Thursday afternoon means a fresh episode of Real Life was recorded and edited, and it’s ready to help you wrap up the week. On today’s podcast, the guys discussed the Wayne Gretzky locker-room snub rumour, the Oilers’ disastrous effort in Anaheim, Tristan Jarry’s struggles, Tyler’s hypotheticals, and more.

The guys kicked off the Thursday episode of Real Life with a conversation about the Olympic hockey final and a rumour that came out this morning saying Wayne Gretzky was not allowed in the room for a pre-game speech. Given that the rumour started on Barn Burner, it’s been interesting to see how much noise came out of Mike Commodore’s comments on the show. While the rumour has been shot down by Hockey Canada, that didn’t stop social media from running with the story anyway.

Changing gears, the conversation turned to Tyler’s list of “fun” hypothetical scenarios that weren’t really all that fun. Unfortunately, those hypotheticals didn’t do much to lift the mood in the room, since everyone was still notably annoyed by how the Oilers are playing right now. From undoing the Skinner for Jarry trade or adjusting current Oilers contracts to free up cap dollars, Tyler offered a few this-or-that scenarios that were as sad as they were tricky to figure out.

Finally, the guys wrapped up the podcast with the Thursday episode of Real Life with a run of topics, starting with staying away from social media in the days after the gold medal game, rivalries growing the game, the 2028 World Cup vs. a Summit Series style head-to-head, and beefs of the week. As you’ll hear and likely expected, this week’s episode of Real Life covered a lot of ground and topics that were all over the map.