{"id":829878,"date":"2026-07-27T20:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:13:14","slug":"hyman-dishes-on-edmonton-oilers-struggles-and-how-team-can-rebound-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829878\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyman dishes on Edmonton Oilers struggles and how team can rebound | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Edmonton Oilers have spent some time going through exactly what went wrong last season.<\/p>\n

It was a weird year for the Oilers, who couldn\u2019t seem to muster the high-level of play that helped them get to the Stanley Cup Final the previous two seasons. The team started out slow and never found their footing as they practically limped into the playoffs.<\/p>\n

The hope was that Edmonton would hit their stride as the postseason arrived, but they instead fell flat and dropped their first-round series against an underdog Anaheim Ducks squad in just six games. It was about as bad a result the Oilers could have gotten outside of missing the playoffs altogether.<\/p>\n

So, what went wrong? Oilers veteran forward Zach Hyman chatted about exactly that in a Monday morning appearance on TSN 1050<\/a> with Carlo Colaiacovo and Aaron Korolnek<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can be way better,\u201d Hyman said. \u201cIt was an up-and-down year. I started the year on the [injured reserve] for the first 20 games, and I think just throughout the whole year, I think it took us almost until February\/March to win three games in a row.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never could find our footing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the moves made by the Oilers this summer was bringing in Mike Babcock as the new head coach.<\/p>\n

We already know that Hyman seems thrilled to be reuniting with Babcock<\/a> after having previously played for him with the Toronto Maple Leafs, but the Oilers forward also talked about the team handling the widespread criticism of the hire.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t seem to be phasing Hyman all too much, who, by coincidence, helped to recently hire Babcock\u2019s son, Michael, to coach the OHL\u2019s Brantford Bulldogs. Hyman has owned the Bulldogs since January 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really important that the NHL and the PA did the process that they needed to do, and obviously he was cleared to coach again,\u201d Hyman said. \u201cAs players, you talk to other players, and you get a sense of things around the league.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs players, we were all comfortable with Babs and with what he brought, and we think that it\u2019s something that\u2019s going to be very good for our group.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the player personnel side, Edmonton moved out longtime Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse<\/a> to the San Jose Sharks in a cap-clearing trade. Hyman spoke about the difficulty of losing a player like Nurse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are always hard; there is a lot of turnover in hockey, it\u2019s just part of the nature of the sport. It\u2019s a lot harder when it\u2019s someone who has been here for a long time and has only played for one team,\u201d Hyman said. \u201cI think it\u2019s a great opportunity for him\u2026 I think for him he\u2019s got an unbelievable opportunity with a young team in San Jose and they\u2019re super lucky to have a guy like that in their room.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still believe we\u2019re a team that if we get hot, we can win. We\u2019ve been there before.\u201d<\/p>\n

With August quickly approaching, it won\u2019t be long until Hyman and the rest of the Oilers can get back onto the ice and prove their doubters wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers have spent some time going through exactly what went wrong last season. It was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-829878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}