Bob opens the Feb 24th show from Anaheim (02-24-26)

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Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer 18 min 4 speakers 5 chapters transcribed 2 months ago

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Bob Stauffer 0:00

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. This is Oilers Now, jam-packed edition of the show coming up. We will have Elliot Freeman back from Italy. He'll come down the pipe at about 4.35 for Abe's Door Service. A member of the 1984 American Canada Cup team, Former NHL executive, one-time GM of the Tampa Bay Lightning, the man that started Octagon's player agency, Brian Lawton. We'll also hear from Bakersfield Condors General Manager Keith Gretzky. The Condor is in action tonight. Leon Dreisaitl back on action on the ice today for the Oilers practice in Anaheim. We'll have some comments from him and Chris Knobloch as well.

Bob Stauffer 0:54

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Bob Stauffer 1:39

Top story for legacy heating and cooling. Home and home payments are no interest for one year. That's how you build a legacy, legacy heating and cooling. Chris Knobloch, Oilers head coach, telling us that Conor McDavid will be flying in today. and joining the team Leon Dreisaitl for his first practice coming back from the Olympics. And that is indeed where we start, the Olympics. Canada, in the end, came up short. I think it's got to be stated that personally, I was surprised at how well Canada played. against the United States in the course of the gold medal game, especially in the second and third period. Didn't have a great start to the game. And especially in lieu of the fact that two of the first six players named to Team Canada, Sidney Crosby and Braden Point, were not available to the medal round, I thought Canada played pretty well.

Bob Stauffer 2:37

They just simply misfired on too many opportunities and put the game in peril by going into overtime. We've seen this from Connor Hellebuck before. I know last year there was a broadcaster out east that was before the Four Nations face-off, which I attended courtesy of our friends with New West Travel. Last year, before the Four Nations face-off, they were sort of belittling Connor Hellebuck's track record in the NHL playoffs. And I reached out to the individual and said, look, in the 2021 playoffs against the Amazoners, Connor Hellebuck had a 950 save percentage. he was not gassed from being overworked during the course of that 2021 season. You would recall that was a 56-game regular season. Connor Hellebuck missed some time earlier this year.

Bob Stauffer 3:25

Yes, he's not had success in NHL playoffs, but that's because the Jets have played him 60-plus starts a year for the last three years. He got a break this year. He was not overworked. And let's face it, he was brilliant in the actual gold medal game. Canada, as many of you know, and believe me, please chime in with your thoughts as well, Canada became a one-line team in the medal round. And Hockey Canada bears a responsibility on a couple of different fronts. We discussed this going into the potential of the gold medal game once we knew where it all stood Friday afternoon. when I did the hit with Brennan Aiden on the show. I talked about the fact that in my mind, I wanted Evan Bouchard to be playing with Conor McDavid and Cale McCarr to be playing with Nathan McKinnon.

Bob Stauffer 4:20

Okay? And not everybody agreed on the Evan Bouchard front, and I get that, though I will tell you that had the Oilers won the Stanley Cup in 2024, Evan Bouchard would have been on Team Canada. Nathan McKinnon, I'm going to assume he was both sick and injured,