Halford & Brough in the Morning - Moj Talks BC Lions + What We Learned

Episode Date: July 12, 2024

In hour three, Mike & guest host Josh Elliott-Wolfe preview tomorrow's BC Lions home game versus the Riders w/ Leos radio PxP man The Moj (3:00), they boys tell us what they learned (13:00), plus it's Ask Us Anything Friday! (27:00) This podcast is produced by Andy Cole and Greg Balloch. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate.

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Yes, it's the Moch. Halpert's fine, but, you know, Brough is just grumpy all the time. 801 on a Friday. Happy Friday, everybody. Halford Brough, Sportsnet 650. Josh Elliott-Wolf in for the vacationing Jason Brough, who both lost and found his wallet in Italy in the span of an hour. Well done, Brough. What a relief that must have been.

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Bob the Moj Marjanovic joins us now on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. What up, Moj? Okay, you know how last week we were talking about your intro and saying featuring Jamie Dodd? Yes. Featuring Josh Elliott Wolfe. Doesn't he sound like an Oscar winner already? He does.

Sure. Hyphenated names are very hot right now. I'm telling you, right there. Yep. Noted Oscar winner. Thank you. I called him Josh Elliott Wolf this morning because I was slurring my words. But not as Oscar winner-y.

How's it going, Moj? How was the Hammer? Oh, Hammer was fine. Love Hamilton. Like I said, it's one of those cities that I think probably gets a bad rap. It's very blue color and just a lot of fun. I've never had a bad time in the Hammer. I love the Hammer. You tell him, Moj.

I'll tell you who had a good time in the Hammer was Vernon Adams Jr. That was a hell of a first half he put out there. Yeah, I think what it was at 321 yards. It looked like he was going against the offense. It looked like they were going against there for the most part. But yeah, they played a very good game. just came out and you know did what they had to do in the first half and Hamilton put up some passing yards in the second half I think Bo Levi threw for over 300 as well but I mean when you look at the the the numbers kind of like you break

them down James Butler was the leading receiver he had 108 yards I think and 65 of those were after the catch I mean they were just hitting, you know, stuff that the Lions were giving them for the most part in the second half, like stuff on the flats and underneath. So I don't know how concerned I'd be about that. Clearly something they want to clean up, but I wouldn't be too worried about it. Because, I mean, you look at it statistically in the record

and everything else, like it's not just that Vernon Adams is the best quarterback in the CFL right now. There's a pretty decent gap between him and number two. I would say curious to get your thoughts on that. Are you talking about Fajardo and Vernon Adams Jr? Anyone really? I mean,

who would be the second best quarterback in the CFL right now? I guess it would be Fajardo. Yeah. And you know, the thing is too, as I kind of broke this down the other day, I was looking at yards after catch and I watched most of Montreal's games um the percentages of yards after catch heading into this weekend 50 percent of Cody Fajardo's passing total was yards after catch for Vernon Adams Jr.

that number is down to 32 so in other words it just kind of tells you that you know Vernon is throwing the ball a little deeper and obviously not getting into many yak yards as say cody fajardo who hits a lot of stuff underneath with tyson philpott you know it's like a five yard screen and tyson takes the ball and runs for 10 or 15 yards so um yeah you know cody fajardo said a great year unfortunately got hurt last night with a hamstring um but i think vernon Jr. right now is your MOP in the CFL. So the run of Lions opponents that are winless is now over. They're going the other way this weekend.

A 4-0 Saskatchewan Rough Riders team, the only undefeated team left in the CFL. What sort of challenge do these riders present as they come into BC Place on Saturday? Well, they're very aggressive on defense. They've got 14 takeaways, which leads the CFL, so that's going to be a big, big key in tonight's game is ball security for the Lions. And then you look at giveaways.

Saskatchewan's only given away the ball four times in four games, so that tells me that one of the things they do on offense is take care of the football, so that's a plus 10 turnover ratio. That's the best in the league, right? And tonight, the Lions can ill afford to be minus 2 or minus 3 in the turnover department. They have to be at least even or maybe even on the positive side if they want to win this football game.

Familiar face on the Saskatchewan sideline. Local guy, Corey Mace. I know you wrote about him for Black Press. What do the folks need to know about the job that he's done getting this team off to 4-0 in Saskatchewan? Well, I mean, one of the things that impresses me about Corey Mace is just his background in the game because a lot of times, I mean, football coaches are probably,

defensive line coaches rarely become head coaches, but Corey Mace has, right? And one of the things that he did, he just always had this thirst for knowledge. When he was a D-line coach, he wanted to learn more about the defense. When he was a defensive line coach, he learned more about the entire defense. When he was running a defense as a coordinator, he wanted to learn more about the entire team. So he's a guy who's always had a thirst for knowledge,

and he's a guy who, when he came to Saskatchewan, and all really good coaches do this, whenever they arrive in a new environment or a new team, they'll go to the veterans and they'll say, hey, what is going right? What is going wrong? What do we need to change? And he took a lot of input from guys like Brett Lother

and Trevor Harris and such and others. And as a result, these guys now have an investment. And they feel like they're invested in the team. They have a say in the team. And what we've seen in Saskatchewan has been really amazing. I mean, he's taken a team that, you know, struggled last year and he's turned them into an undefeated team after four weeks. So very well respected, very well liked,

and a big bonus for the Saskatchewan Roughriders having him as their head coach. We're speaking to Bob the Moj Marjanovic here on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. Moj, of course, the play-by-play voice of the BC Lions. Lions host the Riders tomorrow. That's Saturday, 4 o'clock at BC Place. Hey, Moj, here's one for you.

Is Sean White ever going to miss a field goal? That's a great question. It's been a long time. It has. It's funny because he was on this streak, this heater, and he still is, what, 32 consecutive field goals. And he didn't really want anyone to talk about it until he passed Paul McCallum for the number one over,

or pardon me, the longest consecutive streak for the Lions. So now he doesn't really care anymore. He's just like, okay, if it happens, it happens. But, I mean, if you want to catch Lewis Ward, he's got a lot of work to do. What was Lewis Ward's 66 or 68 consecutive field goals? I mean, that's pretty impressive. So, you know, he's had a great run, and you're right. You know the big thing about having a kicker like that,

you know that if you get the ball in field goal range, it's three points. And for a team in the game of football, when you have a kicker that can do that, it's such a tremendous boost because the worst thing that can happen in a game is, you know, you're marching the ball and, you know, say you stall in the opposing territory and your kicker goes one for four. It just flattens your morale. That's one thing that Sean White does. He's just money.

Lewis Ward, noted Englishman, I might add. 69, nice, consecutive field goals. Are you on this big English kick now? We don't hear anything about England now. They're in the Euro finals and everything now is English related. Well, I wanted to turn the conversation to the footy. You had some spicy hot takes after the Columbia Uruguay match.

I'm on Twitter and I'm seeing Moj getting all upset. The fracas at the end of the match, go off Moj. What upset you so much? Here's the thing. I've never understood this and this has happened okay like never mind soccer soccer is probably the biggest culprit but we've seen stories where you know a Dodger fan goes to a game or pardon me a San Francisco Giants fan goes to a game at Dodger

Stadium and you know he's assaulted winds up in a coma I mean we've seen it countless times where fans you see it on Twitter all the time, fans getting into fights. It's like, why? It's a game, right? Prioritize things in your life. Don't make it so important that if you go to a game and somebody says something about your team, you want to like, you know, start fighting. I just don't understand it. I just, I really don't. I know a lot of it's alcohol fueled. And in this instance, with what happened with the players going into the stands, they don't have any issue with that.

They're going up there to defend their families. And by the way, the security there was just, I mean, it was a joke. But we've seen it at games too. I mean, we've seen it here in Vancouver. We've seen it in other places where families of players have been insulted or they've had stuff thrown at them or whatever. Why? I just don't get it. For the life of me,

show a little respect to one another. It's interesting because, like you said, a big catalyst for what happened at the end of the Columbia-Uruguay match was that there were kids and there were families involved. Bruff and and I have often talked about like going to live sporting events and how great it is and everything but we've often paused when it was with especially with the NFL and tailgating culture is that some guys like part of it is great part of it is people

having a good time and they're hanging out and there's a community and they're eating and they're drinking and they can behave themselves but then there's that unseemly part of it where it's guys just getting absolutely blotto for six hours prior to kickoff and then going in the stadium and just being belligerent about it. And you're like, why would you ever bring a kid around that? Because the behavior's too unpredictable, right?

Like that's what happened in this Columbia-Uruguay match is people were way too unpredictable and that's what led to, I mean, that with no security and that's what led to this being a very that with no security, and that's what led to this being a very dangerous situation for wives and kids and families. Yeah, and, you know, I just, and here's the other thing, too,

about alcohol. I mean, if it continues, are we going to see what we have in Britain? And I went to a game, I watched Tottenham Hotspur at home, and I'm sure you've seen this as well when you've gone over there you can't take your beers into the stand yeah exactly yeah you have a couple you know you might have one or two prior to the start of the match in the concourse area but once the match starts look look at me saying match once the game starts i love it i love it but once the match starts you can't take alcohol into the stands, right?

And it kind of really controls everything. So hopefully it doesn't get to that stage here. I mean, you'd like to have a beverage while you're watching a game. But, I mean, if it continues down this road, eventually that's where it'll probably wind up. We've got a pivot here. I wanted to ask you and ask us anything from Mike. He said he just got

some chocolate covered dried mango from costco so he is wondering what is the best snack to cover chocolate in oh wow well i'm starting to work out in an effort to lose weight and i'm also watching my diet so anything like with chocolate i don't even look at anymore i'm like that's the biggest thing like don't buy it and then you're not tempted to eat it at home. That's very good. But you know what I've been really high on, like in terms of a snack? Wasabi peas. Ah, yeah, my kid likes those.

Yeah, and they're semi-healthy, right? So that's one of the things that I'm kind of like, Costco snacks. I'll tell you what's really good at costco that i got the last time i was there were the mesquite flavored whatever they were barbecue legs and thighs or whatever or wings no they were wings pardon me those were good like that's the first time i had them they used to have like the they have these garlic chicken legs and thighs they got rid of those and they got into some korean-type stuff. And now I think the latest thing that they have is, like, these mesquite-flavored chicken wings, and they were good.

The problem is they're so – I mean, the package is so big. It lasted for, like, about five days, but very, very good. So mesquite chicken wings and wasabi peas, your key to a healthy diet from Bob the Moj Marjanovic. Hey, Moj, thanks for doing this today, bud. We really appreciate it. Have a good call tomorrow. We'll do this again next Friday.

Okay, guys, have a great weekend. Yeah, you too. Thanks. That's Bob the Moj Marjanovic, BC Lions play-by-play man here on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. Have we tried putting the wasabi peas in chocolate? I wonder about it.

Too much. There's a lot going on there Too much It's too much Wouldn't work for Moja's diet But for others it might It's time now to do Some What We Learns here

On the Halford & Brough show On Sportsnet 650 I know what's coming here And I'm kind of excited For a few of these We're going to begin With Laddie I don't know what's coming

With Laddie's What We Learned I just know that you had one And you kind of sounded Exc excited to share it with the group I'm very excited because I know you're going to be enthusiastic for this one Let's go There was a rare shutout in Da Beauty League last night What We Learned Skylar Vedder stopped 21 shots

My favorite goalie For the second shutout in Da Beauty League history She's a goaltender for the University of Minnesota, 21 years old, and a star in Da Beauty League. I know you just love your Da Beauty League updates, so I wanted to give you one. It's a goalie update. I hate you so much right now.

MooCow, Da Beauty League. They're going to keep pouring in these updates. Da Moody League. Okay, this is the one I've been waiting for, Josh Elliott-Wolf. Go ahead, Josh. Da-beauty league. They're going to keep pouring in these updates. Da-moody league. Okay. This is the one I've been waiting for. Josh Elliott Wolfe. Go ahead, Josh. So what we learned, what I learned recently was what raw dogging a flight is.

I'm sorry. What? Raw dogging a flight. Pause. There's a lot of ways you can go with this. Am I going to have this out of the podcast? No, it's very safe. It might be the most safe thing you can do on a? Am I going to have this out of the podcast? No, it's very safe. It might be the most safe thing

you can do on a flight, I guess. The safest raw dogging imaginable. Let me explain it. So what it is, is it's going on a flight without a bag, without headphones, without a laptop,

without an iPad, whatever it is. No reading material. No reading material. You're just flying. No water even. Right. No food, no snacks. When. You're just flying. No water even. Right. No food, no snacks.

When the snack cart comes by, you say no. And all it is is you're just sitting there, you're watching the little plane on the map go. Some planes don't even have that. Some planes don't even have that.

And you just sit there for the flight. You can go to the washroom. So you're not allowed to distract yourself in any way. It's just sitting straight, looking straight ahead. With your thoughts, looking straight ahead. Look out the window if you want. You can look out the window, sure.

If you've got a window seat. And what is the benefit of this? It's more of a challenge than a benefit. I think it's like you're more of a man if you can do it for like five hours. I've got to strike up a conversation? No, no conversation. I've done this on a flight before.

Yeah. It was a short flight. I think I went from Atlanta to Charlotte. I had to do some weird stopover in Charlotte. It was a short flight. So I was like, you know what? I'll use this opportunity to do work on the plane. The plane was not equipped with Wi-Fi.

And so I had nothing. I didn't download a show. And I was like, you know what? I'm just going to sit here for the duration of the flight. That was the longest 90 minutes of my life. Like, how bad can it be? No one truly understands how much people are uncomfortable in just being in. Because that is ultimate silence.

There's no escaping the plane. You can't go outside for a walk or to get some fresh air. You can't ask someone if you can watch what they're watching or listen to what they're listening to. Can I borrow a headphone? Yeah. Can you pass me one of your earbuds?

That gets you arrested. You can't do that. You can get up and go to the washroom, but you can only do it so many times on a 90-minute flight. And I even made the, like I was like, I'll wash my hands again.

One time I, yeah. My hands are raw. Time to wash. It was, but you know what? It was an interesting experience. It was very zen-like

by about minute 60 because you actually come to grips with the fact. Because you fell asleep. No, I was awake the entire time. I did a lot of thinking, created a little backstories

for other passengers on the plane nice right thinking about where they're going why are you stopping over in charlotte get really creative did you want to go to beau jangles is that why it's a very good restaurant anyway mook how all that there's a seinfeld episode involved yeah raw dogging a flight i'm not a huge seinfeld guys i don't really don't really know. I can never do it, to be clear. Like, even an hour and a half, I need something. Have you ever flown without any luggage or bags whatsoever? I've just brought a carry-on, but I didn't check a bag. That doesn't count.

No, I've never been, like, just myself. I haven't gone on short enough trips to have that happen. We went overnight when we were in Europe. We did one of those, 29 or 29 pound sorry euro whatever the ryanair where you just you fly 35 minutes stay the night and then go back uh one of the most liberating feelings on the planet just it was like being on a bus you just you're in a different you're on a bus but in 35 minutes you're in a totally different country and you i had nothing with me just me and my passport which i didn't lose this time. If there were to be flights where

everyone was like that, there'd be no wasting time stowing things. You just go. I'll get on like a bus and be ready to go. When you buy the ticket, are you like, okay, no, no, don't worry about it. I'm going to be raw dog in this flight and see what they say. I mean, no

protection. We're now boarding the raw dogging section of the plane. If you say that on a flight, TSA comes and tackles you right away. Just so we're clear. Don't say it. Don't say it. Moocow, that one.

A-Dog, you're up. Yeah, well, this is to expand on the watermelon bash that you were talking about for the BC Lions. Smash. Smash. Smash. Watermelon smash. Are you going to be bashing them too? Bash smash. There's nowhere to say bash on there. Bash sounds like a celebration of watermelon. That would be, yeah. Watermelon bash. What are you doing today?

I'm going to the watermelon bash. Everyone loves watermelons there. They'd show up to the watermelon smash. Watermelon enthusiasts, if you will. Can you quickly sing me a song to the tune of Monster Mash, the Watermelon Bash? It's a Watermelon Smash. So, yeah.

The thing that caught my attention of this, to this event that's happening tomorrow, is that there's also a mullet barbershop. Pardon? A mullet barbershop. At the Watermelon Bash? Yeah. So if you go, and I hope you do, you can get a mullet from a mullet barbershop. At the Watermelon Bash? Yeah. So if you go, and I hope you do, you can get a mullet from a mullet barbershop.

And I think it's free? Yeah. At Terry Fox Plaza, 1130 AM to 4 o'clock. People are lining up to pay for their mullets. That'll be $60, sir. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I read that.

I was like, what? Wait, wait. Slow down. How is this not the top of the thing? Like the mullet barbershop? Should be a mullet bash. I just got my haircut. I know.

I'm very excited about this. So yeah, anyways, if you go for the watermelon smash tomorrow at Cherry Fox Plaza, you could get a mullet. Don't you have to have long hair going in? Well, yeah, there's prerequisites. No, but you could. Extensions in. No, you could just cut. Yeah, that would be funny, though, there's prerequisites. No, but you could show up. Extensions in. No, you could just.

Yeah, that would be funny, though. You could. No, you can make any hair business in the front party. You got to have some length. You got to have. Yeah, I think you could actually because I've kind of seen the hybrid one where they just shave the shape of what a mullet would look like. Right.

They just bring the rest of your hair incredibly short. That's what we call a weak mullet. A wallet. There's no flow in the back. Then it's not a true mullet. A mullet? There's no flow in the back. Then it's not a true mullet. Yeah, you got to have some flow. Okay. Yeah.

Moo Cow. Okay. So just to reset here, if you want to win the $100 gift card to AJ's, we have not chosen a winner yet. Get your ask us anythings in hashtag at AUA. Dunbar Lumber Tax Line is 650-650. Friendly reminder, AJ's Pizza on East Broadway,

home of the traditional New York or the Detroit Ronnie, as A-Dog likes to call it. I was getting a mullet cut late one night. He's been workshopping. I'll stop now. You did that mid-read. You moron. It was so exciting.

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We still got a little bit of time before break here, so we should get back to the original inspiration for what we've been doing all

week, and that was Canucks related Ask Us Anythings, barroom debates, hypotheticals, what ifs alternate realities all that stuff that you guys love to do in the very slow weeks in the summer uh so we've gone through

um naming a Canucks roster on the premise of every different positional player needs to come from a different country and that's where Josh went down the road of uh that was a tough road to go down we're doing it again because we have two minutes left until break. You picked Elias Pettersson over Henrik Sedin in the Swedish entry at center. Even though you absolute madman even though Sedin was eligible for selection, you made the conscious

effort to pick Elias Pettersson and your reasoning was he is a better overall talent at his peak than Henrik Sedin was. So Josh said this. Got a lot of rap horns today. That's for sure. Yeah.

And. Just constantly playing while you're talking. Yeah. Yeah. And let me tell you, the Dunbar Lumber text message in basket was none too pleased. Can I? And I will say nobody has given me a good reason yet other

than like you're wrong. Well I did. What was the reason that the Sedins specifically Henrik in this instance played at a Hall of Fame caliber and I do not see the

trajectory of Elias Pedersen culminating with an entry into the hockey. There were legitimate criticisms. You're just choosing to overlook them.

One of the legitimate criticisms. The Sedins played in an era where there was less scoring, and you were just doing straight-up points versus points as your comparison. But no, I also think he's way better defensively, too. Okay, you didn't say that. And also, how could you say you don't know if Petey's going to be a Hall of Famer? He might be. Yeah, but anyone might be.

What I'm saying is the way that things are. Ryan Lomberg still has that Hall of Fame potential. He has the talent level of potential. You still have the potential to be in the Hall of Fame if you pull it together. I worked really, really hard. I would say there's a much, like Pedersen at this point in his career

has a much better Hall of Fame trajectory than Henrik or Daniel did at this point in their career. That's just because they were notorious. Their trajectory is done. It's the Hall of Fame. I don't think you understand what trajectory means. It's over have trajected are you sure yeah they're there they did it they reached max trajectory did the thing i mean the comparative age um that you're going with i understand it if the city still had a case left to be made but they don't it's done it's made

my concern there would be um, here's my concern, is that the best part of Pedersen's career might have been in the early stages than the later stages. If it is, then I'm wrong, but I don't think it is. Now, I will throw you, since it's the dogs doing the show, I'll throw you a bone here and say that talent-wise, Pedersen is incredibly elite. I could understand why you have him in the conversation,

but that's it. Is he better in the face-off slurple than Henrik is? He had to get one of those in on a Friday. Okay, we're up against it for time. We've got to go to break. When we come back, ask us anything. It's a $100 gift card to AJ's Pizza on East Broadway. You're listening to the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650.

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Kelowna, Ponyo. Hey, 31 on a Friday. Happy Friday, everybody. Alfred Groff, Sportsnet 650. Is this Teej again my goal song in Utah? He should lean in. He should be, yeah.

I don't know if they're going to have personalized goal songs in Utah. They're a bad enough team to do that. Possibly. I never liked the personalized goal songs.

Too much work for the... It felt like it was too much about what's on the back of the jersey. They could get them customized. It just goes, Teej again,

it's Teej again. Not every song back of the jersey. You get them customized. It just goes, it's Teague again. It's Teague again. Not every song needs to be personalized. Yes, it does. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down there, bud. This is the whole show. I would like to also point out, just to give you an idea of the level of dysfunction of this show, is that as we were trying to prep the final segment, like we're going to get organized,

we're going to line up a bunch of what we learned. We're going to pick the winner. The whole thing got derailed by a passionate conversation about the quality of Taco Bell's food. Yeah, well, you were like poo-pooing the idea of... Again, I don't even think you know what poo-poo means at this point. You were scoffing at the cheesy gordita crunch talk. I wasn't.

He knows what it means. You went on the most... It's very good food, and you're just like, ugh. Okay, but it's not. I don't know. Wow. You've never tried it. Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's not very good food. It is. Very good in what kind? It's not very good for you.

It's very good value. That doesn't matter. But it's also not very good Mexican food. It's fast food. It's fine. It's delicious. Anyway. Taco Bell all tastes the same. Then the conversation steered to why is it called Taco Bell? And Andy said... Because in Mexico,

the towns, when the tacos were ready, they'd ring the bell and villagers would come to eat the tacos. That is a thousand percent wrong. No, no, it's true. Don't look it up, though. No, it's not. Taco Bell was founded by a guy named Glenn Bell. And that was Taco Bell. No, no, no, it's the bell they ring.

Did you have this information in your backpack? No, I just... I'm like,'s the bell they ring. No, that's not right. Did you have this information in your backpack? No, I just... I'm like, it's definitely not Senor Bell over here. That's Alexander Graham's brother. Yeah, right. They invented the telephones and tacos. It was great. Greatest family in Canadian history.

Okay. Now that we've completely ruined several cultures and history, let's... It's your fault for disrespecting Taco Bell, one of the greatest establishments in the history of the world. We need more in Vancouver area. We do. We need more. They're an offshoot of Bell Media.

Did you know that? Not familiar with that company. Okay, let's take care of the business at hand. You are listening to the Halford & Brough Show, for some reason or another. Halford & Brough of the Morning is brought to you by Pacific Honda, North Vancouver's premier destination for Honda vehicle sales and service. They have a friendly, knowledgeable staff that can help with anything you're looking for.

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to AJ's. AJ's pizza on East Broadway, the best pizza place in the world. The winner is Harry from new Westminster. He writes, and we actually answered this one earlier. Ask us anything. If you could be any movie dad in history,

who would you be? So some of the ones that we threw out there, Andy went with Darth Vader, Josh, then I changed to Sean Connery in a last crusade. Right. Who would you be? So some of the ones that we threw out there, Andy went with Darth Vader. Josh went with- Then I changed to Sean Connery in Last Crusade. Right. And then you went with Mufasa. Yeah.

You know one that we didn't mention that I think we overlooked was Clark Griswold. Yeah, I thought about that. Yeah, he's good. A quintessential movie dad. Yeah, that's true. And we made it clear. I made it abundantly clear that it was movie dads only.

And then some guy texted in Al Bundy like five times. I don't know. You're talking about Al Bundy. He kept spelling wrong. He kept saying Al Bund over and over again. Like a Bund cake. Al Bund cake.

We also neglected George McFly, one of the texters from mine. Yeah, that was a good one. I thought about that one. I didn't say it. Okay. We also had a variety of messages coming in to an earlier ask about Canucks related. Again, Mount Rushmore's what ifs, bar room debates, et cetera, et cetera.

Now, this one is a little elaborate in theory and you have to follow us, but it actually sparks a good debate. So I can't remember who sent it in again. I forgot to write down the name. I do apologize. I have the name. Okay. If the Canucks could swap team history and future outlook with any other NHL team,

what team would you pick? That's Hassan from Burnaby, by the way. So Hassan. Columbus Blue Jackets. So I don't know why you picked that one right away, but it fits the criteria because Hassan said it has to be a team that doesn't have a Stanley Cup already. Because you would choose a team that had won, right?

You'd just be like, Montreal. Oh, look at the legacy we got. You'd be a front-running loser. You'd be like, who's got the most Stanley Cups? Whatever. So you have to then narrow this down to a very interesting group of teams that quite honestly aren't all that inspiring. The Buffalo Sabres, as we well know. Laddie's pick, without even me finishing the question, the Columbus Blue Jackets. interesting group of teams that quite honestly aren't all that inspiring the buffalo sabers as

we well know laddies pick without even me finishing the question the columbus blue jackets the minnesota wild the national predators the ottawa senators the san jose sharks the seattle kraken you can't choose the canucks and then the winnipeg jets so not really an inspiring list did you come up with one i was leaning san jose i think just because they've had you know like the lows have been very low last season was a low they're through the lows one of the worst teams i've ever seen in the last 20 years of the nhl was last year's san jose sharks but they did have a very sustained run of success okay and i think when you're looking at these teams most of them have not had that so that's's why I went San Jose.

Also, you get Macklin celebrating. Okay. That's a decent choice. I like that. And it's a good pick because when you think of a team like Buffalo and they're coming out of another rebuild, do you trust them to do something with it or would you trust a team like San Jose to do something with it?

And I think the Sharks are a much better choice. That was much better than your god-awful earlier takes. They've all been good. You know what? I would choose Nashville. Buying into the Stamco's hype, are you? And Jonathan Marsh is so. Recency bias?

You know what? Actually, having been in, I love Nashville as a city. One of my favorite American cities. But I actually really like what they've done as a hockey market. They've been. It's like a party town now. Right. They've really leaned into it. I was very skeptical that it would ever work.

It seemed like a real odd fit, but they've shown to be a good franchise, a stable franchise. God, they've had two general managers in nearly 30 years. And one of them was just their coach that was there forever. Yeah. And I actually really like what Barry Trotz has done since he's come aboard there. He's been stupidly aggressive. He's like, he GMs the way I want more GMs to GM.

Yeah, which is funny because as a coach, he was known for being like the most boring coach on the planet. It's like, how can we make this not fun? Effective, but not fun. Let me get all these exciting players that I wish I had during my coaching career that I never had. Maybe that was the thing. Maybe all along he always wanted to be this big,

flashy, bombastic coach, but he just worked with what he had. He had a budget. Now, the guy's gone crazy since he's come there. He's buying guys out left and right, firing coaches. He goes and gets Steve Stamkos in the offseason. They've been to a Stanley Cup, so it's a pretty decent history. It's a short

history. Good fan a short history. Good fan base, good crowd. Yeah, I actually would not mind that. That would probably be the one. I don't know if the upside is there, though, I guess is what I'm... They look pretty good to me right now. They look like a playoff team to me, but I don't know if they have that.

You don't think with the Stamkos and March or so, it puts them in a different stratosphere? No. Interesting. I think that he went out and he was like, man, these guys are good. I'm going to get them. And usually that helps,

but I think, I don't know if the ultimate fit is going to work out. I think this year, I don't know how they're going to look two or three years from now because I got a feeling that a guy like Marcia Soa might age incredibly quickly after leaving Vegas, like the Fountain of Youth at the Bellagio or whatever. But this year alone, like this season, I'm very, very intrigued by that team.

Because having seen them in the playoffs, the one thing I kept coming back to, I'm like, they don't have enough talent. They couldn't score. Yeah, they couldn't score. I mean, I walked away from that first round series being like, Saros is better than I thought he was. They just don't have the horses to get over the top.

Yeah, and I mean, they added Brady. But now they might. They got rid of McDonough and added Brady Shea. That might be a sort of like parallel. I don't know if they're a huge advantage. But looking at it from the context of the question and from a Canucks perspective, they're one of the few teams that have a goaltender

on par with Demko. Like how many of those teams on the list have that? I would just say if they had a weakness last year, it was they probably had too many Kiefer Sherwoods, who's gone now and is now a member of the Canucks, oddly enough. And they're adding 80 goals of offense to that team, basically, with Stamkos and Marcioso.

There's only one puck. I know. Their power play will be infinitely better. They'll have more depth on their forward lines. I honestly do think that they're going to be a really interesting team. The problem is that they play in the West. And, yeah, are they going to be better than, like, Colorado, Dallas, and then Edmonton, Vancouver?

Yeah, exactly. I don't know, but, I mean, I love that Trotz just went for it anyway. Yeah. You know? And he's like, you know what? I mean, how many opportunities are you going to get in free agency, which costs you nothing coming out the door other than money to get guys like stamkos and marcia so so they're pretty interesting to me okay um let's fire up the dot matrix

let's print out some humanized submissions for what we learned let's do our usual drop Oh my God! We're having a fire! Plan! Juan in Comox texted in three times before the start of the show with Ask Us Anythings. I love the hustle. Really well done. You were very close to winning the $100 gift card to AJ's. If only you woke up 20 minutes earlier, you would have had it. That was not the reason. You can sleep on it. Here's an interesting one if you could add an ex canucks coach to this coaching roster who would it be that's a fascinating one to me i think we're gonna go um since this is a mythical world that we're living in anyway, this alternate universe, living or not, past or present,

just any figure, right? We can open it up to that. Yeah. I feel like Roger Nielsen and Rick Tockett would get along. Yeah. I feel like their level of detail would mesh. You would have to have someone that would like mesh with the group, right? I feel like he would fit in just as the video.

A lot of people are probably screaming like Pat Quinn right now, but with Pat Quinn, right? I feel like he would fit in just as the video. Because I think a lot of people are probably screaming, like, Pat Quinn right now. But with Pat Quinn, it is like he's the... Alpha male. Loud, demonstrative, big, burly ex-player, head coach. And the Canucks already have one of those. It would almost have to be someone that would fit into the coaching staff. I think it's Nielsen. I think it might be Roger Nielsen.

I think that might be the right answer there. I think that's it. Because, like, Alain Vigneault was the only other one i kind of thought of but even then it's it's kind of the same thing where i don't know if it would fit well you know i know i know av is retired or he's coaches don't actually ever like officially retire i don't have to hand him papers and start collecting a pension they just say they're retired i do wonder if someone would give him another kick at the can and if he could be lured out of that retirement because there's not many guys in that, like the 10s era, right?

The 2010s era that had more success. And I know it didn't end great in Philadelphia, but I just wonder, like Claude Julien reemerged, right? He got the assistant coaching gig in St. Louis. Well, he had some health problems. I think he took some time off. Right, but he's going to be a head coach in st louis soon that's the most obvious thing on the planet like drew bannister has like maybe one more year at that i wonder if he'll ever

get another kick but uh bruce boudreaux we'll bring him in there probably not i don't know i don't know they should have just kept them you know just add on to this i would push back on that i think that if you're a team he would be the perfect short-term antidote guy he's a vibes guy he's a if you're if you had a team that was promising and got off to a like a rudderless start you just needed someone to change the vibes and have a bruce there it is bump i could see him being a two or three month like let's just make everyone get back on the same page and have a good time and like ride the momentum type higher i could see it honestly because what he did you can't

dismiss what he did for the connects that one year where he got everyone aligned and got the vibes i mean you can very much not you can't dismiss the other part of it either where they came back and looked awful but i do wonder if he'll get one more kick at it i know i know he wants to coach yeah one team i thought of last year that the more i thought about it the less i thought it worked was the leafs just because it's like man things aren't going well for you yeah and then but i'm like maybe maybe you guys need some structure he would have loved that yes bujro would have absolutely loved that i thought he would have been great for the kings if you want to just go a total 180 to what you're doing it went the opposite you guys he would have loved that yes Boudreaux would have absolutely loved that I thought he would have been great for the Kings if you want to just go a total 180

to what you're doing you have too much structure here's a guy that isn't going to put any of those confines on you you got any there yeah so I had to ask us anything from Kevin on the road would you rather get

free first plane first class, I assume, plane tickets for the rest of your life or never have to pay again for food? Oh, food. Easily. You have to eat food to live. You can't live off plane tickets. I mean, if you eat them, you can't live off them.

They probably feed you on the plane. Maybe a little snack. They don't have any nutritional value. You're in first class. You probably get some food. Hmm. I think. What do you mean, hmm? class. You probably get some food. Um, hmm. I think, I mean,

hmm. Well, you could pay for food. You could pay for plane tickets. You have some money. No, I know, but I'm trying to figure out the relative cost.

No, no, you're also broke in this. Yeah. You only get one. $0 is your name. I think that when you do like the cost analysis of it, I think food is ultimately.

Read it to me. Hold on. Read it to me again. Unless you're on a vacation every week. I want to fully dive into this. So, Kevin on the road, would you rather get free first class plane tickets for the rest of your life or never have to pay for food again?

See, I think we're going about this all wrong. I think that if you were to get free first class plane tickets, would you not fly incessantly? I mean, but you still have incessantly? I mean, but you still have to like pay for hotels and stuff. Sure. 100%.

But you could, I mean, if I had a first. Think how much money you'd save though if you don't have to buy food again in your life. I'd understand this. How much money you spend on food? How many first class tickets you can buy with that money?

You don't have to fly everywhere. But here's the thing. I could also fly somewhere today, first class, pay for the meal at the in like i don't know i go to hong kong pay for the meal and then fly back that's a lot of work just for food it is but the way that my life would be significantly altered sounds way more stressful yeah i don't know i'd probably do the food and then when you're on vacation you get free food you can go to the nicest restaurants you could yeah that's right you could get a free meal whilst away i got one i want to

read here yes go ahead relates to me as a like child version of me so this text in said my co-worker and i co-worker and i did this one yesterday it's a briar curling style hockey tournament based on province some provinces can be teamed up or divided. It was fun picking a starting lineup and a goalie for each. I used to do that. I used to get the hockey news yearbooks back when I was a kid. I was a really cool kid, by the way.

Uh-huh, clearly. And I would try to make like a Team Ontario, Team BC, just to see which province had the best team. There's some really cool like rosters you can come up with based off whatever time period you're doing this in. So I would love to see like a little tournament like that.

That'd be cool, wouldn't it? What would Team... Now I'm going to throw everyone on the spot. It'd be like a Team Maritimes. Yeah, but what would Team BC look like right now? For years, you had Carey Price as the starting goal, which isn't anymore. You'd probably have Bedard. Would you have Celebrini, too? You'd have to do some

deep cuts, especially some of the provinces that don't have a ton of players. I don't know. It's a really cool cool exercise i always thought it was fun i thought maybe one day there'd be a tournament where who's the best active bc born goalie martin jones tristan jari lauren boissois aiden hill that's it right oh aiden hill would have the starting he's he's up oh tristan jari or aiden hill those would be your two to your team bc i like pretty good goals i like the briar style idea yeah that's a pretty good goal, Sam. I like the Breyer style idea. Yeah.

That's a pretty good one. I thought it was a good question. I thought of it when I was a kid, obviously. So I don't know. So it'd be- The next lockout. Maybe it's an idea. You'd have Sam Reinhardt, Matthew Barzal.

Yep. Ryan Nugent Hopkins. Mm-hmm. Connor Bedard. Shea Theodore. We're strong up front. Kind of low on defense. I think it would be between BC and Ontario.

Devin Taves. Clearly. Yeah, that's a great pairing right there quebec would have a good team too though like it'd be interesting i mean the maritimes would get lumped together as well quebec never have defense though that's their struggle right they chris letang yeah they'll have how would the yukon do uh isn't dylan cousins from the yukon i think he is yes i have to double you have like an other, like a team North America. I don't think you could do that. I got an ask for Josh from Keith the Water Guy. Josh, would you rather have Teddy Bluger, Max Lapierre, or Henrik Sedin

on your team? Could you pick one? I mean, they're so close. I know, is there one clear-cut answer, or are you kind of... I mean, Lapierre was fun. Don't do this. it's Henrik you're making it worse for those just tuning in now uh Josh had a wonderful take earlier where uh he prefers the uh comedy stylings of Elias Pettersson to one Henrik Sedina okay yeah

I thought you were gonna over exaggerate yeah no that's true um here's an ask us anything and kudos to josh for bringing this up yesterday on 7-11 day after walking around the city yesterday consuming over 25 free slurpees what have you regrettably overindulged in just because it costs nothing the obvious obvious answer is an open bar right yeah i've never not overindulged in an open bar. Anytime something is free? Yeah. Oh, I got one. So they don't do it anymore ever since the pandemic,

but working, selling booze for a living. Booze. We used to get free industry tickets to Hopscotch, which was like a whiskey festival. I've been before, yeah. It's fun, yeah. And so I would get free tickets, and you don't have to pay for any drinks when you're there. So similar to the open bar idea. I've been before, yeah. time. It was a very, it was not an experience I would ever want to repeat again

to put it mildly. So the second time I went, I made sure to have a really heavy meal right before so I could sip all these incredibly expensive whiskeys and not completely destroy myself. The goal, yeah, the goal wasn't to enjoy it, it was to consume as much as humanly possible. Oh yeah, it was, I didn't understand what

I was getting myself into. You just raw dogged that whiskey. Oh God. Can that term please die? No, it's only getting stronger. Ask us anything. Not applicable to Halford as he's a seasoned ticket holder, but has all this soccer talk in the last few weeks

made any of you more inclined to go out and watch a Whitecaps game and experience the sport live? Let's take it out of the Whitecaps realm. Do you guys because i know the three of you are not soccer dudes or footy fans uh at the best of times but this has been two weeks of or maybe even longer of soccer inundation like it's been a lot more than i've ever ever thought would be possible in our little media circle here that's the other part of it that's the only thing happening right well that's the other part of it. This is the only thing happening right now.

Well, that's the other part. If there was anything competing with it, literally anything. I would say, my thing, I've had a long desire to get into soccer. Sure. The main holdup that's going to continue to be the main holdup is ease of watching when it's not an international tournament like this. Because there's a lot of debate, healthy online debate, the best kind of debate, healthy online, about national rights holders parachuting in for these big events and then disappearing afterwards.

Right. I mean, and that is an issue. It's part of the reason that so many people have been exposed to the football over the last few weeks is because it's been there right in front of your face. And what's more with the cope America, because it was hosted in America, in the U S the kickoff times were ideal,

right? You're talking about five o'clock our time, six o'clock at three in the morning to watch a game. Yeah. There's not, you know, matches being played in the middle of the day when a lot of people are working or not, otherwise really ready to tune in to TV.

So it has sort of been this hot footy summer for a variety of reasons. I don't know if it's going to have the staying power. I do think that it might have people more inclined to seek it out. You might actually go seek it out now, because the Premier League starts end of August, right? Yeah, and the other part for me, the way I've always gotten into sports is just by picking a team. You might actually go seek it out now because the Premier League starts end of August, right? Yeah. And the other part for me, the way I've always gotten into sports is just by picking a team, following that one, and then eventually your wealth of knowledge grows as you see a bunch of other teams come in and play the team you picked.

I have a difficult time picking a team in soccer because I don't like picking the good teams, but you kind of have to pick a good team because otherwise you're just not going to win. I tried to be a Wolves fan for a while because Josh Elliott Wolf. Yeah, that's my name.

You're a wolf. And it was difficult. They like Portuguese guys, though. Yeah, see, he knows things. That's very well done. Okay. TJ in the Valley just texted in.

I called my mom this week and she told me she was watching the Euros while exercising on her bike at home. I couldn't figure out which of the two shocked me more. I called my mom this week and she told me she was watching the Euros while exercising on her bike at home. I couldn't figure out which of the two shocked me more. Yeah, that's the thing is you're going to get more anecdotes like this. Shot fired at his mom.

Well, OK, we went to like we. Yeah, kind of. AJ. Hopefully your mom's not listening. I was riding my bike and listening to the Halford and Brough show. You jerk. Anyway, I do wonder like AJ's aj's for example was a good classic example we went in on tuesday night um just because we wanted to watch the game there we're buddies with aj and

everything and there were a bunch of people there to watch canada play a soccer match at a pizza joint in mount pleasant like it's it's kind of a crazy thing when you sit back and think about it, but it's interesting as well. Well, Josh, the music means we have to say goodbye. It's been a slice of pizza. A pizza? Yeah, it's been really great. Josh raw-dogging this week. Thanks a lot for this. This was a lot of fun. Thank you.

Best of luck with Bruff when you get to work with him and I am on my vacation. We're all back on Monday, though. Jamie Dodd's going to be in the chair, along with the dogs and myself. But for now, we've got to say goodbye. Thank you all for listening. Thank you all for contributing to Harry and New West.

Congrats on winning the $100 gift card to AJ's Pizza on East Broadway. But now we've got to go. Signing off, I have been Mike Halford. He's been Josh Elliott-Wolf. He's been A-Dog, and he's been Laddie. This has been the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650.