Confirmed with Link: Jay Woodcroft and Dave Manson fired - no more Woody during NNN - Kris Knoblauch hired, Coffey as assistant

[NashtoNowitzki]

Ken Holland is an incompetent moron.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Put another coach on the Oiler funeral pyre. Woodcroft is a quality human being and a good coach albeit one who was overrated by an element of this fanbase. Wish Woody the best of luck for his future endeavours. Came in and won and has now left with a win.

Unfortunately this is a team that has proven incapable of sustaining its work effort, self discipline and structured play for any enduring period of time. Knoblauch is a solid coach but this is an immense first NHL coaching assignment littered with good coaches failing to get this corpse team to change its individual and collective bad habits.

Posted elsewhere but applicable here:

I've long argued NHL coaching is a small piece of the puzzle with approx. 20% impact on games while players bare 80% of results good & bad in this high speed, high chaos game. That there's a few impact coaches but largely interchangeable ones like we've seen x10 in Edmonton.

• https://assets-global.website-files...f6d3840173db437f04da5ce_Do-Coaches-Matter.pdf
• Our estimates imply that coaches often explain 20-30 percent of the variation in a team’s success. Substantively, that’s a large effect, and it’s well worth investing in a good coach if you can identify one. But if a coach has only served a few seasons, a good record doesn’t provide much information about their quality. More likely than not, the other factors that explain the remaining 70-80 percent of the variation were working in that coach’s favor, and we’ll expect regression to the mean in future years.

Good fortune Coach Knoblauch. This systemic malaise is not a coaching issue.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

 

[Mez]

And McDavid’s parents as POHO and head scout.

Maybe his grandma can the team mascot!

 

[CrazyJoeDavola]

This is actually funny if Coffey has a ear piece direct to Katz

Coffey (whispering): "Now Connor ... is drinking ... the blue Biosteel drink

Katz: OK, make a note of that, red sports drinks are henceforth banned from the bench.

That's exactly what Coffey is by all accounts. A do nothing who's there to report back to Katz.

 

[Leonardlizard]

This is f***ing wild.

 

[Shaquille Oatmeal]

Connor's 6th grade teacher
Connor's mom
Connor's neighbor

I'd honestly take any of these options over Dustin Schwartz. Let's do it

 

[Skar]

What in the f*** is this franchise doing?

 

[Mcnofool6110]

Paul Coffey is gonna have so much fun with the defence of this team.

Is his advice to Bouchard going to be, "Be me?"

 

[Steve Yzerlland]

First coach Holland has ever fired. He will be gone soon.

 

[KCC]

You always hear the phrase about how there is “something in the water in Edm“, well, it had to be true because this franchise continues make so many boneheaded decisions. Lol

 

[McOilers97]

Maybe his grandma can the team mascot!

Nah, she needs a way higher position than that! Goalie coach!

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Well that's all said and done, so how about some personnel moves now? Where's the new analytics guy telling us who the next diamonds in the rough are and which guys we should look at getting out of here?

 

[La Bamba]

Woody was only coach from February 2022 to November 2023

lmao.

thanks for the 2022 reg season/playoffs and 2023 reg season. everything after that was bad

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

What in the f*** is this franchise doing?

What it always does, the Cory and Trevor special.

 

[Oilhawks]

GM McDaddy approved hire

 

[Bring Back Bucky]

All the best to Woody, he has a bright coaching future ahead of him. He has some learning to do, that was apparent when he couldn’t pivot on goaltending during the playoffs and the start this group has gotten off to this year. Hopefully there’s 21 guys in the dressing room looking in the mirror and feeling like shit about their own efforts.

 

[Shaquille Oatmeal]

First coach Holland has ever fired. He will be gone soon.

Holland fired Tippett also

 

[The Moose]

All that matters is if they are actually turning it around. The rest (McD coach, McD agent, etc...) is noise. Just win.

 

[McWeber]

First coach Holland has ever fired. He will be gone soon.

Tippett was fired mid season by Holland as well.

 

[iCanada]

I could make a joke here, but I won’t lol.

Dont worry, we all made it in our heads too.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Holland fired Tippett also

Third time will be the shit charm.

 

[McIce Whole]

I still can’t believe this was the hire of all the candidates available. The pressure is absolutely on this team to go on a run and turn things around and we’re relying on a rookie coach.

I have a feeling we are so f***ed

 

[Bryanbryoil]

All that matters is if they are actually turning it around. The rest (McD coach, McD agent, etc...) is noise. Just win.

100%

 

[Frank the Tank]

I could make a joke here, but I won’t lol.

Yeah, wasn't too careful about the phrasing of my post because I'm lost in reflecting about my U of A days. Nonetheless, Autumn is a good person (at least she was ~25 years ago).