“We’re Going To Be Good”: Michael Bublé Speaks On The Vancouver Canucks
The Vancouver-based superstar and Canucks super fan joined Donnie and Dhali to talk about his favourite team.
The Vancouver Canucks are bound to be “feeling good” about themselves after the praise they received from superstar Michael Bublé. He joined Donnie and Dhali on February 5 for a near 15-minute chat about his favourite team.
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“I absolutely loved it. Loved the move,” Bublé said about the team’s Friday-night deal for J.T. Miller to start the segment. “I knew how much the Rangers coveted [Victor Mancini], and how much the Canucks did too.”
Bublé was quick to praise the new-look Canucks, specifically what management seemed to be targeting in the two deals they made last Friday. With the additions of Marcus Pettersson and Mancini, Vancouver’s defence seemed to turn over a new leaf in a matter of hours.
“Some people will argue [Pettersson] is a top-five, top-10 defensive defenceman in the league, and now you can see they’re starting to build from the D out, which I’ve really not seen much of as a Canuck fan. You can see, the last three games, how different it is out there,” he said. “It’s just a different team. And that’s without Quinn [Hughes].”
As new-and-improved as this Canucks team looks now, Bublé did note that the trades, as well as the situations surrounding them, were somewhat tough to deal with. “You never know what’s going to happen, or what guys are going through,” he said. “It’s definitely frustrating.
“I walk by a poster in my basement almost daily, and it’s of me coaching and standing beside Elias Lindholm, Hughes, [Elias] Pettersson, J.T., and Thatcher [Demko], and it’s the All-Star Game. I just walk past it and go ‘oh, how did that happen?’”
Miller’s departure, as much as it may have hurt to witness as a fan, was still something that Bublé felt was necessary at the moment — for the player as well as the team. “Those guys are happy for his success. They know he had to go. Of course they know what they’re losing, but they’re also happy for themselves. That’s a happy dressing room, a bunch of guys who are really excited to show us that they’re galvanized, that they want this badly.”
It’s common knowledge that Bublé is close with the team, as many have pointed out his casual hangouts with many of the team’s stars. Close to a year ago, he was Hughes’ celebrity coach at the All-Star Game.
“I wrote Thatcher last night, and told him I’m just happy for him, I know it means a lot,” he said, building on his friendships with the team. “He just loves the people here. It means a lot to him. He’s a really competitive guy, and I know they care.
“It’s a pretty cool thing to be a fan and get to know guys like that.”
The conversation soon turned back to Elias Pettersson, who Donnie and Dhali asked Bublé of his opinion on. More specifically, they questioned whether he thought Pettersson could get back to his previous form. Bublé merely responded by saying, “I think he’s an incredible defenceman. I really do.”
Speaking seriously, however, Bublé expressed his support for the forward. “I can see he’s turning it on, and he’s happy. He wants it real bad, he wants to show everybody, he wants to show the doubters, and he wants to do it for himself, for his coach, for his teammates.”
The Burnaby, BC icon reflected on some of the negatives that the fanbase has experienced, and soon turned the conversation into a message for the fans.
“We’ve been hurt so much, I’ve been hurt so much, it’s so easy to be so negative because we’ve been disappointed over 50 years. But I feel like, as a fan, I look at what we have, in the management group and I go ‘my god, we are in a really good place.’ We’re in a great place. We have a group there who have a lot of integrity. I think they know what they’re doing. I love that they’re making moves to help us now. They’re expeditious with those moves. At the same time, they’re not throwing away our future.
“We’re going to be good.”
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