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 vital the Edmonton Oilers GM rent is with reference to getting the eventual contract extensions completed for Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid, and Evan Bouchard. Will that even be his important precedence or will another person be dealing with that?
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Host: “How vital 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 elevate 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 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 greatest and I feel he understands that’s going to be his position to be the man to ensure that the large canine keep and ner be a great wheeler and seller and must ensure 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 few weeks has indicated to us that this, the large 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 consider it’s going to be the following 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 just a little little bit of Paul Coffey. And ensures whoever is the GM or is available in as GM, you recognize, may 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 following decade of this franchise is solidly secured.
And that’s sort 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 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 state of affairs 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 pictures 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 stated, his GM goes to be the sidekick and operating mate mainly to assist him with the day-to-day smaller stuff.”
