The Oilers shook up their brass in a big way, promoting general manager Kevin Lowe to President of Hockey Operations and bringing in former Vancouver assistant GM Steve Tambellini in to take his place.
The Oilers had been a little shorthanded in the hockey operations department since assistant GM Scott Howson left to take the GM job in Columbus last season, so this shores up that end of the operation.
"We realize that there's more and more demands in this business at this level," said Lowe, who had been general manager of the club since June 9, 2000. "In order to get the job done you need many people doing it so it's really as simple as that."
Tambellini and Lowe have known each other for years, working together with Canada's world championship and Olympic teams.
"In my estimation, and many people in hockey feel the same way, Steve's the strongest candidate in hockey at the executive level who wasn't a general manager," said Lowe. "It was a real easy choice."
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Now that you are officially eliminated from the playoffs, we wish to thank you for giving us the now wonderful 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks for Dustin Penner. These picks will bring us another round of great young players, and restock our lineup once some of our veterans retire. Maybe in a few years your GM can, once again, po
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a couple of months ago when Katz (how do you get "Cates" out of that, someone plz explain that to me) made his last offer he was shut down and the ownership group went so far as to pass a motion to never put the team up for sale again, saying they wanted to protect the integrity of the team, or some such prattle. Also from Edmonton Journal.
