Could Bruce Cassidy become an option for the Edmonton Oilers to help put them over the edge?
Daily Faceoff: David Pagnotta, when asked about coach Bruce Cassidy and if he could be an option for the Edmonton Oilers this season.
Johnny Lazerus: “Vic is very convinced that Bruce Cassidy will be coaching another team before this year ends. So do plans change when a guy like that …
Pagnotta: “He is very adamant about that.
Lazerus: “He’s like, he thinks the Oilers are going to hire Bruce Cassidy and have him coach them to the Cup final. We saw how the Jim Montgomery hiring played out last year. Like he became available and he’s hired, what, like three, four days after he’s fired. So do you think that could be the case, even though we’re now, what, like two or three days into this Bruce Cassidy firing?
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There’s nothing obvious to me that where I look at some of these contending teams and I go, that’s the guy that’s going to push them over the edge this season. Like I don’t, I don’t see this being a reverse kind of situation where there’s another team that, you know, feels like you bring in that, that that finisher at the coaching position, and he can be the guy.
Bruce Cassidy is a very good head coach, and he’s going to get another job probably soon. But I don’t know if it’s necessarily now.
Now the Oilers sign knob lock to a three-year extension in October. You got three more years on that contract starting July one. You got to pay that out.
This summer, boys, for the Oilers, is going to be a make or break type of summer for this organization. And I think they’re poised to make some bold moves. And basically do whatever they can, because I’m not anticipating them winning the Stanley Cup this year, but I do think that if they make some bold moves next season, like that’s all hands on deck for the Oilers as as being just narrowing in, just zeroing in, tunnel visioning on the 2027 Stanley Cup.
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And if you feel whatever changes you make in pieces you bring in work within Knoblauch’s, system and messaging, then you stick with him. If you don’t, then you’ve got a guy like Cassidy that can push you over the edge in your first year at least. ”
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