The Cult of Hockey's David Staples (6/26/26)
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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.
Brent Griffiths and Aidan Gatton live on location this afternoon at the Edmonton Food Bank at 114th Avenue and 120th Street. Trying to raise some awareness and funds for the Edmonton Food Bank. They need your help and you delivered big time today. Aiden was up in one of the picker trucks, and we weren't going to let him down until we hit a certain mark. We got to that mark actually way earlier than we thought. So thank you, Edmonton and area, for your support, generating $212,000. And like I said, it's the exposure as well. So a big thank you to everybody for that. Bob's kind of settling in. This is one of Bob's days of days, right? He just loves to absorb himself in this. So happy to be stepping in for him this afternoon.
The second pick.
selected by the San Jose Sharks was... Ivor Stenberg, which is kind of a shock to me, Brent, if you ask me personally. I thought that they were going to go for a D-man in that situation, but you know what? I'm starting to realize that might have been the smart play taking the forward there because there are a lot of good defensemen in this draft, and they have that eighth overall pick or the ninth overall pick.
Also, maybe they go after a veteran defenseman, too, in the next week or so, right? So maybe that's not of interest to them. As I always used to tell people, when you see who they draft, sometimes there's something cooking on the back burner. So I don't know. We'll see. But, hey, everything I hear, he can dance. He's a really solid, solid player. So that's a good pick by Mike Greer, I got to think. on a team that's quite exciting to watch. Never a dull moment watching them last season. You just had to smile a little bit when you can see what's coming there, right? So there's that. Hey, our Ashley Fine Floors text line is open to you at 780-451-8800. Find the new floors you've always wanted at 143rd Street and 111th Avenue, or you can head to ashleyfinefloors.com for more details.
That showroom, by the way, is open Monday through Saturday. And the River Creek Resort and Casino hotline is also 780-451-8800. Got to thank everybody for chiming in with some questions for Berkey today. That was a lot of fun. That segment was a little... A little out there, a little crazy, a little – I loved it. I thought it was great. But you sure got to hear the real Berkey, that's for sure. And that was a blast. Okay, time to bring in our next guest. And you know what? It has not been a dull week if you follow the Edmonton Oilers. And I suspect the next week, maybe the next two weeks, are also going to be quite active. So joining us today from the cult of hockey is our good friend David Staples. Hello, David.
Hey, Brent Hayden. Hey. So, how was your week?
Like most people who follow the orders, kind of waiting, hoping for the Darnell Nurse trade.
Who was selected as the second pick in the NHL draft and why was it surprising?
But, I mean, earlier in the week was interesting. I mean, there was a couple of interesting signings. And it's looking, as we get closer to free agency days, what the market's like for free agents, and both Dickinson and Connor Murphy could have clearly gotten more money if they bailed out to be free agents, but they chose orders, which is good. And then the Babcock signing, you know. Oh, and that. People, it's like, it's like, it's like... People seem to take it very personally. Babcock's not going to be coaching you, you know. What? He's being hired by the Oilers to coach their players, and the players are cool with it. And I thought his press conference was fascinating. I mean, he clearly comes from the Evander Kane school of contrition.
I remember when the orders signed Evander Kane, and I was expecting, I don't know what I was expecting, but the press conference, Kane was just like completely unapologetic. You know, he, Evander Kane, is completely supremely self-confident, full of himself. And Babcock came across the same way. Ditto. They're interesting characters. And, you know, for me, not everybody has to be the same in life.
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