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The Oilers are talking with the NHLPA about the potential hire of veteran coach Mike Babcock, sources confirmed to Sportsnet on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
TSN was first to report the news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Babcock, 63, was last in the NHL prior to the 2023 season when he resigned as coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets before coaching a regular-season game after\u00a0Spittin\u2019 Chiclets<\/em>\u00a0podcaster and former NHLer Paul Bissonnette accused him of improperly viewing players\u2019 smartphones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n According to multiple sources, one of the most serious concerns was a meeting that occurred away from team facilities that included \u201cseveral minutes\u201d of looking through a phone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Babcock has coached 1,301 career games with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings and Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He won the Stanley Cup with Detroit in 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Oilers fired coach Kris Knoblauch last month after losing in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Vegas Golden Knights also reportedly withheld permission from the Oilers to speak with Bruce Cassidy about their head-coaching vacancy earlier in May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Cassidy was fired by the Golden Knights earlier this season, but remains under contract.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The Oilers are talking with the NHLPA about the potential hire of veteran coach Mike Babcock, sources confirmed to Sportsnet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/New-Columbus-Blue-Jackets-NHL-hockey-head-coach-Mike-Babcock.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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