The move is very Katz era Oilers. No firings, just shuffling of personnel. It speaks to Chia probably not placing the blame 100% on the PPs failures since he's still willing to give him a shot in Bako. He might have a point though cause Woodcroft did run a decent PP the year earlier... also, it's hard looking at the personnel on the PP and be able to place 100% blame on a Woodcroft. You have ZERO shot from the back end on that PP, no PP QB defencemen, and our net front presence Lucic has Stone hands. Also, there's no right shot one timer. It's not really a PP with the personnel to be successful. Maybe that she's why Woodcroft could never fix it after admittedly trying a lot of different things.
At the end of the day though no one knows if this will be a good move until we see it all play out in action. It's obvious Bako needed to get rid of their coach so atleast that happened. It's obvious a message of change needed to be sent to fans regarding the Oilers failures last year, that has happened.
I never liked Gulatzen in Calgary, but maybe he can run a PP. the PK was horrid this year again and I think part of the reason for that is expecting your 12.5M dollar player to be out there blocking shots. That's never made sense to me, was that a McLEllan decision or the PK coaches decision? Who knows, there's never enough info on the internal workings of the team for any fan to make any real conclusions as to the why's and how's of failure.
