NHL Hockey on Roger's Elliotte Friedman (10/21/25)

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Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer 25 min 3 speakers 8 chapters transcribed 29 days ago

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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Bob Stauffer 0:00

Hey, it's Bob Stoffer. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Oilers Now ad-free on Amazon Music, included with Prime. It is 233 in Oil Country. Just before we go to Elliot Freeman, let's go to the absolute fine floors text line. Hey Bob, it's Jason from Grand Cash. No, which player came from Grand Cash? He was a former first rounder. See if anybody can figure that one out. Uh, it's not a trivia question today. I'll tell you who came from Grand Cash after I read the rest of the text. I'm not worried about the Oilers. I understand now why it's hard for them not to get excited to play the first games of the season after being knocked out in uh the playoffs in game six or game seven of the final.

Bob Stauffer 0:36

I'm having a hard time getting motivated to watch the games. Whether or not they're doing great, I can't imagine how. how hard it is to get motivated to play the games after the excitement of last spring. Uh okay. Uh Bob says, Bob, love the show. I wonder if the poor start has anything to do with the change of the new defensive system. Also, does Bouchard miss coffee? Thanks for Bob. I don't think Bouchard misses coffee, and it's not that different of a uh defensive system. I will say this. Paul Coffee had a lot of belief in Brett Kulak and played him a ton. And Brett had a better game the other night against Detroit. But uh anyways, it's pretty much the same defensive system that's in place. Let's do this.

Bob Stauffer 1:17

Let's head off to the River Creek Resort Casino hotline and welcome back to the show for our friends at Abe's Door service, Elliot Friedman, where service is there specialty. It's Abe's Door dot C A. Hello, Elliot. How are you? I'm good, Bob. How are you doing? Good. Well, a bunch of different topics. Uh we have a new mayor. Uh it's the third straight center left candidate to uh win the uh race for mayor in oil country that has been guy named Andrew Knack, uh who probably he's probably moved a little to the left over the last few years. He beat out Tim Cartmel. uh who is sort of the the center center right candidate. So uh Carmel has conceded the election. We have the Blue Jays winning last night. That was awesome.

Bob Stauffer 2:00

I loved everything about it except the fact that they gave the trophy for the uh ALCS uh to the owner instead of the players 'cause I really like that the NHL gives it to the players. I think that's incredible. Um and uh we have the the state of the Edmonton Oilers in oil country. So i the question I posed to the listeners and to give us a response and text us on the Ashley Fine Floors text line. Where is your level of concern? Elliot, look, I'm with this team every day. They've not played well in any of the four games on this road trip so far. Should we be concerned or do we need to understand

Elliotte Friedman 2:34

it's hard for me to get concerned. There you go.

Bob Stauffer 2:36

There you

Elliotte Friedman 2:36

go.

Bob Stauffer 2:37

Thirty thousand feet view from one of the most plugged in the men of the business. Why do you feel that way?

Elliotte Friedman 2:43

Uh, for one thing it's early. Uh for another I think the oilers know what they're doing. If it's like this. In a few weeks to a month, then I'll get worried about it. Yeah. I mean I don't know really what else to say. I just L like there's teams at the beginning of the year. I'm a lot more concerned about Calgary, I'm a lot more concerned about Buffalo. Uh I'm I'd be a lot more concerned about teams like that, uh, than I would be about Edmonton.

Bob Stauffer 3:13

So Elliot, I'm gonna give you an example and I discussed this a couple of times over the last four or five days with some people. Um And like Florida has dropped four straight games. Now they don't have Yeah, I'm not I'm not worried about them either. No one's worried about them. That said, they don't have Barkov and they don't have Kachak, that's two first line players, right?

What is the current state of the Edmonton Oilers and should fans be concerned?

Bob Stauffer 3:32

The others the Others don't have Hyman. who I knew from the moment in fact I think I talked to you that night from the moment that he got hurt against Dallas, I was like, this is gonna be a problem for the Oilers 'cause he's a huge player of that team. They didn't have Wallman either. They get Wallman back tonight.