Jeff Marek: Canucks dealing with so many injuries, would they ever rebuid?

Jeff Marek: Canucks dealing with so many injuries, would they ever rebuid?

as we welcome in the host of the sheet. Every day 10:00 a.m. Pacific here on the nation network. Mike Blake and I often say Friday is our Jeff show often with American Patterson. So this is the Jeff segment. Hello. Oh uh one of these kids is not like the other. If I can uh co-opt an old phrase from our favorite kids show Sesame Street. How are you gentlemen today? Big weekend coming up for the Kukes. Every weekend seems like it’s the end of the world for the Vancouver Conucks these days, but uh hey, every weekend’s an opportunity, I suppose. That’s how they have to look at it. Hang on, let me let me let me couch something in a very specific way here for for Vancouver Conucks fans. I know we’re going to get into Demco and and Hughes, etc. Maybe have a whack at the David Camp piñata as well. Um but here here’s what I look at with the NHL right now. Let me know whether you guys are going to pick up what I put down here. It seems to me that this is and I can’t I don’t we want to put a time frame on it. Let’s just say of recent note that this is maybe the most average I’ve seen the NHL. Yep. Some may just say, “Oh, parody parody parody.” I kind of look at it and say like no one outside of perhaps Colorado, although they for two full periods had their hands full of the Buffalo Sabres last night, there’s no one that’s really distinguished themselves as being great yet. like this is a very average start to this NHL season. That’s why, you know, if you’re a team that thinks you can contend, go for it. Or if you’re a fan base that thinks like, oh no, the sky is falling chicken little, take solos in the fact that this is not a runaway freight train this year of an NHL season. So far, it’s been a quite average, you know, NHL season. And it’s funny you say that cuz not just team related, but I mean it goes hand in hand here. Like I’ll look at the stats and I’ll see a guy he’s only got three goals. Like he’s only got three goals now. That applies to Elias Patterson out here among others talking about no across the league. Now obviously there’s Celbrini and Bernard and those storylines. There are there are people picking up their points, McKinnon and Nate, Josh, but but there are a lot of guys I look at like we’re a full month into the season now and I’m just like so yes, I I agree with you. Whether it’s the team level or individuals, there’s just a lot of me. It’s funny you said, well, we’ve been talking about that on the show and you’re right, Jeeoff, like this is what’s still fueling a little bit of hope for the Vancouver Conucks giving their given their start. But it’s funny because before the season, I’m combing through depth charts, looking at teams and other stats, but mostly depth charts as I’m we got to make our predictions. And I was like, “Oh, I like the I like this team.” And I’d go and I’d look at their depth chart and I’d go, “Oh, honestly, I liked a fully healthy Florida Panthers team at the beginning of the year. The rest of them, I sort of felt like, okay, yeah, we can throw you on.” and and now even the Florida Panthers and you know even with Matthew Kachchuck coming back one day and and Alexander Barkov coming back one day there is a sort of vibe around the league. I I certainly feel this way. Maybe I shouldn’t say everyone feels this way. Curious what you guys think. I mean I’ve kind of come back from Niagara Falls on the Florida Panthers, right? Like the the honeymoon here is is is kind of over. That’s a lot of hockey for a for a team to play. Uh not just winning the Stanley Cup, but getting the Stanley Cup final as well. I don’t know. Like I’ve not like no one maybe and even but but even Colorado like like here’s a team that has what is it Burns and Manson as their as their second pair. Like every team has holes some significant but the main point that I’m getting at here is I mean we all know what’s happening with the Calgary Flames but outside of that like who’s really completely taken themselves maybe Nashville. Who’s really taken themselves out here in the Western Conference? Like I was talking to Drew Amanda yesterday on the on the sheet with Greg Washinsky and we were saying like look things have to break the right way. Everyone’s got to stay healthy. Ascarovs had got to have a great season but I can’t sit here and tell you that the San Jose Sharks 100% can’t make the playoffs because why not? It doesn’t mean that this be beginning of them making the playoffs for 10 years in a row. But we’ve seen teams have go on like PDO benders and make it in the playoffs and come down to earth the next season. It’s happened before. No, it’s like the only a couple of teams have really taken themselves out of it that you look at and you say like we know what’s going to happen to them come trade deadline time if not before. That’s why if I’m a Vancouver Conucks fan, this is like it’s Carolina, Tampa, Florida this weekend. I know it looks daunting and that Demco and Quinn Hughes etc. But this is a very average start to this season. You just got to be blunt about it. Blake and I had the conversation last week and said, “Okay, if we’re going to have a whole bunch of mediocrity in the league this year with no great teams or very few great teams, at least give us a banger playoff chase down the last couple of weeks, right?” Like that’s what you get to look forward to if in fact you do have these tightly bunched teams all around the playoff bar. Can I ask you guys a philosophical question? Sort of straying away from from the Conucks here for one second, but see JP, this is how it works with Merrick. He asks the questions, we answer. It’s a different segment than we do with anybody else. I’m I’m I’m only really comfortable asking the questions otherwise I expose myself as a fraud. He’s a better pitcher than catcher. But what I really want to do is direct. Um okay. So the one of the and there have been some certainly have been some some great teams not cut out of the cloth of you know the Islanders and and the Habs and you could argue the the the Edmonton Oilers certainly with the four cups in five years. Um but do you think just this is just a personal question because for me the answer is not a hard yes but a soft yes and that is do you think when mediocrity is the call of the day or sorry parody is the call of the day and there are no dynasties anymore or we’ve maybe at best recalibrated what a dynasty team is. Does it devalue the Stanley Cup to you when all you have to be is the best out of a bunch of mediocre teams? Like you look at the cup like one of the great things about going to to Young and Front Street, the Hall of Fame is like look at those Islanders. Like look at those two flyers. Like look at like that’s a team. And then you get into the salary cap era and listen Chicago had their three and the Kings had a pair two two cups in three years. And we know what the Pittsburgh Penguins have done and most recently of course the Florida Panthers and Tampa previous to that. But are there anyone are there any teams that you look at and you say like wow like this is like count the Hall of Famers on this team. Wow. This is a real Am I Am I hear I hear where you’re coming from, Jeeoff, but I I will say like the beauty of the cup in my mind is always going to be, you know, the race to 16 wins, right? four wins uh per round. Like the St. Louis Blues were not a great team, but they became a great story. Yep. Right. And so I hear what you’re saying. Like the days of the True Dynasty, I think are behind us, but it’s impossible to say that the last team standing isn’t a worthy champ any year just because of the grind it takes to win the cup in my mind. And what the Florida Panthers have done the last three years, getting to a final and then getting it right the last two. and the Oilers can sort of author that same kind of story, not on the levels of the Islanders and the Habs teams that you mentioned, but I still think every spring that uh there are some pretty incredible stories authored by whoever ends up hoisting the cup. I I would say it does not devalue the Stanley Cup for me, Jeff, but it does make the whole season, including playoffs, less memorable. Jeff cited the 2019 uh St. Louis Blues other than the photo only because I’ve seen it so much cuz Rutherford is here. I I I have very little recollection of the ’06 Hurricanes winning the Stanley Cup. I I remember Cam Ward was terrific. I I want to say they beat Montreal. I think I was in Montreal when they won a series against the Habs in that run. Uh the 2012 Kings were desperately boring and so I’ve sort of outside of the first round where they made short work in the but at least they backed it up. They backed it up with another one. at least the they did and they won all those games uh in a row. So, I’ll give them that. But, um like the cup final against New Jersey that year, I’m like I mean, I couldn’t tell you I couldn’t remember a single thing about it. So, the the thing the thing about the Hurricanes in ‘ 06, it’s funny. I was just talking about this uh the other the other day. We’re going to get back to Vancouver Talk here fans. Don’t worry. I just want to make one final point point and turn the recreation back. The thing about the ‘ 06 Carolina Hurricanes, I mean, that was in a lot of ways the perfect Stanley Cup champion for that season because it came out of nowhere and as you guys recall, that was a year where everybody had to relearn how to play hockey. It was coming out of the lockout. There was the crackdown on uh on obstruction. Uh the Philadelphia Flyers didn’t believe that they were going to stick with it and the referees were were going to bend and eventually go back to the old ways. So, they miscalculated and had a bunch of oak trees on the back end that were mobile and ended up paying for it. The Carolina Hurricanes again out of nowhere won the Stanley Cup and then everybody thought it was going to be about foot speed, footsp speeded, foot speed and then Brian Brooks Anaheim Ducks did it with nuclear deterrence on the bench. But that whole season I kind of crumple up and throw away. Now no offense to the player that we’re going to mention here, but do you remember who won the Rock of Rashard in 2006? Here’s my Easter egg. Yeah, Jonathan Chichu. Oh, right. Like that was a year where just like crazy stuff happened in the NHL. Everybody was relearning how to play again in so in a lot of ways Carolina was the perfect Stanley Cup champion. Small market didn’t expect it. All of our expect all the things that we thought we knew about the game and the teams and all that were out the window. Chichu snaps and Frank Cablay was their leading defenseman uh on that team and Corey Stillman and Eric Cole were amongst their top five scorers. Stillman St. Stillman should have won the Kmite by the way. He that was the performance of and honestly some of the dead cup or dead puck cups as well. Uh Jeff like I don’t dispute New Jerseyy’s brilliance in the least. You have those two defenseman and that goalender and that is sensational. But I can’t say that was the most enjoyable hockey to watch. Uh, yes. Let’s move on to the You’ve had your 10 minutes. Okay. I got my I got my There was There was You put some candy on my microphone for me. Thanks, guys. Well, your segue back into the Conucks is that your Jim Rutherford went out and acquired both Mark Reky and Doug White if I’m not mistaken. Right. There you go, Jeff. Yep. Who’s the Mark Reky? Who’s the Doug coming to the rescue here in Vancouver this year? I mean, but that but but that really helped build the reput that really started the reputation of Jim Mutherford as getting the jump on everybody and not waiting until trade deadline because everybody else historically had it always waited till deadline or Rutherford’s like screw that I’m making my moves now and I’m getting my guys in here and they’re getting it climatized and they’re learning how we play and they just kept on. We said oh look it’s cute. Carolina’s winning hockey games. Oh cute. Next thing you know they’re winning the Stanley Cup days of the house days of early buying. Jeff, remember those? Yeah, I know. We’re having a different sort of trade discussion in this market these days. You mean Lucas Reichel isn’t it? Yeah, Lucas Reichel, believe it or not, isn’t it? Anyways, you mentioned it. Carolina, the two Florida teams back to back, no Demco and maybe no Hughes. The Canucks survive this weekend. Jeez. Uh, my head says no. My heart says yes. We love magic in sports. Uh, we love things to be unpredictable. And just when you think that, you know, oh, there’s no way they’re going to win these games. you know, Vancouver goes and, you know, rattles off three big wins here and picks up like, you know, five of us six possible points or or dare we say six points. Listen, this is going to be tough and I don’t need to tell you guys that. And the one team that is incredibly frustrating to play against are the Carolina Hurricanes. I mean, they live in your hip pocket. As much as they are an analytically led team, they still kind of play an old school table hockey kind of uh of game. Uh Rod Brendmore loves to, you know, uh dump it in and retrieve, dump it in and retrieve, dump it. Like there’s there’s no secret about how the Carolina Hurricanes play. It’s it’s hard work. And you know, the the way that Eric Tulski and his predecessor Don Wedell brought players into this organization was based on how Rod Brendmore wants his team to play. And you have to be athletic. You have to be able to think on your feet quickly. You have to be able to react. And you have to be mobile. If you’re a defenseman, for example, like KAR Miller, there is room for you with the Carolina Hurricanes. If you’re a player that, you know, plies his trade and makes his living by, you know, cross checks all the way to hell, there’s not going to be a place for you on the Carolina Hurricanes. The one thing about Carolina, and I’ve always I’ve always considered Carolina an acquired taste. If you’re a hockey fan, because I know it’s not the most exciting brand of hockey, but the one thing that I’m fascinated by with Carolina, and that’s why I always encourage fans when they’re watching the Hurricanes to buy a ticket up high so you can see everything and watch what happens when things break down. And something really fascinating happens if you’re watching it up high. Because we look at the game now, we see like, wow, there’s no room to move out there. It’s because everyone’s playing zone. When you’re playing a man-to-man like Carolina does, when there’s a turnover or a breakdown and the puck changes possession, it’s amazing because everyone’s playing in each other’s hip pocket. How much actual ice is out there and you’re like, and usually when that happens, it leads to a high danger scoring chance. And that’s the risk that Carolina always takes. That’s, you know, I call it the the the Carolina gamble. If it works, it’s really successful and horrible to play against. But if you make a mistake, and that’s why they need smart smart hockey players there. If you make a mistake, it is almost an automatic high danger scoring chance because there is so much ice available to you when you play man-to-man. Fascinating team to watch. Liz Patterson would sure fit that system, huh, Jeff? Now, I was wondering I was so wondering if you were going to go there because I could I can see that 100% too, Maddie. And listen, I don’t think it’s exactly a secret a couple of years ago. That was one of the teams that was interested in in Person. So, yes, as I’m describing this, every all the Vancouver Conucks fans go like bobbleheading this one and go like, “Now take the next step, Merrick. Now take the next step.” Exactly. Connect the dots, Jeff. Canucks Canucks were held to 14 shots in Carolina last year. Remember that was the night they got snowed in in Raleigh and had to fly to Toronto and then they shut out the Maple Leafs. Uh I want to sell a little bit of hope here for the weekend and you’re a part of this here, Jeeoff. Um because they’re going to be in tough in Carolina. We’ll see what happens there. They get Tampa on Sunday and earlier in the week it was just one of those innocuous little transaction tweets that comes out and I saw you jump on the fact that Tampa had recalled a couple of big boys uh earlier in the week. They’ve got some injury issues, but the Conucks get Tampa on Sunday after Tampa is in Florida on Saturday afternoon and we think back to the preeason and blood baths and the rivalry is alive. The I don’t remember that. They’re probably not going to remember that at all. Probably not going to see Vasileles cuz I would imagine he’ll play against the Panthers. So, there’s a break there. But also, uh, will Tampa survive its visit to Sunrise on Saturday to play on Sunday? Who’s going to be left? Who’s going to be We all remember that preseason game where there was like, you know, a couple of player I I thought like, you know, the mascot was going to get a shift or something like one of the ticket holders was get out there on the on the power play. Um, first of all, the sobering point of the the call-ups too where I was like to your point, Jeeoff, like the Tampa Bay Lightning are going through an injury crisis. I know. Nobody, no Vancouver Conucks fan wants to hear that because it’s like, “Oh, really? Team’s going through and they got a wagon full of injured players. Hey, really? I wonder what that feels like.” Uh, but Tampa is going through it right now. So, that is that is part of it. But make no mistake about it. Scott Saburn was getting called up for the Florida game and we all know it. Like there there’s there’s no the suspension has been served. They were very strategic about how they did it. the suspension has been served and there was no way that Scott Sabberin wasn’t getting called up for that game on on on Friday. So, as much as it was like a lot of Tampa fans like, “No, no, no, dummy. Pay attention. They got a lot of injuries. Boy, are you dumb, knucklehead, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You got scabs on your knuckles. Did you walk over here, Merrick?” Haha. Like, we all know why they got they called up Scott Surn. And he scored against the Rangers. Yeah. Just uh a word to Paul Maurice and John Cooper. the phrase pay the price legally dicey. We’ve learned that here 20 years ago. Be careful what you say to them. The and the NHL always calls the teams beforehand to remind them that the eyeballs are on them. But I always hearken back to I think it was uh was it Khan Smite who used to say, “We’re going to have to do something about all this fighting in the NHL. We’re going to have to make bigger buildings.” Yeah. I want to ask you this because uh for the last week you’re we missed you last week. He was with us 2012 at a uh flyway tournament. Oh, driveaway tournament. You 14. Um there’s been a lot of rebuild talk here. And to be fair, there’s been rebuild talk in this market for 12 years, but it it whipped up again over the last week with some Canucks losses and Bard coming in here looking great and all that. Is there another team around the league that refuses to rebuild and has this conversation around the club in market by the fans? Is it Boston or just Boston is able to retool successfully? So the conversation never gets to why won’t this team rebuild? Like what is what is preventing them? Why don’t they learn? Why don’t they take right right now that conversation is revolving around Nashville right now. You know, this is this is a couple years of of the Nashville Predators. I mean, Barry Trouts had the great line in the preseason. You know, like uh you know, everyone predicted us to win the Stanley Cup last year. You know, we proved them wrong and we’re going to prove them wrong again this year because they’ve they’ve written us off. And it has not gone swimmingly and everyone’s having the conversations about Stamos and you know, where could Stamos end up and like make no mistake about it, you know, Vancouver is part of that conversation as is Montreal, as are you know, a number of teams. Uh, I don’t know about full freight, but I mean I think that they’re they’re at least in the in the conversation there. Uh, we’ve wondered about Jonathan Marshes. So, I’ve wondered about Jussi Sorrowos with a team like the Edmonton as much like, you know, I’ve wondered about it. I’ve wondered about a player like like Philip Forsber essentially. And I’ve I’ve been trying to make the the point in the past couple of weeks here with Nashville that I think it’s reasonable to expect a player, no, sorry, it’s reasonable to ask a player, let me frame it this way, it’s reasonable to ask a player to go through one rebuild, but considering how short careers are, you can’t ask them to do it twice. You can’t. And that’s why, you know, one of the players that I’d be wondering about with Nashville as this thing continues to spiral. I I I wonder about Philip Forsber through through all of this one here. Um, so that I think that’s that’s a team that right now is having that conversation. Um, listen, just when we thought Boston was going to bottom out and this was this was going to be it and it was going to be the great selloff, you know, they rattle off seven wins, you know, and all of a sudden it’s, you know, geeky mania all over all over the NHL. as we all expected. I know. As we all expected. So, I I think as as long as Boston does show some signs life and just as an aside to I’m really happy for Marco Sturm through all of this, too. Um that could have been a really tough situation and it still might end up being I mean, we’re still early here. Um could have been a really tough situation to watch to walk in with with all the losses piling up. And I’m I’m happy for that that person and that coach that things at least right now are working out for the Boston Bruins. No, I think the main one right now, Matty, a long-winded answer, are the Nashville predators, but make no mistake about it. Like Vancouver, yeah, has always, as you guys well know, resisted the uh the scorched earth, you know, take it down to the nuts and bolts kind of rebuild. Yeah. It hasn’t been a 12-year storyline in Nashville. Just quickly, quickly on the Predators. Hey, Jeff, what what did the poor pe what did the poor people of Sweden do to deserve a visit from the national predators this weekend? It wasn’t supposed to be like this. That’s what I’m That’s what I’m That’s what I’m saying here. Like I It was a lot They do get Sid. Pittsburgh is they’re I know they they they get Sid and and and they get Foresberg. Like I get it. I I I I I understand it. You know, one of the things actually you guys don’t know this, it would have been Shane O’Brien in that global series or whatever it was called then in Prague when the Rangers were playing Tampa. I think O’Brien was scratched for the second of the of the two games set and they left for Prague and when they landed back in Tampa, there was a plane waiting to take O’Brien to Vancouver. The speculation I think he might have been traded on the flight or maybe traded overseas and this would have been I want to say 2008 2007 Shane O’Brien. It was later than 07, but uh let me find it here. Uh yeah, 089 season. Early early in the 089. He played one game for Tampa that year and then was Yeah. And it was and it was in and it was in Prague and then they got traded. Many wonder if they was traded, you know, before they got on the flight before the game where he was scratched or maybe it was, you know, as soon as they landed, they consummated. I’m I’m not sure. But but honestly, I think a lot of us will be wondering, and they’ll be having that conversation, make no mistake about it, in Sweden, you know, when we get off the flight back home, are we all going to the same place? Yeah, that’s that’s what I that’s what I would think. But you know what, for for hang on, but as an aside quickly, the best thing for Nashville right now is to get out of town. Like the best thing for the pres is like get like if you’re um if you’re a team that has a bunch of new players on the squad, like if you’re I remember talking to someone in Philadelphia one year, go a few years ago and there’s a bunch of bunch of new players on the team and their schedule had like them playing on the road 10 of 12 games. I was talking to someone there. I’m like, “Oh man, your schedule is brutal.” And he said to me, “No, no, this is what you want. If you have a bunch of new players on your hockey team, you want to get on the road right away to get these guys together. You don’t want like you’re playing 12 of your first 15 at home because they never see each other, never hang out with each other, never go to dinner with each other. If you have a team that has a bunch of players that aren’t used to each other, don’t know each other, get them on the road as fast as you can. And right now, this team is going through hell in Nashville, get them on the road and get them together. Maybe the best thing for Nashville right now. I remember the Flyers a couple years ago were part of that global series. I can’t remember which city it was, doesn’t matter. They then were here in Vancouver like a week later. Like it was just one of the craziest. We always talk about travel and the West Coast. The Flyers started in Europe and a week later we’re here in Vancouver. We’re like 12 time zones away. Yeah. Enjoy that body. All of this dovetales beautifully into uh our Easter egg with Jeff Mer. My new lifeline with JPA. My new lifeline. You you have JPAD here to assist you. Uh unless he knows the answer, unless he saw it this week, he doesn’t even know the question. I keep this under wraps. Not even Mike knows the question. Yeah. Okay. Uh as you mentioned, Global Series in Sweden this uh this week, Penguins and Predators from Stockholm. We have a illustrious history of Swedish players in this market. And uh I came across this this week in a I gotta say I I would not have gotten it. So I thought maybe Jeff Merrick will get this. Oh jeez. Okay. Who has the highest scoring season by a Swedish player in the National Hockey League? J Pat, do you know? Uh I’m formulating I’ve got a couple of answers rattling around my head. There have been Hang on. Let me Yeah, go ahead. Can I can I can I can can I try to jump on this quick before we get any teasers or or clues? Yep, please. Is it Kent Nelson? Very good. Jeff Merrick, it is he’s one of my favorite players and all always has been and it’s not and one of the most underrated all time. Close. Really? Kent was like 150 points or something. No, it 131 136 131 131 in 198081 for the Calgary Flames. Believe it or not, I was a four or fiveyear-old. My family had just moved from Montreal to Calgary and Kent Nielsen was my he was our Gretzky in southern Alberta. Yeah. Uh 131. It is 15 better than Peter Forsber’s best season of 116, which is second place amongst Swedish players. Yeah. There. So, I’m gonna I’m going to give your I’m going to give your audience some homework here. So, you know the move, the postage stamp move, the move we call the Forsber every time we see it. But like everybody now, open up a browser and go to YouTube and type in Kent Nielson John Van Beesburg 1989 World Championships. I remember asking Peter Forsber about it. I’m like, did you get it from that? because he he pulls what we now call the Forsber on John Van Beesbrook and it’s a it’s a gorgeous goal and it’s the Forsber move and it’s before sorry Corey it’s before the Hirs Posted stamp and that became super popular and we still see it in the NHL right now. That’s Kent Nelson’s move and we saw it for the first time at the 89 World Championships against John Van Beesburg and everybody went what was that? And it’s full speed, right? It’s not on a it’s not on a penalty shot. It’s not on a shoot out of it’s it’s full speed. It’s five on five play and it’s I mean it’s it’s beautiful. And Forsber’s like, “Yeah, I got it from that from that moment watching Sweden against USA. There’s your homework, everybody. Go watch the the originator of the uh the Forsber, Kent Nielson, the man.” And the other crazy thing, Nielson and Forsber are the only Swedes with multiple 100 point seasons in the NHL. Believe it or not, Mayday, Hank, the way you had framed the question, part of me was thinking Sundine. Um, huh, Patterson, Carlson, Backstrom, uh, Matt Snazzland, and Marcus Nasland, Hawken Lube. That’s where I I the way you frame the question. Part of me like I knew he had a big season. I had to look 106 points for Hawk and Lube. So, not in the running here, but originally sixth amongst Swedes. It is sixth. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Uh Neielson Foresburg 116, Sundine 114, Hank 112, Matt Snazzland 110 with the Canadians in their cup year of 8586. I was astonished looking at this list. Like I I would have gotten this list so wrong at the top and through the top 10 to 14 seasons all time uh from Swedish Swedish coach. Here you go. Arcane Arcane Easter egg for you guys. So, Ricard Gronberg is a legendary coach who’s who’s who’s now who’s now returned and probably by now he should have had a job in the NHL. There were reports that he actually interviewed with the Pittsburgh Penguins in in the summer. I was never able to confirm that. I had been told that by by a couple of different people and anyhow, I ended up going to Dan Muse. Um, he had interviewed previously with with a couple of different teams as as as an assistant. But speaking of Matt Snazzlin, here’s here’s one for your hip pocket. So he had a very unique looking visor. If you go to your Google images, you can have a look at Matt Snazzlin’s visor. His father, who was um a designer of a lot of various pieces of of hockey equipment, used to make Matt Snazzlin’s visors. They were all personally made by Ricard Grberg’s dad. And as a kid, Ricard Grberg’s job was to put visors on Matt Snazzlin’s helmets. That was his job. That’s what I got for you. Yeah, good. That’s what I got for you today, boys. Uh, it’s funny because as a kid, uh, going to games at the forum, Matt Nasland was like the be all end all. They love they loved it when Lafleur touched the puck. There was always the chance of Ghee, but he was not in his heyday then and Nassand was the driver because it was so much fun to say his name. Matt Snazz when he scored on Yeah. the PA, the famous PA there. You have a marvelous week. Thanks, Jeff. Thanks, Jeeoff. Thanks, boys. Be good.

Jeff Marek of ‘the Sheet’ joins the show for a look at the Canucks injury situation and if anything can be done about it. They also bring up the ‘R-word’ and if the Aquilinis would ever allow management to rebuild this team.

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