Mike Babcock

I don't know if you've heard of this guy named Steve Eisenman.

He played in the league for a long, long time.

Scored tons and tons and tons of points.

And then a gentleman named Scotty Bowman came there.

Didn't score quite as many points, but won three Stanley Cups.

you know stevie's a good friend of mine he'd tell you in a second he'd rather win the cups we're not asking him to score less we're asking him to do things right to make everyone else on the team important and play in a different different than their game but in a different way in some details of the game i've walked through this in detail with them they say they're in

Well, shocked, to be honest with you.

My wife and I were having this unbelievable time and there was no intent to do this.

When the Edmonton Oilers reached out,

And nothing against anybody, but if it wasn't Connor, Leon, and Zach can meet with him, we'd never be here.

And so my conversation with Jackson and Stan was off the charts.

It was unbelievable.

But in the end, if the players, especially the Lucia group here, they don't want you.

There's no sense being here because you have no chance.

And so to me, that was critical.

The part about going through it with them

all the details that has to happen for us to have success.

And then you have to sign on.

I'm willing to do that.

But what I liked about them, they were men and they got opinions and they shared them.