Roof Daddy
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- Apr 1, 2008
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This Schwartz guy didn't even play in a professional league and he's only 35. Would have preferred a goalie coach who has played in the NHL and is more experienced but this is the Oilers we are talking about here.
Ken Hitchcock never played in a professional league either. Gretzky was the greatest player of all time. Who would you rather have coaching your team?
By no means am I trying to defend what appears to be yet another hiring done internally (to some degree, EOK owned by Katz) without any type of interview process, but I'm also not going to claim its a bad hiring because of that. Obviously the selection process is an extension of what plagues the Oilers as an organization, but that doesn't automatically make this a bad hiring. Time will tell if this guy was ready to coach at the NHL level, at least the opportunity comes in a lost season where if it's yet another failed experiment, it possibly costs upper management their jobs and gets us a McEichel pick. That's win-win where I come from.