Brian Lawton
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I think he's an excellent coach, but if I were working for the club, I would for sure do the same thing.
So I don't know how shocked people really should be.
It's just part of your duty, particularly in Stan's case as the GM.
In my opinion, he's made the right call.
It doesn't mean he's going to make a change, but it does mean that it's not going to be a cursory.
We had a self-review, and this just happened with a club, and we've determined that we're in good shape.
That's a joke.
That did happen for a team recently here.
They did their own audit.
That's phony baloney, if you ask me.
This is more, you know, real-world due diligence.
How are we going to get better?
Every day, when you come to the office, you start with that question.
And that's the mode that the Oilers are in now, and it's exactly what they should be doing.
It's definitely the easiest path forward.
That doesn't mean it's the right one.
And I don't believe Sam Bowman's the type of guy that's just going to default to, well, at least it looks like we did something.
I think he's going to go through it as thoroughly as humanly possible.
He knows how critical this decision is.
And it's going to be a rational one in the end.