1:59

John Denver the late

2:02

the great John Denver right now There's people

2:04

driving around in Edmonton or listening online

2:06

saying I can remember having the John Denver

2:08

greatest say it's a track

2:10

cassette

2:11

And they'd have it right you plug it in

2:13

and your country squires station wagon

2:16

as you drive across into the

2:18

Rocky Mountains and On your

2:20

way in a British Columbia the people still do that to

2:22

people still drive into BC and go

2:24

hang out in places like Colonna

2:27

and Vernon and the shoe swaps and of course they

2:29

do well back in the day that

2:31

was

2:32

One of the eight tracks that you would have this is what

2:34

there's now I I don't know maybe I just thought a little

2:37

bit of old school because I was driving in listening

2:39

to a shake an em and he was

2:41

talking about Mitch McConnell

2:42

and Yeah, there

2:45

you go. He mentioned Brian Hall. I

2:47

didn't know that Brian still came in his studios on Wednesday

2:49

I mean, I was listening to Brian Hall

2:51

when I was six years of age the 19 Remember

2:56

the 1973 Western Final

2:57

and Johnny Boy Beaton with

3:00

an interception late in the game to seal a victory

3:02

to get the Ever loving as

3:04

Brian Hall used to call him ever loving Eskimos

3:07

on into the great cup against the Ottawa Rough

3:09

Riders that year

3:10

Riders won Tom Wilkinson got

3:13

cheap shot at twice got knocked out of the game Bruce

3:15

limmerman went in he got injured Wilkie came

3:17

back in I think Wilkie's now 80 years

3:20

of age at the privilege of working with him a number of years

3:22

ago over at the

3:25

University of Alberta. This is what is now?

3:27

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Cal Nichols and members

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of the Edmonton investors group Who

4:00

So at that time we're getting a thing called the Canadian Assistance

4:02

Program in 010202030304.

4:06

Fought for the hard cap that Gary

4:09

Bettman executed. We came

4:11

out of it in 0506 and of

4:13

course we had to lock up for the entire year in 0405 year.

4:17

And then in early August and back to back days the Edmonton Oilers

4:19

acquired Chris Pronger and Mike Pekka and

4:22

ended up in the 2006 Stanley Cup Final.

4:24

But we've had a hard cap ever since. The salary cap

4:26

matters and we've got Puck, Bedias, Hartleveen

4:29

coming up at 1235 to talk a

4:31

bit about actually what

4:33

might ultimately pan out to be a puzzling

4:36

decision. You know decisions

4:36

get made, you don't have to agree with them. And

4:39

sometimes you don't have any input in them. But

4:43

you know I was a little bit surprised that Raphael LaVois

4:46

didn't negotiate a lower

4:49

NHL salary. It would make them easier not

4:51

just for the Edmonton Oilers to keep them on the roster

4:54

theoretically,

4:56

but also to be claimed by other

4:58

teams because he is going

5:01

into a second contract so is no

5:04

longer waiver exempt. Then

5:07

from 01 to 02 today, so we've got Hartleveen coming

5:09

into the studio at 1235. At 01

5:11

o'clock today, Edmonton

5:13

Oilers Assistant General Manager Keith

5:16

Gretzky. We're going to talk about Keith's career

5:18

living in the shadow of a guy named

5:21

The Great Gretzky. Keith himself was

5:23

a prolific scorer in the Ontario

5:26

Hockey League. We'll talk

5:28

a bit about Keith's journey. His transition

5:31

from being the man who drafted

5:35

in back to back years, Kateri

5:37

Yamamoto, Stuart Skinner, Evan Bouchard

5:39

and Ryan McLeod. Keith's

5:42

transition into running the farm system

5:44

down in the minors and the ongoing

5:46

progression and growth of an Oilers organization that if

5:48

you're listening to this show,

5:50

you probably care about. That's

5:53

my guess. So Hartleveen and

5:56

Keith Gretzky coming up and there's

5:58

going to be some, I'm going to have to.

6:00

Yeah, grind away at Keith a little because he's

6:02

very he's mastered the

6:04

art when we have him on the

6:06

Phone interviews of sometimes not

6:08

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6:11

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6:45

you were you were a DJ at clubs and

6:47

stuff like that back in the day Is that were you DJ

6:50

BJ? What exactly was the official title?

6:52

I would say DJ but after a while, you know this music

6:54

for quite a while And then eventually music videos kind of crept

6:57

in so the music party turned into a bit of a dance

6:59

party over the year Alright, so did you? Did

7:02

eight tracks sort of was that before your

7:04

time? Yeah, that was before my time Okay,

7:06

I'm gonna throw it out there to the listeners right

7:08

now Do you have any in

7:11

this and I admit this is a little bit of

7:13

a generational thing? Because by

7:15

the time you traveled as

7:18

a kid, it would have been cassette,

7:20

right? Yeah, pretty much. My parents did have a

7:22

couple of eight tracks, but it was cassettes by then that's right

7:25

All right, so we'll throw it here's what we'll do

7:27

because I don't want to be age exclusive

7:30

When you traveled when you went on the road

7:32

with the family be it eight track

7:34

be it cassette What do people use now? I

7:36

mean, I have satellite radio in my f-150

7:39

courtesy of our friends at Brentridge for but what do

7:41

people use now? I you can do a little

7:43

USB sticks and you plug that right in Philip full

7:45

of music All right So what I'd

7:48

like to know from people in terms

7:50

of if you've if you've got fond memories

7:52

specific look We're in the middle of the summer. It's

7:55

a little bit quiet right now You

7:57

know, we're gonna talk on a couple

7:59

different items

7:59

second around the oilers. But I'd like to know,

8:02

did you have a specific favorite 8-track cassette

8:05

if you're from that era or 8-track

8:08

or conversely a cassette

8:10

or what did you say? Not

8:12

I, but what was the other? USB. Like

8:15

a USB stick. Now how do those USB sticks work? How do those

8:17

things work? Picture it kind of like

8:19

a box and you're just throwing your MP3s into

8:21

the box and then you just plug it in and then you can listen

8:23

to anything that you've got on that little stick. I guarantee your

8:25

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8:54

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9:17

get paraphrased on this show. Elliott

9:19

Friedman uses the term radioed.

9:23

So

9:24

I've mentioned over the course of the last few

9:26

weeks, and it really started during the playoffs,

9:30

there's been a lot of threats issued

9:32

by fans, some of whom are

9:35

haters of the Edmonton Oeders, and make no

9:37

mistake, the Edmonton Oeders didn't just win the lottery

9:40

with Conor McDavid, they also won the lottery

9:42

in 2014 when the Buffalo Sabres passed

9:45

on Leon Dreisettl number two. But

9:47

a lot of people sit there and say, oh, you

9:49

guys will never be able to keep him, you're in

9:52

Edmonton. And,

9:54

you know, yeah, you know, there was times

9:56

in which the Oeders were challenged. OK, Peter Pauklandton

9:59

owned the team. to sell off, sell

10:01

the greatest stars in the history of the game.

10:04

Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier are two of the top

10:06

three point producing players in NHL

10:09

history.

10:10

They were both sold in separate deals.

10:13

Wayne Gretzky came on a show

10:16

called Total Sports that I did that you worked

10:18

on. You worked in the 0304

10:20

year, but back in 07-08 as Darrell

10:22

Cates was pursuing the Edmonton Oilers and

10:24

Wayne Gretzky came on as the then

10:27

named Phoenix Coyotes were in town. I

10:29

asked him point blank, I said, you know, fans

10:32

are a little bit concerned about individual ownership

10:34

because Peter Puck ran into some financial

10:36

difficulty and he had to sell the best players

10:39

and Wayne cut me off and said,

10:40

you don't have to worry about that here. Like

10:42

if Darrell gets the team, he's

10:44

going to go out of his way to try to ensure

10:47

that the best players are signed long

10:49

term. I remember when the Oilers signed

10:53

Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle and then Ryan

10:55

Nugent Hopkins to extensions, there

10:57

was some criticism, noses in

10:59

the air. Brendan Eskot

11:01

used the term, Perisnickety. I've never actually

11:04

heard that term, but they, oh, that's what

11:06

you guys have to do. You guys have to sign

11:08

those players. Well, no, that's, that's

11:10

a part of what you do is and lots

11:12

of other organizations signed their

11:14

players to max term length deals too.

11:17

The Oilers got Connor McDavid and Leon

11:19

Driicidal signed to max term length

11:21

deals, eight year deals and

11:24

a lot of the sort of narrative out there

11:26

is, well, you guys are, they're going to

11:28

leave you and you know what, maybe they do,

11:31

but may I remind you, there is one place

11:34

where they can play together, guaranteed to play together

11:36

and that is in Edmonton. They're the two

11:38

top scoring players in a league since

11:41

they both, you know, since McDavid came in

11:43

the league 15, 16, he is the

11:45

top scoring player since Driicidal came in the league

11:48

in 14, 15 and he only had like nine

11:51

points in his first 37 games. His

11:53

first year in the league in 14, 15, he's

11:56

the second highest scoring player in the league. Okay.

11:58

So they're pretty good players.

12:00

The organization that has their rights

12:03

right now, Leon's

12:05

got two years left, Connor's got three years

12:07

left. The organization

12:09

that has their rights are the Edmonton

12:11

Oilers.

12:12

They have built in cap space as a

12:14

result of those deals elapsing. And

12:16

the fact that we expect the cap to increase,

12:19

okay? And

12:21

those guys are about as dug in

12:23

as you can get. So I know there's people

12:25

out there, oh, stop for a sigma. There's

12:28

nothing pending. All I'm saying is,

12:30

you

12:32

know, I know there's

12:34

people in different fan bases that

12:37

are wishful that they can maybe have a

12:39

run at either one of those, and maybe they ultimately do.

12:42

One of the teams are worried about where the LA Kings.

12:44

And then they completely changed their center position

12:47

over the summer. They went and

12:49

traded for PLD, Pierre-Luc

12:51

Dubois, of course, a couple of years ago. They

12:54

made a pretty good addition from

12:56

the Montreal Canadiens, and

12:58

they signed a guy to a six-year deal at five

13:00

and a half million bucks. And I forget his name, and

13:02

somebody can text us right now, but

13:05

he's a pretty good two-way center, Philip

13:07

D'Noel, who had started off at

13:10

the Nugent Hopkins draft in 2011. So

13:12

they signed D'Noel, then they do the

13:14

trade

13:14

for PLD, and now they've subsequently

13:17

extended and paid Anjay Koppatar.

13:20

That takes to me the LA Kings out of the

13:22

mix on Leandro Isetal. And it might

13:24

have been one of the teams. So we'll see what happens.

13:27

But I would suggest to you, the Oilers are gonna have a puncher's

13:29

chance to get those guys extended,

13:31

okay? And you

13:34

know what? That's kinda

13:36

comes with the territory, and it's not like there's

13:38

limitations from a financial wherewithal

13:41

perspective. Just keep that in mind. All right,

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So, here's the deal.

14:07

We had Stu McDonald on yesterday, and

14:09

we had lots of

14:12

different topics that we hit in that conversation,

14:14

and one of the things that Stu talked about was

14:17

the fact that there's going to be a change in the fall. This

14:19

show, which has been 12-2, the longest continuously

14:21

running show on 630Ched in its time slot

14:24

over the last 12 years, 12-2 here

14:26

on Ched, is going to move to 5-7. Stu

14:29

McDonald of the Oilers organization,

14:31

who was part of that

14:33

decision, with people

14:36

from Chorus, including John

14:37

Voss, Stu

14:39

McDonald had this to say. Part

14:41

of a long discussion with Chorus,

14:44

the current company of Ched, on where they

14:46

saw overall programming with

14:48

the station go and some motivations

14:51

they had there, and part of the discussion came along

14:54

having Oilers now move to a later afternoon

14:56

time slot, and we looked at it and said, hey,

14:58

a couple of things. One, it brings

15:01

traditionally a larger audience available

15:04

to us, and we know the show is a leader

15:07

now in its current time slot, and we believe

15:09

that's just going to continue to grow as we move

15:11

to that drive time slot. The

15:13

other is, it really gives us, during the season,

15:16

5pm until

15:18

midnight with Reid's show of solid

15:21

Oilers to be able to deliver all

15:24

the depth we currently do, but in a window that

15:26

you dial in and there's no reason to tune

15:29

out until midnight

15:31

with everything that's going on on game day. So

15:34

it made sense to us, it certainly made sense overall from

15:36

a programming standpoint where Ched wanted to

15:38

get to, but we look at

15:40

it as a chance just to keep growing it and reach

15:42

a broader audience.

15:45

One of the areas that, you

15:47

know, 630 Ched's got a powerhouse transmitter,

15:50

okay? It's heard in large portions

15:52

of the province. There's people listening right now in rural

15:55

Alberta, and central

15:57

and northern Alberta and rural communities have really

15:59

supported it.

15:59

supported the orders organization over the years. Certainly

16:03

we're aware of that here on this show. You

16:06

know, numbers are numbers. I can tell you

16:08

that the podcast totals that I was given from

16:10

June 30th to June 30th of 2022 to 2023,

16:16

basically 710,000 downloads

16:18

of the show during that time. So, you know, it's good,

16:21

it's competitive. And there's a lot of really good

16:23

shows on the station. There's

16:25

a lot of passion for the Edmonton

16:27

orders hockey. And it was reinforced

16:30

once to shed some insight

16:33

on where are the orders rate in

16:35

terms of NHL regional

16:38

TV viewership numbers. When you

16:40

talk about television, just

16:42

briefly, like, you know, we're incredibly

16:44

proud of the radio

16:46

numbers we do, not just orders now, but the game

16:48

broadcast, the pre and post, and

16:51

television, which is probably more

16:54

broadly measured consistently across

16:56

and reported across all the teams in the

16:58

league. The Oilers regional

17:00

television broadcast, out

17:03

of all 32 teams are the second

17:05

largest English language audience. We're number

17:08

three overall Montreal's slide in ahead

17:10

of us in their French language broadcast, but in English

17:12

language, it's Toronto and then Edmonton,

17:15

the entire NHL. So it just speaks to, you know,

17:17

hey, we're a market of, you know, capital region

17:19

million five. That is

17:22

not per capita. This

17:24

is just raw numbers. We're

17:26

number two in the entire NHL

17:29

and English language audience for regional games. And

17:31

most teams have somewhere between 40 and 60

17:33

regional games,

17:36

you know, with the national very club

17:38

to club, and then very Canada, US,

17:40

but no, it's, and we've always, those

17:43

numbers have always been there. They continue

17:45

to grow, which is a great sign for us.

17:47

Oh, there you go. That's a Stephen Donald. Just so

17:50

you know, on a lot of days on the show,

17:52

there are more people listening to the show than watching

17:54

teams like Florida. And Arizona

17:57

on TV when they play on their regional

17:59

television deals. That's the pie.

18:01

We have awesome fans. We're lucky. That's all

18:03

there is to it. Alright, the Oilers also signed

18:06

Lane Peterson and he's a right

18:08

shot. Edmonton, Noah

18:11

Phelps was going to have a chance to be one of the guys

18:13

in the mix. He elected to retire

18:15

after a very good season in the American Hockey

18:17

League. Derek Rines played

18:20

mostly right wing. Edmonton's devoid of a right

18:22

shot center at this time. Lane Peterson

18:24

was signed to compete for a job

18:26

as the 4C at Edmonton or conversely

18:29

be a first line center for Keith Kretsky down

18:31

in Bakersfield. Lane Peterson joined us

18:33

on yesterday's show. I think first

18:35

and foremost, you know, I'm just, I

18:38

couldn't be more excited to be an Edmonton. I learned

18:40

to become an Edmonton. Really grateful for

18:42

the opportunity. But as far as,

18:44

you know, other moves

18:45

that the organization is making, I

18:47

think, you know, that's out of my control. I think my

18:51

focus is just on

18:53

doing what I can here with the remaining time before

18:55

the season gets going. Is

18:57

to put myself in the best

19:00

position possible to, you know, make the team. Like

19:02

you said, kind of at the opening there, obviously,

19:05

you know, I'm a guy that's

19:07

kind of been between the minors

19:09

and the NHL. And, you

19:11

know, I'm ready to take that next step. And, you

19:14

know, I want to be a piece

19:16

and a part of this team that helps bring us down to the Cubs,

19:19

Edmonton.

19:20

All right, there you have it. 1224 in Edmonton

19:22

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20:26

I know for a fact

20:28

that you had a

20:30

Mr. Mr. Cassette circa 1986-87.

20:35

I'm sure you can attest to this, okay?

20:38

And based on yesterday's comments

20:40

on the show, rumor has it you'll be

20:42

donning a new set of Barbie

20:44

cheaters,

20:45

t-shirt and doing the work this week's

20:47

show. I did not see the Barbie movie.

20:51

My wife and daughter and son went to it. Well,

20:55

my wife and daughter loved it. They thought it was great. Now,

20:57

I'll stick with Oppenheimer for right now. So that's

21:00

that's how we roll. Again, I

21:05

can't comment on the Barbie movie because I've not

21:07

seen it. But hey, if you loved it, super. Bob,

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the 8-track in my dad's 1979 Cadillac.

21:13

We had the Beatles, we had Italian music and

21:15

Elvis. Again, you can text us 780-496-00063. Bob,

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21:41

But the Sears catalog

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for Christmas, what the heck does that mean? I

21:46

think I do. Okay, anyhow.

21:50

Bob, we used to travel to

21:52

Penticton for hockey school every summer in our big blue van.

21:54

My mom and dad love the Beatles and the Eagles.

21:56

We listened to those cassettes.

21:59

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22:02

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your local branch of merchandise specialists,

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head to elitepromomarketing.com. Yesterday,

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the Maple Leafs announced that Matt Murray,

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their goaltender, is going on LTIR,

22:20

often referred to in Toronto

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as Robodaw Island. That's

22:25

where Jake Muzzin is, that's where Matt

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Murray was, that's where Geoffrey LuPill was, and

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of course, Stefan Robodaw.

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I think Nathan Horton as well. And

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Sebastian Aho signing an eight-year

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contract extension, $9.75 million. The

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man that negotiated that deal, Jerry Johansson

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from the Sports Corporation, will join us in studio

22:44

for an hour on Monday. We're

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going to head off to a global news

22:51

weather traffic

22:52

update with Randy Kilbert, who

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back in 1977 was

22:57

the public address announcer at the University

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of Alberta Golden Bears hockey games when

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they won the national championship.

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This is Reuters Now.