Will the Edmonton Oilers subsequent GM must prioritize extensions for Leon Draisaitl and ultimately Connor McDavid and Evan Bouchard?
Sportsnet: Tom Gazzola on Sportsnet 960 radio when requested how essential the Edmonton Oilers GM rent is as regards to getting the eventual contract extensions performed for Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid, and Evan Bouchard. Will that even be his predominant precedence or will another person be dealing with that?
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Host: “How essential 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 technique 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 must 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 great wheeler and vendor and must be sure that he retains these guys completely satisfied and retains them right here.
However the way in which issues have sort of panned out and the way in which the, the Oilers have sort 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 will probably be concerned, particularly with Connor and Leon, after which possibly just a little little bit of Paul Coffey. And ensures whoever is the GM or is available in as GM, you recognize, is likely to be in there however I feel that is Jeff Jackson’s challenge 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 sort of a testomony to, to the brand new manner of dealing with NHL entrance workplaces. We’re beginning to see across the league and there’s sort of this evolution the place the POHO (president of hockey operations) and GM sort 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 sort of appeared on the scenario in Montreal, Gordon and Hughes there. And it’s sort 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 feel that’s sort 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 sort of operating present. And like I mentioned, his GM goes to be the sidekick and operating mate mainly to assist him with the day-to-day smaller stuff.”
