100% Hockey's John Shannon (7/7/26)
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Hey, it's Bob Stauffer. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Oilers Now ad-free on Amazon Music, included with Prime. Welcome back, everybody. It's 435 in oil country. Bob Stauffer with you on Oilers Now. And do you want to tell you that guests on this show receive your certificates to Japanese Village? It's a true celebration for the senses, quality ingredients, and an unmatched grill side experience. Book your seat at jvedmonton.ca. We just had Zach Hyman on the show, and he was our Oilers Now headliner again for our friends at Wilhock Beef Jerky. Others can try to imitate, but nobody can duplicate the great flavor of Wilhock Beef Jerky, only available in Leduc. Well, normally we have John Shannon on Wednesdays, but I thought it'd be appropriate given what transpired today involving Sportsnet and their AM radio cluster in certain markets, including Vancouver and Calgary, which had all sports stations, to bring John Shannon aboard for legacy heating and cooling, home and old payments to no interest for a year.
That's how you build a legacy, legacy heating and cooling. Hello, John. How are you? I'm great, Bob. You? Yeah, I'm good. Just before we get to sort of the news of the day, lots has transpired since July 1st, but I do want to get your thoughts. We just had Zach Hyman on the air. Zach has been amongst one of the best free agent signings of all time, certainly the best free agent signing the Oilers have ever had. I mean, he's basically... been on pace in an 82-game schedule to be scoring like 38 goals per year. Suffice to say, he's probably exceeded expectation from when Edmonton signed him to that five-year deal, which, by the way, was criticized by some, including some out of Toronto, when Edmonton ended up securing his rights.
You know, it's funny. I was one of those guys, and I think you remember, I was one of those guys advocating that the Oilers sign Zach because I had firsthand knowledge of what he did and how much he was liked by the coach in Toronto and by his teammates. The one thing you always got with Zach Hyman was 100% effort. And Mike Babcock put him in positions during a game, late in the game, to succeed. And that has continued in Edmonton, I think, with Zach's contributions. I was fascinated, actually, to listen to Zach's conversation with you, Bob, about his junior hockey program and what they're doing in Brantford. And I had a long conversation with somebody in the Hockey Canada world this morning about it because...
With what has happened and the fact that American players are now coming back to the CHL, it's becoming more difficult for Canadian players to find a place to play in the CHL. And where... opening it up to the NCAA players and big names coming. There's a bigger pool of players now coming to the CHL, much more competitive, maybe better hockey, but it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt the development of Canadian players in the short term.
Yeah, I think, you know, obviously it's really going to hurt the USHL, which was a feeder system for the NCAA system. And, you know, it's funny. You had Gavin McKinnon, Keaton Verhoff, and a year ago at this time, they were probably the consensus one, two players out of North America. And Verhoff fell to nine, even though he played against them all year.
What recent NHL news prompted John Shannon's appearance?
And Mike, I'm going to tell you this right now, Mike Greer, They were smiling like a Chester cat because I think that they thought they didn't think they were going to go up to two and they were hoping to get them at like three, four in that range or five. And it's it's funny because he fell. I went and we had, you know, you know, three or four defensemen, including Carson Carroll's Calgary, taking a guy that dealt with some, you know, missed a lot of time, did not do the combine, did not play for Canada in the U18 after Prince George was eliminated. Verhoff played for Canada in the U18 and he won gold medal a year before when he ran the power play. They didn't even have him on the power play this time.
And there was just some really interesting political things take place here.
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