{"id":692226,"date":"2026-06-08T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692226\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:42:08","slug":"oilers-discussing-potential-hire-of-mike-babcock-with-nhlpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692226\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers discussing potential hire of Mike Babcock with NHLPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oilers are talking with the NHLPA about the potential hire of veteran coach Mike Babcock, sources confirmed to Sportsnet on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>TSN was first to report the news.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0podcaster and former NHLer Paul Bissonnette accused him of improperly viewing players\u2019 smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Babcock has coached 1,301 career games with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings and Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>He won the Stanley Cup with Detroit in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers fired coach Kris Knoblauch last month after losing in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Cassidy was fired by the Golden Knights earlier this season, but remains under contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oilers are talking with the NHLPA about the potential hire of veteran coach Mike Babcock, sources confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-692226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}