General manager Stan Bowman would not make any announcements about the future of the Edmonton Oilers during his media availability Saturday morning.

But he did address questions about the future of head coach Kris Knoblauch, and everything about the organization in his 30-plus-minute exit interview on Saturday morning.

“When you don’t have success, I think you have to kind of evaluate everything. So that goes for my staff, coaching staff, players,” said Bowman, when asked about Knoblauch’s job security. 

“That’s what we’re going to do over the next little bit. It’s only been 36 hours since we finished… I’m sure people will evaluate me as well. That’s the way it goes in this business. It’s a results business, and you have to see other things you can improve on.” 

The Oilers head of hockey operations, Jeff Jackson, was not part of the media availabilities to speak to Bowman’s job security.

Knoblauch signed a three-year contract extension before the 2025-26 season began. As the team failed to generate “momentum” through various stops and starts, battled injuries, and were just an “average” team, as Connor McDavid put it after Game 6, questions loom about whether Knoblauch will return.

“You have impressions when the team doesn’t succeed,” said Bowman. “Sometimes those are right, sometimes they’re not right. What you don’t want to do is make quick decisions without… part of it is we want to talk to the talk to the players, talk to the coaches, get their views, talk to my staff,........

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