Sportsnet.Ca- With Ken Hitchcock watching practice from the seats one day and then blasting the Oilers’ effort following Saturday’s 5–2 loss to San Jose, that there were rumours he’d had enough and would step down. That obviously didn’t happen, but it underlines how tense things are in Edmonton.
------- Welp, everyone check your calendars. I would have said that you'd have to be the type of eternal pessimist that requires a live-in therapist to have taken the under on three months in the "how long before the shine of coaching Connor McDavid wears off and Ken Hitchcock reconsiders retirement?" pool. However, here we are less than 90 days later and someone who has basically become a professional placeholder is already wondering whether it's even worth it to keep on mentoring potentially the most talented player the sport he has dedicated his life to has ever seen. Imagine the amount of other issues she'd need to have for an elderly man to even let the thought of dumping his smoking hot, 20-something year old nymphomaniac of a girlfriend cross his mind. Now, think of Ken Hitchcock as that elderly man, Connor McDavid as that sexy little minx, and the rest of the Oilers' organization as her never-ending carousel of baggage. Someone who knew full well he was brought in to do damage control has been all-but-broken by the task at hand. The man who prides himself on making it work is supposed to still be in the honeymoon stage, and yet he's already rethinking and re-rethinking a relationship that turned toxic so fast you'd think it was entered into by 6th graders. Ken Hitchcock has been addicted to hockey for decades, and one short stint in the fishbowl of failure that is Edmonton has him on the verge of quitting cold turkey. From an organizational standpoint, the Oilers are such a haunting picture of the sport at its absolute worst that their head coach of not even one CALENDAR season is about to be Scared Straight off into the sunset. That's equal parts horrifying and hilarious.
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