Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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. The Edmonton Oilers, who tonight play game three against the Anaheim Ducks, the series is tied 1-1. The good news, if you're a fan of the Edmonton Oilers, Conor McDavid and Evan Bouchard haven't entered the proverbial chat We'll get her going. We know that.
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Chapter 2: What is the current status of the Edmonton Oilers in the playoffs?
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Hey, Bob, I'm doing great.
Chapter 3: How do Conor McDavid and Evan Bouchard influence the Oilers' performance?
I'm intrigued. I might go check out the Friesen Brothers. I like their little market there. I like the pulled pork sandwiches that they got personally.
See, there you go. That's called a great job of cross-promoting right now. Doug and the crew at Friesen Brothers are going to love that. Yeah. Hey, tell them I'm open for partnerships. There you go. Did you take business at Cornell? I'm just trying to think here.
Yeah, I was in a hospitality business program. I was in the hotel school there, but have since realized that, like most people out there, most people I've talked to anyway, it turns out I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do with my life at 18 and 19 when I was making those hefty decisions.
It's funny how that works out, isn't it? I'm going to tell you this right now, Ben. I knew at 14... that I probably wasn't going to be a good enough player to play major junior, let alone the NHL. And I knew I wanted to be a broadcaster at like 14 years of age. Isn't that crazy? That's wild. Somehow willed it to make it happen and have been bluffing people ever since.
I was going to say, if only you had set your sights higher. I mean, you could have been president of the United States.
Just teasing. I better watch what we say here. They might be checking out the lines. You know, the prime minister has been on the show a couple times over the last year. You know that, right?
I know. I knew that I could venture into politics with you because as savvy as you are with a stat sheet, you've got political chops as well.
Do you know what happens? It's called being, you know, I recently turned 60, which is why we floated that photo out from 40 years ago and spit in chiclets. Back in the fall, I get these comments and guys are like, holy crap, Stauffer was an Adonis. What happened?
But it is kind of hubris when you think about, you know, hosting a hockey show in oil country in Edmonton, and you've had Prime Minister Mark Carney on twice, Pierre Polyev on once, and Premier Daniel Smith on twice.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Ben Scrivens share about his transition from player to broadcaster?
I'm going to go off the board on this one. I think I have appreciated it. I've learned how just how deep rooted it is in retirement. Right. We are quite insulated on the team. So you see, you obviously see who shows up to the game and the fans, like I played back at Rexall or Skyreacher, the Coliseum, whatever the iteration of the naming was for you and the listeners for their own time spans.
Um, for me, like I, there was no, no, um, more passionate fan base in the arena. Um, but we're also, we don't see, um, everybody around town and we are a little bit insulated and, um, for better, for worse. Uh, but since, since I've joined the alumni and I try to be as, um, uh, as available as I can for, um, you know, different, uh, different fun activities. I keep my kids around for that.
Um, like going to say that we're going to be at the, uh, um, the watch party tonight down at, at Rogers, but that, I mean, that has shown me like just a different side of it too. I I've traveled all over the country now too. I was in, uh, None of it to call it and talking to diehard Oilers fans there that are, I mean, truly couldn't be more geographically removed from Edmonton.
And yet that passion is just so prevalent. And yeah, what a pleasure and a privilege it was to wear the oil drop and put that logo on.
um when i played and and yeah i'm only more immersed in it um now uh now in retirement even more so than when i played and when i was a fan growing up as a kid yeah you know it's interesting ben like i was a canadians fan until the orders joined the nhl and i can remember the moment that it changed and so when davy hunter hit gila fleur and i loved gila fleur but the canadians freaked out and gila point grabbed uh he ended up grabbing uh
Uh, Davey Hunter and Davey Hunter did a number on them. And I was, I, that moment I realized in 1981, I was cheering for the Oilers. And then I had the privilege as a younger guy who occasionally ventured into establishments where I saw the Oilers. Um, I would, and I was like, uh,
I literally was young enough and fit enough at that age and a big enough guy that you would go, well, is that like some farmhand or something like that, right? So I kind of grew up around it and watched the greatest cavalcade of electrifying offensive stars to ever play in the game throughout the 1980s.
And then I slowly worked my way into the media and went from being a relative nobody to, well, still being a nobody, but being an approachable nobody.
And so I go to establishments in town and we go to one after games, but 1905 and people come over and say hi to me and Cam moon and take pictures and say, and then even when we're doing the remote locations down at the arena and Ford hall and game days, people are, you know, and now I live downtown. I live in, you know, right next to the arena. And it's just, it's, you just feel it every day.
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Chapter 5: How does Ben Scrivens describe the passion of Oilers fans?
Okay. Todd was really good. And he had to reinvent himself as a fighter to make it like, like he was good. Like he was a dog, like, you know, relative to the age group, I could score a little and we'd lose every game, nine, three. And I might get a couple for the Strathcona Warriors or whatever. And I just made the second or third best player on our team.
But they had like eight guys better than me. But Todd was like the best forward in Viveros. Today would have played a thousand games in the NHL. But the problem was he was a 5'10.5 defenseman in the mid-1980s. You know, those guys were incredible players. And so when you're talking about the enforcer being like Louie to brass could really skate for a big man. Oh yeah.
I don't thought Ben before you're, and it's great. You're at the event tonight. I didn't know that, but I just wanted to, to just a quick thought in order for the Edmonton orders to have a successful playoff run, what needs to happen?
I mean, they live and die by their power play, right? They need to win the special teams battle. The nice part, and you said it coming out of the break, you know, Connor and Boosh have been, I don't want to say invisible. Boosh has actually played fairly well. He's been physical and present. But on the score sheet, you know, we haven't really seen them yet.
And, I mean, that's not going to continue. It's only a matter of time before that damn break happens. before the water breaches the levee and those guys figure it out. So I think that bodes well for them going into a best of five starting in Anaheim.
Ben, I know you're true to your word. I know you genuinely have come to really appreciate what you got and how unique Edmonton is. And I know you feel that way, and I'm just going to share this with you. Um, I became a lot better guy when I was in my fifties. You only got one way to go up.
I appreciate that. We, uh, yeah, I, yes, there's, there's hope for all of us is what I hear. Have a great time tonight. Thanks for joining us. Yeah. Thanks for having me on as always, Bob.
You bet. That is former Edmonton Oilers netminer Ben Scribbins joining us on the playoff roundtable for Friesen Brothers. And you can hear the appreciation that he had for his time as a player, maybe the greater appreciation he's had for the game and just how awesome the Oilers fan base is since he's retired. We are going to go off to an 880 News Weather Traffic Update with Thomas Dyess.
And when we come back in Oilers Now, Ryan Rashog as we get going. On Oilers Now, that concludes this segment of Road to the Cup.
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