Speculation: Who is really running Hockey Ops to close out the season?

[Canovin]

Katz ERA vs EIG...another fail for Katz.
There is absolutely no way to frame the Katz ownership as anything but a failure of historical proportions.....

Source article is from David Staples...August 2016

The Daryl Katz Oilers have been far worse than the EIG Oilers. Why?

Stanley Finals in 06? Are you trying to tell me Lowe should be the next GM? haha

 

[AVE MAN]

I know what the Oilers need to do. Keep rolling Tobias Reider out on the second line. WHy is he playing over Spooner? Spooner at least scored a couple of goals in very limited time. Come on Hitch, get some sort of read on the team.

 

[Tyrolean]

When season tickets are up for renewal, the fans should boycott this team as a protest to hopefully clean out the OBC.

 

[GodPucker]

Ron mcLean thinks we should hire Messier as GM. I believe he's been an assistant in NY

 

[guymez]

Stanley Finals in 06? Are you trying to tell me Lowe should be the next GM? haha

Ha...as crazy as it might sound Lowe has actually been the best GM since 2006. That isnt a reflection on how good he was but its an indictment on how bad things have been since then.

Really sad.

 

[guymez]

End of the season.

I agree.
I would be shocked if he was brought back after this season in anything other than an advisory role.

 

[Little Fury]

Katz ERA vs EIG...another fail for Katz.
There is absolutely no way to frame the Katz ownership as anything but a failure of historical proportions.....

Source article is from David Staples...August 2016

The Daryl Katz Oilers have been far worse than the EIG Oilers. Why?

Hey they made the playoffs once since then!

 

[Little Fury]

Poor drafting in the EIG era lead to this. Poor drafting contuined and we might be finally getting out of this mess since our drafting as been better as of late.

There's literally no evidence of this.

 

[guymez]

Hey they made the playoffs once since then!

True.
All we have to hang our hats on as Oilers fans is memories.

 

[FiftyFifty]

True.
All we have to hang our hats on as Oilers fans is memories.

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[rboomercat90]

Ron mcLean thinks we should hire Messier as GM. I believe he's been an assistant in NY

Ron Maclean is the same idiot who said, a few years back, that you couldn’t go wrong having Kevin Lowe and Craig Mactavish running your hockey team after billboards started showing up to get rid of Lowe. He needs to stick with his feel good stories because he doesn’t have his finger on the pulse of anything else.

 

[guymez]

Staples had a very good suggestion in his latest article....

... Nicholson could contract an outside headhunter or headhunter(s), maybe someone he knows well like Steve Yzerman, to formally conduct the job search for GM, then have them make their recommendation as to whom the Oilers should hire.

The prospect of the current Edmonton Oilers leadership hiring the right GM fills me with gloom

 

[T-Funk]

Ron mcLean thinks we should hire Messier as GM. I believe he's been an assistant in NY

Well Ron McLean is a senile old idiot who doesn't make any sense anymore.

 

[guymez]

Well Ron McLean is a senile old idiot who doesn't make any sense anymore.

Thats a little harsh and completely unnecessary. It may well be that Ron simply has too many loyalties.

 

[FunkyChicken]

Does it scare anyone else when Stauffer interviews Gretzky and he says it is hard to make trades?
If it was easy, everyone would be doing it and collecting that salary. If it is hard, that probably means that you are over your head.