Quote:
Originally Posted by Five-hole
As has been pointed out before, this is the difference between the Oilers approach and the Flames approach (at least since Burke arrived). Coddle your prospects and give them everything they want, in terms of ice time, and this is what you get.
It's starting to look like handing the keys to the city to Hall, RNH, and Yak much too early is going to bite them hard. None of them play for anyone but themselves in terms of style and habits. They might care about wins (at least some of them) but they don't play in the way that will lead to wins and it's going to be very hard to instill that now that they've been anointed the next coming of the 80s Oilers.
As we saw with our stars, when you have guys who don't believe they have to do what the 3rd and 4th liners have to do, you have a huge problem and only trading them seems to have solved it in our case.
|
You forgot to mention Eberle. Even he looks like he's being spoiled as he's kind of regressed. You can't treat these kids like elite stars until they put in the work and actually produce like an elite player in the NHL for a term. Unfortunately these kids have been handed the keys to the car before they got their drivers licenses and they have developed bad habits.