Oilers owner reportedly making a push to GM, influencing roster decisions

In a year when the Oilers were expected to make another deep-run for a championship, and considering all that makes that expectation possible, the team is failing to deliver.

And when that happens, no one is happy, including OEG Inc. owner Daryl Katz, who is making an effort to help change his team's fortunes this season.

If anyone can, I suppose it's ownership. And this owner knows what a winning team looks like.

Daryl Katz was born and raised in Edmonton and grew up watching those Gretzky teams hoist Stanley Cups and create a winning culture. With his connection to the team's history, Katz intends to bring the Cup back to Edmonton, to the City of Champions.

With 57-games left to play, the pressure in on to get this Oilers' team headed in the right direction. The good news is that only 4-points separate the 1st-place Ducks and the 6th-place Oilers. The gap is not insurmountable in the Pacific.

In fact, a few trades and some tweaks in the gameplan ought to do it. Management has given the team until game-30 to show it doesn't need changes on the ice, or off it, for that matter.

Since that goal was set, however, Edmonton lost the first game, in a big way, 8-3 to the Dallas Stars last night at home.

And this has been the story all season: Let's wait and see what happens the next game.>/i>