Frank Seravalli

If you want to say he's a better coach than Peter Laviolette, who's on to his seventh team, he's becoming the Mike Keenan of this generation.

Sure.

OK, I could buy that.

None of this, none of this conversation has satisfied the point that I've made, which is why now?

Why not 10 days from now?

There's nothing else happening in the league.

The draft didn't happen yet.

None of that happened before the Stanley Cup finals concluded.

And maybe there comes a point... The door was open when the deputy commissioner said it.

The door opened when he said... He doesn't say things.

He's an attorney.

He doesn't say things by accident and words don't leak out of his mouth.

And maybe... When that was said, that's when I said the Oilers then need to wait and see this through to the other end.

And if you're telling me that the Oilers have other intel that Bruce Cassidy was never going to happen...

They had to have them involved.

He's coming off of being essentially removed from his post by the union.

To not have them involved would have been malpractice, malfeasance.

But they didn't even talk to Bruce Cassidy yet.

How do you know they wouldn't have chosen him?

That's my point.