Jason Bukala

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521 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 4 Aug

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Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer · Sportsnet Writer Jason Bukala (12/3/25) · 4 Dec 2025 podcast

And I'm gonna say something else.

I totally agree with your Western Hockey League analogy.

Like when I first started hitting the tour in the Western League even twenty years ago, the way that that has changed year over year for a variety of reasons is uh it is what it is.

Uh hockey's evolved a little bit, but it's not as it's not what it used to be in the in the West and and quite frankly I used to enjoy it even better ten, fifteen years ago because those are hard, hard road trips.

But having said

At all that, yeah, like you know, Eck when he played in Barrie, um the things with Verhoff that stand out that are different than Eckblad at that same time, he's a much more efficient skater.

It wasn't that Eckblad was a bad skater, he's not a bad skater, but his body uh stature, the way that he hunches over his core, if you will, when he goes to turn and pivot and defend against speed, he had a longer runway to uh adjust because his body

mechanics weren't as in tune as Bearhoffs are.

And I know that that sounds like scouts speak to, you know, some of our listeners, but that's a fact.

The NHL plays fast, the NCAA plays fast.

And when you're big like that, you gotta have the body mechanics to be able to turn, pivot, continue your pace, get to where you got to go on time, and obviously use your length after that.

Bearhoff's a better skater.

Um Bearhoff shoots the puck better than that blad did from distance at that time to your point.

And then the rest of it, you know,

I would say that uh AC made more pocket plays, like small area plays, but that's not to say the barehop doesn't do that either.

So this is a nice problem.

This is a great customer to have.

Zero compared.

He's a he's a little bit of uh of kind of three different players for me.

He's got uh he's got Peter Angelo in him.

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