Sportsnet Writer Jason Bukula (3/17/26)
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Hey, Stauff.
Thanks for having me on. Good to be with you. By the way, now, were you scouting for an NHL team in the Bowmeister-Lupo draft year?
I was not. That was just before my entrance into the league. I just missed that class. I started just shortly after there.
Okay, because I went to that draft that year in Toronto. The late Ken Dryden did about an 18-minute long speech. I'm sitting there like, okay, Ken, you are Ken Dryden. You're a man of immense gravitas, but let's get on with the show here. And the Oilers, go ahead, you were going to say it?
That drives, I got to tell you, it drives Gary Bettman absolutely crazy. We would get, I'm sure you're aware of this because you've been doing this forever, but we get this before we go to the draft, we get this from the league. Who are the eight guys going to be that you bring up to the podium? And please do not announce the draft party back at your home city and all this stuff. And guess what all the teams do? They bring more than eight guys
than eight people and it's a soliloquy from some of them so yeah I hear you I wanted the guys from Arizona the one year and all dressed in the same suits and to set the record straight educate our listeners what was a one or two NHL teams that you worked in the amateur scouting side with
Yeah, I started in Nashville. I was there for five solid years, and then I moved over to the Florida Panthers in 2010, and I was there until 2020. So we were fortunate to come through some really good draft classes there.
So I talked to Guy Godelski from Penn State, who's my old center, as you know. They have done everything to reinforce their support, and they have not held back. You know, they've basically put Gavin McKenna almost ahead of their program. Like, you know, there are certain programs in the NCAA where nobody's bigger than the program, and guys embraced Gavin McKenna. And I guess my opening question to you, when you're evaluating, because you put a new list out today, how challenging is it to equate the Swedish Hockey League versus the NCAA to,
versus major junior because we are seeing a significant uptick in scoring in major junior across uh across the three leagues this uh the last couple years yeah no it's not easy i will say that especially if you look at my top five like you're pointing out uh iris denberg who's playing in the shl the top of pro league in sweden and then of course mckenna what he's done at penn state then we get into chase reed and bearhoff and mahultra so we have a mix of all three is what you're
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