Elliotte Friedman

It's 99% you think it's this way, which is they won't allow him to do it.

But because Daly did that, you know, a lot of people are kind of like, okay, could something change here?

Might the league speak to him or Vegas at the end of the season and say, hey.

So I think that's why...

The door's not fully shut, Bob, from what I understand.

Nobody has come forward and said 100% he won't be allowed to talk to Edmonton.

Now, I don't believe he will, personally.

I think the Oilers have good reason to believe he won't be.

But nobody has been able to tell me it's 100% close.

Uh, no, you know, like I said, I wrote briefly yesterday that I do know that there were meetings.

Like the thing is, I'm not sure like who was all in there because I think, for example, I think dry cells overseas, is he not?

So I'm loathe to say that who exactly was in there and maybe who did by zoom and did like Babcock get together, uh,

Like somebody made a suggestion to me that Babcock went golfing with one or two players.

I don't know.

I'm going to move away from these drummers.

I think it's obvious that there was some sort of head-to-head between Babcock and several of the key players.

And yes, I think that the players did support that.

And I do think, and I really do believe this, Bob, that

the moment that the coaching change was made, there was a lot of conversation about the Oilers players needed to be coached a lot harder.

And I don't have any problem with that.