Jason Smith
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3,280 appearances
40 recordings
6 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 3 Sep
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Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer · Edmonton Oil Kings Head Coach Jason Smith (5/26/26) · 27 May 2026
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And, you know, that's, you know, that's something that, you know, is challenging.
And I think those guys were looking for and, you know, definitely those guys will be missed from our group.
But, you know, I think,
Now that we know where they all stand and what their plans are, it's about kind of planning moving forward and us as coaches and the management staff taking the steps to give us an opportunity to be successful moving forward.
I think we were confident and we knew we could play with any team in the league at that point.
I think we'd played a lot of meaningful games leading into the playoffs that year.
I think the last two months of the year were pretty much almost a playoff game most nights.
It was a game that had meaning and a game that had importance.
We played a lot of games that had a lot of meaning to them and we needed to make sure that we continued to play
The way we played down the stretch, we were competing for 60 minutes and playing complete games, and we were doing a lot of the little things right.
We weren't beating ourselves, which is huge importance.
When you're limiting the amount of mistakes you're making and you're defending and competing at a high level, and you've got great goaltending, which we did have, it gives you an opportunity in any game.
And then you ended up... No, I think in those playoff series, you take that game-by-game approach, but as much as people talk about momentum and swings in games, I think every game is its own game until the series is over.
You just have to worry about the next task at hand.
And I think as a group, we had belief and we were...
We were playing, like I said, and not giving ourselves, you know, giving games away and not giving, you know, periods away.
And, yes, there were mistakes in the game, and we got good saves and big saves at the right time.
But, you know, we very rarely, you know, put ourselves in a situation where we were taking, you know, a parade to the penalty box and a bunch of penalties or, you know, giving –
giving high danger chances consecutively.
Obviously, you give up chances and opportunities in the game, but if you can limit the main part of those chances that you're not giving up consecutive grade A chance after premium chance after another one, you give yourself a chance to win the game.
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