Canucks clash with Bruins, Kessel signing in Vancouver? – Sekeres & Price LIVE – Feb. 8, 2024

It’s a Canucks game day and another rematch of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final. Matt and Blake tee up the Canucks and Bruins game in Boston, Thatcher Demko apologizing to Jeremy Swayman, Quinn Hughes opening up about how bad the last few years have been and whether Phil Kessel could end up in Vancouver. All that and more on the latest edition of Sekeres & Price LIVE!

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So Caron price for Thursday February 8th 2024 we’re coming to you from the go- go sports studio built by Arbor Lee here at the iconic wall Center downtown Vancouver if you’re looking for a local Getaway on Valentine’s Day call the wall 604 331 1000 ask for the saris price

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And YouTube what is the pace you ask well after that victory in Carolina just shy of 120 standings points yeah astonishing and to me like we were thinking of this as a high 80s low 90s maybe if all things went well a mid something like that

120 now I I don’t think we’re asking this question question in terms of fullon regression back to a 96-point team at this point the math just would seem almost impossible well you’re at 73 now yeah but you know a trip a stumble so that it’s a

105 106 point team I mean it it wouldn’t be crazy to see that happen it wouldn’t really take away from The Marvelous story that they’ve been but they haven’t really shown many signs of even being human at this point here Matt it’s it’s crazy that they are you know Boston is

Kind of close as they get set for this matchup but after Boston is the Colorado Avalanche and the Dallas Stars at 68 points five in a rear and they’ve played more games than the Canucks no stunning and we asked this because another first place Showdown for the Vancouver kucks this

Afternoon our time against the Bruins who lead the East and of course Boston is coming off a 135 Point Season last year which got them home ICE advantage against the Florida Panthers that they blew in losing the series I voted yes on the poll question look my head tells me probably not

You’re probably not going to be able to keep up this pace for 32 more games and get to 120 but every single time they’ve been doubted this year they’ve proved the doubters wrong so I’ve voted yes accordingly I I’m saying I now fell in the line like a minion I’m saying no

Because hey they got the win last time out but it was tough it’s way tougher to win games like they did a couple nights ago than it is to win like they did in October and November and even in January they the early games in January they’re

Still scoring five six goals a game I don’t know how often that’s going to be able to happen here the rest of you got to be a contrarian huh I I I’m not predicting Doom ml loves being a contrar I’m not predicting Doom mlom I think they can still win the division even

With a stumble even at 109 points I think they probably still win the division but clipping along at 118 120 points anywhere in that boy I I I that’s just it would be truly I think somebody did the math for us um I think somebody

Said it’s uh here it is it’s the 11th best season in the 100y year history of the NHL they kept it up points in 14 consecutive games heading into this uh game against the Boston Bruins more on that in the second because the goalies have made up but let’s get to

Our top story brought to you by Mr Lube new name in the rumor mill for the Vancouver kxs and sounding like potentially some traction on a name that we have kicked around before let’s start with the new report Anthony DeMarco of the fourth period is connect connecting the Vancouver Canucks to Flyers defenseman

Rasmus rinen who is generally loed by the analytics Community a god awul contract of 5.1 million for this year and a few more and is producing all of Four Points in 30 games this was a defenseman that scored 40 points four consecutive years he was

Down to 20 last year in nearly a full season he’ll be lucky to crack 15 this year J freshi puts out those wonderful playing cards that sort of uh you know are an aggregate of their various underlying stats into a winds above replacement number uh the last one I saw

Of Rasmus first Alina was March of 2022 so two full years ago he was at a 1% wins above Replacements yikes now he’s a big right shot defenseman obviously Philadelphia would have to retain some money here and Philadelphia would be retaining money for several years three more after this

One I I I have a little bit of trouble with this no it’s a no for me Doug uh 20 uh age 29 I mean he’s got the pedigree a big guy he’s a top 10 pick but he certainly is not the player that he was even earlier in his career

Which if you’re a tire fir in your own Zone fair enough if you can help fill up the other net and some points every year and remember some of those totals came before scoring took the little jump that we’ve seen here not so bad but no if he’s giving you nothing offensively and

You’re worried about him and if you were a really undersigned defense Corp I could see you but with Susi and zadorov and Myers it’s just not needed now the number two Phil Kastle and I gotta say I missed this at Allstar Weekend but Rick toet saying yeah Phil

Castle is a guy who could help Street free agent cost you nothing off your current team would be addition and we’ve talked about the need for depth more quantity up front talk it hadam in Arizona where he was still pretty decent and even last year 36 points in 82 games

For the Vegas gold Knights before being used sparingly in the playoffs that’s not too too bad 14 goals he’s 36 now and I’m guessing tet is kept up with what kind of shape fills in it sounds like it uh Hey again the cost there’s no

Asset cost and the cost on the cap would be minimal as well uh hey if they’ve done their due diligence on this and think that he’s in reasonable shape by all means I’m doubtful of that but if they’ve done that I why not yeah I mean talking saying 100% sure he can still

Play saying there’s value in Phil it’s our top story brought to you by Mr Lou 100% Canadian warranty approved oil changes and they now provide tire service and sales with no appointment needed there’s 16 locations in the Lower Mainland for one near you go to Mr lube.com yeah and uh talk it in

Conversation with Luke Fox at Allstar Weekend where the castle quote came from so earlier in the week we wondered did JT Miller picking Jeremy Swan to go up against at the skills conf competition and then thra Demco snubbing Jeremy Swan’s hug request well that reignite the Bruins Canucks rivalry ah apparently

Not we thought we had some real good oldfashioned hate or at least dislike between the Canucks and Bruins again they sent an Edible Arrangement right but they have uh made amends here’s Jeremy Swan from from the morning skate on Thatcher Demco patching things up me

The next day and he’s like swe I’m so sorry about that yeah he just didn’t see I guess and I was laughing like totally cool but there’s still love we he’s a good guy so we had a good chat about it okay so he was in the zone and he just

Didn’t see he probably saw the video after it was like oh yeah he like I’m so sorry yeah so no he’s a very good guy and uh no it was awesome it a great group of goalies there and we had a great time a lot of good memories so no

Hockey Bad Blood there I never played against him so we didn’t have that have that rivalry but no not at all the story here thra Demco laser focused skills competition but honestly for for those that have ever met Demco that’s that tracks like he would absolutely be that

Guy but here’s something did you see how into it Demco was in comparison to some of the others yeah at the skills compet ition did he go against Crosby I didn’t see all of it so didn’t see uh Demco was he was competing like he was in it it he was he

Was whatever the antithesis of kerov was was thra Demco captain kanak on YouTube says Bros lion I refuse to accept Demco apologized to LOL I I I actually am a little bit surprised that Demco dealt with it at all but I’m not gonna you almost wonder

If like his his mom or dad hey son you look bad there I mean I don’t think he look guy just wants a hug at allar weekend you know you can sort of drop the competitive guard at all at allar sometimes too when stuff like that happens even if it was completely

Unintentional you kind of let it like you let it you know stand out there if people are going to draw conclusions about it ah why not and that audio courtesy of the Boston Bruins all right uh getting back to kle are you a yes or a no on kessle I

I’m a yes like I I if they’ve done the due diligence and think that he’s fit enough to to contribute by all means now again and I’m not mean mean here I think people would agree he had Fitness questions in the heart of his career

Never mind when he was 36 so if the dude diligence has been done and that he is no less fit than he was let’s just hold his last Fitness as sort of the standard if he’s no less fit than that sure yeah again he’s basically free and do you see

Him as much like the golden knights used him last year the you know break in case of emergency you’re not playing in the playoffs unless we have injuries yeah so 13th 14th forward type yeah or the power play goes like ice coal something you know things like that yeah exactly well

Look if they’re not going to take take another big swing and more on that in a second because Chris tanif is still out there and there’s news on the tanif file that I think is most interesting uh yesterday we talked about Eric Johnson why veteran leader Cup winner right shot defenseman affordable

Both in terms of salary and trade acquisition Minnesota Wild announcing Pat Patrick maroon going for back surgery so he’s going to miss the next four to six weeks he’ll probably not be in action by the deadline but three straight cups 800k UFA 36 again leader 150 playoff games in

His career he’s got 16 points in 49 games this year you start to wrap your heads around that style of guy right the guy with the Stanley Cup playoff track record the guy with Stanley Cup Rings the guy who’s got character and Leadership and isn’t going to mind being

A spare part on a good team been there done that to some degree four straight visits to the oh I know all he does is Win playoff series that guy um I’d be very I mean gosh like I don’t think he’s in my top 12 again he he’s he’s like Castle to to

Me I I can’t imagine like right today who does he play in instead of well but that’s thing is he probably doesn’t no unless you have an injury yeah but I’m just using him as an example of the sorts of players to wrap your head around much like Eric Johnson yesterday

The sorts of players to wrap your head around if in fact it’s only going to be depth pieces from here on in for the Vancouver and here’s the thing what you could do you sign a guy like that you demote Neils him on until the end of the

Season and then at the end of the season when there’s no salary cap everybody’s up and you’ve got your pick of the litter of who to choose from right so that’s how you would make it all work and then he may not see action in the

First couple of games so I I mean it’s possible but it would have to be a sixth round pick I’m like you know oh yeah oh no very very uh no yeah I mean you you’re basically getting something for nothing you’re basically yeah late round picks or sea

Level prospects that that’s that’s the sort of return we’re talking about if we’re going deeper yeah down the well for those depth pieces interesting Oman requires waivers so not sure you can get down on that quickly now Darren Dreger h a couple of things from Dreger to get to

Here the Edmonton Oilers have interest in Chris TANF which no duh I mean what an amazing fit TANF would be on that blue line as a defensive defenseman sort of the exact profile of player the Oilers could really use right are you at the point if you’re ruford

Alven where you have to look at making moves not just for the sake of improving your Hockey Club but keeping them away from your direct competitors in Edmonton and Vegas the answer is yes but only to a point like there has to be a price because with Calgary as the Brokers like

Calgary would no would love nothing more than to see both of those sides burn each other to a crisp in a bidding war to get those services so um you know there’s only two ways you win that is that you win a low bidding

War or you bid up the other side to the point where they mortgage their future hey that works too even if you’re just the stalking horse right bidding up the Oilers doesn’t I mean it’s not the ideal outcome because they still get danov but it’s the next best thing yeah

And that’s the thing he’s a rental player though too um so if you by accident win a bidding war you’ve done so for a guy that you may not have next year so uh it’s dangerous I I to me I I get the defense thing particularly for outof

Division guys like for if it’s a a Central Division guy uh or team that you’re competing against but in division when you know the broker’s inivision as well boy that just smells like overpayment um amazing that we’re talking about like that’s like Red Sox Yankees at their Peak sort of stuff like

You know no we’re going to trade for this guy and pay them just to keep him away from you right but it’s just something that occurred because World though I think you’re going to hear of some names that are out there tanif is one that is going to draw interest

From Vancouver from Edmonton and who knows Blake even Vegas here too right arms race in the Pacific Division that is quite possible over the next month and we are exactly one month from NHL trade deadline and the others would have some cap gymnastics there as well for

Sure so uh they’ve got 1.4 of current cap space so it’s not like you know they need some help there there would be corresponding moves M to make t of fit for them even even if Calgary retains retains the other uh and this was the other day from

Drager so the New York Rangers were in on Elias Lindholm they were one of the teams that was talking to Calgary about making a trade Drager didn’t specify this but apparently the hands of Chris jury and the New York Rangers front office are being tied by the owner James Dolan

Who’s you know a bit of a different cat kind of a wild cat owner he owns the sphere in Las Vegas and so he wants the Rangers to retain their first round pick so that they can make a splash or at least participate in the first round because of where the draft is

Being held the actual building the edifice matters to him and so that means the Rangers can’t really trade their 20204 first round pick I’m GNA guess that every first round pick gets blasted on the exterior of the sphere and so he wants that he wants that Vis

Moment can you make a splash with a Winger from Owen Sound picked 25th overall exactly no but this is what I’m think you’re a good team so it’s this is a Rangers team that could win the cup like it’s a pretty damn good team probably needs another piece or two and

You’re telling your GM who’s not the most experienced guy to begin with yeah hands off that first round pick we are absolutely picking someone 26 overall from Prince Albert Raiders uh the New York Rangers are BR to select right from the Drummondville voler but but we’ll have the image of

Him on the sphere exor yeah it’s a weird choice that is I have never once in my life heard of no we’ve got to keep our first round pick because of where the draft is located the actual building not the not even the city the building the four

Walls are I guess in the Spheres case the one wall the Canucks will not have that free advertisement on the outside of the SP no it’s unless really too bad there a real Blockbuster move that’s made but I don’t suggest that they are prioritizing recouping their first round pick have

You heard of the distraction in leafland going on right now no pretty tell John tavarus versus the CRA nobody wins that the Canadian Revenue Agency front page of the national post today I saw here’s the story tarus of course was with the New York Islanders signed with his Boyhood team the tonomy

Bels we all saw the jammies P yeah we all saw the tovar’s lawyers are arguing there’s a tax treaty provision for artists actors athletes and musicians moving North from the United States basically an inducement taxwise to get that those Folks up here living Ina to the brain drain exactly yeah

So Taris gets a $15 million signing bonus that was the other thing about his contract it’s almost all signing bonus very little salary so he gets his money up front $15 million government says well that’s taxed at 38% his lawyers say no no no no because of this treaty provision that’s taxed at

15% government says no you owe us eight million because this is a legal proceeding now the filing has revealed that the Dallas Stars and the San Jose Sharks were right there in the bidding with the leaves for Taris it details a 7-year $91 million offer the San Jose Sharks tabled

To Taris that he said no to because of this because of jammies and bed sheets in this provision undoubtedly he he was absolutely set to make more money in t in Texas with Dallas or in San Jose California with the sharks turn that money down to sign with

The Boyhood team thinking he was cool on the signing bonus being taxed heck of a precedent there and Canuck fans might want to pay attention to this a little bit because if by chance he wins signing us residents not citizens but residents to massive front-end loaded signing B bonus loaded deals all

Of a sudden starts to put them on more even ground with States like Florida or if he loses as Glenn McGregor points out in the National Post article it is going to be even more difficult for Canadian teams and this is the seven NHL teams and the blue Jayson Raptors

Signing a guy coming from the US giving him the signing bonus because the first thing his agent going to do is say well you may get the $10 million signing bonus but 3.8 million is going to be taxed right off the Hop yeah that’s interesting um not to mention the fact

The story also points out the tax rate for these folks has already been increased going back to 2016 by the liberal government they used to pay 28% tax now they’re up to 33% so a third of your income plus as much as 38% of the signing bonus could all be going to the

CRA and the federal government for these athletes signing from the U and you’re right it’s not citizens it’s residents of the United States who would be moving up to canidate assign no no one’s feeling bad for them financially but uh selfishly as a hockey fan if you see a

Loophole to sign an American based free agent um boy that would be quite a loophole if that if that prent get set that he gets away with 15% boy the rest of the Canadian teams probably rubbing their hands together thinking okay who who what who’s got uh

Us tax status right now that’s a free agent coming up this summer interesting um uh speaking of percentage points and this story brings us no joy because it was three years ago tomorrow if I’m not mistaken when our old radio station uh changed formats and has since been

Shuttered uh the former am 1040 here in Vancouver but an extraordinary announcement today from Dell Canada that it is laying off 4800 people Nationwide 9% of its Workforce let’s talk about that and once again you forgot your hashtag true to form true to form uh in the weeks after

Bell let’s talk day this day that is supposed to make us feel that this company is a caring I think this is the third or fourth time they’ve done the second week and it’s the second they did it in June as well so this is the second

Time in eight months that there has been layoffs if you’re laying off 9% % of the workforce maybe the problem’s in the boardroom fellas just throwing that out there like if you can’t run your company to the point where you have to lay off that many people in one Fell Swoop after

Several rounds of layoffs maybe you don’t have the right leadership yeah uh this is going to affect all aspects of Bell Canada including the media division locally here uh first of all they’re selling 45 of their 103 radio stations across Canada including 16 of them here in British

Columbia and I guess that’s the good news at least those stations are being sold to to companies that want to operate radio and hopefully they want to operate them with humans and and at the same level uh none of them are actually in Vancouver or Vancouver Island you’ve

Got six up North and then you got 16 in the interior that are being sold I don’t know what is going to happen of the other 58 Bell Media radio stations across the country but I I fear for them uh given the history of just walking away from frequencies and uh again

Locally there will be no more CTV News at Noon In fact there will be no more CTV News at Noon in any Market except for Tor Toronto and there will be no more CTV news on weekends in all markets except for Toronto Montreal and Ottawa and I don’t

Necessarily know why Ottawa and Montreal survive Toronto gets Toronto Montreal because it’s the Bell base and Ottawa because because it’s the Parliament Hill yeah okay yeah all right um so needless to say and look uh Blake and iron now nearly three years started up here as local Independent Media April of 2021 so

A couple months after uh we lost the radio station Blake and I started up and we and we started up under the premise that these Toronto telecoms just don’t care about this market and I’ll give I’ll actually give Rogers some credit at least they’re making an effort there seems to be an

Effort out of Rogers uh particularly after buying Shaw throughout western Canada there’s no effort at B media the statement today from Miro bibbit their CEO uh blames the economy and okay these aren’t the best Economic Times and in fact details massive losses in the radio division uh versus projected sales but

It also BL blames regulation and I think that’s the thing that is stuck in my craw the most out of all of this any broadcaster Foundation requirement in this country by the crtc is you got to do some news programming you got to actually do some things that

Educates the citizenry lets them know what’s going on at different levels of government and in their community and Belle’s asking to be exempt from that no we just we we can’t make a go of it if we have to do that that’s the reason you have the

License that that’s the deal you make to get these licens far easier just to roll reruns of Law and Order you know yeah so uh look once again it’s going to be a day where you’re going to continue to see a lot of people posting to social

Media about how they’re caught up in the cuts again you’re laying off 4,800 people this is going to affect all facets of Belle’s business so I’m sure there will be someone at either TSN or locally at CTV or with one of the Bell Media Radio Station there will be people

Out there today who are losing their jobs that I would suspect most everybody listening knows or has listened to watched what have you over the years and uh I feel for them today we have both uh been there sadly okay let’s get to today’s menu it’s

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Between Kansas City and San Francisco they are Laing the others and they’re accomplishments barely a whiff of controversy in Sin City Las Vegas Nevada a place where the NFL Once Upon a Time didn’t even accept their advertising dollars because they were squeamish about a connection to sports gaming you

Finally bring your signature event to Las Vegas and as of midday Thursday not a single player’s gotten in trouble and there has been other than some griping about the practice field the 49ers were given barely any controversy I was really hoping the guy that climbed the

Sphere was Travis Kelce but was not not the case do you think it could have been James Dolan do you think it could have been a Winger from Owens sound figuring to go 25th overall in the NHL entry draft the Caps played as well got their season going in cona champions cup over

On the island against tigis we’ll talk about that as well but Blake some business to attend to with regards in my case to Super Bowl going there again presentation of sports interaction your homegrown sports book in Casino you seem anxious go ahead well I said I was going to do a week of

Uh Super Bowl props so I’m down on my final prop here and we’ll talk about this subject with rashman Danny that Brock pie ball it just hangs that extra second he just doesn’t have they use the word phrase arm Talent now I don’t know how arm Talent replaced arm strength but

Nevertheless but here we are arm well arm Talent be like if you’re not a football fan what does arm talent mean arm strength arm strength I guess that’s what we’re talking about are we talking like the different angles like momes and if if if you want to talk about that

Then yeah it’s not purely strength yeah but when we’re just talking about getting the ball from A to B on a zip line Brock pie he’s just not quite of the level of no one’s at the Patrick Mahomes level but he’s not at the Star level uh so I expect an interception in

This game from Kansas City lerus Sneed he missed the early part of Super Bowl week why he and his girlfriend were having a baby baby girl Jim Nance is doing the broadcast Jim Nance always talks about the new fathers talks about it in golf talks about it in basketball

Talks about it in football why they just play Carefree the baby bump they have had something happen in their lives that makes the game games feel you know pretty inconsequential in comparison right so you go on out you play free you know you’re going home to something

Special lerus Sneed 11 to one to make an interception in the Super Bowl and I’m putting a nickel down okay all right um I’m gonna just get into my Super Bowl pick tomorrow going that’s going back to the ice today or for tomorrow um the Anaheim Ducks get the unenviable task of taking

On the Oilers after the streak is snapped oh this could get ugly could get ugly or maybe just maybe there’s a let down from the orders you think they finally lost Anaheim no zis you’re getting 320 if you think the orders might just let down a little bit

Oh I hate that after the streak that was no no the tax is not good enough it’s only 136 No I know you can’t bet him to win but I’m not betting them to lose come on take a little bit of a risk for I’m going 111 on my prop Sports interaction

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Week we took a couple days off with the Canucks spy hi I’m Matt he’s Blake see again pleased to meet you well yeah I was just out there seeing if I was worth a first- round pick that was you know oh everybody’s worth first round McDow goes for a first round pick

Patrick everybody’s worth a first round pick at that point um did you get away at all did you uh no come on no no no but the ladies are away they’re in Mexico they’re having a good time oh my goodness your wife and her friends they they they they take more vacations per

Capita than I think any friend group I know and you’re always left behind I gotta say Candace has got a good thing going on here no let me put it this way I there there was a a chance that came up to have done something last weekend months and months and months ago

A friend of mine it’s his 40th birthday he lives in England uh he threw sort of the global invitation out the original plan was to go to Rome to watch England versus Italy Six Nations rugby oh wow and and I actually was it was far up ahead that I actually did a little

Research and I actually could have found you know I would have had to S it would have been a you know I think two-stop flight but you fly through the US kind of deal and I found a pretty decent price and then he and the boys in fact

He in fact had booked a bunch of hotel rooms just to make sure that it was covered off because you know England away any England Away Travel any sport in Europe you’ve got to be ahead of the Cur like ahe of the curve right anyway

He was on top of it but hadn’t looked into was the price of flights from London to Rome for that particular weekend for all the obvious reasons because there’s going to be all these English rugby fans wanting to go and so it didn’t happen and so now they’re

Doing it something this week in like Seville and I was like guys I gotta work I can ignore the NHL allstar game but I can’t ignore the Canucks in Detroit so there you go I was this close so I’m trying I’m trying to make something happen to partying with the

English yobs in Rome and instead you wrote about Marty um and there you he can’t come to our Greta event on the 22nd of February because he has his strata AGM yeah where he may get promoted to strata president from vice president after a long and arduous campaign through Iowa and New

Hampshire I’ve never heard more people involved in the strata than I have in the last few years honestly why would you ever join a strata why it is creating problems in your life that you can just completely ignore so long as you you really care about the furniture

And the foyer that it’s not no boys this is Big Time stuff we got to replace the stairs on the other side of the building parade repairs come on okay all right what’s it is UN busy people who need to feel important in life oh come on

Matthew if you knew how important the strata was I told my parents you stay far away from the strata as possible if somebody talks to you in the elevator about anything strata you polite you nod you smile you walk out you don’t give it another second’s thought yeah governments retired retired communities

That have stratas my buddy’s mom is involved and they meet meet every week if that was what we were doing I would not be involved like honestly if if 13-year-olds want to get together for a mock UN General Assembly have at it that is part of the education process but

When grown-ups decide oh we’re going to create our own little you know government quasi judicial uh body over here no stay far away so to bring this back to hockey yeah four minutes in sorry um are the Canucks merely going to change the furniture in the foyer I.E a seventh

Defenseman or um are are they going to completely revamp the exterior lighting and the parade yeah staircase for a fourth uh you know defenseman right side that’s pretty good would would Phil kessle be like changing the lock on the bike cage downstairs something like that

Yes I think so yeah um it’s combo lock now here’s the code don’t share it with anyone or we’re gonna drag you front of share it I I think you’re more I think you’re more on to something there like I mean I think they would love to add another big

Piece but I’m not sure how they do it in the market if if there really is a market for a first round pick for Nick Dow like I’m not sure those you’re really chasing you you want to make moves but like some of them are going to

Be nuts and that may just price you out especially honestly today we’re talking about today we’re talking about a first- round pick for nicd yesterday we’re were like maybe it’s a buyer Market at the end of so which is it honestly I think it is oh what a buyer I think if you

Make some of these I I think if you wait another month here I think you have more teams looking to sell I think you’re going to get some value at the deadline this year yeah no I I toally agree and I I think there’s enough there’s enough teams that I kind

Of already know they’re not in it even though you know you look at like the Western Conference Wild Card race and there’s like four or five teams in the mix there right um that there’s enough teams that kind of know they’re out and there’s enough team you know look at

Calgary like Calgary already knows they’re they’re selling um it’s not just tnah it’s hannahan like there’s guys there’s more guys move there I I I do think the kucks are pretty happy with their defense core um adding ly Holm obviously is a huge huge thing for them

Um and we’ve already seen how it I think changes the dimensions of their lines um that said as I’ve said more than once Jim Rutherford didn’t stop at Doug weight in 2006 he went and got Mark wcky at the deadline as well like he built a

Whole new second second line so you know in their heart of hearts you know would they like to get a Frank vetrano where does fank Frank vetrano sit on this roster right right like I think that’s the kind of gay the guy that they could still be interested in there certainly

Is some cap room like they have almost 2 million really in in sort of space with how the ltir is set up and and juggling things around um if you can convince a team to do retention if you could do a trade through a third party to make

Things really cheap you know I think there’s there’s there are things they could do here right they are not as hamstrung as they might have been in the past even if it is challenging um so so yeah I I don’t think they I don’t think they’re shy about trying to find

Something else to do I’m just not sure if they’ll be able to do it that’s the only thing hey um it’s interesting you say vetrano uh because um boy we got a lot of we did some vetrano talk last week and got a lot of response on that

Answer me this do you think MF is in play here like kusano or do you just think he’s in a slump and he is part of the plans going forward I mean I mean first of all yes he’s definitely in a slump I think too he’s in the reality of

ACL recovery I mean go back to Pavo buray think about how long it took him to come back it really hasn’t changed there’s a lot of examples of substantial knee surgery and taking a while to come back he it’s been a year since he had his surgery now

Um I I I have a hard time imagining just with how he’s played and the sort of perception of what he might be he’s not coming off a 39 goal season to me that was the kmo advantage and that you could see he was at least trying stuff the

Thing with M we just haven’t seen anything like that’s been the hard thing to see um if they could flip him out for something else I suppose I don’t have any insights on that particular question um I have been pondering what they might do in that spot you know there’s a

Reason why I mentioned the wcky thing but I I think they their their preference certainly would be for him to get on track and starts popping some goals and work with that line as as it’s set up I ask in part because you know the one thing the lindome trade didn’t

Do was add quantity because you shipped out one forward to bring another forward back and I think at some point it’s a quantity and depth matter as much as it is a quality matter and getting rid of guys who aren’t necessarily playing their best hockey right now well let’s

Address you playfully uh referenced the Phil Castle thing um and uh Luke Fox asked Rick talking about that during the allstar break and yeah you know it was a it was a pretty emphatic endorsement that he thought that kessle had game left which was a little bit odd because

If you didn’t if you hadn’t been speaking with Phil Kastle you’d probably be like I mean I don’t know I haven’t seen him in in months you know you’d give sort of a midling answer I think yeah he was sort of emphatic which leads you to believe he might know something

Yeah I mean I saw the quote and I I sort of went okay I mean listen he was Brick’s best forward basically consistently when he was coaching in Arizona right like that the most consistently best forward that he had um he was a really good player really

Important player on the two Stanley Cup teams in Pittsburgh which of course was eight and seven years ago um I I do look at the at kessell’s season last year where he played a lot for Vegas and then barely played in the playoffs and became

A spare part um to me kessle I I if I’m the canx I think you’re looking at kessle as sort of the the the the safe option that if there’s nothing else that plays out that’s a guy that you can bring in I mean he he hasn’t played in

10 months that’s the thing and no matter how hard he’s been skating no matter how hard he’s been trying to keep himself in shape it’s going to take him a while you know if they had signed if there have been opportunity to sign him say in December something like that like then

You have a little more window for him to get fit get back in ease him in but we’re you know we’re getting close now I mean trade dead Line’s in a month less than a month or it’s a month almost exactly I think and then the playoffs

Are in just over two months like that’s not a lot of time to work with anymore with a player like him um so I don’t think it’s impossible I just think it’s I I think it’s well down the list of likely and that there are other options

I think they’re looking out ahead of that he’d be super cheap and it means you don’t spend a dime of asset to to bring in so that would be the that would be the other part of it right so yeah yeah yeah and you know maybe he ends up being an insurance

Option over and above some other move depending on how that’s structured but I I I you know I I just I don’t get the sense it’s not impossible but I also don’t get the sense that it’s it’s high on the list right now uh Drager says the Oilers are in on

Tan sure I mean they should be yeah oh no absolutely absolutely which thus I’m asking the question are you at the point do you think they’re at the point where you may look at making a move not just to improve your Hockey Club but to keep a

Key piece away from a direct competitor because I think everybody recognizes TANF would be exactly what Edmonton needs I I I wouldn’t put it past this group I mean if you look deep inside some of the moves that Rutherford made like the mark stri trade who barely

Played in the playoffs played 18 games down the stretch and then played three games in the playoffs like that was a guy who could still play and that that I think in hindsight looked like a move of just trying to make sure that the depth guy doesn’t land somewhere else that

You’re keeping it away from arrival I could absolutely see them trying to trying to do that um you know the interest in tan of was definitely there in the ly Holm talks the price of everything and trying to make it work under the cap I get I’m

Sure was what held that up imagine the flames playing these two teams off of each other God delicious yeah it is delicious it’s it’s sort of you know you want to win but if the second best thing is that you can drive Edmonton in Vancouver crazy I think that’s cly

That’s a role you’re gonna try to play right yeah absolutely um uh they’re on 12 point Pace here yes going into in into this uh you know would be Stanley Cup preview uh against Boston now clearly the best team in the league by every metric yeah you think

They can keep a nine game home stand in March they go like a full month without even leaving the city of Vancouver like regression talks out out the window but there is a world in which they have a five-game losing streak and finish with a 108 points which would still be a

Great season and all that sort of but do you see even that happening or are they gonna just keep it up I mean they are the last team that has yet to lose or they are the last team that has yet to lose three games in a row right like

They haven’t done that um I’m not the first person to say this I mean many have said this before before me they have been much better since Christmas that sort of mini training camp after Christmas that they were able to have just working on a little more

Strategy stuff system stuff I I think has made a difference uh the goal tending remains fantastic the the foundation of this team um is solid right that the defensive two-way game is solid the fact that they their shooting percentage had even strengthens down to 11.7 guys they bar

SC they’re under 12 but um they’re still you know two two two two percentage points over above kind of what I think most teams realistically can hope to shoot so they may run a dry patch I mean I don’t think they’re G it’s gonna be hard for the dry patch given how they

Approach shooting the offensive zone now that that they actually hold the puck rather than shoot the puck um and there is I think maybe something to that though on the whole you just know the numbers win out in the end no matter what you are trying to do the simple

Truth is is that you know you’re not going to keep scoring at the rate you’re scoring um yeah I I could see them you lose a few more games here I could you know the I laugh when you say 120 point Pace because it’s just it’s it on its

Face sounds absurd no matter who the team is that the Boston Bruins last year was most I mean think how crazy the Bruins season was last year and how everything went right for that team and that team was like a deep talented team and the conects are deep and talented I

Don’t think they’re the Boston Bruins of last year um yeah I I think there’s going to be some bumps this road trip they’re on is tricky one there’s another tricky one in a couple weeks um there’s probably going to be some that long home stand like you could lull yourself a little bit

Into like I can just see it’s inevitable there’s what you know too long going and coming no absolutely at some point in the nine game home stand you’re going to go off you’re gonna have a night you’re GNA do something out of routine and you’re gonna like drop a Thursday game

To the Montreal Canadians yeah uh because you’re not go yeah I still but I still think things are set up that I just I think it’s it is going to be a surprise if they do lose three games in a row which sounds absurd to say it just

In terms of the way they’ve been playing the way they’ve been sort of ma managing themselves emotionally I think back to the story I put together before the All-Star game which I put on the weekend up on the weekend about just the most fun thing and and Patterson was just so

Emphatic on the the notion of how they’ve been able to deliver on their own expectations you know they’ve set a standard for themselves and they’re delivering and they have that pattern of success and and you know that that they’ve got they they look they’re huge fans of the coach they’re huge fans of

What the coach has them doing because they’re getting the results and they can see it and they believe in him and they believe in each other um there’s that the confidence is quiet and very very very strong on this team Quin Hugh saying that being shitty for that long

Is made them want to compete every night yeah yeah and you know like that’s what Quinn said to me he said you know I think I said this before but you know that that you know 70% of their success is Rick talking his coaching staff and Tyler Myers totally agreed you know you

Want one player who’s improved his game and become one of the best players in the NHL and another player who’s improved his game to be you know a competent everynight contributor in Tyler Myers like both those guys have seen different versions of the same thing which is that that everything’s

Working and that that they believe in each other and they’re playing better and I they’re just going to keep going I mean they’ve won they haven’t lost in how many games like actually lost in regulation in 12 12 yeah right like they’re gonna lose it’s not the end of

The world but they’re playing they are lots of things that are going for them so I just I think they’re just going to keep it feels like they’re scoring less and you mentioned the scoring uh the shooting percentage going down I just checked you know how many times they’ve

Scored more than four goals more than four goals in the calendar year of 2024 six times yeah like like it feels like they’re scoring less but they’re really not much like Still Still scoring five six goals and that’s the one thing that if they if they’re going to score less they’re

Goingon to have few of those games they’re just G to have to win they’re gonna end up winning games more by one goal like yeah I think that’s right that’s been the story of the season is they’re winning by blowouts night after night after night I was gonna wrap up

This segment by saying we had a spicy jocular fun interview with Patrick and for the listeners or two who keeps at us on this not a single curse word involved and then this guy goes and drops a shitty we were this close to doing something great Patrick oh well and he

Blew it for us I mean you know I don’t know Mt we started talking about about stratas for four minutes that was a little much it was a little much uh we’re gonna end this with talk of Six Nations rugby there’s a new Netflix reality series have you seen the Netflix

Reality series on I’m aware of it but I am I started it it didn’t hold my attention even the great Scottish accents didn’t hold my attention Matthew there’s a referee documentary on the uh available wow C lady a referee documentary rugby referee yeah it’s on Rugby pass oh rugby

Referees oh still I know you’re a big fan of them you know you might appreciate that oh I I’m a fan of the uh rugby playby playay guys particularly the Scottish ones who refer to the jie Jamie Lyall if you can if you want I can get him we’re we’re social media really

Oh okay you don’t like the Canadian rugby play bypl guys play byplay guy I just don’t believe him this guy my prote exactly until next week take care guys hey everybody if you’re enjoying what you’re seeing here then follow along with Saron price on YouTube I promise more content coming they call it

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