Jim Rutherford Breaks Down the Lindholm/Kuzmenko Deal

The Jeff Marek Show

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Jeff Marek and Sportsnet’s Iain MacIntyre break down the Canucks' perspective on the Elias Lindholm trade. They get into why Lindholm is the right fit in Vancouver, where we can expect him to slot in, if he will be a rental, and how they were able to hold on to their top prospects. Kelly Hrudey stops by to break down the Flames' return in the deal and what Andrei Kuzmenko brings to Calgary, before looking back on playing with Elias' father Mikael Lindholm in Los Angeles (19:16). Later on, Matt Marchese checks in to discuss the flexibility that the Canucks have with Lindholm joining the roster, as well as how confident Rob Blake is in his team's goaltending (39:41). Finally, Vancouver Canucks President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford joins the show to share how the trade actually transpired (48:50). He chats about how Lindholm will help his team’s playoff hopes, how the negotiations with Calgary went down, if there are plans to extend their new forward, and what's next for the Canucks ahead of the trade deadline. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.
0:12.0	Welcome back to the program.
0:14.0	More on the Calgary Vancouver Trade coming up an hour or two.
0:16.8	Kelly really stops by from Hockey Night in Canada covering the Calgary Flames for Sports
0:20.5	and as well regionally.
0:21.5	Jim Rutherford, the president of the Vancouver Canucks,
0:24.4	will be aboard at 135 Eastern.
0:27.0	Look forward to that.
0:29.0	In the meantime, for more on this deal, I have a feeling this trade will be the gift that keeps on giving.
0:36.5	Plenty of grist for the mill for Talk Radio in Vancouver and Calgary.
0:41.1	Joined now by A. Macintyre from Sports I, both television, print and radio as well.
0:45.6	Ian, how are you today?
0:47.0	Well, I had a rather busy day yesterday.
0:51.2	I've got to stop taking holidays or thinking I can take time off
0:54.8	during the the by week going into the all-star game but no
0:59.0	Jim Rutherford is Jim Rutherford is kind of the gift that keeps on giving wherever he's been as a GM and it was quiet here in Vancouver for his first year and a bit and it has been anything but quiet the last year.
1:15.0	Huge, huge deal yesterday to get Lindholm.
1:18.0	Yeah, that was enormous and almost exactly to the day
1:22.0	when they traded Bo Horvats a year and a day later they pick
1:25.8	up Lindholm and you know I'll ask you the same thing that I asked that I asked Elliot
1:29.6	before you came on and that is how much of Lindholm specifically. I think I'm talking about all the things
1:36.6	that go into a player, the skill set that Horavatt had, the skill set that Lindholm has as well, you know, how much,
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