After a bye week, the Pat-cast is back, powered as always by Eagle Ridge GM.

When Jeff Paterson and Jason Botchford last left us, they were on the road; so they have a few more road stories to share(including the $33 Caesar salad!).

There's talk about the future of the Sedins and how the Canucks have turned that into an unnecessary sideshow.

Is there anything to make of the way the team responded to the hit on Brock Boeser Tuesday night?

Bo Horvat is back. Just how big is this for the Canucks?

And where this team will find its motivation over the final 35 games now that they have healthy bodies back?

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Ed Willes joins Paul Chapman to talk about the Canucks season going forward. Where is the team in terms of progress? What do people want to see from the team in the last portion of the season?

How has Jake Virtanen’s season been judged so far and what has to happen for him between now and the end of the season? All these topics and more, including a potential change at General Manager are pondered by the boys.

The podcast then turns to the NFL and looks at if the Minnesota Vikings are the closest thing to Canada’s team, and they also look at if the New England Patriots are the perfect pro wrestling heels.

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The Canucks are on a big eastern road swing and so are Jeff Paterson and Jason Botchford so it's time for another Pat-cast,powered by Eagle Ridge GM.

Where is Jeff's luggage? How *did* the guys get from Montreal to Washington, anyway?

Saturday's game in Toronto proved to be a coming out party for the Canucks' star rookie, as Boeser mania swept through the Centre of the Universe.

Erik Gudranson is on the trade block. Loui Eriksson isn't scoring. And Jake Virtanen isn't playing much.

Will anything stop this Canucks free fall? Will the Canucks themselves keep it together?

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Ed WILLES and Paul Chapman sit down to discuss the announcement of Canada’s Olympic hockey team and all the connections to the Vancouver Canucks and the city itself.

Who will earn another shot at the NHL? Mason Raymond? Gilbert Brule?

The lads then turn back to the NHL and look at the season at the halfway point. Are the Golden Knights going to keep up the pace? Which teams are more likely to make a run in the second half and which teams are going to be found out?

Lastly they get into a quick discussion about the Vancouver Canucks and what fans should expect for the rest of the season.

Just what chance does Jim Benning have of coming back as Canucks GM?

Patrick Johnston and Ed Willes get together to look at the state of the Canucks as 2018 opens.

The good news: Elias Pettersson has been sensational at the World Juniors. Olli Juolevi was pretty good too.

But there's a lot still to be done to right this ship and all eyes, inevitably, are falling on management.

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Happy New Year! It's the first Pat-cast of 2018, powered as ever by Eagle Ridge GM.

This week, Jeff Paterson and Jason Botchford dial in on what Trevor Linden had to say — and didn't say — this week in his state of the franchise media session. And related: Jim Benning's future.

What do JPat and Botch think of how Travis Green has handled the goalies of late? 

Who is the Canucks' best defenceman and what does will the corps look like two years from now?

The Canucks were totally lost against Anaheim...and the Ducks weren't even that good. Oh boy.

How did Christmas go and are the guys really ready to cover the Canucks' second half?

And...what's up with Botch's twitter?

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This week Patrick Johnston and Ed Willes look at wild card weekend in the NFL.

Ed Willes joins Paul Chapman to talk NFL, the Seahawks, Brock Boeser and the Canucks.

Ed thinks that might be it for the Seahawks who he thinks will see major change in the offseason. The lads then look at the big games this weekend and look ahead to who might be the teams to watch in the last couple of weeks headed into the playoffs. Ed thinks it’s Minnesota while Paul favours Jacksonville.

They then switch to the Canucks where, and you’ll have to listen to rationale behind it, Paul compares Boeser to Ickey Woods. Ed has more lucid observations as he marvels at Boeser’s play but thinks the Canucks are in for a bit of a rocky start to 2018, which he still thinks is a good thing.

Ed and Paul would like to thank you all for listening this year and wish you all the best for Christmas and into the New Year.

Ed Willes joins Paul Chapman for the podcast where they talk about the massive games in the NFL this week, including the Patriots v the Cheating Whiners, sorry, the Steelers, the Seahawks v Rams and the Chiefs v the Chargers, whom Ed still thinks are in San Diego. That wraps up the La-Z-Boy Vancouver NFL part of the podcast, and the talk then turns to something uglier than the Colts v Broncos Thursday nighter, the Canucks.

After running down the NFL, the lads try to make sense of not only the utter destruction of the Canucks by the Nashville Predators, they also look at the recent fall off a cliff for the Canucks offence since Bo Horvat’s injury.

They talk about reasons for the Canucks stumbling form, how the race for the Calder Trophy may be the only storyline worth following the rest of the way, and the giant red flag being waved above Rogers Arena right now, yes, you’ll have to listen to hear what that is.

Ed and Paul then get into what these last two weeks could mean for the future of GM Jim Benning, before segueing into the themes and storylines across the NHL this season so far.