Chapter 1: What is the Edmonton Oilers coaching situation about?
Delay from him, along the boards, Matheson has it, slide past, here comes Jason Zucker, across, chance, oh what a stop! Dobish with a huge save! He'll recover his stick, back the other way! Bonneau trying to break in, and play is called so we can admire a remarkable stop that keeps the Canadiens within one.
Welcome to 32 Thoughts, the podcast presented by your Canadian Toyota dealers and the 2026 Tacoma. Get yours before red tag days are over. Dom, Elliot and Kyle back with you once again. We've got three games to get to in the Stanley Cup playoffs, two of which were played on Tuesday night. Also game four from Toronto. Minnesota, and Colorado.
However, Elliot, before we get to those, we're going to mix it up and get to the news first because there was some notable items to run through off the top in today's edition. We'll start in Edmonton because that's become a bit of a firestorm there for each. The report that they were looking for permission to speak to Bruce Cassidy about becoming their head coach. Cassidy, of course, no longer...
behind the bench of the Vegas Golden Knights, still under contract by the Vegas Golden Knights.
Chapter 2: How are the Sedin twins and Ryan Johnson impacting Vancouver's hockey operations?
At this point, they have withheld permission. I suppose there's some semantics within all of that. Elliot Knobloch himself, just back in October, signed a three-year extension that doesn't kick in until this summer. It just feels like a messy situation in Alberta's capital, Elliot. So where are we all at with this?
Clean up on aisle six. Yes. It's a mess, Kyle.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Charlie Coyle's contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets?
And the paper towels are needed. First of all, let me just give you the updated news. As of late Tuesday night, When we recorded this pod, Kyle, I am under the impression that neither the Oilers nor the Kings have yet to be given permission to talk to Bruce Cassidy. So as I understand it, late Tuesday night when we were doing this pod, it wasn't just an Edmonton thing.
I am under the impression that Kings have not yet been given permission to talk to him either. Yeah. So and I do think there's some semantics here. I think there's some annoyance at it's taken a bit longer than everyone thought. But from what I can tell, the answer is not a no. It's just I don't know.
Chapter 4: What happened in Game 4 between the Sabres and Canadiens?
delayed dragging their feet whatever you want to call it it's not yet it's not yes yet delayed dragging your feet whatever it is there's no doubt in my mind that he is the number one candidate available if i was searching for a coach and all things being equal he would be my guy right now And yes, he's demanding. Yes, he can be hard on people, but he gets results, and he's proved it twice now.
He got into Boston. They went to game seven of a Stanley Cup final. He got into Vegas. They won it.
Chapter 5: What were the highlights from Game 5 of the Ducks vs. Golden Knights?
Maybe there's an expiration date. Maybe he's not for everyone, but he knows hockey. He's extremely good at explaining it both publicly and privately, and he gets results quick. That's it. And that's what's going to matter to a team like Edmonton, and that's going to matter to a team like Los Angeles. However, this has left a spill in oil country.
Chapter 6: How did Game 4 between the Wild and Avs unfold?
I don't think the Oilers are going to apologize for this. Whenever they come up for air, I don't believe the Oilers are going to say, Sorry. I think they look at it as they have to win. They have to do what it takes to win. They have to put themselves in the best position to win. And they are evaluating everything.
Chapter 7: What does Macklin Celebrini's captaincy mean for Team Canada at the IIHF Worlds?
What I think may have happened by this story getting out, though, Kyle... is that it's possible, and again, we haven't spoken to them, so I don't know for sure.
Chapter 8: What insights did Jakub Dobes share during his interview?
It's possible, Kyle, the Oilers wanted to do this quietly. Talk to Cassidy and decide based on what he had to say if they were going to make a change. I think there is a world, potentially, where they were thinking about, do we listen to him, but maybe not do it? I never like to say it's over, Kyle. I just don't know how they can go to that now.
Now that it's out and everybody knows and Chris Knobloch knows... I don't know how you can do that anymore. You might just have to make the change because it's out there and everyone's aware of it. And you mentioned the extension. Like, one of the things I've talked about, I think if Vancouver fires Adam Foote, it's an organizational failure.
If you hire a coach and you're firing him a year later, you – That's bad for your organization. It's a bad sign. In Edmonton, you just gave him a three-year extension, and as you mentioned, it doesn't even kick in until next year, and you're firing him. That's not good. That's not something an organization is going to be proud of. I...
I think this is a tough business, and things like this happen. You consider making changes, and you ask to talk to people, and then you make a change. It happens in hockey. It happens in sports. When Chris Knobloch was hired... Jay Woodcroft was at the end of a road trip, and I think they had a pretty good idea.
They were going to be firing Jay Woodcroft and replacing him with Chris Knobloch, and they waited until the end of the road trip to do it. It's not pretty. It's one of the hard things about sports. It happens. I do think the Oilers wanted to get this done quietly, and they're just not going to be able to do that anymore.
And now what you're probably going to have to do, Kyle, is you're probably going to have to make the coaching change anyway.
Because was it not foolish of them to think that you could have that conversation quietly with Cassidy and say, well, we'll see what he has to say. And if we like what he has to say, maybe we'll move forward and make a change. But if not, we may just leave things as is.
Was there not a great likelihood that some way, somehow that was going to get out or does stuff like that go on maybe more than we realize? And this was more the exception to the rule that it's Now public.
I think you always have to assume it's going to get out. I'll say this. I don't think the Oilers leaked this. Right, right. Yeah, why would they? What does Batman always say, Kyle? Who benefits? Oilers don't benefit from this getting out. So it wasn't them. Now... I don't know who the source was, and I'll be honest, I don't like guessing sources because I don't like it when people do it to me.
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