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Re: MacT Press Conf - Eakins Hired [message #600523 is a reply to message #600518 ]	Mon, 10 June 2013 23:59

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ronster wrote on Mon, 10 June 2013 23:27

This hiring wasn't about getting a coach to move the team in the right direction...it was about geting a coach to coach in THEIR direction. Someone they can control a bit more than say Krueger who has his own methodology / ideology.

Eakins seems to be pretty set in his ways, discarding what HE thought didn't work for other coaches and focused on what worked. Seems pretty one track minded...similar to Lowe and MacT. And his beliefs of what a hockey team should be probably fits the model of what Lowe and MacT wants.

See, I got the opposite impression. Eakins talked at length about coaching players rather than teams. He went into a lot of detail about how as a coach he felt it was important to get to know each player - over lunch, over coffee, whatever, just really get to know them as people - in order to best understand how to make THAT PLAYER become the best player that that he could be. He talked over and over again how players are different and need to be coached and empowered in different ways. To me, that doesn't scream "one-track mind" at all.

I'll add this: One thing that I like is that Eakins is a fresh voice in the room. They haven't had that since Pat Quinn. With Renney and Krueger they were both associate coaches before they were head coaches, and so although they got bumped up a rung in the organizational chart, they were still familiar voices and faces. Everyone was upset that the Oilers didn't look outside the organization for the GM position, but not much is mentioned that Eakins is a fresh voice with no previous connection to this team. I know some are implying that he is a mouthpiece for Lowe, but again, I think that cynicism getting in the way of clear thinking. They may share a common vision on what a team should look like, but Eakins had other offers and would have gone somewhere else if he wasn't going to be given the opportunity to coach his style. We'll see what happens in training camp, but my gut feeling is there is going to be a bit of fresh life in the club that we maybe haven't seen in a while (provided MacTavish does what he needs to this summer and clears some dead weight and brings in some key acquisitions).

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