There would be no stronger stench of desperation than the Edmonton Oilers interviewing Mike Babcock for their vacant head coaching job. This is not a hot take, and I don’t even think it should be controversial.
With so many teams in the National Hockey League, there’s bound to be some churn as players go from team to team. But sometimes there’s a player that fits into a specific role on a specific team so well that it’s hard to imagine them anywhere else.