Post-Game Talk: Pre-Season: Oilers Beat Jets 3-2

[Dorian2]

Who needs Webster's dictionary?

Just read this thread and you'll find more big boy words than in some meaningless dictionary.

 

[Zihuatanejo]

The manner of execution had its result. Coaches quite simply have a role of getting the best out of players and team that they can. This, in essence is their job.

In that endeavor Eakins failed miserably last season and no assumption or invocation is necessary to conclude that much. It was in fact Eakins that introduced the Swarm system and that much after the fact noted the players did not have the requisite background to play said system. Ultimately the culpability here is pretty clear.

Eakins would have done better to properly understand where this team, and its players, were defensively before applying a system with such requirement. Ironically, his oft quoted prodigy, Roger Neilson, would have done exactly that upon coming to a new team. Roger would have watched so much game film of the players that there would be NO confusion whatsoever at the level the players were at.

Again this is on Eakins and improper preparation and understanding of this team. Realizing suddenly in January that the club was contraprepared to play the system he instituted was gross incompetence.

That is a very good point, when it became clear his "system" was not going to work the onus was on him to come up with something that would work. In that respect he did fail miserably and for the sake of this season I hope he's willing to put his pride aside and learn from that.

I would be happy this season just to see some cohesion on the ice. A group of players that look like they are all on the same page or at the very least reading the same damn book.