Rink Wide: Vancouver

JPat and Wadden record from their hotel rooms in Kelowna, as the Rink Wide road trip to the Okanagan is underway. The guys go over the rumoured news of Mike Yeo perhaps being added to Bruce Boudreau's coaching staff, give their thoughts on the Bruins parting ways with head coach Bruce Cassidy, while also starting to look at some of the potential UFA's the Canucks could be shopping for when free agency opens in July.

The show wraps with a look at the action from the conference finals in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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With little news coming from the Vancouver Canucks, JPat and Wadden take a look at the amount of work the team needs to do with its UFA players in Abbotsford. The boys speculate who the organization would want to keep, while taking a look at the options the club could have when looking at adding a veteran backup goaltender to the mix.

Just a couple days away from the Rink Wide road trip to Kelowna, Wadden reveals that his golf plans have been derailed, after breaking his arm while playing baseball. The road trip will go on, just with one less golf bag to put in the trunk.

The show wraps with a look at the action from the conference finals in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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The Canucks announced earlier this week that Daniel and Henrik Sedin will move from their advisory positions to a role within player development, working on and off the ice with the players in Vancouver and Abbotsford. The club also added former Canuck Mikael Samuelsson and former NHL defenceman Mike Komisarek to the player development side. JPat and Wadden discuss what that says about the Sedins future in hockey, and what Samuelsson and Komisarek can bring to the table.

Rob Simpson from Vancouver Hockey Now joins the show and gives his insight on the Canucks latest hires, while giving a tip of the cap to Juho Lammikko who won a gold medal as a member of team Finland at the World Hockey Championship.

The show wraps with a preview of the conference finals in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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Sad news to begin this episode, as the Canucks released a statement about the passing of Brock Boeser's father Duke. JPat and Wadden give their condolences to the Boeser family, with Jeff reminiscing on what Duke meant to Brock and the entire Canucks organization.

Patrick Johnston from Post Media/The Province joins for his weekly chat, expanding on a tweet that JPat sent out in regard to Vancouver's lack of prospects chosen particularly out of the BC-based WHL teams. PJ dives deeper into the fact that the WHL is steps behind many other leagues in the world in developing NHL caliber prospects in the deeper rounds of the NHL draft. The boys then go over some of Jim Rutherford's comments that he made on Donnie & Dhali from Friday. 

The show wraps with a look back at the Oilers big game 5 win in the BOA, eliminating the Flames from the Stanley Cup playoffs, while previewing game 6 between the Avs and Blues.

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The Canucks announced officially who was coming back and who was departing from Bruce Boudreau's coaching staff over the long weekend. JPat and Wadden discuss all of that, while diving into some of the comments that Boudreau made about his returning staff, and what he's gleaned from watching the Stanley Cup playoffs. Dan Murphy from Sportsnet joins the boys from Colorado, as he is in Denver covering the Avs and Blues series. Murph gives his insight on the future of JT Miller in Vancouver, and tells us where he feels the Canucks future is headed.

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