Nothing wrong with that as far as I see anyway.What should he have said here?
Should have said, in public, that those comments were taken out of context, like Eller said, and that while he will clearly choose his words better next time, that Eller isn't a guy who thrash talk, like Eller himself said, and if the Oilers want to see him as the bad guy, it's their problem as it wasn't his intention at all. How about defending your player and just acknowledging what his player said and how he feels? When Ference made that gesture to the Habs crowd....what did Julien said?
“I think he’s been pretty open as to what he thinks of the situation,’’ said Julien. “His comments were pretty clear and I’m going to support my player. I think he’s a big boy, he’s capable of handling himself, and he’s giving money to charity.’’
OF COURSE, when the truth was out.....Ference looked stupid for his "unintentional comment"....but nobody remembered Julien that he protected his player. 'Cause Julien like every coach protects their players. We have no idea how it is behind closed doors, but in public you protect your players. What do we owe to the Oilers or the rest of the league? Why is that coaches go out of their way to bash the referees, but Therrien keeps no commenting? 'Cause Molson has a low cashflow? How come we have to be nice for everybody. Big thing out of nothing? Well, again, this is the subject we're talking about and we have an opinion on it. We'll surely move on from this. Don't worry. Still, I think it was dumb by Therrien to not protect his player.
You have to be respectful of the other team and MT (regardless of whether Eller meant it or not) was right to basically apologize for the comments. By doing this it puts water on the fire and we can move and handle things internally going forward. And let's face facts - the comments weren't just inappropriate - they were downright stupid. Intent or not you just don't say that kind of ****.
I don't think MT needs to explain anything on Eller's behalf either. There's nothing to explain. Just say the comments weren't appropriate and came from a younger player who will learn from it and move on. Sometimes you just have to admit you were wrong to move forward and that's what we did here.
I think you're making a big deal out of nothing on this one dude.
Geez...did Eller said all the Oilers wives were ugly and that nobody on that roster deserved to live? You're saying we're making a big deal out of this by thinking that Therrien should have protected his player, and by reading your posts, you really believe Eller killed babies while eating his cereals....Come on man, there's TONS of things Therrien could have said that would have made Eller learned his lesson. Therrien could have nothing and Eller would have learned his lesson by the way the clown Eakins made a big show out of it. By the way.....Eakins, ALSO, did make a big thing out of it...and I hope to got it explodes in his face real soon. But when you have an opponent coach laughing at your player and the only thing you say about it is "inappropriate"....sorry, tells me a lot about the coach. Only time when Therrien "reacted" to being ridiculize was against Julien after the "diving" speech. And guess what....he needed a full day to do something even if he knew what Julien had said before. But he reacted. Bravo. I want more reaction. I want more fire from the coach. I obviously want him to coach better, though that might not be so obvious, but a little emotion wouldn't be bad. And it shoudl start by protecting his players and his team, especially with all that diving fiasco we're still witnessing when the Habs are probably one of the few teams that get calls on diving while all the others do it....How about protecting your team? Any chance making comments about how he is totally for the diving penalties THOUGH it has to be called for everybody? How about not accepting that you might be the only team that should be targetted as a diving team?
What Eller meant is irrelevant. How it came out is all that matters, because that is what the Oilers would use to motivate themselves. Whether he meant it or not, Eller started a fire, and MT just put out that fire.
What fire? Are we going to play the Oilers and we're so afraid they'll use that for the upcoming 6 games that we had to put an end to that? Nope. We're done against that. So what other fire? All the other teams will use that? Even if they would...do really think that saying "We'e sorry" will fix anything? Therrien should have protected his player in public. Period. We don't owe anything to anybody. Everybody is criticizing us, bashing us, yet, not only we "No comments" all around, but when we comment, is to bash our own. That's just great.
