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Chapter 1: What are the stakes for the Oilers in their final regular season game?
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. for joining you live at location Rogers Place, 8th floor in Ice District. It is the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks. This is Oilers Now, final regular season game of the year for Edmonton. It's simple.
If the Oilers win tonight against the worst team in the NHL, the Canucks playing out the string, 25-48-8, Edmonton 40-30-11. The Oilers will claim second spot in the Pacific Division, and they would host... Either the Anaheim Ducks or the Los Angeles Kings starting Monday night best of seven in a round one seven game series.
Now, if they lose tonight in regulation and one of those other two teams ends up winning, the Oilers can be reeled in.
Chapter 2: How does Edmonton's playoff positioning depend on tonight's game?
And there could be a scenario where Edmonton would have to fly off and go to Denver, Colorado and play Sunday night to open up the playoffs. Edmonton with 91 points. Anaheim and L.A. with 90 each. Again, the Oilers win. They claim second. Let's just look at things from a positive perspective. Here's what we got coming up. Jetpack show. Chris Knobloch, Oilers head coach in 39 seconds time.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Chris Knobloch share about the Oilers' strategy?
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Chapter 4: What factors are influencing the Oilers' performance against the Canucks?
Joined by Evans Oilers head coach Chris Knobloch. Final regular season game of the year. You know you're in the playoffs. and you can decide where you are in the playoffs. So win tonight here, and you end up in a situation where you're hosting an opening round playoff series. So obviously lots to play for for your group tonight.
Yeah, great situation for us. The game means something for us. We are wanting to play our best going into the playoffs. It's not a game where we can take lightly. And, yeah, we want to have home ice advantage and dictate who we play. So, yeah, it'll be a big game time.
There are six 50-goal scores in the NHL over the last three seasons, including this year. You have two of them, Leon Drysaddle and Zach Hyman. You get one of them back tonight, Zach Hyman.
Chapter 5: How has Vancouver's season impacted their current gameplay?
Obviously, you've missed a bit of his net front presence and what he brings.
Oh, absolutely. Especially the last two games where I think our teams played well. We've been able to put pucks in the net and who better to add to our lineup than Zach Hyman to put away a puck, whether it's on the 5-on-5 or the power play.
Connor McDavid is up by seven points on Nate McKinnon, so barring a ridiculously good night for McKinnon, there's a chance that Connor's going to win the Art Ross Trophy, but he's at 48 goals. Any hesitation? I mean, the first focus is on winning the game, but any hesitation on giving 97 some significant minutes tonight?
Well, he'll get the significant minutes on the fact that we want to win a hockey game tonight, and for him to hit 50 would be a great bonus, and we want that, but obviously something that we don't want to risk overplaying him for going into the playoffs.
Vancouver's playing loose. They've pulled some points off of some teams that have been competing against you, including Anaheim and Los Angeles. They've got a decent power play. Jake DeBrusque is tied for third in the league in power play goals. And sometimes teams that are playing loose, Chris, they're a little difficult to play against.
They are. They've won three games against teams that have been chasing us in the playoffs. So they have been doing us some favors. And a lot of that is their special teams. Pelican has been much better since the break. The power play has been extremely better since the break. And I believe they're almost 50% over the last 15 games.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Connor McDavid's scoring potential?
So that's where they're getting a lot of offense. And Jake Dabrowski obviously a lot to do with that. So it'll be important for us to stay off, not in the box name.
924 save percentage for Connor Ingram over his last seven starts. He's played some of his best hockey here down the stretch, hasn't he?
He's played well. And, you know, going, you know, back in the fall when we picked him up, that was the thought that he could handle the load. He's played significant games for Arizona at the time. And we've relied on him as being our starter. And he's played extremely well.
All right. There you go. That is Edmonton Oilers head coach Chris Staubach. This is Rogers game night. Bob Stauffer. Wow. We're having some fun. minor technical difficulties to say what is going on with this darn script here. Come on. It's just open.
Chapter 7: What challenges does Vancouver face as they look to rebuild?
It is the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks. It's 4-12 in oil country. Back into the Oilers now. Audio vault. Connor Ingram starts in goal. He had this to say on his season from start to the finish.
It's been wild, you know, from sitting in my house in Utah to being here now. I mean, it's a story I don't think I saw coming or anybody saw coming. So just grateful to be here and grateful for the opportunity. And just take one day at a time. You never know what's going to happen.
Brian Nugent Hopkins had these thoughts on earning home ice advantage with a win tonight.
We want to. It's definitely important to us. Starting the playoffs in front of this fan base and this building obviously gives you a lot of life and kind of kick starts you right off the bat. So that's going to be our goal tonight. And it's not. Just because of where they're at in the standings doesn't mean a whole lot right now. It's going to be a tough one, so we've got to prepare for that.
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Chapter 8: What are the expectations for the upcoming NHL draft for Vancouver?
That's Ryan Nugent Hopkins. We will get Rick Dollywall on from Donnie and Dolly. I mean, nobody brings more stuff out in that Vancouver marketplace than Rick. He'll join us. He'll be our Oilers Now headliner for Wilhock Beef Jerky when we return on Oilers Now.
So in that interview that I did with Chris Knobloch, which was obviously pre-taped after an optional morning skate today, I mentioned that unless Nathan McKinnon gets seven points tonight, Conor McDavid's won the Art Ross. Well, today the Colorado Avalanche said that both McKinnon and Martin Natchez were going to be rested. So McDavid has won his sixth Art Ross trophy. We're lucky to watch it.
McDavid's in. He needs two goals to get to 50. Let's do this. Let's head off to the River Creek Resort Casino Hotline and welcome back a friend of the show and a super plugged-in guy. out in Vancouver. Rick Dollywall from the Donnie and Dolly Show. He is our Oilers Now headliner for Wilhock Beef Turkey. Others can try to imitate, but nobody can duplicate the great flavor of Wilhock Beef Turkey.
Only available in Leduc, Alberta. And I do want to mention, because cars cost less in Wetasquin, and we've got our friends at Brentridge Ford there that set up Cam Muda myself, I'm pretty sure Dolly may have started his broadcasting career in Wetasquin. Hello, Rick. How you doing?
No, I started in Fort St. John, British Columbia up north. Then in 1994, while the Canucks were in the Stanley Cup Finals against the Rangers, I was in beautiful, sunny Wetasquin where cars cost less. There you go. I had a great time there.
You know what? You know what's crazy about that? This is so if you believe in just, well, I planted, did you say Fort St. John? Yeah, Fort St. John, yeah. I planted trees there in 87. And that was one of my favorite years of my life. The Oilers won the Cup. We were in Clearwater in 1987 when they won. And yeah. And then in 1994, we were based in Prince George for most of that season.
And we had an entire Edmonton crew. And of course, as you know, there was like six former letters on the Rangers. So we were the jerks at the bar that were cheering for the Rangers. And everybody else at Coach's Corner in Prince George, opposite of what was then known as the PG Hole, the PG Hotel. They were not happy that they were.
And of course, the Rangers ended up winning game seven and breaking the Canucks card. And I'm trying to recall, they didn't tear down the city that time, did they, in 94?
No. No. I couldn't find one person in Wetaskiwin to cheer with me for the Canucks. And I covered the Wetaskiwin Icemen in that Junior B League, and then the Millet Thunder. Remember the Millet Thunder? Oh, yeah. Well, we got...
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