebration. I didn't
have a different culture. I'm okay with it and no issue.

Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
Last night they're off to the ALCS for the eighth time.
Enfranchise history, dawn and first time since twenty sixteen.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
Go okay and good on John Steiner again, former Vancouver
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Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
You got some business, all right.

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Do we get a data for pervative? You know what
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(01:13:33):
didn't get the name Central Perk Coffee Shop. Wasn't here?
Was he some friend of mine? Then somebody didn't like Hey,
Central Perk, Central Park. I get it now, not a
great story, but I thought it sure your way.

Speaker 5 (01:13:49):
Friends of mine went to the Friends Experience in London.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
They've got a few in London. They had a couple
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Speaker 8 (01:13:57):
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Then there's a thing with the couch and the pivot
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Yeah, kids love it. I thineen agers except for my
kids all like, oh especially my daughter absolutely love Friends.

Speaker 5 (01:14:21):
I love Seinfeld. I do I think Friends has lasted longer.
I think Friends. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:14:28):
I think more generations pick up Friends since Friends than
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Well, I'll tell you why. I think a lot of
people might not get the quirkiness of Seinfeld. There's that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:38):
I think that's like the Keys episode that you love.
It's not going over big. It's no, it's hard.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
How could that not go over big?

Speaker 5 (01:14:46):
It's one of their best that Well, it was the
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the White album, it did not need to be a
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Okay, Well give me another hint.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
His nickname is D.

Speaker 5 (01:15:59):
What else do you know what? Phil oh Seppe? Okay, guys, guys,
you know what to Rick's defense, he couldn't have given
us any more. How many more do you want? Can't
give it to you? Yeah? I was nickname, middle name,
middle name D.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
It is it is?

Speaker 5 (01:16:17):
Okay? I worked hard on that one.

Speaker 8 (01:16:19):
Phil, did you spe You're so proud of You're surprised
you guys didn't get that. This BC boy and forward
never drafted in the NHL, ended up playing for the
Caducks for four games in two thousand and.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
Eight BC where Jason krag Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
I was just gonna say two years.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
To get Jason Kragg and not Philippe and Krog two
years in Chiliwak in ninety three ninety four under my
good pal Harvey Smiel.

Speaker 5 (01:16:49):
Okay, I wanted to like Chiefs Chiliac Chiefs. Harvey Smiel
the best coach in the BC league. And you know
that Dawn all the time, Rick Lance too. Yeah, okay,
this retired top center, one of the best seventh round
picks in NHL history, cons my Trophy winner, MVP of

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the two thousand and eighth Down the Cup playoffs. Come on,
Donny played his entire career with the Red Wings. Henrik Xanderberg,
that's it. Seventh round, seventh round, one of the best
seventh rounds.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
And the other thing about Henrik Zanderberg, I remember Landon
Ferraro saying this one of the best dressed players.

Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
Yeah he was. He had good suits, had good beard,
good beard suits. Yeah he is absolutely This famous English
musician and activists moved to New York in nineteen seventy one.
His criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a three
year deportation attempt by the NICKSON the administration.

Speaker 8 (01:17:47):
Yeah, I had no choice, you guys, right, it doesn't
matter what I was said, you know what you actually did?

Speaker 5 (01:17:52):
Like I different clues? That was good?

Speaker 8 (01:17:56):
Yeah, I thought outside the box. Anyways, you're not gonna
get she didn't move to New York. Yes, yeah, exactly, sorry, exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:18:05):
This English and American television personality a judge on shows
like The X Factor and America's Got Talent. Her father
fired her future husband from a band, Sharon Osboe Sharon Osborne,
and her father said, don't go out with that guy.
And what does she do? I went out with the

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guy or she she went out with the guy. You
know what, I've given you more insight?

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Well, there's a lot of insight there.

Speaker 5 (01:18:34):
The late Ozzy Osbourne. Yes, yes, what at.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
Roger Waters, What do you had to say about Ozzie.

Speaker 8 (01:18:43):
Him?

Speaker 5 (01:18:43):
Yes, I didn't see that. He's very outspoken, so when
it put it past.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
Him, yeah, okay, moving on. You mentioned John Lennon, the
late John Lennon, the great John Lynn. Yeah, Ryan and
I knew about this because we get you together to
do the playout as we called him born on this
day in nineteen forty and he and his Liverpool buddies
gonna play us out November nineteen sixty seven and the
album Magical Mystery Tour. This is the Beatles. I am

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the walalrates on check sitting on a corn flake, waiting
for the van to come on a bc.

Speaker 6 (01:19:19):
BC Thursday Mornings Together.

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
See how the.

Speaker 5 (01:19:48):
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Speaker 6 (01:20:36):
Is it just me?

Speaker 7 (01:20:36):
Rick?

Speaker 5 (01:20:37):
All right? That's the one thing about baseball that is stupid,
going nuts, and you haven't won nothing. It's pretty immature.
Last night who's that from? There's no name to the submission,
but last Night week to say he's talking about the
Blue Jay celebrations.

Speaker 1 (01:20:55):
Too many celebrations.

Speaker 5 (01:20:56):
Yeah, so he's basically saying they're stupid. You haven't won anything.
Last night was the first time I felt like, you
know what, go get some champagne.

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
No, he's saying it was okay last night. I'm saying
it's part of the culture, and I think they revel
in the fact that it's different from every other sports culture.
Last night, they're okay, look we're doing this. You know,
I know, you know everyone A lot of people don't
that don't get baseball. They don't like it too bad.

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We having We're having some fun.

Speaker 5 (01:21:25):
I'm okay with it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
Yeah, I thought you you you hate that.

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
Don't the Mariners did it last night? You would have
been okay.

Speaker 8 (01:21:33):
And some of these people in the inbox need to
cleaned out their ears. I never it was never specifically
about the Jays because all the teams do it. If
the Mariners win tomorrow night, they're gonna do it too.
And I disagree with it. It's how many when the
cut when an NHL team advances out of the second
round different because that's what last night was.

Speaker 5 (01:21:47):
It was the second round.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
Different culture.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
You you you we hear. Wow, they're only halfway there.

Speaker 8 (01:21:52):
They've only reached their half way from the World Series,
but they're not there. My thing is is is if
you want to have some pops or whatever, that's fine.
How do you top this? If you win the World Series?

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
Who cares?

Speaker 5 (01:22:05):
Who cares? That should be the ultimate I want to
find out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
You thing, you're dealing with guys who, although you're thirty
going on ninety, you're dealing with guys who are like
in their twenties, and they're any excuse to party.

Speaker 6 (01:22:21):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
I mean, I don't remember Derek in this organization, and
the baseball culture says it's okay.

Speaker 5 (01:22:26):
They're gonna party. Yeah. I just don't know when it
changed because I don't remember Derek g You give me
that I remember.

Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
You know when it changed when somebody came up with
ski goggles as an idea? Yeah? Yeah, probably.

Speaker 5 (01:22:37):
What if your little beloved Mariners win tomorrow, what are
you gonna do? You're gonna cry?

Speaker 8 (01:22:40):
No, I'm gonna say, Rick, I'm you're gonna jump for
joy I just said they're gonna do the same thing.

Speaker 5 (01:22:44):
I don't care, but they're gonna do it.

Speaker 8 (01:22:46):
I know. They're gonna do it. It's a baseball thing.
It's not team by team, it's a baseball thing.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
Uh, from Troy and Victoria?

Speaker 6 (01:22:53):
Is it just me?

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
Or will the Canucks make the playoffs? If they go
eighty two? And oh come on, Dolly and other words?
Your tape was so obvious. Your prediction was so obvious
about them making the playoffs if they stay away from
the injuries. This one's more obvious. Troy's having some fun.

Speaker 5 (01:23:09):
I get it. I get it. I still maintain if
they're healthy, they're in. If they if they get Look
at what you're sticking with that, right, Donnie. Look at
the white Caps. You know lines missed Roke for two games.
What happened in the two games that Rok was injured?
They lost on you lose key, guys. It's not good.

Speaker 6 (01:23:26):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:23:26):
Looking at all the Canucks lines for tonight, I can't
remember a more balanced forward group. All lines can score.
They'll score by committee, Rock and Roger. They're gonna have
to score by committee this year. Don You cannot be
a one line team. It can't. If they that's another ring.
If they're a one line team, they're not going to
the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
That's again, just like Rock and Roger?

Speaker 5 (01:23:48):
Are you gonna rip Rock and Roger?

Speaker 1 (01:23:49):
I'm not not gonna not him? No, no, no chance.

Speaker 5 (01:23:54):
Is it just me?

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
Curling guy in the back or in the whack?

Speaker 5 (01:24:00):
Says back, I'm gonna guess it's auto correct. No, No,
it's curring guy in the back. It's I'm gonna Oh
so you think it should be curring guy in the whack.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
You're familiar with chili whack and the current fields.

Speaker 5 (01:24:13):
There was there a month ago in the fields? No field?
Actually I was. I was at a farm.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
Is it just me? Is it just me that knows
the reason that Ryan is cranky today because the Jays
are moving on to the A l.

Speaker 5 (01:24:25):
C s the curring guy in the I'm not I'm
not cranky about that at all. I don't cranky.

Speaker 8 (01:24:30):
Iunky. You're in a bad mood, crunky. They were the
better team. They should have won. They dominated the Yankees
four runs in four games. You absolutely earned their spot
the spot.

Speaker 5 (01:24:42):
Let's let's stick with this rust in Victoria.

Speaker 8 (01:24:44):
Is it just me?

Speaker 1 (01:24:45):
But didn't Rick say yesterday that it's the Jays won?
Last time? He was gonna wear a blue Jay's jersey today,
I couldn't stop.

Speaker 8 (01:24:52):
I couldn't find it. You're such a weak thing. I
couldn't find it. I looked, I went in the closet.
I'm one of your I got all the time. One
of the boys took it.

Speaker 5 (01:25:03):
You take it.

Speaker 8 (01:25:04):
The old Leo can't put on a shirt. How's Leo
gonna dog gonna put on a shirt. I went in
the closet, I couldn't find it. Now I'm gonna go
home and rip the kids. I know one of them
took it.

Speaker 5 (01:25:13):
Uh the g man?

Speaker 1 (01:25:14):
Is it just me? But Donnie, don't you miss those
square Cooper helmets That was on the Barry Wilkins highlight
Andrey Boudi was one missing. The old was wearing the
old square Cooper helmet. I had one back in the day,
was green for Norburne Lacrosse. Who didn't have one back then?

Speaker 5 (01:25:29):
Remember Butch Scoring, that was a different helmet, different help,
But I remember Butcher scoring stood out. It was a
beautiful thing, his helmet.

Speaker 8 (01:25:37):
Donnie is the biggest talking above but but you know
what I'm talking about. Donnie is the biggest EP forty eater.
It's a pathological at this point, completely delusional. And because
you said that Heatel is gonna pass him his first line.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
Center, He's still gonna be on the team.

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
Do you understand how bad Patterson would have to be
for Hetel to pass him? Real bad? Well? Uh, you
know what I think.

Speaker 1 (01:26:04):
I think the Canucks will make the playoffs if they
stay away for Ridgers. It's it's just something out there.
I've been and raised the same.

Speaker 5 (01:26:14):
I never met a guy as much as you love Heatl,
who was.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
The most impressive player in the preseason. But this side
of Coots.

Speaker 5 (01:26:21):
Manini was good. What are you talking about? But Heatel
was right right up there.

Speaker 6 (01:26:25):
Just throw it out there.

Speaker 5 (01:26:27):
It'll uh okay, I get it. Uh, look at this
one right here. Is it just me? But I'll be
very disappointed if the Canucks don't do a tribute to
Abosphg Cannucks an opening night lose during that Couch and
vest very good. You know that's a good point. And
to acknowledge your farm team on the Calder Cup, that's
a big thing. It's a very proud thing for the
Canucks that their farm team on the Calder Cup.

Speaker 1 (01:26:49):
Day from Lake Couch And is it just me? But
I agree with Ryan you two supposed sports analysts when
asked if the Canucks will make the playoffs? Real awful
rolodex of ifs, if this, if that, if this, if
if if if your grandma had a beard? Should be
your grandpa day from Lake Counchy.

Speaker 5 (01:27:09):
Day from Lake Couch. And he's coming in and hitting hard,
uh at both of us, not just me.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
Oh, I know, absolutely, we've got time for quicklick go
reck go.

Speaker 11 (01:27:17):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:27:18):
Ryan must be sick watching these Blue Jay celebration interviews,
just like fighting in hockey. I'm sure he believes profanity
has no place in sports. Kevin in Twatson coming in hot.
They not they people know what an old man you are. Yeah, yeah,
Tapa Bay, Florida. Five hundred minutes and penalties and two
preseason games done, like, come on, no one's turning the
TV away, Kevin Crosson, No one's turning the TV off.

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Kevin in Swatson's right.

Speaker 1 (01:27:45):
A break will wrap up the show. The poll question
next Donnie Della, the team on check.

Speaker 5 (01:27:55):
Dog, Paul Rick, Ryan get her up, and the Waddling Dog.
Poll question it is y very very simple today. Absolutely
will the Canucks make the playoffs this season? Overwhelming eighty
three percent say yes, but also seventeen percent say no,
eight hundred and seventy four votes.

Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
Right off the bat there, I think people are excusing
the Cannucks for last year based on drama and injuries.
Those things are out the door as yes, you've talked
about for the last two hours, especially at the injuries.
Then you can see that. I think people look more
at what happened two years ago versus last year.

Speaker 5 (01:28:31):
Absolutely, if they're healthy, they're making the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
Make it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:33):
Look at the goaltending and the blue line is very,
very good and score by committee.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
Connecs and Calgary Tonight Rogers are in a game one
in the Canucks fifty fifth season of Operation.

Speaker 5 (01:28:44):
You got photos, we got photos. Happy birthday.

Speaker 8 (01:28:46):
This is the Ryan, get her up, Come on, this
is this is my neighbor, Alan the dog or the
not about the dog and Alan.

Speaker 5 (01:28:55):
No, Alan and the dog are my neighbors. I walk
by their house every day. He would lead with the
dog's name. I don't know the dog's name, but he's
not a.

Speaker 1 (01:29:05):
Alan.

Speaker 8 (01:29:05):
I see Alan, I wave, we talk. Allen's would be
a good name for dog. Alan's turning fifty uh dog. Now,
Alan the human is turning fifty. Don Alan's turning fifty.
He listens to Alan the human.

Speaker 5 (01:29:19):
Allan the human bad name. Alan is turning fifty. He
listens to us every day. And so I run into
him at the dog park. You know, I go buy
his house. He's got a cat, and yet you don't
know the dog's name. This is so bad. I make
one up.

Speaker 1 (01:29:33):
It's what what?

Speaker 5 (01:29:34):
What breed? Is this done? Fred?

Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
Golden Retriever?

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
Oh, they're just it's Fred the dog Golden. There's a
lot of Golden Retrievers in my in my neighborhood. There maintenance,
low maintenance, the funniest dogs, the nicest dogs. I give
this guy a hug all the time. I said, they're
a huggable dogs.

Speaker 8 (01:29:52):
So now you're at a point where you're hugging the
dog and don't know his name. Okay, but I never
asked the name. Well you ship, but are you just?

Speaker 5 (01:30:00):
I know it's Alan, I know it's allan male or
female tough call. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:30:06):
I'll explain it to you after.

Speaker 5 (01:30:07):
I'll ask Allen.

Speaker 8 (01:30:08):
Tonight, I'm gonna see him because I walked by his house. Anyways, Alan,
my my neighbor, really have to ask him I'm gonna
ask him his male and female what the name is?
So I know going forward anyways, fiftieth Happy birthday, Alan.
Look at this good guy and I walked by his
house every day.

Speaker 5 (01:30:22):
He's a really good That's a great picture. That's a
great picture. Look at that great dog. Great dog. Okay, right,
we're going. We got one more photo. This gotta be
a Canuck superfan. I think. Okay, you got the details.
I got the details. Go Ryan, get her up? All right?
This is ah all right, boys, let's go. I'm Donnie's Vintage.

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So the clock is ticking. Enjoy the show, Keep up
the good work. Greg in West Colowna.

Speaker 1 (01:30:49):
Look at that Don Cherry out?

Speaker 5 (01:30:52):
Is that a beautiful Canuck rumor what? There's a lot
going on there? Love it, don Cherry, you got he's
watching Donnie Dolly my t shirt right above the fireplace
the Canuck logo and Connuck pictures above the fire colors. Beautiful,
Greg in West Kelowna. Thank you for watching the support.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
Different pictures, Dave the snow guy.

Speaker 5 (01:31:12):
Quickly, is it just me?

Speaker 1 (01:31:13):
Or will we realize Tacket may and not have been
this savior? We all thought he was Knuck's vibe is high.
Players seem happier than ever, and maybe that's partly because
of Miller and Tocket not being there again. Dave the
snow Guy, Sorry, Troy, Is it just me? Chewing gum
while playing hockey a good thing because he gets rid
of a little bit of nervous energy. Plus you don't

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need to drink as much water. I did it for years,
and I got the idea from watching Pavel Burray.

Speaker 5 (01:31:40):
He used to chew gum. All the greats to oh
gum cheers. Okay, find out that dog's name. I'm gonna
get it on.

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
Behalf of Ryan Nina and we say happy birthday to
Derek Rick. Everybody here at Oh boy in Check, I'm
don and you're up to date in the world of sports.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
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