Frank Seravalli

beat you in the first round with the Anaheim Ducks is like, hey, you earn more ice time by playing better as opposed to just being handed to you.

But at the same time, that comes at the cost and expense of if you're going to play your third and fourth lines more, that means that your first two lines are going to be on the bench more.

And that can be an uncomfortable place for a team that is as...

heavily weighted toward the top of the group as the Oilers are.

So I get it.

Not easy.

No one said it was.

But I do think it's time for change.

And I think this should be just one of the many things that probably should change to get this moving in the right direction.

Experienced?

Again, leave no stone unturned.

Unturned.

This is a burn the boats summer.

And I've used that phrase before, but there's no turning back.

There's no coming back now.

You don't get this right and you allow, for whatever reason, the best player on planet Earth to walk out the door one year from now.

You only have yourself to blame if you can't get the right or at least convince him that you've done and gone to the mat to do everything right.

I don't know how you could possibly bring Chris Knobloch back next season and say that that was the case.

The one that everyone said on social media was rage bait because, you know, the way that the public scouting world works in hockey is so blue ribboned.

Yeah.