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Make your next date night or celebration unforgettable at Edmonton's best steakhouse, 99.90 Jasper Avenue. It's Ruth Chris, open seven days a week, 5 p.m. to close. As our Oilers Now headliner today is Keith Gretzky for Wilhawk Beef Jerky. Others can try to imitate, but nobody can duplicate the great flavor of Wilhawk Beef Jerky, only available in Leduc, Alberta. Keith Gretzky joins us on the Rivercree Resort Casino hotline. The Rivercree Resort Casino, excitement. Hello, Keith, how are you doing? Good, Bob, how are you? Good, are you driving in for the game? You betcha, wouldn't miss it. All right, wouldn't miss it. I was happy to see you Friday night in Anaheim, disappointed with the result. And thanks to my car service, Trent Wilhawk, on Saturday, made it into Coachella Valley to watch you guys play in a tough 1-5-4 loss. And then you fell behind in the third and deciding game of the series and ultimately lost that one 6-2 with a couple empty netters. Colin Chuck was quite positive about the direction of the team and how dramatically different the team had been this year. You managed the Bakersfield Condors. How would you assess the season that was? I would say it was a really good season. You start at the beginning of the year, I think you watch our team play. We're an exciting team. We're always in a game, it doesn't matter the score. The belief in the players themselves, like, hey, it doesn't matter the score, we have a chance to win because we had such high-scoring players on our team that gave us a chance to win. But I thought at the beginning, you put it in chunks of the whole season, and that's what I do. You look at the beginning, the middle, the end, and I would say we were very young. I don't want to say high expectations, but you don't know because you get college kids, European kids, slight kids, not great skaters, whatever it is, not great defending. You can throw in 20 different things about players that you worry about. The one thing I loved is that we didn't change anybody. If you were an offensive player, the coaches let you play offense. We didn't gain the red line and dump it in. We were a puck possession team. We pressured a lot. Our D were really active throughout the ice surface, especially in offensive zone. We pinched a lot. I thought that was really, really effective, but we had to get guys to buy in, make sure you have an F3 high that you could do that because, you know, you're going to get two-on-ones. And I think at the beginning, you look at our club, we were 32nd goals against, 32nd penalty kill, trying new guys. We had to change things up from the year before. So I think that came into play, and I would say, you know, throughout the year, we got better in a lot of areas, but we kept the offense. And that's critical when you're trying to improve your club and then try to improve a player. And I remember during the last game of the year, it was a four-on-three in overtime. Willie Marzella was out on the ice on a PK four-on-three. And I text Dan, we happened to be texting during the game, and I said, you know, if you would have asked me in October, you saw Willie, you know, killing a penalty four-on-three in overtime in the last game of the year, I would have said, no chance. But that just proved what the coaches gave players a chance. I thought the players took advantage of their chances. You take certain guys off a power play and have, say, Quinn Hudson out there, and he scores 30 goals. He deserved 30 goals because he took advantage of the situation. He's got a great shot. But, you know, it's one of those things that we really harped on, not being not creative because that's what we play to your strengths. And we're a lot more offensive, and we let guys be offensive. But in saying that, there's still a little accountability for managing the puck. And that means, you know, blind passes, hope passes, bad turnovers. And at the end of the day, you know, we lose 5-4 in game two. We have, you know, bad breakout pass from a winger to the other winger, and it's icing. It gets caught in our zone. We win two draws, and we get it. And instead of taking three or four strides, we just throw it away, and it hits off of somebody's butt. And before you know it, it's a loose puck, and it's in our net. That's the learning part that we've got to do a better job of. There's one thing, it's managing the puck and your turnovers because you know you're there for 82 games plus playoffs, exhibition games. Tell the coaches, it's hard to put out a young kid if you're going to, you know, continue to turn over the puck. And in the same breath, we don't want to change your game. You've got to manage your game. There's times to dump it in. There's times to, you know, go for it. And I think as a staff and as the players themselves, they did a great job of managing that, and we can get better in that area. Keith Gretzky joining us for a farm report for Equus, and this is also our prospect report for Reface Magic Ken and the staff at Reface. And normally we have Bruce Kerlock do this segment. He's in Toronto doing business today, unable to join us. And he's the guy that hasn't always been bullish, Keith, about what you guys have done going back three or four years. And he really wanted to see the young guys play, and, well, the young guys played, and they played in every situation. And you brought up Mariola because all season long we focused on Howard and Hudson. And why not? Hudson led all AHL rookies with 30 goals. He was second in AHL rookie points. Isaac Howard was first in AHL rookie points per game. But I want to talk about Mariola because, for me, what I noticed, I saw a different player in the playoffs than I saw earlier in the year. You talked about on the PK, but I saw a guy that wanted the puck and wanted to make plays. And I didn't have him penciled in, Keith, as the guy that might be able to push his way up. And after seeing him in the playoff game and watching him down the stretch, like, I got Howard on the team next year in Edmonton. Like, he's going to be here. But I look at Mariola, and he's got an outside chance. Does he have an outside chance to push his way into the mix to be playing in Edmonton at some point next season? I think that should be his goal. I talked to him. We've done exit meetings the last few days. And it was great to hear that's one of his goals. And you look at a European player, especially European, they don't play a lot of games. He was the only guy other than Tompkins, who's the goalie backup. You know, they have goalies. But he dressed every game, 72 games. He was the Ironman. And if you even ask anybody at development camp or rookie camp or main camp, you think this guy's going to play every game? I would have said, you know, I don't think so, but you don't know. Injuries, maybe a maintenance day, anything like that. And I'll tell you, this kid, and we had him on different programs to get stronger, to work on his skating, everything that we could think of to help him become a better hockey player to really have a chance to play in the NHL. And for me, you know, scoring 30 goals is a big chore. So that would be right there. Mariola is the same way of surprises. That would be the whole game. I think, you know, you talk about penalty killing and a difference maker. He was huge because he believed in himself. His hockey sense was amazing. And he could carry the puck in. You know, does he like to circle back a little bit too much at times? Of course. But again, that comes with experience. That comes with being older and stronger and really confidence. And I think his confidence in himself probably grew the most out of anybody. You look at Hudson where, hey, I scored 30 goals. I got 20 goals by X amount of days. Teams start to, you know, play the better defense against them. You start playing heavier