Buffalo Bills move away from Edmonton Oilers head coach

You’d expect the pre-series to be a bit jarring from anyone involved in a Stanley Cup Final, but what I didn’t see coming was that some of these Talk ricochets to the Buffalo Bills, but that’s exactly what we got from the Edmonton Oilers. head coach Kris Knoblauch.

Knoblauch spoke to the media Tuesday as his team prepared before flying to Florida for Saturday’s opener.

A reporter asked Knoblauch if the fact that the Florida Panthers have more experience in the Stanley Cup Finals — considering they were there only 12 months ago and lost to the Golden Knights from Vegas — was an advantage that Florida has and that Edmonton will have to overcome.

“The experience is good,” Knoblauch said. What is true. The experience is – at least in most cases – good.

With the obvious out of the way, Knoblauch dropped a line that would make some people in Western New York dive through a table in rage if they weren’t already doing it for fun.

“I don’t know how beneficial the experience is,” he continued. “You can ask the Buffalo Bills how important the Super Bowl experience is.”

Ouch, the Bills mafia will never live through these four consecutive Super Bowl losses.

“But I think the most important thing is to have the confidence to play, and, you know, when our guys are playing their best, they should have a lot of confidence,” Knoblauch said.

I’m inclined to agree with that. Did you see what Connor McDavid did in Game 6?

I’m not in his head, but it sounded confident to me.

I think we’re in for one hell of a series, folks. It’s hard to remember, but up until Thanksgiving, the Oilers were hot, steaming, radioactive garbage. Next, Knoblauch comes from the Harford Wolf Pack of the AHL, and these guys are going on a crazy winning streak and are just four wins away from a Cup.

No one saw this coming…and the Buffalo Bills probably didn’t expect to catch a stray like that from Edmonton in June.