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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

The Oilers have a bad track record with coaches.


Pat Quinn - Probably too much of a meany quit on him.


Tom Renney - Started well, but when you watched in the end, the team felt like it was ignoring him to play their version of Oilyaz hockey


Ralph Krueger - Good teaching coach, but the Oilers weren't interested in keeping him


Dallas Eakins - Probably the only real justifiably bad coach. But he was the shiny start hire by the Oilers. Invented the corner swarm defense.


Todd Nelson - Was a Temp, had to have Mac-T hold his hand behind the bench in an embarrassing bit of management interference.


Todd Mclellan - I think he was an over rated coach who benefited from a strong Sharks team. However he started well and was credible, but when you watch in the end, the team quit on him and stopped playing any system


Tippet - There's no way that Tippet coached these ding dongs to play the way they did. Like I've said when you have a super star like McDavid who's the corner stone its more then likely that he was told to coach the way Connor likes it, and if Connor has a idea you implement it. But they team was gutless and flat in this playoff series, they weren't playing any kind of system with any kind of commitment. Classify this was as quit on coach. But Tippet is also a notorious quitter. He spent the last year in Arizona reading the Newspaper on the bench when management didn't give him his way. So look for him to quit on the job next year.



Next coach of the Oilers - Harrison Katz - He's being groomed for a major management role in the organization, why not coach? I mean he's on the mural of the new building, in every draft pictures. He's attended draft meetings. He demanded that Yak get drafted and it happened.

Next coach of the Oilers - Harrison Katz I figured that's who was running the 50/50.