Dec 18, 2020
It’s Friday afternoon and that means a brand new episode of
Oilersnation Radio has been wrapped up, edited into a masterpiece,
and ready to stimulate your ear feelings as you head into the
weekend. This week, we looked at the NHL's potential plan to move
the Canadian teams south of the border, helmet ads being approved,
and welcomed Jordin Tootoo to the podcast to help us preview the
World Juniors.
To kick off today's episode, we jumped in with a look at the
news that broke yesterday about the NHL potentially looking at
moving all seven Canadian teams south of the border for the
upcoming season provided that they're unable to reach an agreement
with local health authorities. With reactions on the subject
ranging all over the map, we tried to look at both sides of the
argument and whether or not we think the NHL will actually have to
make sure a drastic move. That all said, we also looked at the fact
that a bunch of the Oilers and NHLers are heading back to their
team cities ahead of the start of next season, which makes the idea
of moving everyone down south seem a little bit more unlikely. From
there, we started looking ahead at the World Juniors Championship
that is set to kick off in Edmonton next week and how it's going to
be so different without having fans in the stands to cheer our boys
on. For the final half-hour of the podcast, we were joined by
former NHLer, Jordin Tootoo, to talk about his memories from his
WJC experience along with some amazing stories from throughout his
NHL career, including an amazing story about being a healthy
scratch in Edmonton. Needless to say, this is an interview that
you're going to want to hear because Tootoo was about as open and
honest as we ever could have hoped, and it was a lot of fun to get
the chance to talk to him.