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Consider this a post-game meal after the most exciting season in recent
@EdmontonOilers
history 🍔🍽️
#LetsGoOilers
The Stanley Cup loss cuts deep for the Edmonton Oilers. Still, it was an amazing season that saw the team overcome so much adversity.
@630CHED
Oilers Now producer
@BrendenEscott
joined
@VineshPratap
to recap the season and talk changes that could come to next year’s team.
#yeg
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Show me another professional sports league where this happens to its superstars.
Embarrassing.
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Eberle breaks Cogliano’s neck on a hit from behind. No suspension.
Nurse instigates a fight with a combatant he’s been talking for four games with. 1 game suspension.
Pietrangelo with a 12-6, over-the-head slash to a superstar’s wrists, away from the play. 1 game suspension.
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“He’s the greatest player to ever play, in my books,” Leon Draisaitl said about McDavid.
"He single-handedly turned our franchise around, pretty much. I love sharing the ice with him and he’s a really special person.”
#LetsGoOilers
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Sam Carrick told me his first
#NHL
playoff game was:
"Incredible. It was so loud right from the get go. I was just trying to stay calm & collected & when the crowd is buzzing like that & it's that loud, it's hard not to get excited & get fired up. Credit to them. That's one of
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I thought I'd seen it all, then I saw credentialed media members calling for McDavid to be suspended for the incident at the end of Game 3.
Time to log off for the day.
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Absolutely zero standard of what cross-checking is by this group of officials tonight.
Consistency is all anyone is ever asking for.
#LetsGoOilers
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The way L.A. continues throwing themselves on the ice and thrashing their heads back is both embarrassing to watch as a fan of hockey, and impressive that they’re so committed to that style of gamesmanship.
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Cannot possibly fathom people screaming overpay on the Ekholm deal.
Teams aren't giving players to your favourite team for free.
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#Oilers
G.M. Ken Holland says on
@OilersNow
:
“If we’re done, I feel good. But I’m going to wait until tomorrow. (Friday) morning I’m going to get up and call a few people to see if there’s anything out there that might be of interest to us.”
#LetsGoOilers
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Instant reaction:
I start Pickard in Game 6. He has not played his way out of the crease.
I ask you though, what are you changing with the season on the line Saturday night?
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Aesthetically, I find it WAY easier to watch when the
#Oilers
wear these blue jerseys. I say bring ‘em back full time next year.
Agree or disagree?
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How are you liking the
@EdmontonOilers
lineup after one day of free agency? 👀
Endless line combinations with this bunch.
#LetsGoOilers
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Took them all day and they arrive at a pitiful decision.
The
#NHL
, which takes no accountability for its officiating or supplemental discipline, just proved to you it would rather protect itself than protect its stars.
Vegas’ Alex Pietrangelo has been suspended for one playoff game for Slashing against Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl.
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Coincidence or serendipity?
@Nickelback
plays Savin’ Me at the
#Edmonton
show at
@RogersPlace
one year ago today.
Enjoy Game 7, everyone.
#LetsGoOilers
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The
#Oilers
now have one week to match St Louis' offers of 2 x $4.58M for Broberg and 2 x $2.29M for Holloway.
Placing Evander Kane on LTIR would clear $5.125M of the required $6.87M to retain these two.
Edmonton needs to find a way to keep these players, because they can't
We have tendered offer sheets to Edmonton's Philip Broberg and Dylan Holloway.
#stlblues
DETAILS ➡️
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Professional athletes are entitled to personal space, just like you and I.
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I guess the rumors about Brober’s stellar finish to the season with the
@Condors
were true 🤔
#LetsGoOilers
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JT Miller is standing there punching Draisaitl and McDavid in the head over and over with impunity. I think it’s about time we see the
#Oilers
intensity level ratchet up, knowing that’s the standard.
Not going to win a Stanley Cup with the compete level demonstrated in the last
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With Boston out, the biggest thing standing in the way of an
#Oilers
Stanley Cup win is themselves.
Cannot wait to see if this group is ready to rise to the occasion.
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That’s a teammate.
Tell me what RNH can’t or won’t do for this team?
Oh, and he slept Holl.
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'24-25 PREDICTIONS:
1.) The next Oilers G.M. will not have previous experience as an
#NHL
G.M.
2.) Draisaitl inks a five-year extension with a $13.5M AAV
3.) Arvidsson & J. Skinner combine for 50 goals
4.) Bouchard scores 20G & 90P
Tune into
@OilersNow
tonight for more🗣️
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Holland on Puljujarvi today on
@OilersNow
:
"I'm not going to do Jesse any favors because he doesn't want to play in Edmonton. The deal has to make sense for the Edmonton Oilers and our team and our fans."
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The
@RogersPlace
roof has been blown off by 18,000+ screaming fans after the last few minutes of hockey in the second period.
Edmonton is up 4-2 and we’re feeling an energy that hasn’t been present since Game 6 against Vancouver, perhaps?
#LetsGoOilers
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Asked Zach Hyman at the first intermission how the
#Oilers
maintain that intensity level over the next two periods.
Simple answer: “We have no choice.”
#LetsGoOilers
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Nobody watches sports to see the officials have that significant an impact on the game. Mismanagement from the very beginning. That can’t happen at all, let alone on this stage.
That said,
#Oilers
need to find a way to minimize mental errors.
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If the
#Oilers
decline to match Broberg’s offer sheet, would you trade 1st & 2nd round picks + Kulak or Ceci to Calgary for Rasmus Andersson?
The soon to be 28-year-old has two years left at $4.55M
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Ekholm has a conversation with Jason Robertson as they’re leaving the ice for the intermission.
Clearly didn’t like the knee on McDavid.
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Incredible work by the
#Oilers
special teams, led by Stuart Skinner on the PK, and at worst they will leave Dallas with a split.
Many of the same mature characteristics that pushed the team past Vancouver were present again tonight. Great sign.
#LetsGoOilers
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Asking the Stony Plain product how excited he is to represent his hometown team in the playoffs.
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People are genuinely texting the show today complaining that Draisaitl should be moved to the
#Oilers
second line and "earn that $8-million", rather than "ride McDavid's coattails."
Are we still on this? My god.
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🍔PRE-GAME MEAL:
Game 7 of the
#StanleyCup
Final. What more need be said?
The
@EdmontonOilers
aim to bring Lord Stanley back to 🇨🇦 for the first time in 31 years and are 5-0 in elimination games so far these playoffs 🚨
Eat up. Puck drop is 6:20 MT 🍽️🏒
#LetsGoOilers
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Really surprised and disappointed that the
#Oilers
are getting flack for buying out Sekera.
Of course he brought value to the team, but aren’t you the same person complaining about their lack of cap space and inability to sign a quality winger? Can’t have it all..
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Pietrangelo will be hearing from the league. That was absolutely outrageous. Intent to injure.
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All due respect to Tyson Barrie, give the second assist to whoever sharpens McDavid’s skates
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Corey Perry of the
@EdmontonOilers
on addressing mental health issues:
“There’s no shame in it. If you need the help, go find it and treat yourself. When I get up in the morning everyday now, I can look myself in the mirror and be happy about myself and where I’m going.”
#NHL
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I love this move.
O’Reilly comes from a winning program in London, which just made the Memorial Cup (he had 4P in 4GP).
He’s a right-shot centre/winger who
@eliteprospects
lists as an agitator and defensive centreman. 56 points in 68 games as a rookie in the OHL.
#LetsGoOilers
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No sign of a face shield or a non-contact jersey for Barkov at practice today.
That coincides with a lack of supplementary discipline for Draisaitl.
Sasha Barkov is practicing this morning, wearing his usual white jersey, centering Florida’s top line in rushes.
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The
@EdmontonOilers
have pulled within one win of a Stanley Cup Final birth and can seal the deal on home ice Sunday night.
#LetsGoOilers
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#Oilers
D Mattias Ekholm told me post-game that they have "found some sort of structure defensively that allows our goaltenders to play great."
"It allows us to keep the opposition score down and we hang around and we get those goals at crucial times."
14 games and counting
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#Oilers
signings continue trickling in with Connor Brown, James Hamblin & Noah Philp all signing this morning.
Victor Arvidsson & Jake DeBrusk would look great in 🔵&🟠, if you ask me.
Could stand to upgrade the right side of the back end too...
#LetsGoOilers
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Ekholm told me regarding the
#Oilers
PK:
“We've built it over these playoffs. I feel like we have some momentum on our side. It makes you grow as a player and as a unit and you can play a little bit bigger—a little bit freer. You can read plays and I thought we did that again
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The
#Oilers
have traded away Cody Ceci and his $3.25M salary.
Retaining Philip Broberg appears to be in the cards ahead of Tuesday morning's offer sheet deadline.
🔁 TRADE 🔁
The
#Oilers
have acquired defenceman Ty Emberson from San Jose in exchange for defenceman Cody Ceci & a 2025 third-round draft pick.
#LetsGoOilers
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Sorry, I was doing dishes. Did Toronto just blow a three goal lead?
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Connor Brown must’ve walked under a ladder and through a black cat’s path on his way to break a mirror.
The Hockey Gods are not letting him score this season.
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How are you rolling out the
#Oilers
defence pairs to start 2024-25?
Ekholm-Bouchard
Nurse-Emberson
Kulak-Stecher
Until a player like Schultz or Barrie is added on a PTO, this is how I see it.
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This app wasn’t built to withstand a
@Canucks
vs
@EdmontonOilers
playoff series 😐
#LetsGoOilers
#Canucks
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Spoken like a guy who has been sound asleep somewhere in the eastern time zone while the
#Oilers
played hockey over the last several weeks…🤨
"The Edmonton Oilers are gonna go as far as Connor McDavid takes them..
He's having one of the best seasons that I've ever seen" ~
@PKSubban1
#PMSLive
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Something about this performance feels less prone to a collapse for the
#Oilers
in Game 5. Up 3-0 and dictating play with all four lines.
The whole group seems dialed in through the first 25 minutes.
#LetsGoOilers
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The
#Oilers
did a great job managing the inevitable pushback from Vancouver in the second period.
Blocked shots everywhere and a team committed to a grimy, defensive win playing in front of Skinner.
Keep playing to win. We know what the alternative leads to…
#LetsGoOilers
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Time really does fly when you’re having fun 😯
From a campus radio station in Kamloops, BC in 2015 to radio and TV school in Edmonton, and now hanging out with you on the airwaves more and more each week, it seems.
This industry is scary and insane and I absolutely love it.
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Some naysayers may be surprised to know the
#Oilers
are 22-10-5 with Matt Benning in the lineup this season.
Tough to argue they haven't missed his *fully healthy* presence on the back end.
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Gagner scores and the crowd at Rogers Place gives him a standing ovation. Deafening applause for the veteran. Wow.
This is what makes sports beautiful.
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Friedman says on
@OilersNow
re: Draisaitl contract negotiations:
“The one thing (teams) are generally thinking is, until they have reason to believe otherwise, they’re taking Draisaitl off their whiteboard.
…most people seem to believe that barring a major, major snag, this
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Oh they just got much harder to play against.
I've wanted to see Josh Brown in
#Oilers
silks for a couple years now as a policeman and depth option on the point. Right-shot that can fill a needed role.
#LetsGoOilers
ANOTHER BROWN LOCKED DOWN 🔒
The
#Oilers
have signed defenceman Josh Brown to a three-year contract with an AAV of $1 million.
#LetsGoOilers
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If he breaks this record tonight, his Calder Trophy case is pretty tough to ignore.
Stuart Skinner's 28 wins this season are tied with Grant Fuhr in 1981-82 for the most wins in a rookie season in
#LetsGoOilers
history.
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Hyman’s 40th goal of the season moves him into second in NHL goals scored behind Matthews’ 52
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Maybe Kolesar would’ve checked himself on that play if there was even a remote possibility of actual discipline doled out by the Department of Player Safety.
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Still some cap room for an Eberle type if you bring a third-party broker into the fold 👀
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First career playoff goal for Philip Broberg and it’s a beauty.
Kane wins the o-zone draw after Henrique got waved out, otherwise that doesn’t happen.
#LetsGoOilers
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The
@EdmontonOilers
select Finnish netminder Eemil Vinni 64th overall in the second round of the
#NHLDraft
🥅
He's 6'2" and has represented 🇫🇮 at the Hlinka-Gretzky Cup.
#LetsGoOilers
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McDavid has four more points tonight (EIGHT in the last two games) to stave off elimination and drag them back to Alberta for Game 6 🚫🐀
See you Friday night at
@RogersPlace
🏒🥅
#LetsGoOilers
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Savoie was the 9th overall pick in the 2022 draft.
He posted two PPG in the regular season (47P in 23GP) and added 24 more in 19 playoff games en route to the WHL title with the
@MJWARRIORS
🏒
St. Albert product out of the
@NAXHockey
program.
#LetsGoOilers
Believe Matt Savoie is return. Ty Tullio also going to Sabres
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What was the highlight of the
@EdmontonOilers
regular season in your mind?
16-straight wins?
50 goals for Hyman? 🚨
100 assists for McDavid? 🍎
#LetsGoOilers
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Is Wes McCauley busy tonight?
This isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s just something incredibly easy for the
#NHL
to have avoided.
The guys are pros and the league definitely isn’t rigged - but if for no other reason than optics - it’s a wild decision to have an official work a Game 7 for a team that is 11-0-1 in games that he works.
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Forgive me but I get the sense if Russell was bought out we’d see a lot of people complaining about the
#Oilers
keeping a 32-year-old, declining D with a serious injury history at $5.5 per year.
Why don’t we wait for the next domino to fall, yeah?
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“He made a great play–a quick-up–and I had a lot of speed and just tried to make a play,” McDavid said.
“I tried to cut inside and the d-man played it well. I bounced it back outside and threw it there and Kaner is a great goal-scorer.”
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Hyman’s hit on Danault registered on the Richter scale 😳
Danault down the tunnel immediately.
#LetsGoOilers
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Duncan Keith officially announces his retirement after 17
#NHL
seasons, per the
@EdmontonOilers
.
Lots more on
@OilersNow
today at noon!
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The Commonwealth crowd was fantastic throughout the whole game.
This bunch needs a t-shirt that says "I was there when the streak ended".
#CFL
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Hey gang! I’m elated to announce I’m joining
@630CHED
as the Producer of
@OilersNow
! (The old
@BrendenUllrich
role)!
I’ll be talking sports during the day, and catching the
@EdmontonOilers
games from the press box by night.
Can’t wait to join ya
@Bob_Stauffer
🍻
#Oilers
#YEG
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Starting tonight, the
@EdmontonOilers
play 17 games in the final 31 days of the season, including six games in the final nine days...
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Character-building series win for the
#Oilers
. Best playoff series in recent memory for my money 💵
#LetsGoOilers
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The
#Elks
have announced free admission for kids 12 and under for the rest of the 2022 season, starting tomorrow night when the
@calstampeders
storm into Commonwealth Stadium for a Week 5 showdown.
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Another spectacular opening frame completely undone by a dismal second.
You can’t go 16:27 without a shot on goal and expect to beat a Western Conference Finalist. We’re left asking for more from Skinner too.
Is Game 4 a must win, or is it overreaction Monday?
#LetsGoOilers
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The
@EdmontonOilers
stand alone with 13 consecutive wins, surpassing the 1967-68 Canadiens to claim the longest win streak by a 🇨🇦 team in
#NHL
history.
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I grew up dreaming of working in the United States.
In February, I turned down an opportunity to do so, and three months later I am so bloody grateful I did.
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Thank you for your mentorship, your consummate professionalism and all the laughs we shared in the sports department.
So much of my growth as a broadcaster is a result of working alongside you for the last 5+ years.
Enjoy the hell out of your next chapter, my friend.
Will host Inside Sports on
@630CHED
for the final time tonight from 7-8! It's been a privilege to work at this station and talk about the Oilers, EE, and local sports.
Will have a final Quiz for
@Bob_Stauffer
.
@Dave_CHED
from Ottawa.
Thank you for listening. Talk soon.
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#Oilers
G.M. Ken Holland said on
@OilersNow
today he's been in touch with Markus Lehto (Jesse Puljujarvi's agent) two or three times over the last few weeks.
He and Tippett had a zoom call with Jesse and Lehto recently too.
"There's communication, we'll see where it goes."
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Deafening standing ovation from the home crowd for McDavid’s 100-assist campaign, followed quickly by M-V-P chants.
#LetsGoOilers
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McDavid says if he had to be quarantined with a teammate, he'd pick Nurse. They've been roommates before.
The guy he'd want that least with? Kassian. "He's got too much energy."
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So many of the same issues plaguing the
#Oilers
right now that did in last year’s playoffs and in 2022 as well.
At some point, “taking ownership” needs to translate to results.
#LetsGoOilers
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There aren't enough characters at my disposal to articulate how angry this makes me.
A man with a blue Trump “Make America Great Again” flag walked in and people cheered. Then they all started cheering: “Trump! Trump! Trump!”
@edmontonjournal
@Edmontonsun
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