Bob opens the July 3rd show (7/3/26)
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What does Bob Stauffer share about the Oilers' recent news?
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, everybody. Bob Stauffer, joining you from Ice District. This is Oilers Now, brought to you by our title sponsor, World of Spas, Thomas and the staff at World of Spas. We got Derek Scott, Kellen Kennedy, Aidan Gannon helping us out on today's edition of Oilers Now. And, um, It's been an interesting day to say the least. We'll get to something fairly quickly. We will tell you. Actually, here's what we are going to do. We need to address, first of all, there are rumors out there pertaining to Claude Giroux. And I don't have any information at this time. I know that there's been some reports saying that Giroux is slated to return to Philadelphia.
He's played his entire career in the Eastern Conference. I'm not saying that the rumors are incorrect. I'm just saying that when a source that I spoke to suggested that things are, at this time, still undecided as to where Giroux may play next season. We are going to hear from the Oilers' general manager, Stan Bowman. Of course, back-to-back days, we had extended interviews with Stan. We are going to play a couple clips coming up. In our Oilers Now Audio Vault for Frank and the team at Direct Workwear. But this is a significant day in Oilers history. And we're going to bring the young gun in back at the 880 Chad Studios for our friends Jason and Dennis and the team at New West Travel, your local travel experts.
We go to this day in Oilers history. And here's Aidan Gannon.
Well, Bob, on this day in 2006, the Oilers trade Chris Pronger to the Anaheim Ducks for Ladislav Smead, Joffrey Lupul, and three draft picks. One of the picks was used to take Jordan Eberle. The other two were traded away. In his only year in Edmonton, Pronger registered 52 points in 80 games and was a huge part of the team making the cup final in 2006.
Yeah, that was a crazy time. I mean, at that time, I was hosting a show called Total Sports on the 1260 podcast, And it was in the afternoon drive and probably starting in March. This was before text messaging. I was getting an email from an individual probably once every three months or once every three weeks suggesting that Chris Pronger was going to request a trade out of town at the end of the year. And I was like, not a chance.
What are the latest rumors surrounding Claude Giroux?
He just signed a five-year contract extension. So... Lo and behold, and we're going to hopefully be able to endeavor to hook up with Kevin Lowe, who's coming on. He, of course, was his GM of the Amazon letters. We'll talk to him about that trade and the machinations around it. That'll be at, again, at about 435. But what I want to know on the Ashley Fine Floors text line at 780-451-8800, Ashley Fine Floors. Find the new floors you always wanted, 143rd Street, 111th Avenue, or head to ashleyfinefloors.com for more information. I want you to text us. Tell me what you remember about the trade and about that coming down. I got a phone call July 3rd. You can look it up. It was a Monday, and I got a phone call from Kevin that morning.
He told me they were going to go ahead and do the deal. Many of you know that I grew up with Joffrey Loople's father, Craig Loople. Played on his men's hockey team for a couple of years and he was in a pool that we've been in for about 40 years, dating back to when we were all in university in the mid to late 1980s. And it was an interesting trade. we've pre-taped our conversation with Brian Burke. Aidan, did you end up going through that interview and the part where Burke is telling a story about the reaction of Ladislav Schmid when he finds out that he's traded for Chris Bronger?
Yeah, that's hilarious. People are going to want to tune in for that one. It's good.
We're going to run that at 5.05 today. And David Staples from the Cult of Hockey at 5.35 to close out today's show as Aidan will look after the final half hour of today's show for us. But we are going to tell you it's 4.12 in Edmonton. And your home for live music and great performances, the River Cree Resort and Casino.
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