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 Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 10 December 2018 14:59 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Mon, 10 December 2018 14:56 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 10 December 2018 14:44 |
So basically from what I read from Ferences comments. Most of what he was talking about was there was a bunch of star young players who played the most minutes on the team who didn't put in the work or buy in. They did whatever the hell they wanted too. They would get taught and practice where to go and what to do year after year yet year after year they wouldn't do it. They would fly the zone early cheating for offense because in junior, they got away with it. They would let their man go free to the slot and not pick him up. When the coach preached get the puck in deep so we can change, they would try to go 1 on 3 because it worked in junior. Sounds about right from what I saw all those years.
Then you read in hear and it's the bosses fault they didn't do it. Doesn't matter if you told them/showed them what to do 100 times and they chose not to do it, it's the coaches fault. Sounds kind of like the work place in general for the current crop of young people. It's always someone else's fault or responsibility, never theirs.
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In the end, the kids were held responsible. They were all separated and traded, except for Nuge (a good WHL kid) and became a Hart Trophy winner, a two time Stanley Cup champion, and Eberle. The question now becomes, was anyone held responsible for creating the conditions that allowed that group of young Oilers to absolutely run amok.
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My question is how do you stop them? They are grown adults with lots of money even if they are 20 and in the hockey world considered kids. They have their own place. You can tell them not to do something but at the end of the day, they can do whatever they want. How do you control that?
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Who was telling them though? Greenhorn Eakins who didn't have a clue and was trying to implement idiotic systems that had no hope to work? And who seemed to only want to hold Yak accountable for whatever reason. It's extra weird to hear this considering the only guy Eakins seemed to focus on was Yak...did he think punishing Yak was gonna get the rest of the team in line? lol.
Was Ference gonna tell these kids what is what? The guy that is struggling to just keep up during game time is gonna be the alpha and beat all these kids into submission?
There was no one there. Management was busy hiding, making sure their jobs were secure and any anti-Lowe billboards were confiscated.
Scorched earth rebuilds clearly do not work. We were a great lesson for the rest of the league.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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By: Adam on Tue, 11 December 2018 17:14 |
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