Bob Stauffer

But I can tell you that the Oilers players had an immense amount of respect for Glenn Gullitson.

And the Oilers staff this past season, they missed him in a big way.

Leon Drysaddle said it the best.

We have two years.

That's what he said.

And everybody thought he was solely talking about Conor McDavid.

No, we have two years here.

And the Oilers opted to make a move.

And they made a move and involved a lot of different people in the process.

And so just because you don't like it, some of you, some others of you are like, you know what?

I'm comfortable with it.

Dammit, if the best players in the world think it's a good idea and the organization from the owner to the managers to the players are like, this is the guy.

And it's not just Babcock.

It's going to be another significant coach with him, a coach that's –

had two different head coaching stints in the National Hockey League.

For a lot of you, you would say, well, it's good enough for me.

The top guys think this makes sense.

It makes sense.

But behind it all, over the course of the last 10 days, there was this insidious sort of... I don't know how to describe it.

It was like there were individuals that...