The Lowdown with Lowetide - Shawn Belle (Sept 8th)

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1:03That's code Giggly at O-P-I-L-L.com, birth control in your control. We love to see it. L. Bye, Sean Bell. Mr. Bell, how are you? I'm doing great. Low tide. Are you doing good? I'm good. Now that you've completed your coaching in the WHO, I see you're back and ready to go and we missed you. Yeah, it's nice to be back. As much as Tri-City was pumping all 37 degrees days and I truly enjoyed that. It's nice to be back in God's country. Yeah, it really is. And I love the fall in Edmonton, right? It's a beautiful day today. If we can get 22 degrees and the leaves turning and nice breeze, I'll take that for two months. Yeah, I would take it too. I'm going to be a little bit selfish saying, can we at least get the 25 just to make up for all the rain that we had over the course of June and July and in bits of August? Yeah, I'm not too much to ask for. Well, I mean, I think it is based on this year.

2:06Maybe we'll catch up next year, but this year it felt like every time I yelled at Mother Nature, it just slapped back with a terrible storm. So what are you going to do? So we're in the days now where the players are either they're signed and we don't know it or they might, you know, they might not be going to camp, which is a, you know, depending upon how old you are and how many years experience you have, which is pretty scary because the next stop is if you don't get a PTO, I guess you're maybe looking at Europe. At this point in the off season, do you think we've got a lot of sign contracts that we don't know about because it seems like there's a lot of quality out there, Sean? There definitely is a lot of quality out there. And at the end of the day, I think it's still just a waiting game. Like I could see a world where, you know, teams get through their rookie camps and guys are doing that. And then once they kind of figure out, okay, what do we have in some of the rookies that we want to see? Is there, do we have that organizational depth?

3:07And if they don't, then I can see a lot of guys get inside. But it's like, it's, it's a great time in the hockey world because there's more stories coming out. And I think people are gearing up for camp. Everybody's ready. But at the same time, you're kind of like sitting there saying it's like no man's land for a lot of GMs because there's not a ton of activity for free agency in trades like that. So I hope there's a bunch of guys inside, but like a lot of mere terrors, Senko, Aline, these are guys that should be on NHL rosters for sure. Logan Stanley, I know we talked about him last week or two weeks ago, but those are quality NHLers and you want to see those guys on rosters. Yeah. And it's, it'll come quickly when it does. And we've been, you know, kind of waiting since, you know, it seems like mid July, a team like Anaheim really has to make a move because they've got players that are not signed. And as we go farther along here, it feels like guys like Halibuk and Larkin who were, you know, how do I recently, you know, made public that he'd asked for a trade, but he asked for it earlier.

4:07Larkin wants a change of scenery. But when we get this close, if you're moving an eight million dollar player, that seems like an offseason move, fair? Yeah, it's very fair. I mean, it's also a move right at the start of the season, like right at, you know, the start of the, the actual regular season, not necessarily training camp. But what does a guy like Larkin do? Does he play hardball and say, I don't want to show up? Does Halibuk do that? To me, like, those guys are both gamers and they would be at their respective camps. So, you know, it's, it's a weird, it's a weird environment given the fact that these guys have both said they want out, but their teams have zero obligation to actually make that happen. So, you know, and we don't normally see it in the NHL. I think Yashin was the last guy that did it where he held out and finally came back. But you don't know that you don't typically see that. And so like Yashin played, what, 15 years ago? Yes. So, it's an interesting situation for those teams, specifically Detroit, because they don't

5:10have a GM still. And there's a lot of guys and a lot of things that they need to get done. So, I got a feeling Larkin's going to wait a while. I could see Halibuk moving a lot quicker than I would for Larkin. It's, it's also like internally, if we look at the Emton orders depth chart, I've been checking out the left side of the, the defense. And, you know, Damien Carfagna is a young, I'll call him undersized. I think he's 6 foot 190 defense. So, he played well for Bakersfield, got great wheels. Atro Leppinan is a chaos defenseman from Finland, who is really talented with the puck. And, ordinarily, we'd be talking more about them. But the others have so much depth on the left side of the defense. Is it, when you come in and are in that situation, not that you're hoping for injuries to other players, but at some level, probably those guys are going, I'll come in and I'll show as well as I can, because when injuries hit, maybe they'll remember and me and recall me, right? Yeah, I like that's what you're trying to do. You're trying to make an impression on the coaching staff so that you become that next call.

6:14Up. Because the reality of the situation is it, it seems like the weather's are maxed out on one way contracts or guys that are ready, you know, making that team. So, if you're a guy that's, that's sitting there and you're kind of on the outside looking in, you get to camp, you either got to completely blow the doors off, you know, to earn and force your way onto that team or you become that guy that's going to be, you know, that first call up and I think for guys like Leppin and that's exactly what you want to do. And because you're also showcasing yourself for a lot of other teams, like I remember Steve, Steve McIntyre, obviously a different player, but at that time, you know, he was with Florida and he was fighting and doing all those things. He got sent down and was like, Mac, you know, you're showcasing yourself for a lot of other teams. And well, he got picked up in waivers and, you know, the rest is kind of history. So it's, it's not necessarily just about the, it's not others for a guy like Leppin. And if you're going through waivers, you're showcasing for the other 31 teams. Yeah. It's, and, you know, the, the, the feeling I get this year is with the, the salary cap being what it is,

7:20I think that there's a possibility that a player, you know, like, let's take Logan Stanley. He is clearly going to take a pay cut compared to what he might have been able to get earlier in the off season. That's a given. But having said that, I wonder if a team that really likes him would be willing, like if he were to sign a two-year deal, right now, I think most would want to sign a one-year deal, right? Pump up their value and then sign Ella Ross-Lovick, which, you know, he did it last year with Edmonton. Is that the kind of conversation that the player and agent might be having right now? Hi, it's Brooke DeVard, host of Naked Beauty, and I want to talk about how I upgrade my hosting experience. There's a moment just before guests arrive when my home stops feeling like a series of rooms and it becomes an atmosphere. The light settles the air shifts, and then the beautiful scent of Jasmine, Rose and Fig fill the air. It feels warm and considered. That's what Pura does. It turns fragrance into environment, a collection of beautiful, clean fragrances all controlled from your phone.

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9:23Yeah, that's definitely conversation. I think it's, hey, man, this is all that's on the table. I think you have to go take a one-year deal, find a way to become a serviceable guy, be a 5, 6, showcase your value. And then hopefully there's a contract extension somewhere in the middle of the year, and typically for guys to extend me, that would come in the off season, but that's the best way that you can possibly do it. And I don't know if I would lock myself into two years. I mean, personally, in this is just my opinion, I don't know why players are locking themselves into eight-year deals. Right. Let alone, you know, four-year deals because with the way that the cap is going up, especially those superstar players, you want to be able to maximize your dollar. So if you're a guy on the other side of that equation, and you feel that you're maybe a $34 million dollar guy, put yourself in a one-year deal situation, earn it, prove it, and then try to capitalize and get your two, three years down the road. In conversations I've had in the past with guys who played in the National Hockey League,

10:27and then, you know, went over and spent a year or more in Europe, and I'll use Sean Brown and Jason Stredwick as examples, although they will deny ever knowing me. I want you to know that, Sean Bell. But the idea was that both of them were like, they didn't want to leave the NHL, they exhausted every other opportunity, but then they had a blast in Europe because they were asked to do, and they could do more things. They weren't just playing in a, like, a depth role. They were, you know, on the power play, and they were on the penalty kill. And you went to Germany and then Sweden, and then Germany again, after you finished up with the Colorado Avalanche. Was that an enjoyable experience for you? Yeah, I spent two years in Madhime. Madhime was an unbelievable city. You could, it's like a baby NHL city and baby NHL rank, like they do a lot of really good things over there, and, you know, they had a big, big budget team. So I personally enjoyed it there.

11:28Sweden, I thought was the best hockey of the ones in Europe, but it was, that's kind of where my career went to die, so to speak, because that's where I got injured. And then I was in the KHL for a month, got hurt again, came back and had surgery, and then finished up in Dusseldorf in the German League. So, you know, for me, I enjoyed it for the most part. Obviously, there's some things that you have to get around. Language barriers, one of them is when I was in Sweden, we had our assistant coach was actually our translator. So when your coach is doing the pre-game speech, he's sitting in the corner with all the English guys, and he's like, yeah, he's saying this right now, we should do this. So that part's a little bit different and interesting, but for the most part, it's an enjoyable experience. It's a little bit more laid back, more family oriented in the fans or their nuts. Not to see the fans here or nuts, because they are, but they don't sing and dance all game long, and chant and have like all these different, like,

12:29banner presentations, like they're loud because they're passionate fans here in Edmonton. Love it, I love that stuff. Where you, this is a question that I didn't occur to me until you just said what you did, but when you're overseas, it doesn't matter if it's the KHL or another league. Are you, and you have an injury, is the first inclination to get back to Canada and have your doctor look at you, or is that just a matter of, you know, convenience where, whether you have it over there or come back home? Well, if I were to do it all again, I would try to come back home because when I was there, so I tore my ladder on my niscus, and I took 50% out of it. And basically, like, because you're by yourself, they force you back way ahead of schedule, oh boy. So I was back on the ice, probably seven to 10 days after I had that surgery. I wasn't playing, but I was back on the ice and I was getting skated. And that's like a six week recovery.

13:29So, you know, in that situation, if I had to do it all over again, yeah, I had 100% come back to Canada and, you know, take the proper time, but when you've got those contract tracks and you're by yourself, and you know, there's that pressure, it's getting done and kind of go from there. Final question for you from Perplexed Oilers fan. Could you tell the patient? Couldn't oil management trade a left defense and then sign Logan Stanley. There's an appetite for what are fans like Logan Stanley? I do too, but it feels like they're set. Would they do something as big as maybe trade one of the left defense when they have or do you think they're pretty satisfied with what they have? Yeah, I think they're satisfied as of right now. I wouldn't be doing anything at the moment. Like I'd make sure I see what I have first before you make any moves. As much as we sit here in, you know, Logan Stanley is a big defenseman. He's mobile and, you know, he's tough.

14:29Like I want to know what I have on my roster before I go in and make any other move. The other piece of that too is I want to open up the cap because at the same time, I want to maximize what I'm able to do down the road at the trade deadlines because maybe all of a sudden there's a $6 million player available if you occur the appropriate amount of cap. So find out what you have, see what kind of depth you have, and then go from there. Beautiful. Thanks for this. Appreciate it. This is Hannah Burner from Giggly Squad. O-Pill is the first over the counter daily birth control pill available in the US. Let's be real. Getting a birth control prescription is not always easy and it's so much admin. In fact, about a third of women face barriers to access prescription birth control between scheduling appointments, missing work class or just trying to exist. It's a lot, but now O-Pill is putting birth control in our control. O-Pill is a daily birth control that's FDA-approved, full prescription strength and estrogen-free

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