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Re: Yakupov Interview [message #825419 is a reply to message #825418 ]	Fri, 08 September 2023 15:39

Adam
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RDOilerfan wrote on Fri, 08 September 2023 14:09

OH good, another cry baby piece about a player putting all the blame on the team and none on himself for why he didn't develop. The team tells him who to go too and what to do, he has a paid professional agent to help guide him but the team didn't put a gun to his head forcing him too do it when he said no. So it's their fault he didn't develop.

He's 29 and played on 7 different professional teams, all of which he wasn't anything special but it's all those teams fault and how any of his.

Honestly, I don't think Yakupov is crying at all. He's saying that he struggled with the pressure of being a #1 pick, and having a lot of pressure to succeed while far from home and not super comfortable with the language. He's saying he had a hard time making friends - and it doesn't sound like the Oilers culture at the time was one where they were encouraging players to make it an inclusive room - I mean, remember MacTavish spoke in virtually every interview about how he had core players and non-core players.

Yakupov clearly thinks that he could have been treated better, and that Dallas Eakins didn't make a lot of effort to actually develop him. Is there anything you saw from Eakins that would make you think differently than that? I mean, this is a coach who all of Smid, Hemsky and Bryzgalov gently mocked just after they left. That's pretty notable.

I suppose given your track record of blame the players for everything, and the coaches and management for nothing (until after they're gone), I'm sure if we went back to the Eakins era, we'd find a lot of posts clearing him of all responsibility for all the struggles, but even you must look at his incredible coaching record now - never leading a NHL team to a .500 record in the loser point era in 6 seasons! - and have to admit that he's probably a really bad coach.

Although he does loudly claim responsibility for Nazem Kadri's development...

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Yakupov Interview	By: Adam on Fri, 08 September 2023 10:15
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: RDOilerfan on Fri, 08 September 2023 14:09
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: Adam on Fri, 08 September 2023 15:39
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: RDOilerfan on Fri, 08 September 2023 16:31
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: NetBOG on Fri, 08 September 2023 17:18
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: Kr55 on Fri, 08 September 2023 19:21
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: RDOilerfan on Mon, 11 September 2023 08:26
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: Dragon_Matt on Mon, 11 September 2023 10:41
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: Mike on Tue, 12 September 2023 06:56
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: Adam on Mon, 11 September 2023 10:55
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: CrusaderPi on Mon, 11 September 2023 12:47
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: RDOilerfan on Mon, 11 September 2023 13:17
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: Adam on Mon, 11 September 2023 14:01
Re: Yakupov Interview	By: Rutuu on Mon, 18 September 2023 18:50
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Re: Yakupov Interview	By: Adam on Mon, 18 September 2023 09:57
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