Kris Knoblauch is Oilers' latest fall guy, and there aren't many promising alternatives

Changing the head coach again won't fix all of Oilers problems

Just to put some perspective on how often the Oilers change head coaches, forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was drafted No. 1 overall by the team in 2011 and has played all 15 of his seasons in the league with the Oilers.

The new head coach will be his 10th different coach. 

In 15 years.

With one team.

That is an incredibly futile run of decision-making and only magnifies the biggest problem with the organization — It simply doesn't make good decisions, and that is what ultimately led to the Oilers' regression this season.

General manager Stan Bowman has been on the job for two years now and his list of transactions reads like a hockey horror film. Losing Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg to restricted free agent offer sheets during his first month on the job. Signing Trent Frederic to an eight-year contract extension after trading multiple draft picks for him. Taking on the entirety of Tristan Jarry's albatross contract to try and fix their goalie situation, while giving up defenseman Brett Kulak and a future second-round pick to do so. Trading Viktor Arvidsson, replacing him with Andrew Mangiapane, and then giving up on him less than a season later because he was so ineffective. 

Just disaster after disaster, and it continues what he had been doing during the tail-end of his career with the Chicago Blackhawks. He has lived off the reputation he received for having a famous last name (he is the son of Hall of Fame head coach Scotty Bowman) and the Stanley Cups he won with Chicago more than a decade ago with rosters that he mostly inherited. 

If you just looked at his actual team-building philosophy the past 10 years and ignored the name, no rational team would put him in charge.

No head coach is going to be able to salvage a roster that is so top-heavy that it gets outscored by a 55-86 margin when neither McDavid or Draisaitl are on the ice. 

No head coach is going to make it work with a revolving door of bad goalies. 

Especially when the established options are less-than-ideal.

Bruce Cassidy is probably best option available among the NHL's head-coaching recycling bin, but the Vegas Golden Knights still control his rights and can turn down Edmonton. 

Edmonton would also have to likely compete with the Toronto Maple Leafs after they fired Craig Berube earlier this week.

Speaking of which, Berube would seem to be a terrible fit for Edmonton's roster and the star power it has at the top of the lineup. Especially given the job he did with the Maple Leafs with a similarly constructed roster. 

Maybe an up-and-coming coach gives you a spark, but that is far from a given.

The most likely outcome is the next coach comes in, has to work with the same flawed roster, in the same flawed organization, and simply continues the revolving door behind the bench.