Hockey Blogger Bruce Curlock (4/6/26)
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What are the initial thoughts on Oilers prospects?
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Visit royalpizza.ca. Let's go off to the River Creek Resort and Casino hotline, and we welcome back to the show. He's a mystery. In more ways than one, it is Bruce Kerlock for the Oilers Now Prospect Report brought to you by Reface Magic. Not just refacing, now offering custom complete kitchens. Hello, Bruce. How are you? I'm good. How are you, Mr. Stauffer? I'm okay. I'm okay. Good. All right. Good. Good to be here. There's rumors you were stateside this week. Is that true?
I was stateside, I was fishing, and we did catch a fish this big. And whatever you think this big is, multiply by three.
Well, is it a fish that has a duplicate name? Like a mahi-mahi.
Was it mahi-mahi? Mahi-mahi. We caught lots of mahi-mahi. We caught some wahoo. We caught some tuna that ended up being bait, but the mahi-mahi and the wahoo were... Great fun and delicious eating.
All right. So that would lead me to believe that you're either in the Gulf or maybe near the key. How's that? Am I warm? Yeah, we're on the Atlantic Ocean side. That's right. On the Atlantic Ocean side. There you go. Bruce Kerlock. Now, I know that the young gun, Aiden Ganim, has already, by the way, Aiden, one of the NHL organizations believes that I control the account for the Oilers Now account.
Well, it's me. I control it. I posted the photo. But, yeah, we sent an ask out to Nashville, and they were joking about Bob's photo, and I had to let them know that it was me that made the post. There we go. Anyhow.
Is this your tree planting photo?
Yes, yes. Oh, you look sharp. Look sharp. Well, thank you, Bruce. Flattery will get you everywhere on the show. Today, Aiden retweeted a piece that you wrote about a couple of winners' prospects, and who are those prospects?
Yeah, we talked a little bit about Viljami Marjala. That's a mouthful for me. And Connor Clattenberg in particular. Two guys that kind of made their impact on the organization and Bakersfield in particular in different ways. And I don't think Clattenberg went under the radar, but I think Marjala did. And so we wanted to highlight both of them because I think there are players in NHL players in both cases and or at least there's a progression to it. And we just talked about them in the same article because they're coming at this from completely different ways.
Let's start with Klatenberg. He has rather he has a rather overt game.
Yeah, he's old school, right? You'd look at players like Tom Wilson would be an example of a guy that he plays like that, I mean, in our vintage. there was probably four or five guys on every team like that. They're a more unique player than they used to be in that time. You know, the game has gone different direction. And to be successful, if you're going to be a very robust physical player like Lattenberg, you need to bring some skill, which includes skating ability.
How did Bruce Curlock's fishing trip influence his insights?
and some puck skills. And he skates certainly well enough. Puck skills we talked a little bit about. That's really the thing that he needs to focus on. But the other elements that he brings are things that, to be candid, are not all that prevalent in the Oilers organization. And that's the guy who hits to hurt. and will sacrifice his body to do so, which did cause him some injuries this year. And again, because in this day and age, hitting is not as common you almost always have to back up a hit you make and so he's he's not afraid to fight and if anything he probably enjoys it and does he fight too much bruce does he fight too much yes he does yes without a doubt i caused him some injuries
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