As the Edmonton Oilers enter the off-season searching for a new GM, they can't let the past determine the future. (SportsnetSpec )
EDMONTON — As interim general manager Keith Gretzky sat next to CEO Bob Nicholson at another nervous year-endpress conference, a video of Wayne Gretzky’s Top 100 goals ran on a loop on a giant screen high on the wall of the Oilers Hall of Fame room.
As for the less tangible effects, we bring you Keith Gretzky — the acting GM who is a genuine candidate for the vacant GM job that Nicholson is actively seeking to fill. I will say, I quite like Keith Gretzky as well. He comes from amateur scouting roots, the way a Jim Benning does in Vancouver, and in my conversations with him I find a realistic evaluator who neither over-values a player just because he’s Edmonton property, nor is he unrealistic on possible acquisitions who may or may not see Edmonton as a plausible destination.
Guerin is highly qualified and has every skill required to do the job. And he knows the ill effects the Old Boys Club had in this franchise from his time here — because he was an Oiler from 1997-2000.These are the issues that are more complicated in Edmonton than they are elsewhere, due only to the Oilers mismanagement over the last two decades.
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