TSN & The Athletic's Pierre LeBrun (6/3/26)
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Yesterday. I know all my troubles seem so far away. Anyways, I digress. Gary Bettman and Bill Daly were asked by Mike Russo from The Athletic about the ongoing Bruce Cassidy situation.
Obviously, we don't find it unreasonable because we're allowing it to happen. I do think Vegas is clearly within their contractual rights to do what they're doing. I also and we also understand and appreciate that they're on a Stanley Cup run right now and they don't need the distractions necessarily of a coach signing somewhere else so we'll get to the end of the season and we'll see where we go from there obviously we've talked to all the parties involved in this including Bruce so he knows what our position on the subject is and he might not be happy about it but but he was accepting of it and we'll see where we go from there
When you sign and insist upon a long-term contract, there are certain under league policies consequences of that. And so where we find ourselves is completely reasonable.
There are contracts that exist in the league that would not allow for this to happen. His was not one of them.
All right, so there you go. Different coaches' contracts, that's part of the deal. Elliott Friedman had this to say on yesterday. Elliott's appearance is brought to you by Abe's Door Service. On the NHL's response to the Cassidy situation.
He did, and so did Bill Daley. Daley kind of handled that the most. You know, he basically said that Vegas is within their rights to do it. He did hedge slightly. He left the window open a little bit. um was saying we'll see what happens after vegas's season ends so we'll see um however uh you know i thought it was really interesting that uh bailey said at the end of his comment that there are some contracts here that would not allow this to happen but this is not one of them he's kind of saying that You know, Cassidy doesn't have protection that some other coaches have. Now, like I said before, I still think this is ridiculous. I really do. I really disagree with it.
There you go. That's Elliot Freeman from yesterday's edition of Oilers Now. Brian Lawton was on yesterday's show as well. And we talked a bit about, you know, it's a change in the times and you want to have many of you listening to the show right now might be might.
How does the NHL's handling of the Bruce Cassidy situation affect teams?
either own companies, maybe it's a small business, maybe you have a mid-sized business, but you always want the feedback with your employees because you know what? It's a partnership. They're part of it. And we're in a national hockey league where the players are 50% partners. And there used to be a time in which the players were sort of like old tree planters, uh, kept in the dark and fed crap, like mushrooms, right? But the reality is we don't live in those times anymore. And we're all here because of the players. We watch the game because of the players. The coaches coach because of the players. The managers manage because of the players. The fans watch because of the players. The broadcasters who probably got the best jobs.
We all get to do what we get to do because how great the players are. And Brian Lawton's a former player agent. And I asked Brian yesterday, should players have some input and say on organizational moves?
I do. I think it's a sign of the times. I think it's also very situational. If a team is rolling along and everything's going perfect, I don't think you hear much.
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