Sheldon Souray’s Oilers career began with much fanfare. In the complicated post-Cup run years, Souray was the biggest free agent acquisition made by Kevin Lowe. The Elk Point, Alberta product inked a five-year deal worth $27,000,000 to finally fill the massive void left on Edmonton’s blueline with the departure of Chris Pronger.
At yesterday’s Ken Holland announcement presser, the new GM mentioned that Ken Hitchcock would not be back behind the bench with the Oilers for the 2019-2020 season, leaving the search to begin for the Oilers’ eighth head coach (if you count MacT) in the last nine years. Later in the day, Ken Hitchcock appeared on…
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Ken Holland sat down at the podium yesterday morning and outlined, quite passionately, his views on the Oilers coaches and players, building a team, analytics, the salary cap, trades, culture and more. I’ve sat in on what seems like hundreds of Oilers press conferences, where a new GM or coach is unveiled, but this one…
