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Re: Mike Babcock - Hired as HC [message #852655 is a reply to message #852561 ]	Tue, 23 June 2026 09:02

Kr55
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It's official

https://www.nhl.com/oilers/news/release-oilers-name-mike-bab cock-head-coach

EDMONTON, AB – The Edmonton Oilers announced on Tuesday that Mike Babcock has been named as the club’s 19th head coach in team history.

Babcock, 63, brings to Edmonton a 700-418-183 regular-season coaching record over parts of 17 NHL seasons and 1,301 games. Through another 164 games in 14 postseason appearances, he ranks 10th all-time in wins with a 90-74 record.

Born in Manitouwadge, Ontario, and raised in Saskatoon, he is the only coach in hockey history to have guided teams to a Stanley Cup win (2008), an Olympic gold medal (2010, 2014), an IIHF World Championship (2004), and a World Cup of Hockey title (2016).

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

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Re: Mike Babcock - Hired as HC [message #852658 is a reply to message #852655 ]	Tue, 23 June 2026 12:08

mightyreasoner
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Location: Edmonton

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Kr55 wrote on Tue, 23 June 2026 09:02

2004 World Championship: 4 HHOFers (Lemieux, Niedermayer, Luongo, Bergeron)

2008 Stanley Cup champion team: 5 HHOFers (Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Lidstrom, Hasek, Chelios)

2010 Olympic Gold Medal team: 14-17 HHOFers (Luongo, Fleury, Brodeur, Keith, Weber, Doughty, Pronger, Niedermayer, Iginla, Toews, Thornton, Perry, Bergeron, Crosby, Getzlaf (?), Staal (?) Marleau (?)).

2014 Olympic Gold Medal team: 11-13 HHOFers (Luongo, Price, Doughty, Keith, Weber, Toews, Perry, St. Louis, Tavares, Bergeron, Crosby, Getzlaf (?), Marleau (?). Benn, Pietrangelo, Subban, Carter, and Nash also on this team, but I don't consider them as likely for HHOF.

2016 World Cup of Hockey: 12-14 HHOFers (Price, Doughty, Keith, Burns, Weber, Bergeron, Crosby, Marchand, Stamkos, Tavares, Thornton, Toews, Giroux (?), Getzlaf (?)). Again Pietrangelo, Carter, and Benn on this team also.

Look, I know that good teams have good players and HHOF players. But let's not pretend this guy has had great success getting the most out of players. Every success he has had has been a gift to his resume.

He has won 1 Stanley Cup – 18 years ago.
He hasn't gotten out of the second round of the play-offs since 2009 - 17 years ago.
He hasn't won a playoff round since 2013 - 13 years ago.

Despite being a wretched and toxic person you absolutely do not want in an organization, he just doesn't have a track record of success, outside of absolutely stacked teams 10-20 years ago.

It is an insane decision.

Bowman likely got caught up in his own redemption arc that he was bent towards doing so for Babcock.

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Re: Mike Babcock - Hired as HC [message #852659 is a reply to message #852658 ]	Tue, 23 June 2026 12:26

Kr55
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mightyreasoner wrote on Tue, 23 June 2026 12:08

Kr55 wrote on Tue, 23 June 2026 09:02

Hiring him for the exact same kinds of reasons we hired Holland. Right place, right time, success backstopped by an endless list of HHoF players. And we dive in, with prayers that somehow that translates to success a decade+ later in a much more difficult situation.

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

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Re: Mike Babcock - Hired as HC [message #852660 is a reply to message #852659 ]	Tue, 23 June 2026 13:15

JPro
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Kr55 wrote on Tue, 23 June 2026 12:26

Right place, right time, success backstopped by an endless list of HHoF players.

I've been reading a lot of comments online about how anyone could have won a cup with some of the teams he coached. I feel like that could be said about some of the McDavid era Oilers teams too - some pretty incredible rosters outside of goaltending - and yet it never gets done.

If Babs pulls it off, it'll be pretty epic.

I still maintain he doesn't last more than a season. It'll be an entertaining circus ride regardless.

Any word on the terms of his deal? I wonder if he squeezed Daryl for the full 5x5

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Re: Mike Babcock - Hired as HC [message #852661 is a reply to message #852561 ]	Tue, 23 June 2026 13:43

mightyreasoner
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Edmonton

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Man, anyone looking for a glimmer of hope of Babcock being a changed person, that presser will put a damper on things quickly.

Quote:

Michael Menzies
@Menzies_4

Mike Babcock says he doesn't think he crossed the line in Columbus:

"It was very evident before the year started...I hadn't benched anybody, I hadn't talked to anybody, I hadn't sat anybody out, and it was evident that we weren't together as a staff right from the get-go.

"My wife gave me a call, and she said it's time to get out of there. I've been retired, I was pretty good at it. I got back to being retired."

After a followup question about whether he thinked he crossed the line:

“No, to be honest with you, anytime you make anybody feel uncomfortable in your life, you should take a look at yourself and you should say, 'How could I do that better?'

"And I think that's what you do, is as a person, is you try to always be better at what you do. The situation in Columbus, they've had a full review, and I'm thankful, NHL and NHLPA, for doing that. It didn't work out for us. We're excited about making it work here."

Then this in response to scratching Modano at game 1499:

Quote:

Mike Babcock was asked by
@JasonGregor
how he doesn't repeat interactions like he had in the past. Babs says his tone, not necessarily his intentions, has caused problems:

“Being hard on people, a lot of times being hard is confused with telling the truth. I think when a kid sits at your kitchen table as one of your children, and they ask you a question, you should tell them. That's called love.

"Sometimes the truth is hard for them, no matter what happens when you coach, when you scratch people, when you sit them out, when they're at the end of your career, and you don't play them, it's hard for them, for sure. You try to do that as respectfully as you can.

“Why? Because you think you're a good human being, that's the right thing to do. Sometimes it's not perceived that way, but I think the other thing is, and I thought Stan said it, great, anytime you're out of something, you sit back, and you have perspective, you're allowed to grow as a human being, you're out to get better, and I think that's what this league's all about, is getting better.

"The other thing I said and reiterated is, my children are at the age in their careers, they got an opinion on it, and they sure got an opinion on their dad and what he says and his tone, and how to be respectful. I actually don't think my intentions are wrong that often. I think sometimes my tone is..."

#LetsGoOilers

Just completely unacountable and unapologetic. Buckle up.

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