Frankly Hockey's Frank Seravalli (3/30/26)

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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. It is 4.34 in oil country. Bob Stauffer with you. Oilers Now. Craig McTavish, MAC-T on Mondays in studio today for our friends at Contract Equipment Canada's premium heavy equipment dealer with rental and sales. MAC-T will join us for the full hour, 5 to 6. We will tell you the guests and orders now. Receive your certificates to Japanese Village. It's a true celebration for the senses, quality ingredients, and unmatched grill side experience. Book your seat at jvadmington.ca. As we welcome back to the show, one of the most plugged-in men in the business, Frank Cervalli.

Bob Stauffer 0:42

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Frank Ceravalli 1:05

Well, a lot of people enjoy your company, and yeah, can't believe you made it this far. Congratulations.

Bob Stauffer 1:13

Can't believe you made it this far. You know what's crazy? You and me have occasionally gone to establishments together in the city of Edmonton, I knew where you were going. Did you? Are you ever going to live down the fact that those two women thought we were brothers?

Frank Ceravalli 1:34

No. No, I'm not.

Bob Stauffer 1:38

Hey, I just want to clear something up. Was it AI or was there a little bit of a misquote or a misspeak? I saw something about a good NCAA team. Did you mean to say it could maybe beat an HL team? Yes. Okay. So let's get this thing straight.

Who is Frank Seravalli and why is he on Oilers Now?

Bob Stauffer 1:56

What happened exactly?

Frank Ceravalli 1:58

Yeah, so I just had too many leagues on my brain at one time. Essentially, the quote was that the top end NCAA programs, the programs that are now spending big money on NIL. Those are teams that many scouts believe as this landscape has changed that could go toe-to-toe with ahl teams not nhl teams so i misspoke in the moment obviously the clip goes viral people are talking about it and i tried correcting it as best i could and it just gets worse so that's the world we live in today well that happens once in a while um you know and usually the best way to deal with it's just say hey i said this but this is what i really meant and

Bob Stauffer 2:41

If we did a countdown on the amount of screw-ups in live radio that a guy would have over a two-hour show, there would be at least two, three, 37, I don't know, something like that. So there you go.

Frank Ceravalli 2:53

Yeah, and I do somewhere around seven to eight different programs a day. Right. When you do that many over the course of just even one season... let alone a career, I mean, they pile up. And so, yeah, it happens in life.

Bob Stauffer 3:09

So, and I would agree with you. Like, you know, I had this argument a number of years ago with one of the guys on the then-named Edmonton Eskimos about the strength of SCC offensive and defensive lines on the powerhouse schools, you know, the Alabama's of the world. And I said... you know, there's no import quota on those teams. Those players, those starting tackles and starting defensive nose tackles or defensive ends, those guys are getting drafted in the first or second round of the NFL draft. And, I mean, if you look, that's, I mean, who are the four finalists, by the way, in the NCAA for the Frozen Four coming up?

Frank Ceravalli 3:49

Denver, North Dakota, Michigan, and Wisconsin. So four blue bloods. It's the biggest collection of national championship winners in one frozen four in NCAA history.

Bob Stauffer 4:04

I had this conversation, and we should be objective here and recognize that we have a mutual acquaintance that many of the listeners know over the years in Edmonton. His stepson plays for North Dakota and is a very potential, very high draft. And I don't know how you can assess the second youngest player to play in NCAA hockey right now, who's a consensus top five pick, is a 6'4", right shot D. And compare that to guys that are playing in the Western Hockey League in their draft years, putting up 75 or 80 points, when as a 16-year-old, he put up 21 goals and 45 points and became the first and still the only 16-year-old in the last 40 years to score 20-plus goals as a defenseman.