David Amber

He can against, you know, the Eichels and Marners of the world, and clearly Marner's had a very good final.

But my point is he plays, you know, he does all the situational things.

So I think Jordan Stahl's entered the conversation, but there's a distinct scenario where Mitch Marner, you know, win or lose is your conspire winner.

I just, that definitely can happen.

Wow.

They're saying, wow.

I mean, it just, it's sort of, I don't want to say it's completely come out of left field, but as unpredictable as the Stanley Cup final has been, if you'd said, give me 10 names of who could be the Oilers' next head coach, Mike Babcock's name probably wouldn't have come out of my mouth.

You know, it's just been so strange, right?

Bruce Cassidy, you can't talk to him.

And then, you know, a whole bunch of other names came up.

Laviolette's name came up.

Then he goes to the Kings and

And you start looking around and go, well, who would be that guy?

And I didn't connect to Mike Babcock.

And I don't know what the connection is, if it's through the owner.

You know, Zach Hyman had him in Toronto.

You know, what role, if any, has that played?

The fact that you're hearing the core group, the McDavid Dry Subtle group, are on board with this.

is interesting to me.

And I wonder if it was presented to them or if they presented it to the management and said, Hey, we need a coach.