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We welcome Michael Menzies from Euler's Nation, Morning, and Michael, you're with Kevin

Carey.

It's Eddie Steele.

Thanks for jumping on Sports 1440 this morning.

Really appreciate it.

Yeah, on the mend, I could get used to that.

You like that?

That's all right.

I just came up with that just like that, you know?

Wow.

Broadcasting professional.

It's great.

Good morning, fellas.

How was everybody feeling?

Oh, you know, it's Friday.

Feel good Friday.

Eddie's in a good mood.

Strudges texting, you know, what more do you want?

Yeah.

Good banter here on this Friday and everybody feeling good, you know, Euler's four-point road

trip.

Yeah.

You know, they're suckering us back in this team.

I tell you what.

We know how to get us, man.

That's how it goes.

But again, you know, when the team puts it together and everyone knows that they can play

at this level and within themselves where the mistakes aren't as egregious.

And everyone is maybe focused on attention to detail.

Everyone knows that they have that in their game.

It's just a matter of executing it.

And we've seen it in the last little bit more so than we've seen it throughout the year.

Now it's about stacking this up here, Michael.

It's stacking some periods together, some games together, some wins together.

And that's the goal for the team heading down the stretch here.

Yeah, no doubt.

And I mean, look, it's been a flawed season.

It hasn't been, you know, the tremendous regular season that, you know, that they aspired for

when they started this year.

But ultimately, that doesn't matter right now.

You know, it's like you mentioned, they get a stack wins and they get a fine diversion of their game

that they can replicate here, heading into the postseason.

And I think post the Olympic break, they've been, you know, slowly getting to that

where it's a low event style of game.

You've heard Chris Knoblock and a lot of the players talk about it.

We want to play this style of game a lot more.

You know, I think we've seen for the most part they've been able to accomplish that

than they have that they're setbacks.

But, you know, the road victories here against Vegas have been huge here in the month of March.

Obviously, a road win in Colorado.

But continuing to accumulate points here, especially against the Pacific Division.

And obviously, Connor McDavid, he said a lot of things on Saturday, the quote unquote pillow fight division.

But the Oilers are 12, 5 and 3 now against the vision opponent.

So as far as they've been, they've been winning the games they need to win in division.

And six of the last nine are going to be against the Pacific.

They have to find their game and they're going to be allowed to against this branch of competition.

So there was a lot to like, I think, at the last night's game too.

Michael, you mentioned that since the Olympic break that they've been playing more low event hockey,

how much do you attribute this low event hockey to A, the roster moves with the acquisition of a guy like Murphy or Dickinson

or B, the addition of Paul Coffey back into the mix?

How much would you weigh that on either of those?

Well, I think that they've got to play a part here for sure.

And I think, you know, for a team that's played the amount of hockey that they've played the last two regular seasons and then to start out.

And you think of some of the runs that they had in their schedule, whether it was all the road games they had back in November, right?

Where they were on the road so much and they weren't practicing.

And I know every team has to go through it, but each individual team has their own unique challenges in going through that.

And the Oilers, as we know, they know what to do, but they're mental focus in the termination, getting it done.

And sometimes that's going to lack, and I know Matisse Heckholm has talked about that at times too.

And I think Heckholm's a great person to hear what's on his mind about, hey, like, yeah, we know it, but some nights it's a little bit harder to conjure up.

And it seemed to be when there's a third game in a row to win for this team, because we know that's been a struggle.

That's just another familiar face on the bench.

And it also allowed Chris Noblock, another individual they'd gone from, you know, a four-man coaching staff to a three-man coaching staff.

And then you talk about the new ads and Jason Dickinson and Connor Murphy.

And, you know, I think where their fans are thrilled from what they're seeing, you know, Dickinson had the great quote before the game yesterday, where he said, you know,

I haven't really had that many run-ins with Vegas, so I probably don't hate them as much as, you know, the Edmonton fan.

And then, well, in the first period, he certainly was, you know, right, the thick of it, and Connor Murphy too.

He takes, you know, he takes no guff from anybody, and he kind of auto sheds against Cole Smith.

And, you know, he's not going to back down.

So I think they give the oilers an edge that they, an edge, but they can also play that they've missed here through the first 55 games in the season.

Well, here's the thing with those two guys in Murphy and Dickinson, as we're speaking with Michael Menzies from Oilers Nation.

They haven't had meaningful games, the two of them, for an awful long time.

You know, down the stretch in Chicago, it's been the last several years, it's been tough going, tough sledding.

These two guys now are seeing what it's like to be in this fight.

So full marks for both of them.

I mean, they are going to be so critical moving down the stretch.

What do you think of the pairing there between Nurse and Murphy right now, Michael, in the sense that this could turn into a hell of a shutdown pair.

And I really think that Connor Murphy's dragon, Darnell Nurse, into this fight, if you want to call it that,

but to get him to play at a level where we haven't seen Darnell play for a while.

Yeah, I think there's a chemistry that is developing there.

Murphy talked about that before the game yesterday about how they're kind of, you know, kindred spirits a little bit in the way that they want to play.

And Murphy enjoys the intensity that Nurse plays with.

And I think it sort of reciprocates each other and how they approach things.

And, you know, and there you got Nurse last night, you know, blowing kisses to the Vegas bench and getting involved.

And I think that's what, you know, Euler fans, that they want to see more out from Nurse at certain times.

You know, the puck plays are one thing and I think Nurse is, you know, it's been up and down in the last few years about what he can do with that first pass or creating.

But on the other side of it, he can be an emotional leader for this team when he's dialed in.

And I think Murphy, to your point, he's excited to play in big hockey games.

I'm very hungry. It's happened very little in his NHL career. And I think he's really revving up for the ride.

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Yeah, they got a little nasty to them that parent. Who was it that nurse dumped yesterday over the net?

I like that, man. It's good to see that version of Darnell, right?

Because that's when I believe he's ultimately at his best is be a defensive-minded defenseman.

Use that skating to help you defensively and then just be a dog out there.

Well, Murphy hasn't played a playoff game yet in front of fans.

When he walked the juice, he won't believe this. He won't believe what it's like.

I got chills right now.

It'll be fun for them. I think they're really thriving on that.

I think them coming from the same team in Chicago also helped as opposed to maybe pulling multiple players from different teams.

The penalty kill last night, that may have been the story.

The Oilers had given up a goal while on the kill for three straight games heading into last night.

They didn't yesterday, three for three, on somewhat of a controversial call I thought in overtime.

But man, they gutted it out for that two-minute stretch.

Ingram didn't get rattled. They stayed composed.

Nurse is able then to get up into the rush right afterwards and they flip ice to make it an offensive-zone draw.

Then they score immediately afterwards.

That was probably the biggest single penalty kill of the season, too.

Michael Menzies with us here on the Kevin Kerri Show with Eddie Steele.

When you look at this game, tomorrow, expectations against Anaheim Michael.

Even at the beginning of the week, I said with these two games being a night game and then an afternoon game.

I thought the goal-tending would be split.

To me, now it's probably leaning towards Ingram to start.

Just an overall thought about a massive game.

If you want any sniff of the Pacific Division crown, you've got to win tomorrow in regulation.

Well, yeah, and then the ducks, they just keep finding ways to come back in games and, you know, Calgary can't even tank right here.

They win four in a row and then come on and lead, hang on to this one and then they lose the lead and whatever else.

But, yeah, this game is going to be, look, the Oilers, I think, in the month of March.

They're starting their weeks with wins and then ending their weeks with losses.

Again, the emotional ride, I think, for fans as they go through it, starting with the high and then going to a low.

You know, Matt and A games have not been the Oilers' forte.

But this is a biggie and you can't, I would just like them to, you know, kind of survive one of these sort of spot games.

You know what I mean?

The team goes out to game road trip.

They win both.

There can be flat spots coming home and it just can't be.

And this team is not survived many of those quote unquote flat spots.

We saw it last week and they were flat against Florida, you know, just flat against Dallas.

And it's been a trend all season long where they haven't been able to, you know, cut and paste.

They're saying performance and they're sort of emotional intensity in these games for a stretch.

So that's what I'm really looking at too because look, you'll get a couple days afterward before you play Seattle.

The ducks, this is, this is a biggie and the ducks are, they're scoring goals, man.

They play a fun, exciting brand of hockey that really is entertaining.

And you know, it's interesting about the goal painting.

I mean, Jari started both games against the ducks.

So that's I think a reason to maybe give Anaheim Ingram here.

And again, he was declared the starter for this team.

I thought it was one of his best games of the season yesterday.

And I think you got to go Ingram.

Michael is always thanks for spending some time with us.

How come you didn't make her for the nation vacation?

Were you not invited to this or what?

Yeah, yeah, apparently I'm not quite there yet in the company.

But good enough to stay at home and quote unquote, hold down the fort.

So yeah, there's been a lot of FOMO, a lot of FOMO here, especially after that dump of snow.

And it was plus 35 there the last couple days.

So am I better? No.

Yes, yes, you are better.

Why don't you twist that screwdriver a little more, KK?

Well, come on now.

I mean, like this guy's holding down the 480.

While everyone's having a little joy right down in Vegas.

He's a team guy, a team player.

That's right.

Hey, I'm going to just Jason Dickinson and Connor Murphy.

This is my first run.

So I'll do what the team needs.

Have a good one, Big Tallah.

Yeah, enjoy the weekend, fellas.

Thanks so much.

Thank you for being with us.

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