Leon Draisaitl said the details have gotten away from the Oilers over the last couple of years. The clip is circulating as a shot at Kris Knoblauch.
Our everyday is the practices, the details, the little things that I think have gotten away from us a little bit over the last couple years.
Read that pronoun one more time. He said us.
That's a player putting himself inside the sentence. Different thing entirely from pointing across the room at somebody.
The Mug NHL called it another subtle jab at Knoblauch. That's an interpretation, not what the man actually said.
The clip is dated September 17, which was the opening of camp. It came back around this week.
Everything an Oiler says right now runs through the Babcock hire first. That's the whole environment they're working in.
Leon Draisaitl's latest comments are being interpreted as shot at Kris Knoblauch
Edmonton reached the Cup Final in 2024 and again in 2025 with him behind that bench.
Last season went sideways. They finished 41-30-11, second in the Pacific, and lost to Anaheim in six games in the first round.
Knoblauch and assistant Mark Stuart were terminated over the summer. Stan Bowman hired Babcock on June 23.
Connor McDavid framed the change as trying something different rather than blaming anyone. Babs is different, he told Mark Spector.
Draisaitl said Babcock doesn't shy away from telling you straight to your face, and called him a real man about it.
The league and the players' association both investigated Babcock and cleared him in June.
Spector already had him pulling the McDavid line 15 seconds into the first exhibition after a Draisaitl turnover.
Both of them scored in that 5-2 win over Winnipeg anyway, and neither one cracked 20 minutes.
Edmonton is 2-0 through the exhibition schedule after a 2-1 overtime win in Winnipeg on Tuesday.
Vancouver hosts them tonight, then visits on September 29 to open the season.
Nobody in that room has said a critical word about the last coach on the record.
Plenty of people are hearing one anyway, which is its own kind of story.
So how much is in that quote? Reading a jab into a sentence built around the word us works like hearing your name in a crowded room. Sometimes it's there.
Draisaitl described a standard that slipped and put himself in it. Whether that counts as a shot depends entirely on who's listening.
Is Leon Draisaitl taking a shot at Kris Knoblauch in that quote?
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