Sportsnet Writer Jason Bukala (12/3/25)

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Bob Stauffer 0:00

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Bob Stauffer 0:51

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Jason Bukala 1:33

I did, yeah. Real well, you know, I it's still going just on the other side of the ledger now, but yeah, definitely I uh As you can appreciate with your history in the game, going back to junior and university hockey, I you know, I started in Sault Ste Marie with the Greyhounds as uh director of player personnel a a lifetime ago and Craig Hartsburg was our head coach, uh and uh Jeff Carter was our our top player at the time and came through and went through uh at the Nashville the the Predators for five years and then I finished up with the uh the Florida Panthers uh for ten years. years. I was the director of scouting for the last five years that I was there and during the pandemic they made a change.

Jason Bukala 2:09

Obviously uh uh Dale Tallon uh was uh shuffled out as a general manager and Like Dale always used to tell me back in the day, the closer the higher up you get in the organization, the closer you are to the door. So when when change happens, uh out the door you go and uh I'm happy to be a member of the sportsnet team now.

Bob Stauffer 2:27

All right, well, uh it's interesting 'cause we're gonna talk about who you got at number one, 'cause when you guys were in Florida, you drafted a defenseman number one overall, and that was in twenty fourteen, Aaron Eckblad. Uh of course Leon Dreisidel went third that year. Uh but maybe if possible and b and just as an aside, did you see the Dale Tell and rumors with Vancouver that were starting to flow to Did you see any of that? I did not. No. I have not seen was that today or Yeah, I saw well when we were in Florida uh two weeks ago or a week and a half ago, I saw I talked to Dale. Uh he was there with uh I think he was there with Jack Birch. Is that his name? Yeah. Yeah, Jack Birch from Winnipeg, yeah.

Bob Stauffer 3:04

Yeah. And uh so I talked to Dale for a while, but yeah, I somebody sent uh a message across to me today. Well, what do you think about Dale Talent possibly in Vancouver? I'm like, What are you talking about? Like I I was a little bit surprised to see that. All right. Uh let's get to it. Your i is it a three man race right now for the top spot for the twenty twenty six draft in your opinion?

Jason Bukala 3:26

It is, but I gotta tell ya, the guy in the uh cleanup spot for me is a really, really good player too. So but at the top of the table, absolutely. I went off the board a little bit, I guess, compared to some of my colleagues, Bob. And uh one thing I have to make clear to you to your listeners, and I know that you appreciate this 'cause you've gone through these processes behind the scenes for for a long, long time, is I don't just dole out uh rankings in August or September.