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Originally Posted by Table 5
I feel like the KHL reports are a little premature, but not inevitable...and that's exactly why I didn't want us to draft the hot russian prospect this summer. For these Russians kids who have promises of wealth and idolization back home, the KHL is just too easy of an out when things get a little tough.
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Things aren't a little tough for Yakupov. They're down right brutal. Right now the Oilers are scapegoating him. It's one thing to make him a healthy scratch for one game but after the performance the Oilers put on Saturday night someone else should be accountable for tonight's game. Two scratches in a row isn't holding him accountable. It is insulting.
You want to hold him accountable then take away his ice time later in the game but throwing him in the pressbox for multiple games on an embarrassingly bad team doesn't accomplish anything more than one game in the pressbox would.
His comments were probably to get traded out of Edmonton and the Oilers "brain"trust probably encouraged the Edmonton media to right an article about him that paints him a bad light.