Chris Pronger

frankly, is what the Oilers need over the next year or two years to try to get this team over the finish line and win a Stanley Cup and counter and add to that some moves that they can make in the interim to bolster their roster.

And you'd like to think that a player, pardon me, a coach of his caliber

with his system and how he wants them to play structurally defensively and then allowing their offense and hopefully, ideally, the secondary scoring and some of the defensemen to provide more offense other than, say, an Evan Bouchard and the top three or four guys up front, you get the whole team involved offensively and you start to see a little bit more success in that end.

It's aggressive, but it's layers.

So there, there is, you know, it's man on man, but there's layers.

If you, if you're coming out of the corner, you get beat.

There is another layer there.

I'll be at,

you know they're they're looking there's got to be communication and things that nature right there and there will be a learning curve let's let's just say he gets hired and he comes in there's going to be a learning curve for these players no there's no question number one offensively but more importantly and to and to really speak to what that he needs from a defensive standpoint with their structure

There will be a learning curve and they will look out of sorts, I think, early on as they try to navigate where they should be on the ice and how they can support one another in a man-to-man situation versus zone like some of these other teams play.

And so it's really about ganging up on the other team in certain moments where you leave your man and you go and help your teammate hopefully get the puck and then go the other way.

So there's moments like that, and a lot of that is taught through video, obviously practice, and then game situations where early on they're going to need to learn on the fly.

Absolutely.

You know, from a, you know, we'll call it offensive forecheck.

He is forechecking with five men.

You're pinching a lot.

You're pressing up.

you're utilizing the mobility of your team.

And as you look at the current structure of the Oilers, they've got a lot of mobile players.

Maybe they're not playing to that level at times.