MLive's Ansar Khan on the Detroit Red Wings (7/16/26)
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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.
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So there's a lot of question marks there. For the Oilers, I think that they're pretty much settled here. I could see them making maybe potentially a few more minor moves, but nothing crazy quite yet. I think that Stan Bowman wanted to open up cap space for himself just to play with in case later down the line they want to go all in and push for a really high-profile player or any kind of player. Having cap space is an advantage in the NHL. There's no doubt about that. And the Oilers finally have it for the first time in I don't know how long. I remember the 2024 season. We saw a lot of exits there. You know, Connor Brown, Vincent Darnay, players like that who were very, very solid for the Oilers during that postseason run.
And then a few pickups that didn't quite work out for the Edmonton Oilers that season and Well, you know, they made it back to the Stanley Cup final next year. So they are no Connor Brown was with the team last season. Forget about me. Let's go. Let's let's talk. Let's talk a little bit more. I had a conversation with Jack Michaels yesterday and I asked Gene about the three goaltender system. So. Devin Levi Frederick Anderson Tristan Jari you know those three they could be ready it really does depend on how ready Devin Levi is going to be at the start of the season because as I mentioned he spent the entire season last year with the Rochester Americans in the AHL and don't get it twisted goaltenders take much longer than say forwards or defensemen to develop into NHL players and
So, you know, some time in the AHL where you know you're going to get the brunt of starts, that is good. That means this guy is warm. He has been playing a lot of hockey recently. I asked Jack Michaels about the goaltending.
You know, the goaltending situation probably remains the biggest question mark. But if at age 37, Freddie Anderson... large part of that concern goes away because you know quite frankly freddie anderson's body of work especially where it you know counts most um in the win-loss column you know and and even beyond the win-loss column you know last year was a bit of an aberration as far as the save percentage during the course of the regular season and then he bounced back and had a really solid playoff so I think the Oilers have shored up a lot.
A lot of lot, a lot of questions when it comes to the goaltending this season. And honestly, I'm pretty excited for it. I've said it a few times already, but I want to see a bigger sample size of Tristan Jari. Because at the start of the year, he was injured at the start of the season. He came into Pittsburgh. and he played great and he played some really really good hockey and then you know the trade happened to edmonton he came over and he was solid he was very very solid for the team and he's familiar with edmonton you know he played with the edmonton oil kings it's a city that he knows and and that he's familiar with and that he's comfortable with and so it's going to be fun to see how he responds this season because i don't think we saw the best of him last year and i think he's got a whole lot more to give but i
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