Dominic Sramaty

When it comes to changes, like around the hockey ops or the coaching staff, I think I need a couple more days to kind of get through there and figure out what they're looking at.

Because I think they're working through it as well.

But some of the conversations I had, Kyle, in the aftermath were not necessarily about the personnel in and around the team.

It was that

the Oilers are going to have to have some big conversations, no matter who's in the lineup or who coaches them or who runs the team.

The Oilers are going to have to have some big conversations about how they play and how they distribute minutes.

And I think that to some people in and outside the organization, that was actually some of the stuff that,

hit them the hardest or that they noticed the most yes they're going to have to address goaltending there's no question about that yes they may have to address some personnel changes but some of the things that were talked about there and some of the things that were talked about during the season it screamed to them kyle that they need to change the way they approach games

Like their rush defense, it was one of the worst in the league in the regular season, and it got shredded by the Ducks in the playoffs.

And, you know, young teams like Montreal, like Anaheim, had very successful first rounds.

But the last couple of years, like these things are always cyclical.

The last couple of years, two of the oldest teams were in the Stanley Cup final.

Florida was the oldest, and Edmonton was right up there near them, right?

Yeah.

But Florida knew how to play, and Edmonton, a lot of their issues were covered up by the fact they had two nuclear weapons.

Well, this year that got exposed by both injury and an overall lack of depth.

And I think the way they play and the way they defend as a team, it's finally something they're going to look at and say, we're going to have to make changes.

It's going to have to be different.

And I'll tell you something else, and McDavid basically came out and said it, they're going to have to play less.

So one of the things I think that has kind of been a factor, and this is going to be one that's interesting, is that