I had a long, diverse conversation with the Oilers GM this afternoon; a rare opporunity to sit down and pick his brain for a 90 minute segment on my radio show tonight. After it airs I'll have a full rundown of what he said but for now I'll post the comments he had towards Ducks GM Brian Burke since they'll be airing in our newscasts starting now. All quotes courtesy of Edmonton's 630 CHED Radio.
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"People need to know that he really thrives on this stuff and is a little bit of a media junkie and loves the attention."
"What he's insinuating, to me anyways, is that I shouldn't do this to him because he's my friend. In other words I shouldn't try to improve the Edmonton Oilers because I'm his friend. The reality is that I have very few friends in the game. You know what life's all about you get a little bit older and you have your family and a couple of friends and then life ends. I didn't play the game to have friends, I don't wanna have friends. I just try to be a respectful person, be an honest person and treat people properly. If they wanna be my friend that's fine."
"In the meantime he's goin' around being a bit of a blowhard. Clearly having just won the Stanley Cup I guess he figures pretty comfortable that he can go around and spend a little more time doing that."
"I suspect that through all this, all the barbs that he's throwing at us and at me, is that he's sort of insinuating that Dustin Penner isn't a very good hockey player. Time will tell. I hope that Dustin Penner is reading between the lines and is using that as motivation to shove it to you know where."
"I get a lot of calls from people in the hockey business; they think that he's known for going over the top and being a bit of an egomaniac and he's just further proving that that's the case."
Oilers Head Coach Craig MacTavish chimed in, too: "He reminds me of the Wizard of Oz where you comb his hair and put a white shirt on him and wheel him out in front of a camera and he'll say whatever you guys want. Clearly it's a crusade of self-promotion at this point."
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