Bob continues Oilers Now (6/9/26)

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Oilers NOW with Bob Stauffer 18 min 4 speakers 5 chapters transcribed 3 months ago

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What updates does Bob provide about the Oilers' coaching situation?

Bob Stauffer 0:00

Hey, it's Bob Stauffer. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Oilers Now ad-free on Amazon Music, included with Prime. All right. Welcome back, everybody. It is 5.34 in oil country. Royal pizza, pizza pasta. and so much more. Royal Pizza now has the quesadilla returning, and it's here to stay loaded with seasoned chicken, chipotle, mayo, peppers, onions, and cheese for only $15.95. Visit royalpizza.ca. The Stauffer recommendation is the Mediterranean chicken. Again, we're going to sort of go through Some some other stuff here in a second. I do want to bang off a couple texts. David says, Bob, out of the 226 in Ontario, in no universe is the current Oilers roster remotely comparable to the Team Canada Olympic roster.

Bob Stauffer 0:53

Any coach worth their salt should be able to coach an all-star Team Canada roster to a modicum of success. So the line of reasoning doesn't fly with me. His accomplishment with the Leafs is much more likely outcome with the Oilers. I'm happy to be proven wrong, though, from David. David, respectfully. And I think that Austin Matthews and William Nylander, as an example, and Mitch Marner, those guys are great players until this year. Nylander was pretty good in the playoffs the last couple years, but McDavid and Drysaddle have been on a different platform. Now, Marner's done it this year in Vegas, but he's got tons of support. You know, he's got Eichel on his team. He's got Mark Stone. McDavid, Drysaddle, and Bouchard are on a different level of what Toronto had.

Bob Stauffer 1:44

Toronto also played in a tougher division. They did. Like, I got to sit there and go, you know, we look at Babcock and we look at Sheldon Keefe, and damn it, they played in a tougher division. They did. The Oilers got L.A. How many of you, right, I'm going to ask right now, how many of you think that if it would have been L.A. coming in third instead of Anaheim, that the Oilers were to survive the first round in Texas on the Ashley 5-4 stack slot? Okay. Wes is an Oilers fan, and he says, Bob, as an Oilers fan, I'm fully on board with the idea of hiring Mike Babcock as the head coach. His resume speaks for itself. A Stanley Cup championships, two Olympic gold medals, a world championship gold medal, and more than 700 coaching wins.

Bob Stauffer 2:36

He's coached at every level and has consistently built structured defensive responsible teams. With a veteran leadership group led by Conor McDavid and Leon Drysaddle, it's focused on winning now. I think the Oilers need an experienced coach with a proven track record of handling high expectations in playoff games. pressure west goes on to say while other names are being discussed i believe babcock's experience success and ability to bring accountability makes them one of the strongest candidates available and a great fit for a team of stanley cup aspirations so that's a positive there's been lots of negatives we probably read about two to one on the negative front maybe three to one on the negative front on the show yesterday

Bob Stauffer 3:19

We had Frank Cervalli on the show. It was heated.

What are the listener reactions to the Oilers' roster comparisons?

Bob Stauffer 3:23

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Bob Stauffer 3:38

Frank had a very pointed perspective on the fact that he felt the Edmonton Oilers should have waited for a resolution in the Bruce Cassidy situation with Vegas.

Frank Cervalli 3:49

What a massive tactical error. We have no clarity yet on Bruce Cassidy and his availability. And I take it from the words of the deputy commissioner, Bill Daley, when he spoke about it at the press conference last week in Raleigh and said, we'll see what happens at the end of the year, meaning the end of this Stanley Cup final for the Vegas Golden Knights. And for the longest time, we've known that that was the Oilers' selection. That was their choice. They wanted Bruce Cassidy, and Bruce Cassidy seemed to want certainly the Edmonton Oilers as well. So now we've arrived at this point where it appears, at least according to your words, that that is the choice, Mike Babcock, from ownership to management to players,