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What reports about Mike Babcock are being discussed?
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. This is Oilers Now. We are helped out on the show by Aidan Ganim, Derek Scott, and Kellen Kennedy. And there's no surprise as to what our top story is for legacy heating and cooling. Home and no payments and no interest for one year. That's a bill, the legacy, legacy heating and cooling. The story broke courtesy of Darren Drager. A couple of days ago on Monday involving that the Edmonton Oilers were exploring options pertaining to one Mike Babcock. And I certainly made no bones about it. But my understanding was that Babcock was the Oilers guy from ownership to management to management.
The players, players being a significant part of that. Last night, I think just prior or maybe during the course of Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, tweets came out that an investigation that the NHL PA had requested. Hmm. that the NHLPA had requested an investigation of Mike Babcock to the events in Columbus. This was the tweet that came out. The NHL is from Pierre Lebrun, who is on the show today. This tweet came out this morning saying, the National Hockey League is moving ahead in its investigation of Mike Babcock and the events in Columbus as per NHLPA request. Hmm. And then Frank Cervalli, who has been very strong on this issue really since Monday night when he said that the Oilers blew the timeline.
It was ironic because he was certainly a guy a week earlier who spoke about Babcock's abilities as a coach. But today, Cervalli tweeted out, if the Oilers elect to continue down the path with Mike Babcock, sources say the NHLPA is in receipt today. of significant additional claims from their own investigation with the players that were not publicly reported in 2023. Those claims were presented to the NHL prior to his resignation. Furthermore, sources indicate that asking the players to see photos is not what ultimately resulted in Babcock's resignation. It was a subsequent unknown allegation reported that cost Babcock his job with the Columbus Blue Jackets organization. So many of you have a lot of different perspectives and will continue to text us on the Ashley Fine Floors text line at 780-451-8800.
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What investigation did the NHLPA request regarding Babcock?
The players involved, et cetera, in 2023 will have to be interviewed. If Backhawk were to back out of this stage, a league source says there would be no reason to investigate. some might say it's starting to appear as though there is a concerted effort from the NHLPA specifically. I mean, we have to assume that they're the source for some of the information on this, that there might be a little bit of a push here to try to convince the Oilers otherwise. On an individual who has no record, has not ever been charged with – we have players in the league playing right now that at one time were charged with assault. Some of them were playing in the Stanley Cup final. And in the end, ultimately were proven to be innocent.
But what about – is there an attempt here to sway the court of public opinion – I find it ironic that as the Oilers were losing to the Anaheim Ducks in round number one of the playoffs, they had many people say, why would Stan Bowman not have gone out and got an experienced coach like Joel Quenville, who, of course, was with Bowman in Chicago. Now, some of you, many of you originally did not want Bowman to be the head coach of the team without actually knowing the full story in Chicago. I would suggest most of you listening to this show right now have very strong opinions. You have great passion for the Edmonton Oilers Hockey Club. I'm going to hazard a guess that... Under 10% of the people out there have actually ever met or talked to Mike Babcock during your life.
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