Canucks Outsider – hockey pod

Canucks Outsider – #Canucks win Pacific Division 2023-24 and i’m curious…

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:21:13 +0000

What would happen if i re-sparked a dormant Canucks Outsider pod-feed (episodes from 2005 til 2009)? Would it even work?

I wonder if the “Alive for the Playoffs” livestreams via Ustream still exist? [update: nope]

Well just for kicks i fired up a long lost Xwitter channel: https://twitter.com/canucksoutsider

Meanwhile back at Tsuchida cottage, I know all the results, all the matchups and just watching this to savour it

Calling all #Canucks fans in #Japan. Where are you at?

{Yeah I know, it's a pretty fancy set up, the mosquito net really sets the vibe} https://t.co/500PHpnQqw pic.twitter.com/mMedII0GuT
— Canucks Outsider (@canucksoutsider) April 17, 2024

I’m remembering the goodtimes of 1982 run:

Noting that all three teams the #Canucks have faced in previous Stanley Cup finals have made the cut this year

{Obviously speaking way too soon but…} facing Islanders, Rangers or Bruins for "revenge match" in a Stanley Cup final would close some circles

1982 forever pic.twitter.com/man1PYMcdu
— Canucks Outsider (@canucksoutsider) April 17, 2024

and getting out a few holy relics:

And a few dispatches from my *usual* frequency @uncleweed

Outtakes / Halloween alternate choices #HockeyJerseys or #HockeySweaters if prefer > in this case #canucks, various & #CCCP in #Japan pic.twitter.com/NSiwt3TgL3
— daveo, gingerly (@uncleweed) October 31, 2021

and a few other oddities and memories:

What’s the worst that could happen? Wait, stop, don’t answer that!

There are even some audio clips from CBC:

Playoff Tension with Canucks Outsider on Early Edition – CBC Radio (2009)

What’s Wrong with the Canucks? Canucks Outsider on BC Almanac – CBC Radio 1 (2009)

Canucks Outsider on CBC Radio One “B.C. Almanac” (2008)

Talking Canucks and Tech: Canucks Outsider on On The Coast – CBC Radio 1 (2007)

CBC’s “On the Coast” 2007 show is interviewing your humble podcast host (me) and Vancouver super-blogger Roland Tanglao this afternoon (Friday 4/20) about tomorrow’s ~~Canucks Outsider “Alive for the Playoffs”~~ streaming event via ~~Ustream.tv/CanucksOutsider.~~

phones took snaps like this then, 2007

Bonus:

Canucks Outsider Trad Media Scrapbook

Canucks Outsider podcast episode art archive

Hockey Primer (for Seattle and beyond)

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 04:20:59 +0000

Hockey Lounge 4:20 24/7, immortalized at Olympic Plaza in SLC, Utah, 2002
Preamble: for years, mostly living in Olympia, Washington and later Vancouver, BC I wrangled a website called HockeyNW tracking historic and contemporary hockey culture around Cascadia including teams: Tacoma SaberCats, Seattle Thunderbirds, Spokane Chiefs, flashing back to Seattle Metropolitans, bits of Portland and of course Vancouver, as well the in-line hockey teams i coached through a YMCA league in Olympia.

During this time my brother Dan and i (something) hosted the “Hockey Lounge” in Olympia, Washington – a speak / toke easy” to spread hockey culture (and provide occasional crash space for rock n roll bands – another story).

Some of the artifacts are shared in this archive, others might be eventually.

Anyhow… what I’m saying is: all of this was anticipating the arrival of another NHL franchise in the Northwest which eventually became the Seattle Kraken. Took a while and now I live far away but, recently shared a bit of an “hockey primer” with a friend who lives in Washington State who is a soccer/football supporter to share a little bit of culture and basics about the sport.

I don’t really write about hockey anymore and my “consumption experience” is generally solo, with coffee in the cottage in Japan, regardless, sharing here for posterity:

June 11, 2021 Hello [redacted],

Been meaning to tell you a few things about hockey and now it’s a really good time for you to start paying attention because it’s almost into the third round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, I’m currently listening to Seattle’s “expansion cousins” Vegas Golden Knights game six against the Colorado Avalanche (who used to be the Quebec Nordiques) yes it’s a little bit confusing especially when you consider the winner of the series will play the Montréal Canadiens, who are from Quebec – Canada sorta / of course but the French-centric part and who shocked the hockey world by running over their long time rival Toronto (a.k.a. the centre of the universe) Maple Leafs and then swept aside the Winnipeg Jets (who used to be the Atlanta Thrashers) it’s things like this that require a good primer.

The good thing about Seattle Kraken is now Vancouver has a natural geographical rival. In the past, the other teams would all match-up with natural dance-partners and Van was sort of stranded in their own little glorious West Coast anomaly. As we’ve seen with MLS, having teams in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver makes for good times for supporters/fans/whatever.

The Canucks were born in 1970 as an NHL team, same year as me and their expansion cousins, the Buffalo Sabres and are kind of like the Seattle Mariners of the national hockey league in that they’ve had fantastic players over the years: great characters, Hall of Famers, and have sustained periods of regular season success but never brought home the big prize The Stanley Cup. Three times to the finals, two of them ending in game seven heartbreak and literal riots and pillaging and looting. Not the best look.

Vancouver watches their team like a soap opera with so much pearl clutching, vitriol, knuckle-cracking and then unbridled elation and credit taking and “I knew it all along”. It’s things like this that encourage me to listen/watch the games in a vacuum as I just like the experience not all the baggage.

Of course this is coming from the guy who made the original Canucks podcast #nothumblebrag, and made various newsletters, media appearances and what not over the years. So now I can be that eye rolling guy who is cynical about the 40+ Canucks podcast and people who have been “enduring this for almost 20 years”. Yes that’s grey in our beards.

The good news is, with the enormous expansion fee that Vegas and then Seattle paid, the league has given more favourable parameters for the expansion draft allowing Vegas to have great success right out of the gates and Seattle could follow suit with a solid management team in place etc. etc. They also set up their minor-league affiliate in Palm Springs, California which will keep a lot of the borderline players who don’t stick with the big club, happy at least. Plus, in event of injuries, suspensions etc. it makes an easier logistical trip to recall players.

For comparison, up until this year the Canucks “farm team” was in Utica, New York – you can imagine the transport challenges although I’m sure it’s glorious living at a Best Western in the Paris of the Potomac, or is it the Mohawk Valley yeah, it’s the Mohawk Valley.

One of the great things about the game is the back stories of the players who traditionally have come from Canada followed by the US and then since the 70s all sorts of European countries, mostly Sweden, Finland and Russia and inexplicably not Norway but now scattered with more Czechs and Slovaks and Slovenians, the occasional German and Swiss. That all sounds very white and it is but there is an increasing smattering of BIPOC players now to get a lot of support, love and attention.

There is a second generation Japanese kid named Suzuki playing for the Canadiens that’s having a great playoffs, and player activism around BLM and a lot of respect and regard indigenous players as well as the India Indians (noting the huge Sikh population of Canada has now produced domestic players of Indian descent). Canadian media lean-in hard to players’ backstories and the announcers, whether you want them to or not, linger on the strange little towns in Saskatchewan where the player comes from and ramble on about growing up in New Brunswick or whatever. Every year, the national broadcaster CBC does an “hockey day in Canada” with remote hockey celebrations in every small town rink and do their best to perpetuate every cliché. You’ll be able to see the stuff fire free to air channels I suspect if you put up an antenna on your Salish Sea home.

As for the game itself, since you know soccer imagine that with unlimited substitutions on the fly, a non-running clock (stops ticking at the whistle which are called when the goalie freezes the puck, puck goes over the glass (which is a penalty if done by defender in the defensive zone), the play goes offside (which is a hard offside with a blue line), or icing (which is basically throwing the puck down the ice). Also there’s a litany of penalties for physical and fractions that result in two or five minute penalties giving a team a power-play. Oh yeah, the puck can go 100 miles an hour, it’s vulcanized rubber, and those are sharp steel blades on their feet, and you are allowed to hit just aren’t supposed to hit them in the head. “Flopping” is a penalty and brings shame.

In the regular season it’s tied after three periods of 20 minutes each, they play three on three overtime for five minutes during which the traditionalists grumble about how terrible this is and damn kids and if still tied, they go to shootouts/PKs which then the traditionalists lose their mind about games being decided by a skills contest. Yes it’s all very serious.

Seattle will make it 32 teams in the league that started with the vaunted holy “original six” and then in the 80s started to expand aggressively to more sunny/Southern markets: two teams in Florida, three in California, Phoenix who stole the original Winnipeg team, Dallas who took the team from Minnesota who now have another team, Nashville which has become a favourite stop for the players especially in the cold winter months.

The players themselves take different routes to the professional career, sometimes moving away from home at 16 to some other cold Canadian town and living with billets and being local heroes until they are drafted and then toil in the minor-league. Of course prodigies are famous at a young age in Canada and held to scrutiny which sometimes ends badly. Used to be rare but increasingly common is going through (mostly US) university and get an education – but like NBA basketball players – often leave after two years. Now with more European leagues, some guys will hone their craft there as its a bit more skill-oriented rather than the NA minor leagues which can get a little bit slap shot (you’ve seen this Paul Newman movie?)

[Unrelated} I read your last note on my birthday August 16, the day Elvis died and the anniversary of Woodstock. We grilled sausages, took photos and soaked feet in a little inflatable pool with Ichiro. So hey, under 10 months to give you a long winded primer to hockey.

Now, there are tile saws going outside to put some splendid herringbone pattern tile into our genkon entrance right now – hooray noise cancelling headphones. As it goes, the project is taking longer than expected and the quality of everything they’re doing is way better than I expected, such attention to detail. Seeing your magnificent project was a little overwhelming as ours it was sort of *tacking on a room to a crackerbox house* but it’s gonna be all good.

We’re having a good time staying with her parents, our little guy is a nursery school which is so fcking cute. Maybe you’ll have a chance to come visit one of these years. Just not right now, we’re in a state of emergency with a stupid Olympics coming, yikes.

Did I tell you that I’m registered as the official Cascade in Consulate? I’m getting a stamp made for passports so make sure to bring yours.

There’s your storytime, questions accepted within reason :)

photo archival, not related to game mentioned and in this case, coffee was not iced, only the puck

PS June 25, 2021

Watching Golden Knights and Canadiens on delay before overtime and taking a breather… Still weird watching hockey by myself in the morning with coffee.

Anyhow, just saw the news that Seattle hired a “Dave” as coach. + a note to say that I haven’t seen any of those movies, most hockey movies are abjectly terrible (Youngblood, Mighty Ducks, the maudlin “Miracle”) but Slapshot is quality entertainment, but not the various sequels.

Expansion draft comes shortly after the Stanley Cup rolls out!

Memento: Canucks and related hockey artifacts

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:13:40 +0000

Memento: Canucks and related hockey artifacts

Various hockey ephemera (cards, calendars, tickets, clippings), made into a shadowbox once upon a time, broken, harvested and laid in situ.

Primarily Vancouver Canucks related including: Captain Marcus Naslund, goaltenders variety of Gary Bromley, Kirk McLean, Dan Cloutier plus tickets stubs from Vancouver Canucks, Seattle Thunderbirds, schedule from Vancouver Giants, plus Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky to rub off some greatness, and a list of Stanley Cup champions torn from a newspaper. Plus, Vancouver Canucks puck #inventory

Of such items, many many more exist in boxes, this just appeared behind broken glass.

Media: Stanley Cup snap in “Real Clear Sports” (2009)

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 04:20:04 +0000

Memento: Stanley Cup snap in Real Clear Sports

As an enthusiast of creative commons “alt copyright”, I publish/shared many photos under an “non-commercial/attribution/sharealike license” which resulted in my images popping up in many places, often not with the proper attribution and dubious commercialization, but hey, life’s complicated like that sometimes. Nevertheless, I do try to document these things for the permanent record. In this case, my photo of the Stanley Cup (snapped at an NHL trophy exhibit at SLC Olympics in 2002) used and shared in many places, including / here in “Real Clear Sports” (whatever that is) in a bit of “meta” documentation using a screenshot of an archived version of the page.

Canucks Sweaters / various eras, ready for playoffs-ish

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:14:05 +0000

3 era of Canucks sweaters freshened up for me, wife & lil Ichiro Stanley / flying “V”, downward skate, and orca (Burrows) respectively.

Any other Canucks & NHL hockey fans here in Japan? Just curious about who’s excited for breakfast time hockey firing up for the “play-in to playoffs”? Who’s yer team?

Note: newly “installed” bamboo laundry holder

Dave (in Hootmode) at “Five Hole for Food” street hockey funtimes in Vancouver

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:29:56 +0000

via instavancouver:

.@daveohoots & the @hootsuite hockey team is about to take the streets here in #vancouver #fhff by @jasonbaker

Social Media story/advice from Mozy19/Richard Loat including Canucks stuff

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:33:12 +0000

Social Media advice from Mozy19 (by kempedmonds)

Bonus: JJ, Richard and Dave on back on bus representing Canucks renegade media makers

Hockey Notes re: Movember (source unknown)

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:49:11 +0000

Best All-Time Hockey Mo – #1 – Lanny McDonald, #2 Wendal Clark, #3- George Parros, #4 – Larry Robinson, #5 – Eddie Shack, #6 Glenn Anderson , #7-Rogie Vachon, #8 – Bryan Trottier

Best Current Hockey “Wish He would Grow a Mo” – #1 – Sidney Crosby, #2 – Jarome Iginla, #3 – Dion Phaneuf, #4 – Alex Ovechkin, #5 – Joe Thornton, #6 – Taylor Hall, #7 – Zdeno Chara, #8 – Mike Camalleri

Which Logo Could Best Use the Addition of a Mo – #1 – Ottawa Senators, #2 – Chicago Blackhawks and #3 – Pittsburgh Penguins, #4 – Phoenix Coyotes

Best Hockey Movember Promotion idea for 2011 – #1 – Replace the C & A with a Mo icon for captains, #2 – Don Cherry Mo suit, #3 – Top Goalies Moustache-inspired masks

Swiss Dominate BC Floorball Challenge – Canucks Outsider #55

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:19:05 +0000

On a summer Saturday, Dave heads to the BC Floorball’s Challenge Tournament to learn whassup with fast-paced indoor hockey sport and watch the Swiss Selects soundly defeat the Canadian Waveriders in an exhibition besides the 5-nation cup tournament. While there, Dave talks to Switzerland’s Simon and Simon (not to be confused with the TV show), rookie player Boris Mann,Stewart “The Fossil” from England (and another player from London) plus interviews with BC Floorball’s Greg Beaudin (AKA Billy Tucker) and the “godfather” of Canadian Floorball, Finland’s Juha Mikola. Topics include rules and regulations, Swiss military training, beautifulness of Vancouver, pro players in Europe, equipment, sportsmanship and beer.

Grab Swiss Dominate BC Floorball Challenge – Canucks Outsider #55 (.mp3, 34:23, 32MB)

Subscribe to Canucks Outsider Feed – iTunes

Photo of Stewart “The Fossil” in action by Kris Krug (arted-up by Dave O)

More Coverage from the BCFF

Kris Krug‘s (Vancouver Photographer) kickin’ at BC Floorball flickr page
via More Photos from the 1st Annual BCFF Floorball Challenge

BC Floorball’s Tournament Coverage

Richard Eriksson’s Week of Floorball report on Urban Vancouver and Youtube’d floorball video

The Province (via BC floorball Federation on esports)

North Shore News (via BC Floorball Fancy Footwork)

Action from the 1st Annual BCFF Floorball Tournament in May. Board Members Greg Beaudin and Blair Zimmerman compete for the ball as Adrian Zimmerman and David Senn look on. (Photo courtesy ofNorth Shore News)

Greg Beaudin, President of BC Floorball (greg.beaudin@bcfloorball.com) says,

“The Future of Floorball in Canada, proven by the results of the day, is not in the hands of the skilled hockey players turned Floorball enthusiasts but rather in the youth who can grow up learning the skills and tactics of the game as the Swiss team graciously made us realize with the thumping that they handed us. We hope the spectators enjoyed watching true Floorball skill and we thank them for coming out to watch. Floorball is an amazing team sport for its accessibility, versatility, affordability, energy and sportsmanship. It is totally Gym friendly and we hope that schools and community centers are quick to value Floorball as an ideal, safe, and economical Gym sport for girls and boys. We hope that all of you can spread the good word and build the buzz for Floorball.

Play Floorball in BC – Drop in an to experience the co-ed fun – new players welcome and may borrow gear.

When and Where: Register – Poster

Monday Night Floorball – $7 Mondays 6pm-7.45pm at the Roundhouse in downtown Vancouver

[UPDATE] Summer hiatus Thursday Night Floorball – $7 Thursdays, 7PM Mulgrave School in West Vancouver

More Floorball:

bcfloorball.com – BC Floorball

playfloorball.com – Floorball Canada

floorballontario.com – Floorball in Ontario

floorballpro.com – Floorball Equipment

Swiss Zimmerman vs. Canadian Zimmerman (by Kris Krug)

Bogus Coverage (no permalinks, tsk tsk …, just here for posterity and shame):

The Outlook

The Courier

Seventh Heaven!

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:05:58 +0000

Huge exciting times! Bon chance to both teams but especially the Hurricances.

PS Not my truck but viewed in Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Park

Hockey NW Worksheet – social media community worksheet, circa 1997

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:17:47 +0000

Here’s my Hockey NW pre-social-media-online-community biz plan i mentioned @fergusson kinda fun to reflect upon

Hockey NW Worksheet

Goals:

— Promote Hockey culture and sport in the Pacific Northwest area by producing and marketing a destination site for hockey fans in the northwest

— Provide advanced web design & hosting services for major teams in the area

— Market “deluxe” products & services to minor hockey teams to increase excitement

— Earn increased revenues for Major teams by cross-marketing tickets, jerseys & packages to a wider, regional audience

— Build a duplicable model of creating and promoting a virtual community

What it will be:

The Hockey NW web site will be a state-of the art, “no-holds-barred” database driven, graphically involved and designed to provide a total user experience including:

— information and statistics for every player on participating teams,

— ticket purchasing, as well as tour packages including transportation, tickets and accommodations

— instructional videos about hockey, penalties, fundamentals, highlights

— “home pages” for each participating teams including schedules, pictures, “custom” hockey cards

— fantasy leagues, modifying the popular on-line models to create a game using all players from participating teams, regardless of league or level

— web-based e.mail checker so participating teams members can check e.mail from any browser

— refreshing”almost real-time” scoresheet with scores from various games

— highlight clips from games as possible

— custom hockey card creation and other fun

— live game radio broadcasts

— editorial articles and breakdowns

— guestbook, message board

— fan home pages, including preparing graphics and instructions for fans to make a page

— seating charts and maps to various arenas

Who is the audience:

Hockey fans cross-pollinated from various regional fan bases, especially grassroots support as in minor hockey, recreational leagues as well as international players’ families & fans. This will be a valuable piece of marketing data for teams looking to expand market and reach new audiences.

Revenue Streams:

— Affiliate programs (partner with on-line hockey gear and accessory sellers, collect commission from sales)

— Banner ads (sell advertising to various companies who stand to benefit from this audience) (ideas include: hotels,

— Teams jerseys and accessories sales (fulfilled by team, proceeds split with HNW & teams)

— Corporate sponsors (potential corporate sponsors include: Nike/Bauer, Koho, Jofa, US In-line, Orca-bay, IBM, )

— Web design/hosting/promotion packages to teams (web site hosting, custom design)

— Complete promo packages for minor teams including team photos, individual photos, web sites, score and statistics tracking, logo design, jersey design etc.

— In-kind contributions from major teams (board advertising, tickets for promotion)

Required from Major participants ( Sabercats, T’birds, Canucks, Winterhawks, Americans, Cougars, etc.)

— board & program advertising

— access to press/photo time with team

— cooperation and interaction with art/marketing departments

— consulation of needs (broadcast streaming, ticket selling schemes)

Halloween Week of Scary Games – Canucks Outsider #43

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:53:41 +0000

Waiting for the Seabus, Dave catches up with a few game recaps (Washington Nashville, Minnesota, Colorado and Dallas) and chats about Jacques Lemaire’s tan, Rolston’s language, and identifies Canuck killers and recounts Nucks struggle to hold a lead and close out games.

Canucks Outsider #43 (24:16, .mp3, 22.4MB)

Plus he comes across a talented and enthusiastic busker named Clayton, playing the Wayne Gretzky montge song before heading across the inlet to the North Shore mountains to watch the Nucks take on the Ducks (insert foreboding organ music here) and encouraging a listen to Choogleon podcast.

More music in this episode by The (savant-like) Numbskulz of Pe Ell Washington and Sam Densmore of Portland, OR (also the co-host of Mastan Music Hour podcast and a recording engineer at Mastan Music).

My mom made a blog post about my #Canucks pics on bus…

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:10:41 +0000

My mom @manorbooks made a blog post about my #Canucks pics on BC Transit http://ow.ly/ugqo Thanks Ma!

This picture gives a whole new meaning to:
“MOVE TO THE BACK OF THE BUS!”

Downtown Vancouver on the back of a BC Transit bus.
That’s my 2nd son, Dave, on the right side of the picture!
~ Canucks Fan par Excellence.
~ “Canucks Outsider” Worldwide Podcaster.
~ Bon Vivant Man About Town.

(Another) use of my Stanley Cup photo

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:40:04 +0000

(Another) use of my Stanley Cup photo on Real Clear Sports – Request: Write to ensure proper CC accreditation

[archived link from article May 31, 2009 / subsequently changed]

CanucksOutsider – Canucks Fanzone – Go Canucks Go!

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:29:34 +0000

CanucksOutsider – Canucks Fanzone – Go Canucks Go!

Canucks Outsider profile on Canucks.com FanZone

Canucks Outsider Trad Media Scrapbook

gravellybeach+canucksoutsider@gmail.com (Dave Thorvald Olson) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:35:43 +0000

Whilst tidying up all Canucks Outsider-related ephemera, I’ve rounded up a few oddments of media coverage and Fanzone related stuff for posterity. There are more out there so i’ll gather photos by my Crazy Canucks colleagues and stash ’em here as possible.

Hockey NW and Canucks Outsider design archive

My grassroots Canucks media coverage began with the “Pig Express” my own publication from 1979 – this edition featured then-GM Jake Milford flying to Sweden to recruit players

At the SLC 2002 Olympics came my anecdotal CBC HNIC appearance with Don Cherry, Ron McLean and Joe Neiuwendyk’s brother Gilles – Don Cherry wore my furry hat (thanks to brother Anders) which was featured in his montage for a few seasons – i spoke with Ron and Don about my daily photo journal of 28 events in 13 days

Vancouver Courier’ Mark Hasiuk wrote up the Canucks Outsider podcast during the playoff run on 2007 with special emphasis on my support of the international fans

Much more after the jump …

Vancouver Courier Newspaper article on the Canucks Outsider podcast

Roland Tanglao and I went to CBC to talk about Alive for the Playoffs on On the Coast with Pria Raymu during that same playoff run of 2007

Canucks Outsider podcast interview on CBC Radio One

John, Rebecca and I appeared on Get Connected on CKNW in 2007 mostly to discuss technical podcast stuff as The Crazy Canucks – TCC#35 – The Crazy Canucks GetConnected interview

DaveO talking with the Get Connected dude by Miss 604

CTV did a segment during playoff run 2007 as well – with a setup at Library Square along a set-up with the Bollwitt home – The Crazy Canucks on CTV & TCC#30 – Library Square Pub with CTV

Dave’s Hat, JJ’s Shirt by Miss 604

CBC Radio One invited me to talk hockey on BC Almanac in Oct. 2008 – here’s the old studio
Thursday, Oct. 9th, 2008

Again on CBC Radio One’s BC Almanac with Mark Forsythe dissuading Canucks fans from jumping during losing streak + fielding calls (so much fun!) in Jan. 2009

Canucks Outsider on BC Almanac, CBC Radio 1

L’Express du Pacifique covered fan culture and my hockey culture projects in “Fans sur la toile” by Camille Pesnel in March of 2009

Canucks Outsider in L’Express du Pacifique talking fan culture

CTV Global News brought on me on during playoff run 2009 along with young Josh Hall and Jamie of Anton Sledgehammer Creative to chat with Deborah Hope (I was clearly her fave ;-))

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7cFmZNV400&hl=en&fs=1&]

Earlier that day, i appeared again on CBC Radio One’s “Early Edition” with Rick Cluff to preview the critical Game 6.

CBC Radio One brought me in again to discuss the Team Canada sweater launch on Early Edition with Rick Cluff ~ but first i mugged with the wall of personalities

And checked out the new CBC studio