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 on the subject of getting the eventual contract extensions carried out for Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid, and Evan Bouchard. Will that even be his fundamental 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 following like, decade of Oilers hockey a technique or one other?”
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Gazzola: “I believe that’s the pure intuition to say that this subsequent GM bett GMs.
And I believe it’s not taken away for, from whoever is available in as GM, however I believe that’s the place Jeff Jackson goes to should be at his finest and I believe he understands that’s going to be his position to be the man to make it possible for the massive canines keep and ner be a superb wheeler and vendor and should make it possible for he retains these guys glad and retains them right here.
However the way in which issues have type of panned out and the way in which the, the Oilers have type of maneuvered in the previous few 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 following GM that’s going to be doing the principle negotiating from an Oilers standpoint. I believe it’s going to be Jeff Jackson. I believe Darrell Cates will probably be concerned, particularly with Connor and Leon, after which perhaps just a little little bit of Paul Coffey. And ensures whoever is the GM or is available in as GM, you understand, is likely to be in there however I believe that is Jeff Jackson’s mission and I believe that’s why Darrell Cates and Paul Coffey introduced him in is to ensure the following decade of this franchise is solidly secured.
And that’s type of a testomony to, to the brand new method of dealing with NHL entrance places of work. We’re beginning to see across the league and there’s type of this evolution the place the POHO (president of hockey operations) and GM type of work as a tandem. I imply, the Oilers don’t have a president of hockey operations, they’ve CEO Jeff Jackson.
And you understand, I level to love Patrik Allvin and Jim Rutherford in Vancouver. You type of regarded on the scenario in Montreal, Gordon and Hughes there. And it’s type of like tandems. Ken Kelly McCrimmon, and George McPhee in Vegas. Like, which guys actually name the photographs or are they working as a crew?
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I believe that’s type of what we’re going to see right here and I believe that Jeff Jackson goes to be the man that’s going to be type of working present. And like I mentioned, his GM goes to be the sidekick and working mate principally to assist him with the day-to-day smaller stuff.”
