Music: {allcanada} KRUEGER STILL FEELS ATTACHED TO OILERS

Sunday, November 3, 2013

{allcanada} KRUEGER STILL FEELS ATTACHED TO OILERS

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The Edmonton Journal caught up with former Oilers coach Ralph Krueger, while also outlining for readers the meaning behind the German term 'schadenfreude.' It's a feeling of pleasure when you see somebody else fail and is relevant here with that same Edmonton club still desperately struggling to get wins despite employing a new bench boss.

"All my friends at times are feeling schadenfreude, but I really don't," Krueger, who is scouting European teams on behalf of Team Canada, said. "At the beginning of October, I started thinking about the Oilers. I thought 'whoa, I'm still attached to these guys.' The attachment to the guys in Edmonton doesn't allow me to think badly. I hope the players reach their potential, and as a team, too. I haven't got up one day with any other feeling.

"It's not my kind of pleasure. I think people know me better than that."

He's had many feelers from European teams to coach again, if not right now then next season, but he's rebuffed them because he's excited by the Olympic task. He really wants back into the NHL milieu because it was intoxicating.

But he's a scout now, not a head coach.

"I feel really good having this time and this space to step back," Kruger said. "I have a need inside me to coach, but when you coach 24 years in a row, stepping outside the box is good. I slip in and out of rinks in Europe now. I'm not very visible."

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