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CBCSports.ca - Jesse - Welcome, everyone. For the next hour we'll be talking Oilers hockey (and the demise of Wayne Gretzky) with Tyler Dellow of the excellent blog mc79hockey.com, who will be taking your questions on the upcoming season. Welcome, everyone. For the next hour we'll be talking Oilers hockey (and the demise of Wayne Gretzky) with Tyler Dellow of the excellent blog mc79hockey.com, who will be taking your questions on the upcoming season.

1:01	Tyler Dellow - Hi Jesse. Thanks for hosting this today.

1:01	CBCSports.ca - Jesse - Great to be here. Sorry for the double post. Still getting a hang of these computer things.

1:01	CBCSports.ca - Jesse - We'll try to get to as many questions/comments as we can, so please be patient and keep 'em coming.

1:02	CBCSports.ca - Jesse - I'll get the ball rolling with the hot topic of the day. Gretzky steps down in Phoenix, ending a pretty miserable tenure with the Coyotes. Tyler, your thoughts on Gretzky the coach?

1:02	[Comment From Ren] Whadda day! You plan an Oilers preview and the whole hockey world flips upside down

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Tyler Dellow - This will come up again if and when we talk about the new Oilers' coaches, but I'm not really a big believer in coaching making a huge difference in the grand scheme of things. If you get hired by an NHL team, you're almost certainly above a certain threshold of competence and I think that the difference between the best and the worst is pretty small.

1:04	[Comment From Mike W] Was his tenure miserable? They didn't exactly assemble anything close to a good team, at least for the first three years of Gretzky's contract.

1:05	Tyler Dellow - In Gretzky's case specifically, he's probably best described as "competent, but nothing special."

1:05	CBCSports.ca - Jesse - Yeah, it's like they say in football: It's the Bobbys and Joes, not the X's and O's. They didn't give Gretzky much to work with.

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