Bob opens the September 16th show (9/16/26)

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What announcements and sponsor messages open the September 16 show?

Bob Stauffer 0:00

Hey, it's Bob Stoffer. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Oilers Now ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime. Bob Stoffer joining you from the home office in the city's downtown core Inace District, and this is Oilers Now. And uh we got a jam-packed show coming up. It is the opening day of training camp. It was a day of uh physicals and testing and that sort of thing. We will have Stan Bowman. We'll carry some of Stan's availability and then a sit down conversation split into two parts for you on today with Evan Tomoters, General Manager Stan Bowman. We will also hear from Evan Bouchard, Tristan Jari, and Jake Wallman. Eventon Oil Kings head coach, Jason Smith, of course, the former captain of the Edmonton Letters, he will join us at four thirty five against Stan Bowman.

Bob Stauffer 0:50

two part interview at four thirty five today and we'll get your text and uh work in some more audio between five and five thirty. You can reach us at any time on the River Cree Resort Casino Hotline, 780451-8800. It's brought to you by the River Career Resort Casino. Don't miss heart with two shows on October twenty-third and twenty-fourth. Tickets at the Rivercree Resort.com. Excitement bet on it. And you can text us on the Ashley Five Floors text line as well, seven eight zero zero zero zero zero four five one eighty eight hundred. Find the new floors you always want at one hundred and forty third street, one hundred and eleventh Avenue, or head to Ashley FineFloors dot com for more information. We're on uh exit orders now, you can tweet me personally, Bob underscore stuff or Aiden Ganem at Aiden Ganem underscore.

Bob Stauffer 1:29

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How does the opening day of training camp set the tone for the Oilers?

Bob Stauffer 1:31

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Bob Stauffer 2:20

All right. Uh Aiden Gannum is back at the eight eighty Chad Studios. Aiden, it's hard to believe. In three days. We will have our first preseason game, the Aventon Others and the Winnipeg Jets, and we're gonna drop the puck on training camp, uh, couple uh groups going out over the next couple of days. We're getting back at her, aren't we?

Aiden Ganim 2:42

Yeah, and it's exciting, Bob. I uh this is the first time I've been working with the team now and uh having this shorter off or the longer off season, man. I've been itching for hockey. The first couple of months were okay and then this the the playoffs kind of wrapped up and it was like, All right, let's get back to it here. So I'm fired up.

Bob Stauffer 2:58

Let's get back to it. Uh all right. Well, uh let's get to Stan Bowman. He was asked a couple of questions in and around uh the Alex Formaton signing and fan reaction.

Stan Bowman 3:11

I would say we knew going into it that this was something that wasn't gonna be like universally accepted or embraced. Uh that was why we spent as much time as we did going through the details of it and going through our due diligence to make sure that um we believed it was the right decision to make. Uh And I guess what I would say is I I understand that. I th I understand that people are gonna view it differently and that that's okay. Um that's one of the things that I'm a big believer in is that we don't all have to agree on everything here and people are entitled to their opinions and they have strong feelings on it. And I totally respect that. I think that makes sense. But we did put a lot of time and consideration into that.

Stan Bowman 3:59

We also knew that it it is something that is a polarizing topic and that's why we we did spend as much time looking into it to get us to the point where we do feel accompanied