Matt Henderson: Bloody Fingerprints

First female doges!!! Suck it Eakins!

SECOND!!!!

First female doges!!! Suck it OILHORSE!
- Ihatebrianburke

Fixed

Tough choice of words for this blog since today was focused on talking about Mrs Voynov's bloody handprint on the floor....

Quiet day at the office Matt?

Tough choice of words for this blog since today was focused on talking about Mrs Voynov's bloody handprint on the floor....
- thebutlerdunnit

Beat it. Stop playing the bleeding heart for attention.

Matt Henderson: Bloody Fingerprints
- Matt_Henderson

I can only imagine the ass ripping Mact would be getting if he made one of the stupid trade proposals he had to choose from

I'm glad he's going behind the bench.

Quiet day at the office Matt?
- geta02it

Thankfully I have a "real" job that requires about 5% of my actual attention

Tough choice of words for this blog since today was focused on talking about Mrs Voynov's bloody handprint on the floor....
- thebutlerdunnit

Well it was in reference to what MacT said at his own presser, but the Voynov details are truly disturbing.

Beat it. Stop playing the bleeding heart for attention.
- ruttager17

It's all good. I'm not an attention person. I just assumed this was a blog about Voynov.

Thankfully I have a "real" job that requires about 5% of my actual attention
- Matt_Henderson

MacT behind the bench again.

Good move to see what he has.

Bye bye Jultz!

Well it was in reference to what MacT said at his own presser, but the Voynov details are truly disturbing.
- Matt_Henderson

Is he still on the targeted list of D men who can help the Oilers? Or more likely KHL bound now?

Is he still on the targeted list of D men who can help the Oilers? Or more likely KHL bound now?
- ruttager17

Could be deported as a very real consequence

Oilers sign Babcok in the off season. First day of camp he beats JShultz with a bag of pucks in front of his teamates and the media. Ben Scrivens weaps openly and hides in the net. The Oil jump to the top of the conference.

Matt Henderson: Bloody Fingerprints
- Matt_Henderson

MacT and Eakins both overestimated how close "the core of our rebuild" was to being able to be "the core of our team". If there was an anthem for those guys right now, it'd be Gimme Shelter!

I bet MacT asked Eakins whether he was going to shelter the kids, and Eakins said something mavericky like "I don't think they need to be sheltered anymore, I think they need to be challenged, and set up with challenges that can help them succeed" and the MacT went googly-eyed and it was off to the races.

The truth is, they do need to be sheltered. Hall has bad habits where he tries to do it all himself, and a layman's estimate of 90% of them occur when he gets double-shifted to "go get us a goal". MacT made secondary scoring a hill to die on this summer, setting aside our centre depth and lack of defensive talent, but that secondary scoring never gets used. Eakins should have leaned on Purcell, Perron, Pouliot, etc. to go make something happen.

People talk about how Yaks is getting a raw deal, but the player put in the worst position to suceed in the NHL has been Justin Schultz. I don't think he likes Jultzing his way through the blogosphere and out of everyone's favour. He, like any young player needs a serious development path and they haven't given him one at all. He's been made to play a top pairing role and I dunno whether he's even ready for a top 4 role at ES. The guy is the least talented player we have under the age of 25, and he plays the hardest assignment of all of them. That about says it all.

I look at Yakupov, and I see a guy who's skill is miles above his hockey IQ. He's a very fluid and natural player with a world of creativity, but a cerebral Jussi Jokinen type he is not. He rarely knows quite where to be. I think it would have been an interesting idea to try to get him enthused about system play by really working on him as a powerplay prescence. For one, he could stick to what he knows, and gain confidence. For another, if you jump in to a set of scripted plays and movements as a means of introducing him to the world of pro-level strategy, than the more fluid aspects of the game could come later after he's gained confidence from essentially a no-fail opportunity: usually the consequence of not executing well at 5v5 is a goal against and being benched. When you have the man advantage, you can do a lot of poor executing and the stars won't align for a shorthanded goal against.

Maybe at the point Eakins realized the swarm was too advanced, he should have realized his line deployment and ice time was too advanced too. I hope in the interim, they think about continuing the trend of playing the players who do well, benching the players who do poorly, and sheltering the guys that still need to tweak their game.

MacT behind the bench again.

Good move to see what he has.

Bye bye Jultz!
- Byfuglien Ate Me

I could really care less if he's a part of this team going forward. Eberle can suck my balls too. And you better believe that I will present them.

MacT and Eakins both overestimated how close "the core of our rebuild" was to being able to be "the core of our team". If there was an anthem for those guys right now, it'd be Gimme Shelter!

I bet MacT asked Eakins whether he was going to shelter the kids, and Eakins said something mavericky like "I don't think they need to be sheltered anymore, I think they need to be challenged, and set up with challenges that can help them succeed" and the MacT went googly-eyed and it was off to the races.

The truth is, they do need to be sheltered. Hall has bad habits where he tries to do it all himself, and a layman's estimate of 90% of them occur when he gets double-shifted to "go get us a goal". MacT made secondary scoring a hill to die on this summer, setting aside our centre depth and lack of defensive talent, but that secondary scoring never gets used. Eakins should have leaned on Purcell, Perron, Pouliot, etc. to go make something happen.

People talk about how Yaks is getting a raw deal, but the player put in the worst position to suceed in the NHL has been Justin Schultz. I don't think he likes Jultzing his way through the blogosphere and out of everyone's favour. He, like any young player needs a serious development path and they haven't given him one at all. He's been made to play a top pairing role and I dunno whether he's even ready for a top 4 role at ES. The guy is the least talented player we have under the age of 25, and he plays the hardest assignment of all of them. That about says it all.

I look at Yakupov, and I see a guy who's skill is miles above his hockey IQ. He's a very fluid and natural player with a world of creativity, but a cerebral Jussi Jokinen type he is not. He rarely knows quite where to be. I think it would have been an interesting idea to try to get him enthused about system play by really working on him as a powerplay prescence. For one, he could stick to what he knows, and gain confidence. For another, if you jump in to a set of scripted plays and movements as a means of introducing him to the world of pro-level strategy, than the more fluid aspects of the game could come later after he's gained confidence from essentially a no-fail opportunity: usually the consequence of not executing well at 5v5 is a goal against and being benched. When you have the man advantage, you can do a lot of poor executing and the stars won't align for a shorthanded goal against.

Maybe at the point Eakins realized the swarm was too advanced, he should have realized his line deployment and ice time was too advanced too. I hope in the interim, they think about continuing the trend of playing the players who do well, benching the players who do poorly, and sheltering the guys that still need to tweak their game.
- Morris

You know most of us have ADD and can't comprehend anything longer than a paragraph.

You know most of us have ADD and can't comprehend anything longer than a paragraph.
- Reveen

TL:DR; They thought they no longer needed to shelter the youngsters; they do. They have the pieces to do it, so they should just do it.

MacT and Eakins both overestimated how close "the core of our rebuild" was to being able to be "the core of our team". If there was an anthem for those guys right now, it'd be Gimme Shelter!

I bet MacT asked Eakins whether he was going to shelter the kids, and Eakins said something mavericky like "I don't think they need to be sheltered anymore, I think they need to be challenged, and set up with challenges that can help them succeed" and the MacT went googly-eyed and it was off to the races.

The truth is, they do need to be sheltered. Hall has bad habits where he tries to do it all himself, and a layman's estimate of 90% of them occur when he gets double-shifted to "go get us a goal". MacT made secondary scoring a hill to die on this summer, setting aside our centre depth and lack of defensive talent, but that secondary scoring never gets used. Eakins should have leaned on Purcell, Perron, Pouliot, etc. to go make something happen.

People talk about how Yaks is getting a raw deal, but the player put in the worst position to suceed in the NHL has been Justin Schultz. I don't think he likes Jultzing his way through the blogosphere and out of everyone's favour. He, like any young player needs a serious development path and they haven't given him one at all. He's been made to play a top pairing role and I dunno whether he's even ready for a top 4 role at ES. The guy is the least talented player we have under the age of 25, and he plays the hardest assignment of all of them. That about says it all.

I look at Yakupov, and I see a guy who's skill is miles above his hockey IQ. He's a very fluid and natural player with a world of creativity, but a cerebral Jussi Jokinen type he is not. Hrarely knows quite where to be. I think it would have been an interesting idea to try to get him enthused about system play by really working on him as a powerplay prescence. For one, he could stick to what he knows, and gain confidence. For another, if you jump in to a set of scripted plays and movements as a means of introducing him to the world of pro-level strategy, than the more fluid aspects of the game could come later after he's gained confidence from essentially a no-fail opportunity: usually the consequence of not executing well at 5v5 is a goal against and being benched. When you have the man advantage, you can do a lot of poor executing and the stars won't align for a shorthanded goal against.

Maybe at the point Eakins realized the swarm was too advanced, he should have realized his line deployment and ice time was too advanced too. I hope in the interim, they think about continuing the trend of playing the players who do well, benching the players who do poorly, and sheltering the guys that still need to tweak their game.
- Morris

Write your own blog. Seriously. You could ref your own thread and rule like Hitler.

TL:DR; They thought they no longer needed to shelter the youngsters; they do. They have the pieces to do it, so they should just do it.
- Morris

Thanks for the dumb down version.

I fully agree, I still think a true #1 d-man would make a world of difference on this team.

Oilers sign Babcok in the off season. First day of camp he beats JShultz with a bag of pucks in front of his teamates and the media. Ben Scrivens weaps openly and hides in the net. The Oil jump to the top of the conference.
- wilcops3

learn how to spell its Bobcack

Oilers sign Babcok in the off season. First day of camp he beats JShultz with a bag of pucks in front of his teamates and the media. Ben Scrivens weaps openly and hides in the net. The Oil jump to the top of the conference.
- wilcops3

we can only dream

MacT and Eakins both overestimated how close "the core of our rebuild" was to being able to be "the core of our team". If there was an anthem for those guys right now, it'd be Gimme Shelter!

I bet MacT asked Eakins whether he was going to shelter the kids, and Eakins said something mavericky like "I don't think they need to be sheltered anymore, I think they need to be challenged, and set up with challenges that can help them succeed" and the MacT went googly-eyed and it was off to the races.

The truth is, they do need to be sheltered. Hall has bad habits where he tries to do it all himself, and a layman's estimate of 90% of them occur when he gets double-shifted to "go get us a goal". MacT made secondary scoring a hill to die on this summer, setting aside our centre depth and lack of defensive talent, but that secondary scoring never gets used. Eakins should have leaned on Purcell, Perron, Pouliot, etc. to go make something happen.

People talk about how Yaks is getting a raw deal, but the player put in the worst position to suceed in the NHL has been Justin Schultz. I don't think he likes Jultzing his way through the blogosphere and out of everyone's favour. He, like any young player needs a serious development path and they haven't given him one at all. He's been made to play a top pairing role and I dunno whether he's even ready for a top 4 role at ES. The guy is the least talented player we have under the age of 25, and he plays the hardest assignment of all of them. That about says it all.

I look at Yakupov, and I see a guy who's skill is miles above his hockey IQ. He's a very fluid and natural player with a world of creativity, but a cerebral Jussi Jokinen type he is not. He rarely knows quite where to be. I think it would have been an interesting idea to try to get him enthused about system play by really working on him as a powerplay prescence. For one, he could stick to what he knows, and gain confidence. For another, if you jump in to a set of scripted plays and movements as a means of introducing him to the world of pro-level strategy, than the more fluid aspects of the game could come later after he's gained confidence from essentially a no-fail opportunity: usually the consequence of not executing well at 5v5 is a goal against and being benched. When you have the man advantage, you can do a lot of poor executing and the stars won't align for a shorthanded goal against.

Maybe at the point Eakins realized the swarm was too advanced, he should have realized his line deployment and ice time was too advanced too. I hope in the interim, they think about continuing the trend of playing the players who do well, benching the players who do poorly, and sheltering the guys that still need to tweak their game.
- Morris

You partner Jultz with a Chara, Giordano, Weber, hell even Boumeester and I think he has enough skill to live up to the hype. Norris worthy, meh, I doubt it but to be in the conversation with the best in the biz, sure.

The Oil need a system to take advantage of the skill and speed. Hartley and his system would be the perfect fit for Edmonton but hopefully he's taken for a while.