Messier “HORRIFIED” By Oilers’ Mike Babcock Hire ft. Greg Wyshynski, Jason Brough, and Mike Halford
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Why is Mark Messier horrified by the Oilers hiring Mike Babcock?
You'll be very proud of me, Greg Wyschinsky. Be very proud of me. I just put out Join the e join the M V S W slash curtain bloggers crossover here live now. Like if you feel like you're in a time warp today and it feels like twenty twelve in about thirty minutes here, uh don't feel special. As Hallford and Bruff will stop by the program at the bottom of the hour. Looking forward to that.
Should be good. I'm so excited those boys are part of the Cavalcada Fund that's work because like they they first of all they fit in perfectly. Yeah, second of all, like I and I truly mean this that I've done many radio hits on a weekly basis for many, many years. Yeah. And I truly, truly, truly treasured my twenty minutes with them every Tuesday. They're the best. They're informed, they're smart, they're funny, they like to goof around. And uh they appreciate a hot take, which is really the the way the way to my
heart. And they enjoy an argument and when I was at Rogers too and by the way, bottom of the hour, I I I again I might have to ask you to leave. It's only people that have been fired by Rogers that are allowed to be on the program at the bottom of the hour. So it might just be me with the boys.
In fairness. Yeah. You've been fired by Rogers too? I did two or three trade deadlines. And they didn't ask you back. And they didn't have me back. So I think I've been fired by Rogers.
Um That's like just letting a contract expire. That's not fired.
They're like, Sir, you are wearing diarrhea pants on the air. We cannot have that. Please, please move along.
No, I used to go like honestly, the guys are awesome because They make everything at an event, right? Like Halford and Bruff make everything at event. When I used to go on with them when we used to uh but we both worked at Rogers, um, they gave me a theme like out of nowhere, they made this like Ger a German Euro trash inspired theme song for me for the uh the odd time that I come on. Like I'd come on like once or twice a month. And they gave me a theme song for
I like it. The thing that they would always do is they would find obscure covers of the NHL on ESPN theme. Oh and they would play them as I came on. Including the one that I believe we play when there's an injury. Which I always really liked. You know how when you're watching the NFL and like there's an injury on Fox and all of a sudden they're they're trying to pan away from the Jaden Daniels injury and they're just like Like the the the plantative uh piano music that they're playing they would play that version of the NHL on ESPN theme song when I came out. I was
I like that. Okay, so that's coming up at the bottom of the hour. Uh in the meantime, speaking of ESPN, making headlines one Marc Messier. Um and there's a couple of different, you know, layers to it as well. Zach, do we have a a board I mean, listen, by the time like this this happened yesterday, so anyone watching or listening to this program knows exactly what we're talking about, but if we want a reference point, we can throw up the quote from Mark Messier um yesterday, um, talking about how he was, you know, shocked and and horrified at the decision to bring in Mike Babcock. Not just the decision to bring him in, but how it was done as well. fueled through players. There have been a lot of people that right away started to point at Vancouver and Mike Keenan and Marc Messier's situation.
But nonetheless, uh as I read it, like I I read it as like as soon as you tweeted it out wish. I was like, jaw hits ground, bam. And pretty much everybody in the industry I think had the exact same reaction.
Yeah, I was trying to figure out what uh places like the Edmonton Journal were gonna do with this. If they were gonna call Messier a a cuck soy boy for not being down with big burly Mike Babcock being the coach. Uh they went in the other direction with a Sebastian of Woke Mark
Messier.
The last bastion of of of rhetoric in our society, which is whataboutism. Whenever you go to whataboutism, you know that y you've effectively lost the argument.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is Mark Messier horrified by the Oilers hiring Mike Babcock?
0:11–11:31
2
How did players influence the Babcock hiring process and what does it mean for McDavid and the Oilers?
11:31–20:59
3
What’s the story behind Dylan Larkin’s return to Detroit and his trade request?
20:59–29:00
4
What bold predictions did Greg Wyshynski make for every NHL team in 2026‑27?
29:00–39:21
5
Which new arena food items are generating buzz around the league?
39:21–49:22
6
What are Halford and Bruff launching and how will it change hockey media?
49:22–58:03
7
How are the New York Rangers using a ticket‑subscription model to attract fans?
58:03–1:07:57
8
Why are NHL owners hesitant about expansion and what could happen next?
1:07:57–1:22:15
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