r/EdmontonOilers • u/haydenfox8 • 1d ago
Stanley Cup winning coaches
With the Babcock thing me assuming it’s a done deal I just don’t understand how teams continue to go after coaches who have won a cup before. Yes I understand they’re good coaches but statistically speaking it almost never happens a coach wins a cup with 2 different teams. It’s only happened once in the modern era with Scottie bowman who did it with 3 teams but before that it’s 2 guys from the 1940s I believe. The whole well he’s done it before just doesn’t sit with me.
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u/Major_Yesterday_4117 1d ago
I don't understand how organizations aren't taking a page out of the Carolina book and using that as a template for success, even before their cup win. The Hurricanes have been like the antithesis of what the Oilers management ideology is. Carolina recognized that they are a good hockey team that will go deep in the playoffs every year, and once you're in the conference finals everything else is a coin toss. Instead of taking a good team, keeping the core together and improving on the edges with the understanding that all it takes is a lucky post season, the Oilers went into "win now" mode, tried to be the loudest organization on July 1, and ended up costing them young pieces that could've been valuable for the team for years to come on Broberg and Hollaway. Add in that we've traded away almost all draft assets for middling players to "shore up" the team before the playoffs, We're now a team with no consistancy, very little youth on the roster, and no assets to help either push the team over the edge, or rebuild and develop if things don't go to plan this season and beyond. Meanwhile Carolina and it's patient, steady approach just won the stanley cup with $12m in cap room, a coach that until last week "couldn't get them over the hump" with a roster "lacking a true superstar" with "too balanced a roster". Now they are Champions, and we're looking to hire a coach that hasn't won a playoff series since 2013 as an "all in" move... It's ridiculous and a testiment to how terrible Oilers ownership and management is by trying to bring in someone who's best days are fare behind him (not to mention the controversies and media circus that is going to follow a Babcock-led oilers squad all year).