Episodes

NHL Insider and host of Ray and Dregs, Darren Dreger joined Matt and Blake for his regular Wednesday appearance. Talked about the difficulty in chasing around rescheduling. Teams are eagerly waiting the release of the full schedule. As nice as it would be for all teams to have a 5-7 day break, the NHL needs that calendar real estate. PA hasn’t had that conversation with the league yet, where the season would be extended. They are going to have to use every day available to them. The concern is h...

Ben Boudreau, Bruce’s kid and head coach of the ECHL’s Fort Wayne Komets. Says he bought some ‘Bruce there it is’ shirts that he will be wearing next time he is in town. Talked about what his dad thinks about it. Says that Bruce doesn’t hate it, he just wants the attention to go where it should. Says he doesn’t worry about his dad too much. Hockey is a way of life. Talked about how many different cities the family has been through. Talked about all the opportunities he has chased and how his hoc...

Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk joined Matt and Blake to wrap up Week 18 and the season. Talked about the day that was yesterday. Says that when the league announced they were going to 17 games that the last week would be awful. That was not the case. The most exciting week she has seen in a long, long time. Hoping that the playoffs carry the momentum of the final Sunday. Talked about some of these teams that had nothing to play for go out and make it interesting for teams that were still ...

Rick Dhaliwal, host of Donnie and Dhali, joined Matt and Blake for the first time this new year. Started off with the frustration of being covid fatigued. Say’s it’s a frustrating time for fans. The people Rick talks to just want to watch the game. It’s not so much about going to the game. Talked about what drove the postponement. Was told it was due to capacity. Noted that the Warriors and Abby Canucks are going to play. It’s just this team that can’t. Talked about the possibility that teams mi...

Scott Rintoul joined in his regular Thursday slot. After noting the snow he talked about why the Canucks are feeling so much better about themselves. Noted the final result of the ANA game. Says that a couple months ago, John Gibson comes out and plays that puck on JT Miller goal. Talked about what has changed since Boudreau took over. Says you can credit upstairs. Nothing as changed with on-ice personal. Talked about what to expect without EP40. Doens’t think they will lose momentum but will mi...

NHL Insider and Host of Ray and Dregs Podcast, Darren Dreger joined Matt and Blake in his regular Wednesday spot. Started off by talking about his outdoor rink twitter exercise. Dregs talked about what struck him from his conversation with Bruce Boudreau. He is a very cadid, good type of guy. Will be brutally honest with his players and the media. Says BB was worried that he wouldn’t get another opportunity. Usually he gets a job right away but he had to wait this time. Says he is well built to ...

Canucks Assistant Equiptment Manager, Brian ‘Red’ Hamilton joined Matt and Blake after his feel-good story was brought to light on New Years Day. Talked about the benefits of bringing the story forward. Talked about how it all played out. Talked about if he would have gone public with the story had they not needed to go through social media. Talked about Nadia and what she had to do to make him aware. Talked about the relationship the Hamilton’s will have with Nadia and her family moving forward...

On this holiday Monday the guys ran through the local scene, year in review. They started off with their thoughts of that fateful February 9th day and how it all shook out. Starting with the Canucks we talk about what an eventuful caldendar year it has been for the local hockey team. Spoiler alert: It's been a hell of a year. We talk Whitecaps and their rollercoaster of a year. Running through the Lions, Giants and C's as well. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mikael Samuelsson joined Matt and Blake to talk about his time as a Canucks and in the NHL. He started off by talking about what he is up to these days and what he likes to do in the game of hockey. Mikael talked about the early days of his hockey playing life and where he learned the basics and how much he loved being out on the ice. Mikael talked about how he never really thought he would make a career for himself in the NHL and why he didn't think it would happen. He talked about his early pl...

Darcy Hordichuk joined Matt and Blake for a very engaging chat from his home in Arizona. Darcy talked about hockey in Arizona for his boys, saying he thinks the sport is more popular there than in Vancouver. He talked about all the talent that the state is producing thanks to all the former NHL players there to coach. Darcy talked about watching the Michigan team, including a couple of Canadian juniors. Talked about his time growing up in Saskatchewan and what there was to do there. Darcy talked...

We catch up with former Canuck, Aaron Rome. He talks about how much he keeps up with the professional game and what role hockey plays in his life. He talks about his life post-hockey and life on the farm. Aaron talks about hit in the Stanley Cup Finals that led to his four game suspension. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our week of holiday programming we catch up with former Vancouver Canuck, Mason Raymond. He talked about his rise to the NHL and being a late bloomer, even thinking out of U18 that he might not have a future in the game. He talked about why he went the Jr. A route as opposed to Major-Junior. He talked about the benefits of going the US College route is and why education is important. Raymond shared a story as to why he still buys Brenden Morrison dinner, whenever they go out. Mason talked about ...

On this holiday Monday Matt and Blake look to outside the walls of Vancouver and revisit some of the biggest sports moment around the globe in 2021. From January to December the guys breakdown all the highlights and lowlights from the year that was. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For this special Christmas Eve programming Matt and Blake caught up with longtime friend of the show and the original hockey insider, Bob McKenzie. We talked to Bob about his latest venture, Bobby Margarita and how it all came about. We talked about why he is in semi-retirement and now fully retired. Bob talked about why the World Junior tournament is so special to him and how long he has been involved. We ran through the Canadian World Junior team who hope to win gold this year. Specifically ta...

The final live show of the year, before our holiday programming takes over and leads us into the new year. We start off the show by explaining what you will hear for that special holiday programming. Scott Rintoul joined Matt and Blake for the final time in 2021. Started off with the poll question, asking about the biggest story for the Canucks in this calendar year. Believes that Benning/Green getting fired will win the day. Scotty answers the Covid outbreak. Says we forget that the Canucks had...

Another special edition of Sekeres and Price today as we head to the holiday season. Gregg Bell joined Matt and Blake to talk about the Seahawks. Gregg doesn’t think the owner will want to clean house there. She is too occupied with the the Trail Blazers in Portland. There is no doubt RW3 isn’t the same player. He has the most 4th quarter comeback wins since 2012. If it’s not an issue of health, it’s an issue of quality. They could seriously consider making their OC a fall guy. Thinks that RW3 n...

It was a special edition of Sekeres and Price today as we head to the holiday season. Patrick Johnston of the Province joined Matt and Blake and started off with a Covid update. Talked about how the NHL will get through this compared to the other pro leagues. We heard a clip from Bruce Boudreau on the little 2 day mini camp and got PJ’s thoughts on it. Talked about how the NHL could play out the rest of the schedule. A lot of the news from today. Jeff Paterson, our Canucks Reporter, joined after...

Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk joined Blake and Jeff to talk about where in the week we actually are in the NFL. Says it’s just crazy. Things start at the Owners meetings when they starting tinkering with protocols. Rams had 29 players on their Covid list but you just can’t play a game with that many on the list. Says it is unfortunate for the teams that are in the thick of it who have big games with key players out. Talked about the odd season the Cardinals are having. Charean says it’s ...

Connor Bedard of the National Junior Team joined the show to talk about the upcoming World Jr Tourney. Talked about the plan through the next few days, including quarantine and a trip to Red Deer for some exhibition games. Is pretty special to be given this kind of trust at such a young age. Talked about the year in the WHL so far. Glad to have some familiar faces on the team. Rick Dhaliwal joined Blake and Jeff. Says the media can’t be too negative now that the team is on a 6 game winning strea...

Nathalie Rees joined us for a giveaway segment, thanks to our frineds at Park Royal. If you are looking for a gift for that special lady, you will want to listen. Scott Rintoul joined for his regular spot in hour 2 on Thursday. Started off by talking about the poll question. Says it’s Jared McCann or you are just wrong. Also threw out the name, Tyler Madden. Takled about Dahlén. Hopes he goes on to have a promising career. Says he wouldn’t vote for him because of what McCann has become. Talked a...

Jonathan Dahlen of the San Jose Sharks joined Matt and Blake. Talked about his rookie year. Says he just came into camp to make the team. He has been given a great opportunity and lots of ice time. Wasn’t really that confident that he would make the team. Just took it day by day and worked hard everyday. Fortunately it worked and he is trying to do the same things. Doesn’t see his success in Europe as a comparable to EP40 because they are different players. Talked about how well he knows Elias. ...

Pierre LeBrun joined Matt and Blake and talked about how he got connected with Francesco Aquilini at the Board of Governors meeting. Talked about how the 3 TSN Insiders sat down and chatted with him for a pretty long time. He was really still on a high about the hiring of Jim Rutherford and walked them how it happened. They didn’t get into the blame game. Said that FA reached out to JR to bounce some names off of. Likened it to the Brian Burke situation in PIT. Says it’s fascinating how it all p...

The ‘Welcome Matt’ addressed the presser with Aquilini and Rutherford and the culture of the Vancouver Canucks. John Shannon joined Matt and Blake in his regular Monday spot. Talked about the kind of guy Rutherford is. Says he is a man of few mistakes. He understands the media business. Talked about how well suited he is to deal with Aquilini after his experience in Carolina. Says he is playing with house money. If it’s not going the way he wants, he will just leave. John laughs at the thought J...

Nathalie Rees, from Park Royal dropped by to talk about some holiday shopping for the guys. Rich Dhaliwal joined and started off with a Pratt story, as per our show video. Talked about Pratt and that he knew exactly what he was doing. Onto the Canucks, Rick talked about the hire of Rutherford. Believes they contacted Dale Tallon very early in the process. Dhali says the NHL blocked it. Rolled through the JR timeline. Talked about the search for the GM. Everything he has been told is that they ar...