You can't teach somebody who doesn't want to learn.
Taylor Hall.
I only state this because people say 100 times a week here that he had to go because he was not amenable to direction here and never was going to be.
This being false, and ridiculous assumption, in regards to almost any player.
Soon as Hall was in a different environment and approached differently he improved immensely.
Yakupov was doing fine with Krueger as coach. Fantastic actually, and regressed because Eakins was a horrible coach and a raw rookie with only 48 games played is very adversely effected by two years of an absolute joke coach.
I could say you can't teach something if you have nothing to teach and the players know it, and don't benefit from your teaching.
Man, could anybody imagine what a complete disaster Pulju would be if had to have had 2 seasons of Eakins? He'd be back in Europe already.
Its curious fans here disregard and pigeonhole the players as quickly as an inept org does. Players are resources, its the job of coaches and orgs to extract those resources and refine them.
Could anybody imagine if Nate Mackinnon was an Oilers pick and he started freaking out at Dallas Eakins and swearing at him on the bench? This org would implode, panic, and be speed dialing clubs to take the "Cancer" off their hands in exchange for anything.
The more fans say this Schultz was crap, Yak was crap, Gagner was crap, Eberle was crap, Talbot was crap it absolves the org of ANY responsibility ANY time. Its lazy thought, almost always false, and top picks are top picks. Invariably they are usable assets very rarely they are not.