Oilers Forward Zach Hyman (12/9/25)

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What was Zach Hyman’s recovery like after his playoff head injury and surgery?

Bob Stauffer 0:00

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Bob Stauffer 0:50

ETVs, motorbikes, and all the gear you need. We welcome back to the show, former Edmonton Oilers Captain and the head coach of the twenty-one six. And uh three Edmonton Oil Kings, it is the one, the only, the gator, Jason Smith. Hello, Jason, how you doing? Very good. How about you? Good. All right. Who made a bigger impact on you when you went as a 17-year-old to play for the Bellingham Ice Hawks in the BC Junior League? Who made the bigger impact? I'm not sure if actually Sasha Likovich was there at the time that you were there, but Rob Hudson, father of Lane Cole. and Quinn Hudson was and he was one of the best players on their team. So who do you remember more from your time in Bellingham?

Jason Smith 1:44

Oh goodness. Uh you know what?

How is Hyman feeling now that he’s back in the lineup and regaining his rhythm?

Jason Smith 1:46

You got me there. I'm trying to think. Uh

Bob Stauffer 1:51

I mean Hudson Hudson had fifty four goals, a hundred and fifteen points, and a hundred and sixteen pims. So he was one of the stars of the team. Uh Lakovich, I'm not sure if you guys would have you know who else was with you guys? Uh worked in the NHL forever? Brett Flair, who would go on and play at Prince.

Jason Smith 2:08

It's been a long time. Brett Flair w yeah, Brett Flair was in uh Uh uh assistant charter man out the Flyers when I was uh part of that organization. Yeah. Great man.

Bob Stauffer 2:18

Yeah, there you go. Uh and you and it's a bit of a cautionary tale. I mean, you were a little bit of a late boob bloomer, weren't you?

Jason Smith 2:27

Yeah, no. I mean uh I mean I played uh I g it took me a it took me a while to grow. Uh Yeah, when I played uh Bantam was a little

Bob Stauffer 2:39

How big were you as a ban how big were you as a banana?

Jason Smith 2:44

Well, I ended up being six three. I was probably Five six. I seven, five six, just a little guy.

Bob Stauffer 2:53

You know what's crazy?

Jason Smith 2:54

I had I I I had a six inch summer. Like it was uh it was crazy. Grew up a lot.

Why does line chemistry with Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent‑Hopkins matter for the Oilers?

Jason Smith 2:59

My uh my dad's Dad, my grandpa was uh he was a big man, he's about six six and I I think I f I followed his uh gene lines.

Bob Stauffer 3:08

I uh I was five eleven and a hundred and seventy five pounds at fourteen. I'm not five I'm not five eleven now. I'm actually five ten and a half. So and I'm a lot more You know what?

Jason Smith 3:23

I think I might be shrinking a little bit too.

Bob Stauffer 3:25

All right, there you go. Uh what was it like the experience I was here uh for the uh Teddy Bear toss game against PA they got a real good team too. Uh you know, but uh that was awesome with the fans, wasn't it? Just uh sixteen thousand plus fans at Rogers Place on Saturday.

Jason Smith 3:42

Oh yeah. I mean obviously it was uh disappointing not to win the game, but it was uh I I you think about experiences for kids when they played

Bob Stauffer 3:55

Did we drop, did we lose Jason? gel rink

Jason Smith 3:59

uh full of full of people um The the volume was good, the the atmosphere was good, uh we had a couple premature skeddy bear tosses and uh you know, kinda slowed the game a little bit. But I mean it was uh it was fun. I I mean I know our brilliant I mean obviously the support for the uh the team was great and I mean it would have been nice Yeah. I think uh as a group we played uh a pretty solid game.

Bob Stauffer 4:27

Alright, you got one of the best records in the league. We know that. Uh for me, uh one of the things in both the games, uh, and I watched a little bit of the replay of it with uh the uh game that was played Friday night with Red Deer. Um and I I guess, you know, I I mean I get to watch Codemer David and Leandre Eisettle on a regular basis, and even with those guys, there's times that I want them to put the puck to the net.