Will the Edmonton Oilers subsequent GM should prioritize extensions for Leon Draisaitl and ultimately Connor McDavid and Evan Bouchard?
Sportsnet: Tom Gazzola on Sportsnet 960 radio when requested how necessary the Edmonton Oilers GM rent is close to getting the eventual contract extensions accomplished for Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid, and Evan Bouchard. Will that even be his foremost precedence or will another person be dealing with that?
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Host: “How necessary is that this subsequent GM rent for Jeff Jackson, Tom, within the sense of,sure we all know (Leon) Draisaitl’s up however Connor’s proper across the nook. And oh, I think about Evan Bouchard gonna need to increase on that $3.9 million. Like, is it too hyperbolic to say like, the man that is available in and has to work these offers goes to place a stamp on the subsequent like, decade of Oilers hockey a method or one other?”
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Gazzola: “I feel that’s the pure intuition to say that this subsequent GM bett GMs.
And I feel it’s not taken away for, from whoever is available in as GM, however I feel that’s the place Jeff Jackson goes to should be at his finest and I feel he understands that’s going to be his function to be the man to be sure that the massive canine keep and ner be a very good wheeler and seller and should be sure that he retains these guys pleased and retains them right here.
However the way in which issues have form of panned out and the way in which the, the Oilers have form of maneuvered in the previous couple of weeks has indicated to us that this, the massive heavy lifting, and people contracts are in all probability going to be Jeff Jackson priorities, not the newow Evan Bouchard.
So, I don’t, I don’t essentially imagine it’s going to be the subsequent GM that’s going to be doing the primary negotiating from an Oilers standpoint. I feel it’s going to be Jeff Jackson. I feel Darrell Cates might be concerned, particularly with Connor and Leon, after which perhaps a bit of little bit of Paul Coffey. And ensures whoever is the GM or is available in as GM, you recognize, is perhaps in there however I feel that is Jeff Jackson’s venture and I feel that’s why Darrell Cates and Paul Coffey introduced him in is to verify the subsequent decade of this franchise is solidly secured.
And that’s form of a testomony to, to the brand new approach of dealing with NHL entrance places of work. We’re beginning to see across the league and there’s form of this evolution the place the POHO (president of hockey operations) and GM form of work as a tandem. I imply, the Oilers don’t have a president of hockey operations, they’ve CEO Jeff Jackson.
And you recognize, I level to love Patrik Allvin and Jim Rutherford in Vancouver. You form of seemed on the scenario in Montreal, Gordon and Hughes there. And it’s form of like tandems. Ken Kelly McCrimmon, and George McPhee in Vegas. Like, which guys actually name the pictures or are they working as a workforce?
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I feel that’s form of what we’re going to see right here and I feel that Jeff Jackson goes to be the man that’s going to be form of operating present. And like I mentioned, his GM goes to be the sidekick and operating mate principally to assist him with the day-to-day smaller stuff.”
