Oilers General Manager Stan Bowman (5/28/26)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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. This is Oilers Now from the 880 Chet Studios, brought to you by World of Spas. We're going to get quickly into the show in less than a minute's time. Hibbington Oilers General Manager Stan Bowman will join us, the Oilers, and we've kind of alluded to this over the last couple of weeks. Uh... and we'll end up talking to Stan about some significant changes and go from there, because there have been. And away we go. And it has to do with the Oilers' management structure. So, anyhow, Stan Bowman coming up today at 4.10 at 4.35. NHL Hockey and Rodgers, Ron McLean for Century Casino at 5.05 today.
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What significant changes were made in the Oilers management structure?
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Well, there's lots of news. There's no news. And then there's a little bit of tough news today. And I guess we'll start off with the changes that were made specific to your hockey operations department, some changes. Significant promotions. And I know that one of the questions that I'm getting is you had a couple of existing assistant general managers in Bill Scott and in Keith Gretzky. Keith runs the farm team. Bill's been involved for years in contract negotiation and that sort of thing. But you now have three more assistant GMs. Kurt Hill, Assistant GM, Player Procurement. Kelly Larson, promoted to Assistant GM, Player Development and Innovation. And then Toby Samulainen, Assistant GM, European Operations.
So let's start with Kurt Hill. You had Kurt work for you before in Chicago. Give me the mindset of elevating Kurt out of the Western Hockey League, where he was GM, and into an Assistant GM role in Player Procurement.
Sure. Yeah, I'll back up a little bit and try to explain maybe the process we went through, and then we can talk about the people individually. So when I started, like I started late that summer, it was basically August, and I remember one of the first things I talked to Jeff Jackson about was the need for us to be innovative and to be operating differently than we were, but also it was a difficult time to try to make that all happen that year. And I wanted to get to know some people in our organization and understand what their strengths were, what their skill sets were. And looking at the big picture of the modern hockey operation, it's a very complex thing compared to where it was 10 or 15 years ago.
So in order to be effective, I think you need the proper leadership in a lot of new areas, which maybe weren't highlighted or accentuated in the previous five or six years. But with the way the game is going and the complexity of being a successful front office, I think there's a lot of work to be done. You're right. We had a couple assistant GMs and they do a great job, Keith Gretzky and Bill Scott. But there's a lot of work that, a lot of additional work that I think has to be done. So we decided to take our time to try to determine how we should go with it as well as who are the right people for these roles.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:18
2
What significant changes were made in the Oilers management structure?
1:18–11:53
3
Who are the newly promoted assistant general managers in the Oilers organization?
11:53–14:09
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What is Kurt Hill's role as Assistant GM of Player Procurement?
14:09–18:16
Speakers
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