00:00We had a fantastic game last night in the Stanley Cup final game number two,
00:03which we'll get to in just a few moments.
00:05But in the offseason, which it is for just about every team
00:08other than the two teams playing in the Stanley Cup final,
00:10you're making changes to front office as well as your head coaching staff here.
00:15Let's hear from the Maple Leafs. Let's go.
00:18We got to chat a little bit earlier about this,
00:20but if you look back to your playing years with this team
00:23and then, of course, all your years of coaching,
00:25what does it mean to take this next step with this organization specifically?
00:30Well, for me, it's an extremely special one.
00:34Vancouver and this organization have a very special place in my heart.
00:38All my kids were born on the West Coast.
00:41As a player being part of some very special years here,
00:47playing alongside some incredibly special players,
00:50some Hall of Fame players.
00:53There's that element to it.
00:55There is the element of knowing how passionate the fans are here
01:00about their Canucks
01:02and knowing that it matters here.
01:05Hockey matters to these people
01:07and they want to see a product
01:10that is deserving of their approval
01:14and their fanship.
01:18And lastly, and most importantly,
01:20or I shouldn't say most importantly,
01:22but a major factor in it is the fact
01:25that I have an opportunity to come back here
01:26and work with such great people.
01:29Henrik, Daniel, RJ,
01:31the fact that we are so aligned in the way we see things
01:36from an on-ice product
01:37to the off-ice daily messaging
01:41to the way people should be treated.
01:44We're very much in sync with that.
01:46So it's a great opportunity
01:49for those and a whole host of other reasons
01:52to be back in this organization.
01:55Now, Holter, Joe, in Vancouver, not Toronto.
01:58We're going to get to a Toronto story
01:59in just a few moments.
02:00But there you go, Joe.
02:01New coach, trying to light the lamp,
02:03get the boys fired up out there in BC.
02:06Yeah, listen, I mean, it's a great,
02:08I mean, great hockey town, Donnie.
02:10And it's just, you know, they used to have,
02:13they were expected to win,
02:15it feels like, a million years ago.
02:17But the organization,
02:19much like the Maple Leafs, Donnie,
02:21have fallen on, shall we say,
02:23consistently bad times and underperforming.
02:26So some new blood,
02:28and hopefully that means, you know,
02:29new outlook here for the Vancouver Canucks
02:32moving forward.
02:33I've never seen this before in print, Joe.
02:35You ready for this one?
02:36Maple Leafs general manager, John Chayka,
02:39made the trip to Whitehorse,
02:42YK, to visit top prospect Gavin McKenna.
02:45Now, as you say, it says in UConn.
02:47I've never seen, like, by the way, Joe,
02:49like, geography, United States, everything.
02:53Where is the UConn at exactly?
02:55I've never seen, Whitehorse, YK.
02:57I had no idea what that even meant.
03:00I'm willing to bet, Donnie,
03:02it's someplace cold.
03:04Let me research this.
03:04I'm just thinking there's someplace,
03:06probably not a lot of sunshine in YK, I'm thinking.
03:11Maybe a lot of frozen ponds and hockey, I'm thinking.
03:15All right, so the UConn, Joe,
03:17we're giving people geography lessons here.
03:19This is what they, you get everything.
03:20You get spreads, you get winners,
03:21you get UConn, and where is it at?
03:24It's actually just to the east of Alaska, Joe.
03:28And yes, the territory, like, yeah, B.C.,
03:30obviously Ontario, Quebec, the UConn.
03:33I've never, I'm telling you, Joe,
03:35learn something new every day.
03:36I never saw it listed as YK,
03:38but the UConn is right up against Alaska.
03:40How about that?
03:42Yeah, again, cold, not a lot of side.
03:45I would imagine the beaches aren't plentiful there
03:49in the UConn.
03:50And I thought it was a potato, too,
03:51but maybe I'm mistaken there.
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