Did the Oilers Treat Calvin Pickard unfairly? | OilersNation Radio

It’s Friday afternoon, which means a fresh episode of Oilersnation Radio is ready to massage your eardrums with an hour of off-season Oilers talk. On today’s podcast, the fellas discussed the Oilers at the Winter Games, Connor McDavid’s debut, line combinations, Calvin Pickard’s treatment, and more.

We kicked off the Friday episode of ONR with a delicious debate about Calvin Pickard getting waived unfairly after his agent spoke to Jason Gregor and suggested the team didn’t make the right decision. If you take Rich Winter at his word, Stan Bowman isn’t even sure that Pickard isn’t the best goalie he has right now, but does that really make sense given the team’s decision? The numbers would suggest not.

Shifting gears, the guys looked at Team Canada’s first couple of games on the men’s side and how much fun it’s been to watch NHLers back on the ice representing their country. From the way Team Canada blew out Czechia in their first game to the way they’re handling Switzerland today, getting to watch the best of the best squaring off for their countries is so much fun. The guys also spoke about Sidney Crosby as an elder statesmen on the team, and how Baggedmilk wishes Connor McDavid could be tethered to him for the three weeks they’re away.

Finally, we wrapped up the Friday episode of ONR with another round of Ask the Idiots, betting talk for our friends at bet365, and Hot and Cold Performers to look back on the week that was. With the 2025-26 season past the midway points, the guys spent the bulk of the podcast moving through a range of topics, some related to the Oilers and others not, but that’s the way things go on the Friday episode of ONR.

00:00 Start
3:00: Delicious Debate: Pickards Agents comments
7:00: Oilers HAD to make a goaltending decision
9:30: Pickard wasn’t treated unfairly
11:00: Comparing Apples/Goalies
13:00: Agent just doing his job
17:00 Team Canada first game
19:00 Excited NHLers are back
22:00 Leon and Germany
23:00: CANADA SCORES
26:00 Sweden is Struggling
28:00: Third spot is up for grabs***
33:00: Connor throwing the body
35:00 Pronounce players names right
37:30: Crosby talk
42:00: Sebastian Staley Talk
45:00: Leon vs Faceoffs
48:00 Curling talk
52:00 Ask the idiots
1:08:00: Betting talk
1:15:30: Hot performers
1:22:00: CANADA SCORES

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