NHL Hockey on Rogers' Elliotte Friedman (3/10/26)

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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. We will tell you that some guests and orders now receive gift certificates to Japanese Village. It's a true celebration for the census, quality ingredients, and unmatched grill side experience. Book your seat at jvedmonton.ca. Bob Stauffer with you in Denver with the orders. And every Tuesday on the show, we're pleased to have one of the most plugged-in men of the business. There was like an unofficial scorecard of who was breaking what at the trade deadline in Denver. Elliott Friedman, he scored, of course, very high. He is brought to you by Abe's Door Service, where services are especially visitabesdoor.ca.

Bob Stauffer 0:43

How are you doing, Elliott?

Elliotte Friedman 0:45

Oh, Bob, you tell me.

Bob Stauffer 0:47

Oh, wow. What an interesting situation. It's funny, you and me have talked over the years about being radioed and having comments that were maybe meant to be taken one way, taken another way, and I've had my moments where I haven't had great clarity with maybe what I was trying to say, and then it ends up becoming sort of a life cycle on its own. And then you were on yesterday with your podcast, and you made a comment, and all of a sudden you go to Twitter, and it's like, oh, there was fighting with the Oilers players, which definitely did not happen. But it's been an interesting—it does show you the passion, You do find out sometimes in these situations who your friends are and who they're not.

Bob Stauffer 1:36

But it's certainly been an interesting last 24 hours, hasn't it been?

Elliotte Friedman 1:40

Well, look, I mean, I think one of the things that I learned about this business, and especially in the social media era, is that you never know what is going to pick up steam. You never know what is going to go viral. And, like, I've had some things where I've said, and I've felt like, all right, like this is going to be, I better be ready. This is going to be a hot thing. This is going to go a lot of different places and I better be prepared to talk about it. And it doesn't go anywhere. And there's other situations where I'm like, ah, this is such a throwaway line. No one's going to care. And, uh,

What was the initial controversy about Elliotte Friedman's podcast comment on Jari Koskinen?

Elliotte Friedman 2:19

All of a sudden, it's a firestorm. And that's one of the things I just understand about the job we do, Bob, is that you never know what is going to catch fire. You never know what is going to get a reaction. So you kind of have to be ready for everything. And, you know, the Jari thing over the last couple of days, I honestly didn't think that much about it when I said it. I didn't know that I thought it would be that big a deal. You know, clearly I was shocked last night when I got a text message from someone asking me if I'd said that Jari got into like a fist fight with some of his Oilers teammates. I was like, you got to be kidding me. Like someone interpreted that. But like, you know, like I said, I think there was an exchange at practice and I don't necessarily think it's the biggest thing, but I, you know, I really, I mean, as someone who has like

Elliotte Friedman 3:17

occasional battles with his coworkers. I don't think it's a huge deal, but I think it just shows it's been a challenge. You know, sometimes people show up on teams during the year and it's seamless. It seems like they've been there the whole time and other times guys show up on a team and it's harder. And I think in this case, it's been the latter. I think it's been a challenge for everybody to get used to everyone else. It doesn't mean anyone's a bad guy. It doesn't mean anyone's a bad person. It doesn't mean it's impossible to make it work. I just think it's been a bit of a challenge and they're working through it.

Bob Stauffer 3:56

Yeah, you know, it's interesting, Elliot, for a while we had some people and maybe it was the vocal minority that, you know, the orders can't win with Stuart Skinner. And, you know, I think back to game seven against Florida. It's a one bounce game. Yeah, but you lost Stauffer. You didn't win. And I'm like, I've wondered what would have happened if Edmonton had won that game.