NHLPA Pushes Back Hard Over Babcock Drama in Edmonton

The NHLPA is drawing a line over the Mike Babcock situation tied to the Oilers, and that kind of public resistance is never just background noise. When the players’ association starts saying a process does not work the way it should, the issue quickly becomes bigger than one coach or one team. Edmonton now has labor friction sitting right alongside the hockey questions, and that makes the whole thing a lot messier than a simple personnel story.