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He led the league in rookie scoring. Then Eakins happened, which is what happens when you have the blind leading the blind. No idea why you would try to defend them? Frankly its a slap in the face of the long suffering fans of this once proud franchise.
how many coaches has he had?, ...and how many sat him?
hmmm...all?
they all see the same garbage player....side show circus act.
This is false. His M.O in Edmonton, and he was quoyed as were Hall and Eberle- that the forwards were allowed to be creative offensively as long as they took care of their defensive duties first.
Who is the great coach during that season that he led the team in scoring, and instilled all that confidence in him and let him be himself?
While reading this thread something popped into my head for some unknown reason ....... Who was the greater loss..Yak or Arco? I think it would be a close call.
I'm really sorry, but if all it took it was one bad coach to turn yak into garbage he never had the the mental fortitude to make it in the league. What's his excuse now? New team, new coach, same results. Seems to me that rookie year was a fluke. Jim Carey anyone?
Yak, losing Arco really didn't mean much as we didn't spend a 1st on him
The entire team was terrible and irresponsible. Yak was just singled out.
He got to watch from the pressbox while the team continued to lose horribly and play defense terribly.
He got to witness from the bench us getting demolished night in and night out, while being singled out that He personally needed to be a better defensive player from the bench.
He was told he needed to be more like the golden boys (who never back checked) before he would ever be given opportunities like them.
Yak was one of the best of the bunch and we ruined him. He was clearly better than Galchenyuk.
You can't un-ruin someone. It's like telling someone with anxiety to stop being anxious. Or someone who isn't confident to be more confident. I'm not a psychologist and I know it doesn't work like that.
A new coach doesn't un-**** the ****-job we did on that kid.
I see it differently. Roy was the first and only veteran mentor that Yak ever had. Both on and off the ice.
Roy was an undersized and shifty NHL player who managed to perform at a PPG and score 30 goals.
He was someone Yak really looked up to, and someone Yak tried emulating his game after.
It's been said many times during interviews that hearing this from Roy was much different than hearing it from 0-goals Gordon, 2-goals Letestu, or black hole Belanger.
Not bringing back Roy and going with 2 rookie centres says a lot about the Oil.
Please show me some highlights of some Taylor Hall or Jordan Eberle defensive plays.
I don't know if I've ever seen that happen.