Youve never seen a coach send a message before? Yak needs to snap out of it and start playing the right way. He did it late in last season so it is in him and he has a couple games to watch and find it again. He isnt going to be in the press box for the remainder of the season so i dont understand the madness.
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Youve never seen a coach send a message before? Yak needs to snap out of it and start playing the right way. He did it late in last season so it is in him and he has a couple games to watch and find it again. He isnt going to be in the press box for the remainder of the season so i dont understand the madness.
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Yak benched cause he doesn't play a 2-way game yet the Oilers gave up 6 goals last game...makes zero sense
He's probably fuming he can't play against Ovechkin
He's probably fuming he can't play against Ovechkin
I'm foolish because I don't believe in flaming the coach for sitting the young kid who has been struggling.
Are you for real?
What's his stat line this season compared to Eberle? I mean goals and assists. Points. Where it matters.
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I like it...we have the Russian version of Omark style fanaticals....
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haha, no, he's not even my 3rd favorite player on the team (hall, RNH, hemsky) ... i just don't like when a coach makes stupid decisions that hurt my teams chances of winning every night
Looking at only pt totals is a very short sighted approach.
Yakupov while on the ice is still significantly outshooting the opposition as recorded per his Corsi #s. This leads me to suggest he is just in a minor scoring slump, which is evident by his ridiculously low team on-ice sh% of 3.70 (2nd last on team) In reference, the team shot at 11.11% when he was on the ice last season.
TL;DR: Yakupov is in an unsustainable scoring slump ATM and shouldn't be punished for it IMO.
Anyone remember 2 years back when Hall was in a massive slump to start the season, while Seguin was a PPG player? I'd love to have read the posts during that time frame.
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Ugh, this is one of those "just stop posting" moments in case you missed on it...
You seem to be missing some very simple and key points about why Yak was benched and how that relates to the "4th line plugs". His play has nothing to do with theirs, and theirs nothing to do with him. They are on the roster for different reasons and it's not as though Eakins was looking at his options and actually debating whether Yak or Brown would be a better start. Everyone has a role on the team, Yaks being to score goals and be at least respectable at 2 way play. His 2 way play has been non existent and so have the goals regardless of chances, therefore he is sitting until he develops that part of the game. He is a young player (could almost call him a rookie still since last season was only 48 games) and it's very normal for guys like him to sit in the press box. Stamkos and countless others have been there and it's better for them in the long run (82 game season, the remaining 70+ are more important than 2 games early on).
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Eakins is an idiot trying to make a point at the expense of a young kid who is probably a social outsider on the team. Easy to bench Yak, would he ever do the same to one of the Canadian kids with some promise? Probably not.
Pathetic. The guys already digging his own grave as a head coach.
Pathetic. The guys already digging his own grave as a head coach.
I wonder how Eberle would be doing playing 10 min a night on the 3rd or 4th line game. Sitting Yak's is a foolish move, as it just adds to his frustration. There is no lesson to be learned here, other than don't try to do too much on your own ... make sure you distribute the puck to plugs who can't take a pass, or will immediately turn it over.
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People are talking about Yak saying somethings in the media that were not appropriate. Anyone have any links? I tried to find some but only found the 22 second interview
Yakupov does a better job preventing scoring chances (shots against) than most of the other Oilers according to the Corsi stat.
You know what's makes this look bad? You don't even know where Eakins coached last.
Get your facts straight.
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instead of putting yak on the 3rd line to play a defensive type game with boyd gordon he should be flying beside hall like he was at teh end of last year when he scored 11 gs in teh last 18 games or so.
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Stoneman89
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Just relax, and and stop with the silly "the sky is falling" hyperbole. Young guys sometimes need a change of pace to settle them down. This is only the beginning of his 2nd year, and you could almost call it the 2nd half of his first year, based on a shortened season last year. Steve Stamkos sat out some time early in his career. He seemed to turn out okay. They are being patient with him. It's why he's sitting. He needs some time to settle down and see the game from a different perspective. He was a hot mess out there.
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Intentional or not, scratching a player signals that a player might be tradable. MacT is the new GM and might look at Yak as the asset most worthy of moving to address other needs.
Goalie or no 1-2 D might be the get and Yak the bait...
I for one don't see how Mike Brown helps you win a hockey game more than Yakupov. How does a player go from the finish he had to a healthy scratch 5 games in?
Goalie or no 1-2 D might be the get and Yak the bait...
I for one don't see how Mike Brown helps you win a hockey game more than Yakupov. How does a player go from the finish he had to a healthy scratch 5 games in?
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Guess you didn't see or read about the Leaf game. Dubnyk was the major reason they allowed 6 goals. Team played pretty well.
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“I’m going to play my game,†he said. “I’m not going to change but maybe play better without the puck, or forecheck more, but I love playing with the puck. I really don’t like skating all the time, and forechecking, and hitting somebody every shift. I don’t think it’s my game.â€
This tells me he doesn't get it....yet.
This tells me he doesn't get it....yet.
booyakasha
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wasn't Yakupov benched a few times in the KHL last year?
doesn't seem to be just a coach Eakins thing...
doesn't seem to be just a coach Eakins thing...
molsonmuscle360
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All these people calling Eakins stupid and stuff, I really have one question? Where are you currently coaching? You seem to know so much about the inner workings of a hockey dressing room, and know exactly why people get benched or get ice time. I'm amazed that Katz just didn't hire a hfOil coaching staff or would that have been nepotism of some kind?
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What an absolute load of crap, to the bolded. Tons of young guys get sat in their career. Has nothing to do with them being on the block. Some of you think progress and maturity is all linear. Life doesn't work that way. There are peaks and valleys, and this is a valley. Yak will learn from this and come of it a better person and player. Just because Yak lit it up last year in the last 3 games in garbage time, doesn't mean he heads into a season 6 months later to do the exact same thing. That is the biggest problem with young, inexperienced players. Inconsistency. And that is what he needs time to find.
