NHL Executive Legend Brian Burke (12/5/25)
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Good afternoon, everybody. Brynn Griffith sitting in for Bob Stoffer, who is off today, and I hope he's enjoying a little bit of a breather because hey, they've been on the road an awful lot. We'll get into that throughout the afternoon. It's almost over. They just have one more really long trip coming up. In fact, after the eighteenth of this month, they play in Boston on that particular day. They don't play another game in the Eastern time zone until well late in the playoffs. We'll see how how late that's going to be. The hockey team will determine that. But nonetheless, it's uh it's been an incredible start to the season and it looks like they might be coming out of the funk. Joining us on the show today.
Always fun. Uh joining us is NHL executive legend Brian Burke, who's brought to you by Ultrashine Commercial Cleaning Done Smarter. Request your free cleaning quote today by visiting ultrashine.com. Burke, how you doing today? Good friend. How are you? Fine, thank you. We're getting a little snow finally, so it feels a little more like a you know, like a hockey year. But uh it's Edmonton. We're always gonna get that. Hey, I gotta ask you, how how big or important was that Orler win over Seattle last night? Like just to finally start to it looks like they're kinda slowly getting over the hump a bit here.
Yeah, I look at how they play too. I didn't watch the game I was at the women's game last. Yeah. But um I watched the highlights. I like it. They seem to have played much more intensely.
Well, they figured out how to play a little more defensively. I in fact I like the way they played and lost actually against Minnesota on Tuesday night. It just seems like they're starting to to get their act together, which I think is really, really important. And they're being led of course by the big guys, right?
Yes. They uh they they played a lot better, I thought, the last couple of games. They looked more interested.
I I gotta ask you because uh there's been a a lot of discussion around the office today about this one, whether or not blowouts are good whether they create good or bad habits. And I'm thinking, you know what? They've been struggling to put the puck in the net. Just have a night like that and have some fun. Do you see it the same way?
Yes. I think you can get a lot of lot of kinks out of your neck and uh when you have a blow game and he could pr he takes a lot of pressure up. 'Cause a lot of different players have st cheeks going. And feel they're struggling. So you can take a lot of guys off the side with one ball.
How important is it to get the line the third line going and the fourth line going a little bit? Because the big guys seem to be finding it now. So does this take pressure off the uh the bottom two lines a little bit?
If they wanna keep getting better, Brian, they've gotta add that. They've gotta add the bottom six scoring and get the big guys going like they have been. They want to be a complete team, they need more than one half of the team going at once.
Was looking up some stats here. Uh obviously uh the power play in the PK seems to be waking up a little bit. Uh so we had uh three goals for McDavid. Dry saddle came on the power play, and uh these guys have combined with the man advantage for like two hundred and forty six times in their careers, and the only teammates in the NHL to factor in on as many power plays is Jenny Malkin and Sidney Crosby did it two hundred and sixty seven times. That's kinda of the number they're now shooting for. But I saw that Henrik and Daniel Sadine did it two hundred and fifty one times. That's gonna make you feel great.
Well it was a special time we were able to put that deal together. You go back and you remember the sprint. The reason we were able to make that trade is the first round that year was the weakest first round in the history of the NHL. That's why teams were willing to deal players.
I I gotta ask you about that one 'cause that was in Calgary, was it not in ninety nine?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:47
2
What’s the current state of the Oilers and why is the recent win important?
3:47–7:13
3
Are blowout games helping or hurting the Oilers’ development?
7:13–9:01
4
How crucial is it to get the third‑ and fourth‑line scoring going?
9:01–11:52
5
What made the 1999 draft trade so memorable and how was it executed?
11:52–17:02
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