NHL Hockey on Rogers' Elliotte Friedman (2/17/26)

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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. Brought to you by our title sponsor, World of Spas. The Edmonton Oilers with some news today. We'll get to that fairly quickly as well. We will tell you that Aidan Ganim, Derek Scott, Kellen Kennedy are going to be helping us out at the 880 Ched Studios. Optional today for the NHL players that are not participating in the Olympics. And the Oilers send down Matt Savoy to the Bakersfield Condors, where, as per the new CBA rules this season, he must play at least one game. This has been done purely for cap purposes. Matt Savoy will play at least one game for the Condors in the American Hockey League.

Bob Stauffer 0:48

Obviously, he's had a solid start for the Edmonton Oilers to his NHL career. Hart Levine, Puckpedia, perhaps providing us a little bit of insight on this, basically saying with the order sending Savoy down, they can activate Adam Henrik from LTIR. They've got 238,000 in projected cap space, which can fit 775,000 annual cap it today. Using their current cap space slider, you can see that this grows to $897,000 by a week from today when the Oilers take on the Anaheim Ducks, which is when they could recall and have Matt Savoy back up. So that is our top Oilers story, which is brought to you by Legacy Heating and Cooling. And the fine folks at Legacy Heating and Cooling, home and home payments, no interest for one year.

Bob Stauffer 1:43

That's how you build a legacy, Legacy Heating and Cooling. We are going to go straight off to Italy on the River Cree Resort Casino Hotline at 780-451-8800. And for our friends at Abe's Door Service, squeezing us in on what was a remarkably busy day for him. We welcome back to the show, Elliot Friedman. Hello, Elliot. How are you doing? Good, Bob. How are you doing? Good. I loved your casual attire for the late game tonight that just wrapped up. Sweden.

What immediate roster move did the Edmonton Oilers make and why was it cap-related?

Bob Stauffer 2:15

taking care of business. Not surprisingly, by the way. No. But a fairly convincing victory over – was that Latvia they were playing?

Elliotte Friedman 2:24

Yeah, Latvia was tonight for Sweden, yes.

Bob Stauffer 2:27

Yes, and so that sets up a beauty with the Americans. But give me your thoughts. We've got the final four set based on what occurred today, and I'll just quickly give it to everybody here. Leon Dreisaitl in Germany tomorrow morning, 6-10 Eastern. That's 4-10 Alberta time. 3.10 if you're off the coast, which is what time I got up to watch Leon last night. Slovakia and Germany at 6.10. Canada will play at 8.40 Edmonton time, a rematch against Czechia. Finland and Switzerland at 9.10, 12 Mountain Standard time. And then the United States and Sweden, what a game that'll be at 12.10. So first of all, just your overall thoughts on what we've seen in the tournament, Elliot.

Elliotte Friedman 3:14

Well, today was probably the quietest day. I thought that Denmark gave Czechia all they could handle. And Czechia was a bit fortunate. But, you know, tomorrow was obviously going to be a huge day. You know, the only thing about Czechia, Czechia has not played well here. And their players have been pretty open about it, how they have not been as good as they need to be. I will say this, Bob Dostal makes me nervous. I think he's the kind of guy that you would not want to see in a one game playoff. He can win games to you by himself. I think that he is going to be in Canada's biggest challenge in this one, no question in my mind. But the way the Canadians have played and the way the Canadians have approached it, they're a deeper team in all three of their games.

Elliotte Friedman 4:05

As the games have gone on, they've been better, and they've pulled away from whoever they've been playing. I think they've got the right mentality here. I don't think they're going to screw around. I just think Dostal's a really dangerous guy. And But I like them top to bottom. You know, somebody brought up that this is the first time that Canada and Czechia have met in a big international game, best on best since 98, Hasek. And, you know, that was a bit of a different tournament. You know, there is a mix of NHL Czechs and guys who play in Europe.