The Vancouver Media Thread | Part VI

[Petey But Really Jim]

Chris Faber had a hit on Halford and Brough this morning. Probably THE most positive guy around and even he sounded beat down by this team. Worth a listen.

brough nearly made me cream my trousers today

hour one of halford and brough was f***ing awesome

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[Brookbank]

Remember Lee Powell ? He is on Twitter , gracing us with his erudite offerings. https://twitter.com/leepowellST

"Buffalo rebuild was being drooled over here not long ago....well they've slipped back to 7-9...just a point up on the Canucks. That's ok, we'll just ignore that and move on to fall in love with another one. That's how it works. If it doesn't fit, then you just omit.

 

[rypper]

Remember Lee Powell ? He is on Twitter , gracing us with his erudite offerings. https://twitter.com/leepowellST

Whatever you do, don't interact with him. You'll go to bed and wake up with 30+ replies from him rambling on about what should have been a passing subject.

 

[Vector]

As I’ve been digging around and listening to some stuff, it really hits home that Rick Dhaliwal is not a deep thinker.

 

[racerjoe]

As I’ve been digging around and listening to some stuff, it really hits home that Rick Dhaliwal is not a deep thinker.

Hearing things he says I always remind myself he gets all his info from Agents and a lot of the time it could be slanted that way.

For instance, and I am not saying this is what happened but the Myers didn't "reject" a trade to the sens. Well this could be true, and false. They could be on his 10 team list and he didn't have to reject the trade. That way to people it doesn't sound like myers was the bad guy.

Again not saying this is what happened just you always need to think this way with Ricks info.

 

[Vector]

Hearing things he says I always remind myself he gets all his info from Agents and a lot of the time it could be slanted that way.

For instance, and I am not saying this is what happened but the Myers didn't "reject" a trade to the sens. Well this could be true, and false. They could be on his 10 team list and he didn't have to reject the trade. That way to people it doesn't sound like myers was the bad guy.

Again not saying this is what happened just you always need to think this way with Ricks info.

It’s not that part it’s when he presents his own opinion or completely blindly regurgitates something he’s heard from the Canucks. Drance was on their show today and there were two different instances where Dhaliwal said something and I thought he was just plain dumb.

1) Burroughs was brought up and he shouted that Stillman’s in the lineup because he was acquired by management. This only makes sense if you ignore all the other lineup decisions that are contrary to what management has asked for. Dhaliwal also doesn’t think much of Burroughs.

2) He confidently said the Canucks wouldn’t be making any trades until beginning of February. Over two months from now. He stated this to Drance as a solid fact and Drance was a little taken aback. It made no sense.

Just a little bit of critical thinking on both of these would push back on both of these. He just regurgitates and anything resembling his own thoughts are simplistic. Somehow Don Taylor is the deeper thinker of the two and that just shouldn’t happen.

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

It’s not that part it’s when he presents his own opinion or completely blindly regurgitates something he’s heard from the Canucks. Drance was on their show today and there were two different instances where Dhaliwal said something and I thought he was just plain dumb.

1) Burroughs was brought up and he shouted that Stillman’s in the lineup because he was acquired by management. This only makes sense if you ignore all the other lineup decisions that are contrary to what management has asked for. Dhaliwal also doesn’t think much of Burroughs.

2) He confidently said the Canucks wouldn’t be making any trades until beginning of February. Over two months from now. He stated this to Drance as a solid fact and Drance was a little taken aback. It made no sense.

Just a little bit of critical thinking on both of these would push back on both of these. He just regurgitates and anything resembling his own thoughts are simplistic. Somehow Don Taylor is the deeper thinker of the two and that just shouldn’t happen.

yeah but something something crown and cokes something vegas on air drunk something something good old boy from the good old days something something support local something something

 

[Vector]

Here’s Dhaliwal reiterating what he was told without giving it any thought.

 

[MS]

It’s not that part it’s when he presents his own opinion or completely blindly regurgitates something he’s heard from the Canucks. Drance was on their show today and there were two different instances where Dhaliwal said something and I thought he was just plain dumb.

1) Burroughs was brought up and he shouted that Stillman’s in the lineup because he was acquired by management. This only makes sense if you ignore all the other lineup decisions that are contrary to what management has asked for. Dhaliwal also doesn’t think much of Burroughs.

2) He confidently said the Canucks wouldn’t be making any trades until beginning of February. Over two months from now. He stated this to Drance as a solid fact and Drance was a little taken aback. It made no sense.

Just a little bit of critical thinking on both of these would push back on both of these. He just regurgitates and anything resembling his own thoughts are simplistic. Somehow Don Taylor is the deeper thinker of the two and that just shouldn’t happen.

Dhaliwal is useful as a mouthpiece for agents. Manages to break quite a bit of stuff that way.

As an actual sports mind … there isn’t much there.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Here’s Dhaliwal reiterating what he was told without giving it any thought.

Moving deadlines? Yeah, he's not getting traded.

 

[Vector]

Moving deadlines? Yeah, he's not getting traded.

That’s the thing nothing has moved. It only takes a few seconds of thought to realize that of course the team would rather have a deal worked out by then but that doesn’t mean nothing can happen before.

 

[Hansen]

That’s the thing nothing has moved. It only takes a few seconds of thought to realize that of course the team would rather have a deal worked out by then but that doesn’t mean nothing can happen before.

It was said that end of december was an internal deadline before

 

[Vector]

It was said that end of december was an internal deadline before

By who? Because no one in the media knows shit about this management’s plans.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

By who? Because no one in the media knows shit about this management’s plans.

I would like to be pleasantly surprised by something Canucks-related.

 

[Vector]

I would like to be pleasantly surprised by something Canucks-related.

Bear's looked nice and has a cool name!

 

[Kevinsane]

I remember Dhaliwal’s first couple of years in Vancouver radio. Talking loudly and excitedly, like the score of a game that just ended was info only he had access to.
He’s harmless enough as a side piece to Taylor’s retirement gig, but an insider? Not even close.

 

[m9]

Dhaliwal's knowledge about how contracts/trades work is shockingly low for someone with his job. The easiest example I give is when the Canucks/EP were talking contract and he said one of the options both sides were talking about was a deal that would walk him right up to UFA. Drance had to remind him how the Canucks would never do that, and even still Dhaliwal pushed back that it was a legit option. He just gets the information and has no idea what to do with it.

But at least he gets the information, so he's still in the upper-half of local media.

 

[hookshott]

Boy do I miss 1040! Three 4 hours shows each day that actually discussed things other than the Canucks. Sure, I am interested in the Canucks but can only take hearing so many times how badly we need right shot defencemen! Halford and Brough is the only show that talks about other sports...and they were on for 4 hours on 1040. Now we are subjected to Toronto voices including a Raptors hour (I know this is another sport....but again, from Toronto). Would much rather have a periodic interview on one of the other shows about the Raptors....but that can only happen on Halford & Brough now....whereas Sekeres & Price and even Donny & the Moj, would branch out into other sports. Very sad sports talk radio!

 

[Aphid Attraction]

Dhaliwal's knowledge about how contracts/trades work is shockingly low for someone with his job. The easiest example I give is when the Canucks/EP were talking contract and he said one of the options both sides were talking about was a deal that would walk him right up to UFA. Drance had to remind him how the Canucks would never do that, and even still Dhaliwal pushed back that it was a legit option. He just gets the information and has no idea what to do with it.

But at least he gets the information, so he's still in the upper-half of local media.

Just think of him as a news reader, reading off a teleprompter… but his teleprompter is a text from players management.

 

[TruGr1t]

I remember Dhaliwal’s first couple of years in Vancouver radio. Talking loudly and excitedly, like the score of a game that just ended was info only he had access to.
He’s harmless enough as a side piece to Taylor’s retirement gig, but an insider? Not even close.

I mean he’s blatantly fed talking points by agents, and probably the players themselves. Guess it depends on your definition of an insider, but I always thought the only reason he had a job even back to the 1140 days was he had an in with agents for some reason.

 

[Kevinsane]

I mean he’s blatantly fed talking points by agents, and probably the players themselves. Guess it depends on your definition of an insider, but I always thought the only reason he had a job even back to the 1140 days was he had an in with agents for some reason.

Fair enough. I always thought of as an insider as someone with some access to the inner workings of a team, not just someone who read a note passed to him by someone else.
I don’t dislike Dhaliwal, I just find him more the puppet than the ventriloquist, if that makes sense.
It won’t though, as it’s late and I’ve had four margaritas. Lol

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

Fair enough. I always thought of as an insider as someone with some access to the inner workings of a team, not just someone who read a note passed to him by someone else.
I don’t dislike Dhaliwal, I just find him more the puppet than the ventriloquist, if that makes sense.
It won’t though, as it’s late and I’ve had four margaritas. Lol

dun worry dogg, you coherent and shit

 

[Green Blank Stare]

I wish Botch was still alive so he could come up with a derogatory name for Myers. I remember him referring to Guddy as "-27" before he got traded to Pittsburgh. Still makes me laugh thinking about it.

 

[Green Blank Stare]

Can anybody give me a tl;dr for this? I don't have The Athletic.

 

[Nucker101]

Can anybody give me a tl;dr for this? I don't have The Athletic.

TLDR: He'll have decent trade value as an expiring contract next year