The Kevin Karius Show - Mar. 27th, 2026 - Hour 4

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1:00Howdy, howdy ho, and welcome to Fantasy Fanfellas. I'm Hayden, producer of the Fantasy Fan Girls podcast and your resident lover of all things Sanderson. And I'm Steven, your bookish internet goofball, but you can call me the smash daddy. And we are currently deep-diving Brandon Sanderson's fantasy epic, Mistborn, but here's the catch. Steven here has not read Mistborn before. That's right, hey, hey. So each week you'll get my unfiltered raw reactions to every single chapter. And along the way, we'll do character deep dives, magic explainers, and Steven will even try to guess what's next. Spoiler alert, he'll be wrong. News flash, I'm never wrong. Episodes come out every Wednesday and you can find fantasy fanfellas wherever you get your podcasts. All right, welcome back to the big program. Great tune on playlist Friday, 1002 in Edmonton time now for the game of the day. Brought to you by St. Albert Dodge. The all new 2026 Jeep gladiators are in and they are smoking hot and they're head note quickly too. Great selection

2:00still. A lot of colors to pick from 49.9 gets you behind the wheel brand new Jeep gladiators under 50k. Check them out at st. Albert Dodge dot com as we welcome back Edmonton oil kings general manager Kurt Hill to the show. Good morning, Kurt. You're with Kevin Carries. Once again, thanks for jumping on sports 1440. Once again, really appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for having me. Well, how jacked are you here to get the playoffs rolling tonight with the Saskatoon blades in town. Kurt, it's been a great regular season. But as you know, the post seasons are whole different animal. I suppose you and Jason Smith and the players are just ready to roll tonight. Yeah, the guys are excited. I mean, it's felt like a long week kind of leading up to this. Well, we only did play on Sunday, but it seems like this week always drives a little bit. The guys are certainly excited to get going. And yeah, it's kind of like in the hockey world Christmas morning here where it's pretty exciting. Always get into the post season and having the opportunity to to represent yourself as a player and the organization of the post season here. Give us an assessment. What do you thought of your team? How the oil kings played in the regular

3:04season, Kurt? I think overall, we were pretty consistent throughout the entire year. And we had you know, probably a couple a couple of weeks or you know, 10 10 day stretches where we probably thought we could have played a little bit better. But you know, I give the guys a lot of credit. It's a team that dealt with a ton of adversity over the course of the season with a lot of injuries and a lot of, you know, a lot of travel, especially early in the season on October and November that they had to get through. But so overall, a pretty consistent year by our group. And you know, one thing I'm really optimistic about is how we finished in the month of March. And everybody was was playing playing hard and then playing play off style hockey. We had tough opponents down the stretch, which is great. And you know, I think I prepared this group to get ready for this day here today. What kind of series are you expecting here with the blades? What kind of team the Saskatoon have and how do you match up against them? Yeah, Saskatoon's got a they got a good team. I mean, they're quick. They got some guys that, you know, play with a ton of speed up front and get behind your D and create offensive chances. And, you know, they're a team that has guys on

4:10their group there right now that have pretty substantial playoffs, you know, games under their belts at the end of the day. So, you know, they're a good team and it's going to be a good matchup for us. It's, it's a group that we can't take lightly. Even the standings are out the window at this point. It's a new season for everybody. And we've got to go and be ready to try to take control the series here right when the puck drops tonight. Well, Kings GM Kurt Hill with us on sports 1440. I want to kind of get your perspective on the art of the deal and how trades work in the Western League. So how you go about it and how it's cyclical. And we've talked about that many times before you and I Kurt. But when you know that you have a team that has some really good players that have been around for a while and have gone through the downs and now they're going through the ups and you want to make the adjustments for your team at the deadline. Maybe just let our listeners know how that process works in the Western League. When you dial up Mike Johnson

5:10in in Portland or, or, you know, trying to get Carter Sutheran out of there, maybe just express how that works from a Western hockey league perspective. Yeah, I think for us as our organization, I mean, that process when you're looking at your group in the summertime, it starts there almost. And, you know, when you have this many returning players come back and, you know, you start talking to your coaching staff and you start evaluating right away in the summer to say, you know, where do we feel we potentially need to upgrade our group going into the season and, you know, down the road where do we feel we're going to need to upgrade? It's, you know, I've always tried to get on things a little bit earlier. If we can, just knowing that prices went too way to the 11th hour ago, they skyrocket pretty high. So, you know, I looked to this year and we were able to make a deal in the summer for Max Kern and unfortunately he's out for the year, but that's a, that's a deal right there where you got to the market a little bit earlier and we're able to add a, you know, a legitimate pop six sentiment to your team. But, you know, as things get closer, you know, the art of the deal is probably early December is the time where

6:12it really begins or where teams are in the standings. They got a, they got an idea where they're going to be out. Are you going to be buyers? Are you going to be sellers? And, you know, who's going to be available from your group? And that's where, as you're making your rounds with different general managers around the league, you start, start understanding which guys are going to be available. And I, you know, then you have a side sub category of guys that are on your wish list are, you know, I'd really like to try to get these players even though they haven't told me they're available. And that's where you start kind of maybe throwing out feelers. They have you ever considered potentially everything about moving this player vice versa. So, yeah, and then that just leads up to that trade deadline week where things can get pretty hectic. You know, I think over the Christmas break, managers have time to think about things a little bit more and sometimes you can get deals done kind of after the roster free starts back open in December 27th, which we were able to do this year. But then after that, you're kind of usually waiting to the Christmas break and seeing, or to the trade deadline and seeing, you know, who's going to be what you're able to get done at that point. But I think the big variable now to Kevin is cycles have changed and, you know, there's the new

7:17variable with the NCAA coming in and not knowing how long guys are going to stay. It's certainly a different world from the last time we loaded up. And I think the last time we knew what we were going to be able to recoup back and this time around and, you know, I don't know if we went as deep because I'm not too sure what we're going to be able to recoup back if you don't get certain players back in your lineup. So when you say that cycles changed, Kurt, how do you mean? Do you mean it's changed in the sense that it's a different window? It's shorter, longer? What do you mean? Yeah, when I say that, I think before, you know, you would try to build your team around, you know, having, having the depth of your group and the 19 year old age group and having three good 20 year year olds. I mean, it's hard to predict that now. You know, some players are leaving at, you know, 18, some players are leaving at 19 and sometimes you don't get the 20 year old back that you think you're going to. So I think right now, if you have a team in the standings and I don't know if age can be the factor anymore. You got a good 17 year old and 18 year old player is not necessarily

8:19a good 19 year old. I think you might see more teams try to go for it a year earlier because just the unknown of if players are going to be back and be leaving the next year or not. Kurt Hill with us. And when we talk about the trade, the biggest trade that you made was for Carter Sotheren, the defenseman out of Portland. How does he fit in? How's he, he looked? He's obviously got a lot of experience in the playoffs. So that's something that's a big plus for you heading into into this series with Saskatoon. Yeah, Carter's fit in really well. I mean, his offensive production on our team has been, has been fantastic. I mean, he, he provides a little bit of bite in the presence back there as well with our group, which I think is important. And as you spoke to, I think one of the biggest things when we were making that deal was trying to implement more playoff experience into our lineup and he's certainly a guy that's played in the playoffs a lot. And you know, for the to that, he's been on a team that has won some really big playoff series, but went pretty deep to a game sevens and on the road and important, important games amongst his career. Yeah. The offense that you get generated from your back end, can you maybe just discuss

9:24that between, you know, Carter, Sother, and Ethan, McKenzie, and how important that is for the success of your team? Yeah, it's certainly an area I felt last year in the playoffs. We didn't have as much production from our back end. And, you know, I think heading into this year, it was something we wanted to address, just trying to, trying to create more from the back end. Our forward group, we feel as a deep group. And, you know, their production has been really solid all year. And, you know, that was a big thing heading into this season. We wanted to try to accomplish. You know, we feel that right now we have we have strong offense from the back end. Like you said, with Sotheran McKenzie, you know, Blake Fiddler adds another offensive element back there. And so yeah, I just feel like every pair on the back end has the ability to move Hawks skate well. And, um, the search certainly are more of a shot threat from the back end as well from the from blue light. Uh, Kurt Hill, Edmonton Oil King's general manager, a guest in the Kevin Kerrish on sports 1440. Um, Andrew O'Neill, how did you get this player up from the states? And, uh, man, he's a big kid. He's a big load. And what's he meant to his addition to the team this year?

10:31Yeah, Andrew is a player that we listed. He was an unlisted player playing at the the national development team. And we put him on our list though. That would be going back, you know, and he was, he would have been 16 playing at the national development team. And, uh, yeah, he spent two seasons playing there. And, uh, you know, after that, uh, second year at the development team, he had to make a decision. Um, what if he was going to go to the USHL or come to Arley? Um, I, you know, I don't know if he was quite ready to go to the NCAA at that point. He was committed to North Dakota at the time, which, you know, is a tough program. The crack at a pretty young age for some players. And, you know, so through through a lengthy recruitment process, you know, in talking with Andrew, talking with his advisors and his family and bringing them up here, I think, um, you know, he he came and he saw what we have to offer players here. He was, you know, really, uh, positive about the development situation that he was going to be put in here this season in there. Um, yeah, you know, he hit the ground running and he's probably been one of the most consistent players, I would say, throughout the entire season. He adds a huge element and being a guy that can win a lot of key face-offs. And, you know, he's a big guy that plays with

11:34a ton of speed and he's chipped in offensively at different points of the season. So he's been, he's been a very nice addition to our group this year. And, uh, I will say that I've been impressed with how he's been able to translate into our league and how success immediately. What's his future look like, Kurt? I mean, um, still a young guy here and as you said, he was probably looking at to go to UND and don't have to tell you about it. And we discussed it a little bit already with the NCAA route with, uh, CHL players. But, uh, what are things look like for him down the road? Yeah, you know, I think for Andrew right now, his focus is on obviously getting drafted. This season, he went through the NHL draft last year and I think, you know, just with the year he's had right now. Um, he's put his, um, put his name on the radar. Obviously to get drafted in June. Um, so, you know, hopefully for him, um, he, he puts in a, puts in a good effort here in the playoffs and has good playoff run and gets recognized for that and has his name selected in in June of draft. Uh, what's the overall health of the team here? Kurt going into the playoffs. Yeah, you know, it's probably considering the injuries we've had all season. It's pretty optimistic.

12:41I would say, you know, we're happy with where we're at. Um, you know, we still have a few guys that, uh, uh, we're hoping to get back at some point here in the first round, maybe the second round. But, uh, overall, I think considering what we've been dealing with most of the year, it's in the, uh, it's in a pretty good spot heading into the game tonight. Uh, as far as goal tending goes, how lucky are you to have, uh, I guess the confidence of both guys, uh, you know, being able to, to take the crease. Uh, I'm not sure exactly what the breakdown is going to be here going in up to coach Smith here. But, uh, just from a GM standpoint, uh, how, you know, excited you are that you have two very capable goal tenders. Yeah, it's a luxury to have. I mean, not every team has that, you know, some teams have starters. They pretty much have to run through the entire, um, post season. If they want to have a chance, but I feel like both guys, you know, I've had pretty solid seasons for us. They both have had their, their speed bumps along the way. But overall, you know, they both have pretty consistent years and, uh, they both have been playing, um, very good in the month of March,

13:41here leading up to, up to this game here tonight. So, um, yeah, nice luxury to have. We have confidence in both and, uh, you know, at this point of the season, you know, it's, uh, you're going to go with whoever has the hot end and whoever's playing well. And, uh, I'm sure that's the approach to coaching staff's going to take here. Yeah. What kind of style do you think it's going to take here? I knew you guys have the offensive capabilities to create a lot of offense, but as everyone knows, you know, what wins at this time of the year. So, how do you think that that will go, uh, as we get into this series with Saskatoon? Yeah, like anything, it's, we're in the playoffs now, as the big things are going to be goal-tending, special teams, you know, guys putting their bodies in the line a little bit more in those, in those smaller areas of the game, blocking shots, finishing checks, you know, it's, um, these series or marathons are not sprints. So just stick into the process. There's going to be, you know, I find in junior hockey, there's a lot of really heavy emotion swings that happen in games and playoff series that, uh, you know, you have to be prepared for. And, um, yeah, so it's just sticking to the process, letting the depth of our team,

14:42you know, continue to wear teams down as we move through. And, uh, yeah, certainly a heavy commitment on the guys of showing they want to win and coming out and playing with that desperation. Well, you've always had pretty good fan support. Uh, I would assume that, uh, you're looking for that to continue tonight and then Sunday afternoon here, Kurt. Yeah, it's, it's fantastic with the, the fan support has been here in Edmonton. I mean, I mean, we've led the Western league for many years now. And, um, and even those dire years, I know to lead the league in attendance when you win 10 games, it truly shows that you have amazing fan support in the city. And, uh, yeah, I just expect nothing more here in the playoffs and, uh, you know, hopefully our guys can give them a good run here. Well, Kurt, as always, thanks for coming on. Really appreciate it. Best of luck tonight and then Sunday. And then as the series shifts to Saskatoon next week, all the very best. Uh, and thanks for coming on as always. Yeah, thanks for having me, Kevin. Okay, take care. That's Kurt Hilt. Edmonton Oil King's general manager. Game number one goes tonight. Seven bells down at Rogers Place. Game number two in this series is Sunday afternoon,

15:44two o'clock. And then the series shifts to Saskatoon. And it's going to be back-to-back nights in Tuntan, uh, the old credit union place. I can't remember. No, I don't even know what it's called now anymore. But, uh, the oil kings in Saskatoon on Tuesday and then Wednesday night. If necessary, game number five will go back here. And, uh, that's a Friday night game. Six p.m. Puck drop. A six p.m. Puck drop. Game five if needed. That's, uh, the game of the day brought to you by seeing Albert Dodge all new 2026 Jeep Gladiator sport packages have arrived. Great selection to check it out at Saint Albert Dodge dot com. When we come back, Zach Kavanaugh from the sporting Tribune in SoCal will preview the ducks and oilers tomorrow afternoon. It's Kevin Kerry's show with the Duke of Delburn, Josh Fenwick on sports 1440 AM radio. We are streaming on YouTube Facebook, Instagram and Twitch presented by sports elect.

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17:45fangirls podcast and your resident lover of all things Sanderson. And I'm Steven, your bookish internet goofball, but you can call me the smash daddy. And we are currently deep diving Brandon Sanderson's fantasy epic Missborn. But here's the catch. Steven here has not read Missborn before. That's right. Hey, hey, so each week you'll get my unfiltered raw reactions to every single chip. And along the way, we'll do character deep dives, magic explainers, and Steven will even try to guess what's next. Spoiler alert, he'll be wrong. News flash, I'm never wrong. Episodes come out every Wednesday and you can find fantasy fanfellas wherever you get your podcasts. All right, welcome back to the big program 1023 in Edmonton and time now for the puck report, brought to you by Fountain tire. We can meet all your car needs and more with our digital vehicle report. And we just don't tell you what your car needs. We show you book your appointment at fountain tire.com. Today as we welcome back Zach Kavanaugh from the sporting Tribune covers the

18:46Anaheim Ducks. Good morning, Zach, you're with Kevin Kerri. Thanks for jumping on sports 1440. This morning really appreciate it. Yeah, no problem, Kevin. Happy to be here in the beautiful sunny Alberta, right? I know you're on this trip here. So have you made your way up to Edmonton? Are you still in Calgary? I'm still down to Calgary, literally looking at the Calgary tower right now. And we'll be flying up this afternoon. Oh, excellent. Too bad you didn't want to make the drive. Nothing, nothing better than that. That two and a half hour drive up the QE2 for you here, Zach, but that's that's what I hear. Yeah. And wait till you get up here. I mean, it's just absolutely pleasant in Edmonton and area. I think we are looking at, oh, it's only minus eight, but it's going to get warmer today. But we got lots of snow. You're going to really enjoy it when you come up here for for the weekend. It's just absolutely abysmal, Zach. Oh, man. It's funny as like as a California, I actually like the difference, but I don't think I don't know what I feel like if this was every day like you guys have to deal with it. So we're getting sick of

19:49it here, Zach. It's been a long winner. And you know, we just got to dump this week again, and it's it's been minus 15. Yeah, we are getting sick of it. And we want spring to come for sure. How was the game last night? The three two overtime win ducks over the flame, Zach. It was a it was a weird one. It's it's a gust about a lot of these games where they give up the first goal and even they didn't play terribly necessarily to let up these goals. They had a couple of overturn there in the first period that maybe they should have been down more. But Calgary wasn't doing anything either to sort of impress themselves upon the game. And Michele Grandland just had a singular performance there with a three goal, the hat trick, to kind of pull them out of that. But otherwise, it would sort of not not the best performance the ducks have had, but when they get wins out of games like that, that's kind of what the magic has been. I'll see them. Well, if I told you with 10 games to go here, nine for the Reuters, that the Anaheim ducks would be in first place in the Pacific. I would have told you

20:51that at the beginning of the year, Zach, what would you have said? Hey, I wouldn't have believed you for one second. I would have thought that, you know, economic David was out for the season and Jack Ikel was out for the season and all that sort of stuff. It's, you know, it's the division is where it is because of sort of the failures of the oilers and the in Vegas in my eyes. Where the ducks have been magical, they've found these ways to tie the games late and they're excellent and over time undefeated in the shootout. All the things are breaking for them at the right times, but everyone knows when you look at the standing like there's 10 teams in the east that are better than the ducks are right now. If it wasn't for the state of play, the ducks would be competitive. They'd be in the playoff race, race certainly, but I wouldn't have imagined them being at the top of the division certainly just based on the pedigrees of Vegas and admittance specifically, but the opportunities there and they've seized it and they're running with it. 10 games to go a five point lead and who knows what it could be if they'd be Edmonton on Saturday.

21:52That's the biggest game of the season for for everybody. For sure, it is Zach Kavanaugh from the sporting tribune, our guest on the Kevin Kerri show here on sports 1440. What's John Carlson looked like since the deadline acquisition on the blue line here, Zach? His veteran boys, it's something that's maybe a bit of a cliche or something. All these guys say when a new guy comes in, they're like, oh, we're excited to see him, but it's really stood out. He's sort of like an evolved version of what some of these ducks puck moving defensemen will be, whether it's Jack and Nicole or Pablo Minchikov. He is so calm when he enters his own and you just look at the play last night on the overtime winner. He gets the puck up high, switches spots with grandma down low, he says sort of just starts charging. Grandma recognizes that goes up top and they hit the one side where and it's these little plays of just sort of the deathness of his shaking the shoulders or looking a guy off to open up space and give room to guys he did it again in Vancouver on Monday

22:55or Tuesday, a three assist night from there. He's really fit in with the offensive scheme here and brought a sense of calm to the blue line where with all these young kids, it can kind of be a little hectic at times and he he's not the big physical Radco-Gudas or Jacob Truba, but he's a big guy that knows how to, knows how to handle the puck on the ice and get the puck to guys in the right spots and he's certainly helped the power play. It looked so much better last night than it had in recent weeks. Yeah, no kidding. Zach Kavanaugh with his son sports 1440. Couple injuries last night with a couple guys on the back end. What's the status there, Zach? So Radco-Gudas had a lower body injury about five minutes left in the second period. Didn't have an update last night. The ducts are practicing this afternoon in Edmonton. They'll have a better evaluation than I won't be there for for that, but basically sort of have to wait till warm up tomorrow with no morning skate on Saturday. And then Paolo Minticoff, he went down on the flames go ahead goal there in the third

23:56period and it was a little controversial where he's lying prone on the ice for 30, 40 seconds before the score. He came back late in the third and he had a shift or two and stayed on the bench the whole time. So he's seemingly okay. Again, something to get a better update on when they play tomorrow. And then Troy Terry was another guy who didn't play last night. They called it a maintenance day with a lower body injury. He'd been coming off an upper body injury recently, but they also expect that he should be back in line up tomorrow. But all of that is sort of up in the air when it comes to these injury updates. They're a bit coy and it's that is becoming increasingly coy as they get toward the playoffs, but that's the nature of the NHL, isn't it? Yeah, that sure is Zach Cavanaugh with us on sports 1440. Well, Mason McTavish here, Zach, what's your take on the season that he's had? I mean, the healthy scratch just recently. And you know, his future moving forward within the organization. It's certainly been a tough season. There's no two ways about it. And he

25:00finally got back on the goal chart with the goal in Vancouver on Tuesday breaking a 14 game drought. He's he's struggled to be consistent. And he has always been a streaky player. That's nothing new. But it just seems that when he hits these ruts this season, they seem deeper than they've been. And even he was on a line to start off the season with Beckett Seneca and Cutter Goatier. And there was a stretch where Cutter and Beckett were scored off a chart. So the ducks were the hot team of the league and all that sort of stuff. And even while those two Iraqi appoints, Mason still wasn't despite being their pivot man in the middle. So it was kind of a strange dichotomy. And as he got into those deeper and deeper ruts, Quindals tried to move him around to jumpstart him. And whether that's putting him on the wing or shifting him to the fourth line where he is now, some of it has stuck and then it doesn't really stick for that much longer. So it's hard to tell. But as far as going forward with the team, it's they clearly made a commitment to him with the, you know, the deal that they signed in the off season. And they need him to be that guy. It's,

26:03you know, MacKale Randland stepping up in the way that he has. It's been a godsend to kind of fill that second line center role. But that should be McCavish's role. And I still get the sense they're very committed to trying to get that to work and maybe writing this season off and seeing if he can't latch back onto it next year because he is a guy that can impose himself on a game when he really gets going. But it's it's been a struggle. And you know, whether it's in the dot or otherwise, it's it's stuff that he's still building on as a 23 year old. But it's also the time of his career where they've given him an assistant captain letter a half the season. And they want him to really grab hold of that role. And he just hasn't quite gone there yet. But there's still a place for him. You know, he's they need him to be good. It's kind of a long and short of it. Yeah. Did the contract negotiations have anything to do with maybe, you know, how he came into this season? You would think so, but it's funny because normally he starts very slow. And and I thought coming into you know, camp as ladies he did that it was going to be even

27:07worse. And he started off the season fairly hot again with back at Seneca in Cargocia. Maybe part of that is is the two of them helping him more than implementing them. But I it's hard to tell this late in the year because the worst moments of his other season have come recently with those healthy scratches and such. But he's had a really great attitude toward it. Like anytime that I have to approach the subject with them, he's always there ready to talk and give them a fairly believable answer. Not just sort of the player speak that you get sometimes, but it's it's all there for him. I just I don't know it's that the contract discussion particularly had an effect, but it's he's clearly been struggling to find his place in this new system. Yeah. What about Owen Zellweiger? We've been following this guy for a long time, you know, world juniors and everything. What's his trajectory been this year? What do you think it is in the future as well, here's that. Olin's had a rough go of it too. And he was a guy that really started to take off

28:14last year and has its upper trajectory. And it's the problem that Olin is looking at now is it's just such a stacked duck's back end, whether it is right now or looking at the guys coming down the pike, whether it's, you know, first round picks like Steve Solberg or Tristan Luno. Those guys are going to be coming up on the left side in Solberg's case relatively quickly. And Zellweiger as a smaller defenseman, he has always relied on his shot and his speed and his speed is still there, but his size is never going to change. And his shot isn't falling as much as it is this year. So he's he's had a bit of a rough go recently. He was scratched on on Tuesday. And now that, you know, he was able to get some more reps, but now that Rack of Goodness is up and Ian Moore has made an impact the season on the back end as well. There's one of these guys are going to get pushed out pretty soon. And for a while, it maybe felt like it was going to be Pavlovichikov based on the early part of the season, but Michikov's really solidified, especially with Carlson as his partner

29:17recently. And Zellweiger is kind of the guy that's on the bubble right now. And I wouldn't be surprised if he is moved at some point for, you know, as a duck need, look at the needs and say, hey, maybe we need another scoring forward and we could package a guy like him. He still has plenty of promise. He just is kind of losing his his role here with the organization slowly, but surely. So is it a size? Do you think that maybe that might be somewhere where the organization goes, we don't have a spot for you. But when you think about those three pending older UFA's in Carlson, Truba and Goudus, you would think that there's a spot for him in on the back end moving forward, wouldn't you? You would think it's I get the sense that they still want to keep Truba. I get the sense that they've made no kind of bones about it that they do want to at least approach Carlson about staying. Goudus is kind of on the fence. But when I say that there's all these young guys in the organization right behind him, you know, Steve Fulberg is a big hitter on the left side.

30:18And Tristan Luno is a very tall, easy, bulky kid, but can also score the puck. And he's a right handed defender. And Ian Moore is kind of the surprise in all this where he got a call up early when Goudus went down early in the season and has just enamored himself so much with the coaching staff that they try to keep him in the lineup, whether it's a forward or D. And all these guys are just slightly bigger, a little bit older, have a little bit more to them. Knowing Pat Verbeek, it's so funny with him being the little ball of hate. He loves his big strong players. And just like we saw with Zegris getting moved out in the last last season, I don't know if he sees Owen Zellweger as a long-term piece. And Zellweger has had the opportunities to really make an impression in that way. And he did certainly last year. But this has not been the same season for him despite the more regular playing time that he's had this year. Looking down the road here, Zach, is it crazy to say that the three young forwards that, you know, that they're building this team around in Gautier, Carlson and Seneca? Is it crazy

31:22to say that all three of these guys could be 40 gold guys in the NHL with this ducts team? It's not at all. It's kind of amazing how the jump that Qatar Gautier took this season. I think we all expected him to take some sort of leap. And I would say, okay, 30 gold will be a great season for him. Now he's staring at that 40 gold plateau. He's at 36, you know, it's on the way. And Zach and Seneca, coming into the season, nobody thought he was going to stick with this team longer than the 10 game tryout. And here he is, one of the most consistent players on the team. He has hit a slow patch here recently. And I want to talk to him. I still haven't gotten to him in about a week or so to kind of see where he's feeling. If this is the rigors of a long NHL season, finally catching up to the 20-year-old. But he bounces back and he's always out there. He's always trying stuff for better or worse. He likes to get a little fancy with some of his reads these days. But it's incredible, the leap that particularly Carlson and Gautier have taken. And Seneca has been the extractor for this team. We talk about where I would have expected

32:27the ducts to be. If it wasn't for Seneca's contribution, basically an extra top six forward that you didn't expect to be a 50-plus point score for you at this point. I don't know how much further the ducts would be down, but it wouldn't be where they are. Seneca has truly been the extract to what the ducts roster became this season. What kind of game you think we're going to see tomorrow? Everyone knows that ducts can open it up, like to open it up, take some chances. Oiders at times this year, we've seen a similar game where their defensive commitment hasn't been there. But I think what are we looking at 22 goals in the last two games, right? The 6-5 and 7-4. So you think it's going to be like a high scoring wonder? Do you think because the playoffs are nearing that maybe the two teams will lock it down a little bit tomorrow afternoon, Zach? You would think with the stakes that it would end up being a tighter game than usual, but I don't know that these teams are capable of doing that. I highly anticipate another quick one. I think in both the games, not only have they been high scoring, but they've

33:30just had these wild swings and momentum. The game had been to the Oiders scored three goals, in like four minutes or something like that. And Mikhail Granland had his first hat trick in the season there, and the Anaheim game, just another one where it was back and forth in the ducts, highly win-late, all that sort of stuff. I can't imagine the teams playing anything less than a hundred-mile-an-hour track meet tomorrow, but I will say the afternoon games are not the ducts specialty, so I wouldn't be surprised if they come out maybe a little slow to open this one. Well, same with the Oiders 2, Zach, for afternoon games. That's the way it seems. After the ducts are here, you guys are home to Toronto on Monday. What kind of fireworks are you expecting in that game after the Gouda's Matthews incident? Well, I'm very curious, based on if Radco is even going to play, obviously getting injured last night, if he doesn't go on Monday, I don't know what the result of that is. Do the Leafs then take that out on some of the other ducts star players? Do they just sort of pack it in? I don't know what that's going to end up

34:34being if Radco doesn't play. If he does play, I hope it is limited to target records, you're going to have your fight, get it over with, get out of your system, and then sort of move on, because again, at that point, there'll be eight games toward the playoffs. The ducts can add a forward, anything happening to the three guys you mentioned, Beckett, Seneca, Carter, Gertier, Leo Carlson. If there's any sort of target that goes on there, it could get nasty, but the ducts also don't have the same level of bruises that you might think. The only guy that will drop the glove is a designated fighter right now in the lineup is Jeffrey VL. I don't know if that's going to be satisfactory to what the Leafs want there, but it'll be up to see if Radco plays or not. Hopefully he does and everything gets avoided, but if he doesn't, it could get fairly interesting. We'll see what happens. He's Seneca. Thanks for coming on. Enjoy the trip up here and maybe pick up one of those winter coats you can buy at the airport. You'll need it when you get here.

35:35Absolutely. Thank you, Kevin. Blake says that Zach Kavanaugh from the sporting Tribune covers the Anaheim ducts. That's our game of the day brought to you by St. Albert Dodge and a puck report, pardon me. Brought to you by Fountain Tire. It's one thing that we focus on your vehicle. Visit Fountain Tire.com and book your appointment today. 1040 in Edmonton. When we come back, we'll wrap up the show. We'll wrap up the week. Got a nice email from Leslie that I'm going to read that she sent me regarding our conversation with Frank Saravoli, Duke. That's going to be right after the break, and also an announcement to make regarding Cam Tate, Duke, and the morning show. Tater, me listening. I'm going to text you. He texted me 16 times yesterday. Why don't you make a nice announcement? I don't know, Tater. We'll figure it out. That's after the break. Kevin Carrius, Duke of Dolburn, Josh Fenwick on Sports 1440,

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37:40Howdy, howdy, howdy, howdy, and welcome to fantasy fanfellas. I'm Hayden, producer of the fantasy fangirls podcast and your resident lover of all things Sanderson. And I'm Steven, your bookish internet goofball, but you can call me the smash daddy. And we are currently deep diving Brandon Sanderson's fantasy epic Mistborn. But here's the catch. Steven here has not read Mistborn before. That's right. Hey, hey, so each week you'll get my unfiltered raw reactions to every single chip. And along the way, we'll do character deep dives, magic explainers, and Steven will even try to guess what's next. Spoiler alert, he'll be wrong. Newsflash, I'm never wrong. Episodes come out every Wednesday and you can find fantasy fanfellas wherever you get your podcasts. The hustle doesn't have to hurt. If performance pressure is making it hard to breathe, growth therapy helps you navigate stress, set boundaries, and actually feel like yourself again. Whether it's your first time in therapy or your 50th, grow makes it easier to find a therapist who fits you, not the other way around. You can search by what matters, like insurance, specialty, identity, or availability,

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39:48Tomorrow, oilers at 130. Hey, tell you what, do you want the J's and A's tonight? Check it out sportsselect.com. You know, sprinkle some on the J's tonight, Duke. Yeah, are you? A obligatory. I might get the chance to listen to the game on my drive down. That's very true. To head into Delburn for the weekend, a couple things on the go there, and depending on how my afternoon schedule goes, it might time out perfectly that at the conclusion of the J's and Gregor Show, as will be the case for all Blue J's games this year. Join in and progress. AM radio feed only. If you're listening online to get Fox Sports radio, but as you've said many times, Kev, there's just something about listen to a baseball game on the radio that I think really does supersede. I'll say any other sport like listen to hockey on the radio is great. I do it pre-regularly and I travels back and forth whether it's an oilers game or otherwise through like NHL app and stuff like that. But yeah, baseball, it's just like the slow moving nature of the game

40:48and the gaps in action. The insight that these broadcasters that follow the team for 162 games each year can give you, I really enjoy it. So I'll often put the air pods in if I'm out at the driving range or something and listen to games. So today for the season opener, yeah, I think it's a very good chance. I'll be listening in tomorrow. It's one o'clock, 107 first pitch. So that's an afternoon game. We'll have it for you on sports 1440, right? Once what's times the early game start? One 130. So what do we add? Yeah, it's just so 12 12. So I assume it'll be joined in progress. Follow the conclusion of the pre game show and then I wonder if yeah, that'd be a better question for Donovan because he would know he's not here. He's not here. But he knows like last fall during pre and post game stuff. How it worked if there was an overlap with both pre game and post game if he does bypass it. I don't know the answer to those questions. Yeah. J dog says the games on TV are going to be different without buck. In my mind. I'm legit. Look at this donkey coming into the

41:54studios here. Camtate's right in time for our announcement, Duke, that we're going to have Camtate on the morning show. Listen to this. Let me read this what Cam sent to me. Yeah, well, just hang on a second. Cam, Cam's here and so is the con man. So starting Monday, it'll be called Cam and eggs and Cam. That's excellent. That's great. Oh, this has been around for a long time. So Tater texted me this on Tuesday or Wednesday. Hey, how about this? You're one minute wake up. A tightly written and produced piece. Well, I don't know who's tightly writing it, Tater, as he gives me a big smile here, previewing the two minute warning with Gregor that runs in the afternoon. Heavy, heavy, heavy, humor. What do you think? So we're going to start that on Monday morning and we're moving it around Tater. We're not going to have a set time for it. We're going to move it around. So on everybody to get the chance to listen to it. Like Kevin says, moving it around.

42:58And, you know, I think in every time we run this, and I don't know if I would run out of stories, but it could tell some Cam. Tate party stories and partying stories. We could run the Cam and eggs for 15 years and not run out. He says he's thrilled. Cam's in the studio with us right now. He's thrilled to be a part of the morning show. Well, we're thrilled to have you a big guy. See? Okay. He gave him the dream. And that's what Cam says. So it'll be Cam and eggs. And that little phrase has been around for how many years? Ten? Maybe eight. I don't know. Never on radio. Obviously, yes. Just in the paper. Things like that. So we're excited to have Cam as a part of our show, moving forward on Monday.

44:00And you'll be able to hear it right here in sports 1440. And Cam makes an appearance. It comes in here. I can't believe it. And yesterday, like you said, he texted me 27 times. Hey, when's it going to be on like what's going on here? That what was the one story that I have such a big ego, but when is it going to be? But we're excited to have that. So text 833401440. Hey, Matthew sent this one in because we're talking about the gold tenders. There were some talk who would start tomorrow against Saturday. I looked a few stats sites. It's a coin toss. Ingram has a 920 save and a 280 goals against slightly better than Jerry, but both goalies had their worst performances as an oiler against the ducks. Ingram was pulled after 13 minutes four goals. And Jerry didn't fare any better in his word, in his worst, but Jerry did did stop 3741 shots. Back on January 1, where the oilers were victorious. Thanks for those stats. Matthew, I got a text from Leslie yesterday. I'm going to read it. Hi, Kevin. Enjoy your discussion with

45:07Frank Saravoli this morning regarding Conor McDavid's comments about John Cooper. The word frustration sounded likely at an exhaustion playing deep into June. Stanley Cup final seven game seven, game six, a ton of minutes during the Olympics. Expectations. Another word reasonable or not, just about everyone picked Canada for gold fear. She says having to wait four more years for another chance to win Olympic gold. What if he's injured or something? He's going to be 33 in four years. What if he's hurt? Having to live with a nagging reminder that Matthew could chuck has two cup rings and an Olympic gold loves to taunt you. The national Toronto based sports media, constantly comparing Conor to Austin Matthews, who now has an Olympic gold. And Leslie goes on to write and says, being asked repeatedly, why can't you win the big games when they count like he's some kind of failure? Come on far from it. He has over the years been the hero of this

46:08town. So often it seems everyone just expects him to win. Why wouldn't he be frustrated in a bit crabby at times? Just hope he stays healthy and continue to continue to love playing the game for as long as he wants. We are so fortunate to be able to watch him play here in our home town. A couple of other things she likes Lenny the dog too. Leslie, thank you very much for your email. Much appreciated. Text 833-401440. Billy says, Duke, I'm in the garage on yard and the yard on the weekends. I love listening to the game on 1440. There you go, Duke. And he talks about the signal yet, but you can go to the eye player and the tune in app. I listen to it in the back yard on my transistor radio when I'm doing yard work and it comes in fine for me. So depending on where you're at Billy. And it's free. He says the road hammer. Well, what a week it was, Duke. And again, you're going to add it again. After the all night curling, you got a hockey. We've talked about this kev this month. The march is a non-stop wagon for me going all the way back to open it up with

47:13the Alberta beer festival, which was that was a little bit more of an impromptu decision. And maybe an ill-advised one knowing which I what I had on the horizon. But yeah, manville wreck tourney champions. How long can you keep this? I want to make sure that that gets thrown in there again. How long can you keep this? This is it. This is it for me. Ever. No, I have to think these first couple of weekends of April will be pretty casual. Wow. As I as I looked to recover. Well, have a great weekend. You know, you got your grandpa's funeral. Yeah, yeah. When you were when you were away back in January, my my grab it passed away 99 years. So we're going to have a what it turned to today would be its 100th birthday. So that's the kind of the celebration. We're going to have what I assume is a huge turn out of the Delburn Hall. One o'clock is a scheduled service time for any of the Delburn listeners in area that maybe didn't see it online or anywhere. I'm going to have some great, you know, stories told and things of of a great life live. So looking forward to that to see some friends and family and then all that book ended by some beer league hockey at the Delburn Agriplex 22 round out hockey

48:18season in the in the community. Well, have a great weekend. Yeah, you two kept. Well, I'm babysitting tomorrow. So maybe sitting who Donnie P. Oh, right. Donovan Paulson in our baseball draft. So that's tomorrow for sure. Hey, thanks everyone for listening. Today, that was a great show. Coming up at the top of the hour. It is fantasy friends he with the former rush up TV Connor Halley and the Duke of Delburn 12 o'clock till two. It's the lowdown with Alan Mitchell, two till six Jason Gregor drives this one. We got Fox Sports all night long triple S at nine bells. Josh Fenwick are you in? He's in thumbs up with Josh Fenwick and Mac the intern and a cast of others 10 o'clock. Josh Fenwick will be here with Paul Sir. Brickie. What? It's the Josh Fenwick show. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Paul's a Paul's on a Paul's away on family vacation. So it's a Josh Fenwick show. It's the Josh Fenwick day on sports 1440 because he's also going to be here for Donnie on pre and post game with walks. Wait a second. They just call Saturdays the Josh Fenwick day now on this station.

49:22This is the biggest day of your life, Josh. This is the biggest day of your life. Yeah, pretty big. We have some good guests lined up. Aiden Gibb or the the Gibb dad from Raymond. Thank you. Paul pre-recorded an interview with him. So we'll be running that. I have some feelers out to some other NBA guests getting them on. So yeah, the only bad thing I'm going to have to listen to this after because we've got our draft at 10 in the morning. That's okay. No, but I mean, this would have been a perfect garage morning for me. Sure it would have been. Oh, man, I was going to be producing. I do not know. Connor Halley is waiting for the thumbs up from his wife. And Tate just raised his hand. That's what we need on the board over there. Tate. Man, oh man. Well, good luck. Have great shows tomorrow. Thanks, Josh. It's going to be a great day for you. Before all that time, now for a sports 1440 update brought to you by Sean Cunningham of remax real estate. Get the home team advantage for your next move in the Edmonton area.

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