Jay Woodcroft

I mean, I think like the ex Edmonton coach, that's an assistant coach with the ducks.

Woodcroft.

Yeah.

I mean, he did a really, I thought a really good job for a while in Edmonton.

It's about finding the right guy at the right time.

And again, Chris Knobloch was the right guy at the right time when he replaced Jay Woodcroft.

And Jay Woodcroft was the right guy at the right time when he replaced Dave Tippett.

And now Mike Babcock is the right guy at the right time.

And I know some people would say, well, you know, why do they always get the wrong guy at the wrong time at some point? But things change.

This is amazing.

Like I always think that every generation of hockey fans should have something to be awed by, right? And so you just shake yourself out of – Jay Woodcroft would say don't be numb.

Don't feel numb.

Don't be numb to the greatness that you're seeing right now with Conor McDavid.

It's incredible.

But the board play for me for Kucherov is, again, like we, you know, Jay Woodcroft would talk about don't be numb when you watch Conor McDavid.

Understand like the greatness that we're all seeing.

Like enjoy it and understand that this is something that doesn't come along very often.

Any idea why you think it might be different tonight?

Well, I'm actually quite fascinated to see, Jay, because I feel like we'd all agree this is a bit of a different Oilers team.

And I guess I'd ask you, like, what are the reasons Minnesota has owned – I think they're 14-4 the last 18 meetings, Minnesota, over the Oilers.

So what are the reasons that they've owned Edmonton? Are they – you know, is their defense – is their defensive game just too good? Are they too hard to play against? Are the Oilers too easy to play against? And whatever's changed in Edmonton, they're not the same team, right? They're a little harder.

They're dumping a lot more pucks.

Is that the key to turning it around against many? Maybe Edmonton's a different team.

Maybe the styles don't make the same fight anymore, Jay.

Yeah.

You know, Jon Snowden down with the Phantoms.

I don't know if they want to rush him up to the NHL just yet and you know give him more time down there but he's an option Jay Woodcroft is out there Bruce Cassidy not sure if he would even want to come to Philly or if Vegas would let him let him interview with Philly at all but Yeah, it's, it's coming to the point where the Flyers either have to make a big trade.

And, you know, Breer doesn't want to do that Breer shouldn't shouldn't have to trade from a point of weakness, or, you know, have a roster shake up in some other way, which I think the only way that possibly is, is is potentially just bringing up the kids bring up bring up cole knubel for michael bunting bring up jet luchenko for for jackson nico like you don't want to ruin these kids development but i think if you give them the opportunity to come up and be the savior unless you're like all right just come up play with some speed carry the puck get a transition game going they don't have pressure on them.

It's like, all right, you know, come up and just be better than Jack Stanica and Michael Bunting.