Unexpected Success of Vancouver Canucks in the West

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00:02 - When you look at the West right now,

00:05 I think we obviously kind of knew that Vegas

00:07 and the Kings and Colorado and Dallas

00:10 were gonna be teams that were gonna be close

00:12 to the top at this point.

00:14 I'm not sure I quite had Vancouver there, Denny.

00:16 I know they played better after bringing Tockett in

00:19 at the end of last year, but they have been excellent.

00:22 And also on the road, Denny, they've been really good,

00:26 which credit to Tockett, he's been excellent.

00:29 Yeah, he's brought structure

00:30 without sacrificing offense right there.

00:32 I think the top scoring team in the league.

00:34 And Carver, when you have the goalie in Demko,

00:36 who would certainly bounce back from his injuries,

00:38 and you have a dynamic,

00:39 possibly North defenseman in Quinn Hughes,

00:42 and you have Brock Bezos pursuing the rocket Rashard,

00:45 Patterson hasn't taken a step back.

00:47 I've always loved JT Miller.

00:48 I never got the theory about why they wanted to treat him

00:50 out of Vancouver, a heart and soul guy.

00:53 They just have a lot of offense.

00:55 They have all the components.

00:57 The question is middle six, their depth on defense.

01:00 Can they avoid an injury on defense?

01:01 Maybe not, but yeah, they're a surprise to me.

01:04 And yeah, Tockett should be in the conversation

01:06 for the Jackhans, but so should the guy here in Los Angeles

01:09 and Tom McCollum, because this team

01:11 actually is statistically better right now,

01:12 but it's gonna be, yeah, Vancouver's a surprise to me.

01:14 I expected a really good start

01:16 because they've had such crappy starts there in Vancouver.

01:19 It's cost Bruce Boudreaux's job.

01:21 So you think, okay, they're gonna jump out on top,

01:23 but they have not regressed.

01:24 They're gonna be a dangerous team

01:26 because they have all facets

01:28 of a winning franchise at this point.

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