Oilers under Woodcroft are 'putting the work in and they're getting rewarded for it'

2 years ago  /  Sportsnet

EDMONTON — It’s a two-step process when you are a coach taking over an NHL team midseason, the way Bruce Boudreau did in Vancouver or Jay Woodcroft has in Edmonton. The first thing you need to acquire belongs to the players and has several pseudonyms: Respect. [...] The changes Woodcroft has asked for has helped his team. [...] “And for our players to be playing this style and to have success, I think It’s almost a virtuous loop. [...] That job — especially when he was McLellan’s assistant here in Edmonton — has set the table for success now....

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