Todd Harvey Recaps the Canucks Picks
6/27/20261 hr 13 min
Sat Bik and Randip are joined by Rob Wilson head coach of the Peterborough Petes to talk about the Canucks selecting Adam Novotny, his transition to the OHL and his traits which include his offensive production and two way game. Later Todd Harvey joins to recap the Canucks picks including what traits they were looking at, their interest in OHL players this year and breaking down this years picks.
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First 90 secondsSat Shah· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Back in on Canucks Central, Satya Shah, Bik Nazar, Randip Janda coming to you live from the KINEX studio. Keep getting your thoughts in to our Dunbar Lumber text inbox, 650650. Let's continue on the phone boards, and let's go to the Abel Auctions hotline, and welcome in our next guest, Rob Wilson, head coach of the Peterborough Petes, and obviously the Vancouver Canucks picked up a really, really nice player that, uh, we're very high on, Adam Novotny, with the 24th pick in the first round. So let's welcome Rob into the convo. Rob, thanks for making some time for us today. First of all, uh, how cool a- a- are these days for you, day one and day two of the draft, to watch players you work so closely with be able to realize their dreams?
Rob Wilson· Guest0:51
Oh, yeah. It's, it's, it's, you know, it's an honor really when you're, you know, you get kids like, like Adam, who are just special people. So I, I said to everybody that talked to me about the draft, I said, "Not only is he a great hockey player, he's probably a better person." Like, he's just such a great kid. Um, so when you see someone like Adam, uh, go somewhere, and he's so excited about, about going to a Canadian team, and it just, it's, it's awesome for, for us as well.
Sat Shah· Host1:21
Well, congratulations to the player, but you as well, because it takes, uh, a lot of time and effort developing these players, coaching these players. Uh, you talked about the person, because I, I wanna start with