Oil Kings GM Kirt Hill (1/24/25)

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Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer 17 min 3 speakers 4 chapters transcribed 27 days ago

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Bob Stauffer 0:00

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Bob Stauffer 0:46

Ebbington owned and operated fifty-five plus years. If you don't like me, blame Royal Pizza. Why? Because they've been an advertiser of mine for twenty six seasons. Uh starting during the nineteen ninety eight University Cup. Our next guest played in the twenty thirteen University Cup. And uh they bought off the officials in that one. Had no business beating the Alberta Golden Bears. Royal Pizza. Uh Pizza Pass is so much more. Evan owned owned and operated fifty five plus years. Uh fourteen locations in Eventon stoffer recommendation. Mediterranean checking. I'm pretty sure Royal Pizza still does something with your guys' games here as well, too. as well. Kurt Hill is the president and GM of the Edmonton Oil Kings.

Bob Stauffer 1:27

Uh they're firmly in a playoff spot. We thought they'd take a step forward this year. They have. The problem is they're in the pool of death in their division because there's three teams that are absolutely all in and loaded. Calgary. Leftbridge and medicine hat. Hello, Kurt. How you doing?

Kirt Hill 1:42

I'm doing well. How are you?

Bob Stauffer 1:43

Good. And you did steal that game back in twenty thirteen, right? Our goal he did. What was the same Keaton something or

Kirt Hill 1:48

Keaton Hardigan?

Bob Stauffer 1:49

What did he stop like forty shots?

Kirt Hill 1:53

That's right.

Bob Stauffer 1:54

And uh they're all over, yeah.

Kirt Hill 1:57

A lot of the game, yeah.

Bob Stauffer 1:59

You had two even strike shots in the game.

Kirt Hill 2:01

Oh. Way it goes sometimes, right?

Bob Stauffer 2:04

Yeah. Well Bear the Bears did win the national championship the next two years. By the way, how dramatic do you think the you know, since we got you here? How significant is the N C double the the shift going to be? Uh, you know, I'm hearing that like Mike Gabinette, you know who he is. He's the the head coach in Nebraska Maha. He's Claire Drake's grandson. Um I'm hearing there there could be multiple players that are freshmen at the University of Alberta that could be leaving going to N C double A schools. Could this actually help you get more American kids aged sixteen to nineteen? Because the players now have the option of playing in your league and then going to the NCAA?

Kirt Hill 2:40

Well certainly I think the younger players definitely gonna be coming more, especially you know, especially the American players and some of the Canadian players in the past. There's you know, every year there's a handful of guys that wanna play college that are from Canada and you know, I think for the most part most of those guys are gonna come now and we're gonna see way more Americans in our league as

Bob Stauffer 2:55

as well as we go forward here. You're allowed how many Europeans?

Kirt Hill 2:58

Two.

Bob Stauffer 2:58

And how many Americans?

Kirt Hill 2:59

Unlimited at this point.

Bob Stauffer 3:00

Unlimited Americans. Okay. So Portland as an example. They went through a run where they seem to have a lot of Americans and uh pretty sure they're paying a bunch of those guys, but that's neither here nor there. You can't say that, I can't. So uh that that's not I mean It Everton's a powerhouse organization of WHL, but the lead make sure that you guys don't exert too much power. Uh is that fair? Like there's an old saying you ain't cheating if you ain't trying, but you look at London, London clearly they seem they've got really good teams everywhere, every year. Quebec Ramparts seem to be pretty good every year. But the WHL's really got you guys to make sure that there's not too much of an advantage to the Edmontons and the calendar of of the world that are owned by their NHL clubs.