do dah do dooo, do dah do dooo “You are now entering…The Babcock Zone.” 

The Babcock Zone is a weird place, one whose namesake carries a “stench of desperation,” as Jason Gregor put it in an Oilersnation column earlier Thursday. 

Memberships are held by veteran coaches, quasi-retired coaches, or “problematic” coaches. It exists beyond the immediate radar, where the mention of a coach-of-yore brings an “hmmm” response. 

Darryl Sutter? Barry Trotz? Gerard Gallant? Bob Hartley? Winners, close to winners, hard-ass coaches that demand from their players. 

As we sit in the Bruce Cassidy permission-holding pattern, everyone’s spitballing names to pass the time. We’re doing the same at Oilersnation HQ.

“What about ____?”

The older and more obscure, the loudest “hmm” or “wow, good pull” you hear, you win.

Yesterday I said the name Michel Therrien for the first time in years.

Do I think he should be on the radar? No. But do I think he’d be the coach the Oilers need? Also, no. But what about his track record? No thanks. But you spitball and play the game.

Does anyone have Alain........

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