Shayna Goldman from The Athletic, talks the latest happenings in the sports world (07-10-26)

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Shayna Goldman 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.

Aiden Ganim 0:09

Aidan Ganim filling in for Bob Stauffer as he takes a couple of weeks to enjoy the offseason. You know what? The amount of work that he does, he definitely deserves it. Our spotlight conversation for this hour will be with Shana Goldman coming up just shortly. It's brought to you by Cowan Graphics. Trusted for over 80 years to bring your brand to life. Visit cowan.ca today. All right, our Oilers Now headliner today is brought to you by Wilhock Beef Jerky, and it is Shayna Goldman. Others can try to imitate, but no one can duplicate the great flavor of Wilhock Beef Jerky, only available in Leduc, Alberta. Shayna, how are you?

Shayna Goldman 0:45

I'm great. Thanks for having me.

Aiden Ganim 0:46

Yeah, no worries. I saw on your Twitter today you were talking a little bit about Spain versus Belgium. How much of the World Cup have you been watching?

Shayna Goldman 0:55

Oh, too much of it. I love it. I'm all in. A little disappointed about the result today, but... Go Spain. Have to root for them in this next matchup, but fingers crossed for Norway tomorrow.

Aiden Ganim 1:06

Yeah, 100%. That Laminia Mall kid is really strong. Norway, yeah, I guess so. Erling Haaland. I might be on the England side of that a little bit more, but we'll get to the hockey here. Obviously, a lot of stuff going on in the NHL right now with free agency, and the biggest story right now is the Leo Carlson situation. When I saw it come across my desk, I was Just wide-eyed. It's absolutely shocking. 67 points in 70 games this year. And the Philadelphia Flyers offered him $18 million over the next five years. Obviously, I think the Flyers were banking on the cap going up a little bit higher over the next five years, of course. But what was your take on that deal?

Shayna Goldman 1:51

From the Flyers' perspective, I totally get it. Because if you look at this team, they're a one C away from... really being this like playoff caliber team that i think we all see it all come together because it feels like everyone is playing a slot higher than they should be and their center depth is definitely the biggest weakness you have to go big or go home for for an offer sheet right especially for a player like leo carlson and you look at the value of those draft picks for first rounders if you're the flyers and projecting to be a playoff team and i think that's a safe bet especially with carlson in the fold Those are late first-rounders. They're not as valuable. So I think it's worth it from their perspective to take this swing and to overpay him because if you're going to overpay anyone, let it be someone of his caliber.

Shayna Goldman 2:33

You can hope that you'll find a first-line center of Carlson's caliber with one of those first-round picks, but good luck. And it's also a much longer process when I think we saw that superstar ability from him in the first quarter of the season, saw glimpses of it later on, and know he has it in the tank. And then, you know, from the duck side of it, it's a miserable situation because it shouldn't have come to this. It shows why you have to prioritize your restricted free agents, why you have to extend them early, why you have to work proactively to avoid this. I get we don't see offer sheets often, but between that and the risk of the market trends changing, like you have to figure out your core players, especially before you're going to start, I don't know, offering four-year contracts to guys like A.J.

How did Shayna Goldman describe her World Cup viewing and early sports chat?

Shayna Goldman 3:17

Greer and working on the fringes of the lineup, right? Like, If you start with Carlson and Gauthier, I know we look at it like it's $45 million of cap space. That's a ton. You would think 20 of it, 22 of it's going to go to Carlson and Gauthier off the top. You should be sure of that before you spend any extra money. And they didn't do that. And here it is now. $18 million of it to Carlton alone, and I'm sure the price for Gautier just went up rightfully so.

Aiden Ganim 3:41

Yeah, 100%. And obviously a lot of pieces being lost on the Sanaheim Duck Squad, especially in the defensive end.