Another former Edmonton Oiler has joined the Seattle Kraken. The team announced on Wednesday that Dave Tippett has been hired as a coaching consultant.
As the Dave Tippett era was coming to an end, a lot of the narrative about why the Oilers were struggling related to the a of coaching creativity in terms of line and pairing combinations as well as personnel deployment.
Having lost three of their past four games heading into a Monday night tilt versus the Los Angeles Kings, the Edmonton Oilers were in desperate need of a win as they are narrowly holding onto the final wild card position in the Western Conference.
Since entering the NHL in 1979 following its merger with the World Hockey Association (WHA), the Edmonton Oilers have replaced their head coach six times
Welcome to the annual wrap-up of the most-read articles of the last year! Things were tense in early January. The Oilers were amid a massive slide and on the 6th, news broke from ESPN’s Emily Kaplan that the team could be firing then-bench boss Dave Tippett as soon as the following week.
If you had a way to solve the problems that the Oilers are having early in hockey games, they would hire you on the spot. They struggled to start games on time under Todd McLellan, they struggled to start games on time under Dave Tippett, and not surprisingly they’ve struggled to start games under Jay Woodcroft.
There’s no question Jay Woodcroft did a terrific job after being parachuted in from Bakersfield to replace Dave Tippett behind the Edmonton Oilers bench last February 10.
Jay Woodcroft might have taken over what already looking like a winning Edmonton Oilers team halfway through the 2021-22 season, but he took them further than anyone expected them to end up.
Jay Woodcroft stepped in as interim head coach in February after the Oilers fired Dave Tippett.
The Oilers are 8-5-1 since Jay Woodcroft made his NHL head coaching debut one month ago today. Woodcroft and Assistant Coach Dave Manson’s early focus was to reduce scoring chances against.
As the deadline nears, the heat is on GM Ken Holland to fix the issues with his roster in order to provide Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl with the best chance to truly threaten for a Stanley Cup for the first time in their careers.
It appears former Edmonton Oilers head coach Dave Tippett is set for retirement. According to Arizona Coyotes beat reporter Craig Morgan, Tippett will be hanging up the whistle.
Through 1,285 games as a head coach in the NHL, Tippett has compiled a 648-475-162 record.
It has been just over a week since Jay Woodcroft made his debut behind the bench for the Edmonton Oilers, after being named the NHL team’s new head coach on Feb.
A new era began in Oilers Nation last week with the news breaking that Dave Tippett out as the Head Coach of Edmonton. With that, Jay Woodcroft earned a promotion, filling in the void left by Tippett on an interim basis. With Woodcroft in Edmonton, Colin Chaulk is the new Head Coach of the Bakersfield Condors.
When the Edmonton Oilers made the move to release Dave Tippett and Jim Playfair of their jobs this past week, there were a few immediate reactions among the media and the fan base.
The Oilers entered December at 16-5 and leading the NHL's Pacific Division. Since that time, they've only won seven of their last 23 contests, are now 23-18-3 overall.
Jim Playfair has also been fired, while Jay Woodcroft and Dave Manson from the Bakersfield Condors will take over as head coach and assistant, respectively.
The people of Edmonton are experiencing an oil shortage of their own.
The Oilers are 3-10-2 since the start of December and have allowed at least four goals against in nine of those games.
As the Edmonton Oilers continue to lose games, the head coaching duties of Dave Tippett seem more and more likely to come to an end. The team has a 2-8-2 record in the past month, and the only two wins came when Tippett was in COVID-protocol and wasn’t coaching the games.
The pitchforks are out in Edmonton. After starting the season on a 9-1-0 tear, a stretch in which the team has dropped 10 of 13 games since the beginning of December has erased the Oilers’ hot start.
The Oilers lost to the New York Rangers by a score of 4-1 on Monday, extending their losing streak out of the Christmas break to four games.
Despite their recent struggles, Tippett and the Oilers were five games over .500 entering Tuesday.
As expected, fans of the Edmonton Oilers felt a bit of a scare on Monday as news rolled in that superstar center Connor McDavid was not on the ice for the team’s morning skate.
Over the past 12 seasons, the Edmonton Oilers have gone through head coaches as fast as Spinal Tap went through drummers. Pat Quinn, Tom Renny, Ralph Kreuger, Dallas Eakins, Todd Nelson, Todd McLellan, and Ken Hitchock all had their place at the controls of the Oilers before the team hired current head coach Dave Tippett.
Edmonton Oilers head coach Dave Tippett had a chance to sit down and answer a lot of what he and his coaching staff are still looking for heading into the preseason game vs.
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