Jack Michaels

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2,530 appearances 40 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 21 Sep

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Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer · Oilers on Sportsnet play-by-play voice Jack Michaels (8/17/26) · 17 Aug 2026 podcast

Has he had enough time at the AHL level?

It certainly would seem so, but he's gotta do it at the NHL level and he cannot get off to a slow start and expect to become a meaningful contributor for the Oilers at least this season.

Well, I'm cautiously optimistic about the back end.

I and again, this is not taking away anything from Darnell, but I believe one of his teammates and five other guys are the only guys who were plus thirty with thirty five points last year in the NHL.

Eckholm was one, Ryan Shea was one, and then I think there's five other guys.

There might be four other guys.

Bottom line is it was

A short list.

That's how good of a year he had in Pittsburgh last year.

And let's face it, going into the year, Cam, you wouldn't have necessarily turned Pittsburgh a defensive juggernaut.

Now, is does that mean Ryan Shea is necessarily a lockdown defender?

No, but it also means he's not a liability defensively.

And he may just be, you know, uh he may be that.

at you know, offensively sound where you can where you can, you know, theoretically have him trailing

certainly an ice time behind guys like Bouchard and Eckholm and maybe even Jake Wallman, depending on how you know how much Walman might see

second power play time, but uh, you know, Ryan Shea had a really good year last year.

So I I am fairly bullish on the Oilers' prospects on the back end.

I as much as I respect Darnell, I think the most intriguing aspect of that subtraction on the roster is how, if if at all, it'll affect the locker room.

And and you know, there's there's been plenty of cases where

You make a couple of shakeups and your locker room's never the same and you don't find that chemistry.

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