Bruce Curlock

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5,858 appearances 60 recordings 2 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 2d ago

Bruce Curlock’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer · Hockey Blogger Bruce Curlock (9/10/26) · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

And those are all, you know, those are all valid points. voice-verified

But it's pretty crystal clear that, first of all, I'm going to guess that voice-verified

DJ Smith would have some understanding of this player because I think they would have crossed paths, right? voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

So he understands that player. voice-verified

dj smith is certainly going to be heavily involved in player selection player deployment and the tactics that they deploy as a team using these players and so my suspicion is he has you know the team has a pretty strong idea of what they could see from him voice-verified

And they see something as something of a fit from my perspective, six foot three, a couple hundred pounds. voice-verified

He's not fast. voice-verified

He's ultra fast. voice-verified

Like he is fast, fast. voice-verified

He is like in the 98th percentile in terms of speed and speed. voice-verified

So if you think of, you know, and again, good defensively, as we talked about before, a very good penalty killer in his time as a young guy. voice-verified

And I suspect, again, the PK is a focus here in Edmonton. voice-verified

You know, can he help that? voice-verified

We'll see. voice-verified

But he certainly has some background in that. voice-verified

I think the bigger thing here when I see this player is, voice-verified

Because he's so big and he's so fast, I sort of see the team shaping the bottom six in a kind of Carolina style of group, right? voice-verified

Where it's going to be relentless forecheck from big players who can and should be hard on the body. voice-verified

And I mean, the bottom six of the Oilers is... voice-verified

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