“It just makes you want to push yourself to get better, I think, seeing the level they’re at the way they train and handle themselves every single day,” Savoie said. “It’s just cool to see firsthand, see and experience it. Yeah, it’s a privilege.”<\/p>\n
Said Howard, “It’s pretty cool even to be asked about them, to be able to talk about how dialed in those guys are and how good they are from a day-to-day standpoint. It’s pretty cool to be able to talk about those guys and get to know them. Seeing them every day is pretty special.”<\/p>\n
Savoie and Howard joined the podcast Wednesday from the NHL’s New York City office, which is one block away from Madison Square Garden, where they were part of the Oilers’ 2-0 win against the New York Rangers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
This is also the first trip to New York City for both players. Savoie is from St. Albert, Alberta, a suburb of Edmonton, and Howard is from Hudson, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
They’re also here to play the New York Islanders at UBS Arena on Thursday (7:30 p.m. ET; HULU, ESPN+, SN360) and the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center on Saturday (3:30 p.m. ET; MSGSN, SN, TVAS).<\/p>\n
“The city is pretty sweet,” Howard said of New York. “It seems like it’s always buzzing. A ton of good dinner spots. We’ll be excited to try a couple different restaurants here and maybe do some shopping as well.”<\/p>\n
In addition to a conversation with the Oilers rookies, some of the topics covered include the hot start to the season for the Boston Bruins and goalie Jeremy Swayman<\/a>, the cold start for the struggling Buffalo Sabres, first impressions of New York Islanders rookie defenseman Matthew Schaefer<\/a>, the Rangers’ inability to score at home, Brady Tkachuk<\/a>‘s injury and the impact it will have on the Ottawa Senators and, potentially, Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, and Montreal Canadiens defenseman Lane Hutson<\/a>‘s new contract.<\/p>\n For more from Savoie and Howard, plus opinions from the co-hosts, listen to the NHL @TheRink podcast, which is free, and listeners can subscribe on all podcast platforms. It is also available on NHL.com\/multimedia\/podcasts<\/a> and the NHL app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It just makes you want to push yourself to get better, I think, seeing the level they’re at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-215193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}