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| overdue wrote on Wed, 21 November 2018 13:34 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 21 November 2018 10:41 |
I don't give a crap who coaches the team or how old he is, just win some bloody games. They had the nice, pat them on the back, supportive Dad figure in McLellan and they rewarded him by being crappy. Now the roster isn't good enough and McLellan made mistakes too but at the same time not many of the Oilers players played up to their potential other than McDavid. So there is plenty of blame to go around. So maybe these guys need the crusty, blunt, tell it like it is, grandpa figure to get these guys going.
I heard a text from someone on the Nielsen show this morning and maybe there is something to it. Kids don't always listen or do what their parents say but they usually listen and do what their grand parents tell them. I have 2 boys and overall they are good, well behaved kids but at times, it's a struggle to get them to listen and do what they are supposed to. Yet when they are at their grandparents, they are perfect angels and are work their ass off doing whatever their grandparents ask.
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Didn't watch the whole game but enough to see that as a team they actually looked like they knew what they were doing most of the time and their goaltender did a great job of keeping them in it when the sharks got hot. The grandfather analogy is a good one although I can't help but remember Mclellan throwing players under the bus in media interviews. Is that what supportive, caring Dad's do? It seemed that relationship had soured a lot and was one of the reasons he had to be replaced. Be interesting to see where this goes in the next few games. Hitchcock's record speaks for itself.
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This was the text I sent in:
Not a big Hitchcock fan, but it's an interesting opportunity to have a successful coach for a short term. Also, with the jolt that a coaching change provides/causes, a more hard nosed coach might be able to catch a wave of performance pressure and nurture it into a culture improvement.
Also, the idea that being older means you can't relate to the young is lazy analysis. It's an understanding of personalities and psychology that makes a person capable of relating to a given audience.
It's a common phenomenon that a child can relate more freely to grandparents than parents, because grandparents have better capacity to understand a child than a parent. It's not necessarily about relating, but understanding.
2015/2016 - This Kool-Aid tastes like McDavid flavoured Drain-O.
2016/2017 - This Kool-Aid is starting to taste like juice.
2017/2018 - I'm drinking this Kool-Aid, in hopes that it's Drain-O.
2018/2019 - Another round of Drain-O, good sir!
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