Oil Kings GM Kirt Hill (7/21/25)

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Bob Stauffer 0:00

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Bob Stauffer 0:50

Peter Obrey, the Golden Coach on Wednesday, Mark Stewart on Thursday. Glenn Gulletson will also be on tomorrow's edition of Oilers Now. But at this time, we're going to head off to the River Cree Resort and Casino Hotline, the River Cree Resort Casino, open 247-365. And our phone number, of course, is 780-451-8800 at the River Cree Resort and Casino. Excitement. Bet on it. Well, we mentioned it's sort of a coaching show week. I don't know if we'll have a resume. Solution to the coaching search for the Edmonton Oil Kings, but let's talk to Oil Kings GM Kurt Hill. Hello, Kurt, it's Bob. How you doing? I'm doing good, Bob. How are you? Good. Uh you made the decision not to bring Luke Pierce back. Uh and you guys have worked together for a number of years.

Bob Stauffer 1:38

Are you surprised that we're sitting here in the third week of July and you don't have yourself a head coach yet?

Kirt Hill 1:44

Uh certainly not the way I I drew it up, but um yeah, it's been a little bit more of a process than I I probably envisioned at the start, but um you know, we've gotten we've been through a lot of interviews with lots of good candidates, have got down the road with a few and uh you know, to their good fortune they've gotten gotten jobs at uh you know, the NHL level, HL level. So um happy for those guys and uh with that there's been just a little bit longer of a search, but uh still very optimistic in the direction we're heading, lots of great candidates and uh I guess selfishly to me I've got to meet a lot of great new people around the game, got to learn a lot about uh different coaches and probably got to learn a lot about our team along the way too, just learning their opinions on the way, you know, they think we play and uh areas of our game they think they would want to improve if they came in.

Bob Stauffer 2:33

Does the next head coach of the MS Oil Kings have to be a guy that uh number one has any chell coaching experience or major junior coaching experience?

Kirt Hill 2:46

You know, I think I'm an I'm an open book on that one. I don't uh I don't have anything, you know, certainly set in stone, but um, you know, just knowing where our group's at Um I'm really, you know, excited for our team this season. I think there's um a lot of potential with the group uh heading into this year. So it's certainly um looking for somebody that does have, you know, probably experience at one of those levels uh potentially or, you know, has a history of winning with where they've been. Um yeah, and it's just, you know, looking for the right guy to fit the guy we need right now and you know, I've talked to a lot of people about this and I guess at the end of the day if I just wanted to make a hire to make a higher, I c could have done that a long time ago, but uh I don't wanna get three months into it and and be kicking myself just because I rush something and if it has to be a little longer of a process and and take up a little bit more of the summer then that's just the way we're gonna do it.

Bob Stauffer 3:40

It's Uh well there's a new uh sort of variable that you have to deal with. Kurt we've got Guy Gadowski coming up, the head coach at Penn State at uh five thirty five today. And Penn State brought in Jackson Smith, the who played for Bob Torrey and Tri City, and oh by the way, Gabin McKenna from the WHL champion Minnesota Tigers. The consensus number one pick in next year's draft, though I do think that uh Keaton Vera