Kris Knoblauch’s best quality. His calm is impressive. His tactics have often been on the mark. But the thing I keep coming back to is his great patience, how he never throws players under the bus in public, invariably has their back, and is willing to stick with a player even as he’s struggling mightily.

That quality is on display today as Knoblauch is sticking with rookie d-man Alec Regula, even as Regula had such a rough game against Carolina, a dz-turnover kicking off the sequence of pain on one goal against and him getting flat-out beat on a bull rush to the net the major contributor to a second goal against.

The whole line worked for that one 💪 pic.twitter.com/HDb9oQx3GP — Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) November 16, 2025

After such a game, many coaches — and many previous Oilers

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