One year ago today, the Edmonton Oilers announced that Dave Tippett would be the 16th head coach in club history.

With him, Tippett brought over a decade worth of successful coaching experience. Known as a great communicator, he’s shown his ability to do that with the Oilers.

In just one year, he was able to turn the club from well out of the playoffs, to a team making serious noise in a playoff race.

The Oilers finished the 2019-20 season with a 37-25-7 record. With that record, the Oilers posted a .585 points percentage — the second-best number since the 1987-88 season.

Edmonton’s second most successful regular season since 87-88 was 2016-17 season when they posted a 47-26-44 record and a .628 points percentage.

The turnaround in the Oilers has been tremendous under his tutelage, and it’s a good sign of what could be to come in future years. Edmonton has a very good young core and are growing in the right direction.

With Tippett behind the bench, anything is possible.

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