Edmonton 指名するs Ken Holland as GM, 大統領，／社長 of ホッケー ops
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) - The Edmonton Oilers 雇うd longtime Detroit Red Wings (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Ken Holland as their new general 経営者／支配人 and 大統領，／社長 of ホッケー 操作／手術s Tuesday.
Holland takes over the struggling team from 暫定的な GM Keith Gretzky and one of his first 仕事s will be finding a new coach. 退役軍人 Ken Hitchcock will not be 支援する next season after taking over in November for the 解雇する／砲火／射撃d Todd McLellan.
"権利 now times are 堅い. The team's made the プレーオフs once in 13 years," Holland said at a news 会議／協議会, 側面に位置するd by Oilers CEO （頭が）ひょいと動く Nicholson and team owner Daryl Katz. "Daryl and （頭が）ひょいと動く have made a 決定／判定勝ち（する） to bring me in. I've got to come in and I've got to change the culture."
Edmonton has made the プレーオフs just once since 前進するing to the Stanley Cup Final in 2006, and the Oilers hope Holland is the GM who can finally build a 競争相手 around superstars Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
"There's lots of 広大な／多数の／重要な pieces in place here," Holland said. "I'd like to think we're talking プレーオフs in '19-20 when you look at some of the young players on this team."
Behind McDavid, Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, there is not a lot of firepower and the 弁護 is thin. Goaltender Mikko Koskinen, who 調印するd a three-year 拡張 at $4.5 million per year in January, struggled after （機の）カム Talbot was 貿易（する）d in February. The Oilers, like the Red Wings, are bumping up against the salary cap and are saddled with 錨，総合司会者 契約s like that belonging to underperforming winger Milan Lucic.
Newly 指名するd Edmonton Oilers NHL ホッケー team general 経営者／支配人 Ken Holland gestures while speaking at a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 in Edmonton, Alberta on Tuesday May 7, 2019. (Jason Franson/The Canadian 圧力（をかける） 経由で AP)
"There's a 広大な／多数の／重要な 核心. You have to build around that 核心," Holland said. "I don't have a 魔法 病弱なd. It's a move at a time, it's a piece at a time."
Holland led the Detroit Red Wings to 25 straight プレーオフ 外見s and four Stanley Cup 肩書を与えるs. But after years of success, the Red Wings have 行方不明になるd the プレーオフs the last three seasons and were 除去するd in the first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of the プレーオフs the three seasons before that.
The Red Wings 促進するd Holland to 上級の 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長 in April after 雇うing Steve Yzerman as general 経営者／支配人. Holland said a trip to the under-18 world ホッケー 選手権 last month with Yzerman and the Red Wings staff made him realize he still had the appetite for a 手渡すs-on position.
"I realized that I had the passion, the energy, the enthusiasm (and) the 願望（する） to continue to be a general 経営者／支配人 in the 国家の ホッケー League," he said.
The Oilers 解雇する／砲火／射撃d general 経営者／支配人 Peter Chiarelli in January as the team struggled to stay in the Western 会議／協議会 プレーオフ race にもかかわらず having a team led by McDavid, arguably the best player in the world.
Chiarelli was in his fourth season with the club, 主要な the team to a 選び出す／独身 プレーオフ 外見 in 2016-17. The Oilers 前進するd to the second 一連の会議、交渉／完成する be fore losing to Anaheim in seven games.
The Oilers hope the combination of Holland and a new 長，率いる coach, which will be the team's eighth since 2009, will give the team the 安定 it 推定する／予想するd to get with Chiarelli and McLellan running the show.
"We have not 配達するd in the 約束 we made to our fans in 最近の years," Katz said. "You know it, I know it, we all know it."
Katz said Holland has 十分な 自治 on ホッケー 決定／判定勝ち（する）s: "He knows how to build a culture of winning."
"And while accountability for this 落ちるs on everyone in our organization it starts and it stops with me," the owner said. "We're listening to our fans. We get it and we're doing everything we can to get it 権利."
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Newly 指名するd Edmonton Oilers NHL ホッケー team general 経営者／支配人 Ken Holland speaks at a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 in Edmonton, Alberta on Tuesday May 7, 2019. (Jason Franson/The Canadian 圧力（をかける） 経由で AP)
（頭が）ひょいと動く Nicholson, CEO and 副／悪徳行為-議長，司会を務める of the Edmonton Oilers NHL ホッケー team, left, and team owner Daryl Katz, 権利, 側面に位置する new general 経営者／支配人 Ken Holland, after 発表するing the 雇う in Edmonton, Alberta, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. (Jason Franson/The Canadian 圧力（をかける） 経由で AP)
