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stemit14 · 10-18-2013, 04:01 AM

I really see no solution to the oilers problems... The way RNH, yakupov, Schultz, Hemsky, he'll, and dubnyk are playing... It's not like they are in a slump. They are playing the way they always play and we have all said it for years. All of these guys will pull off the odd dazzler but for every single toe drag or spinnerama... They have 5 or 6 turn overs or missed coverages.

It's not that they aren't skilled... It's that they either have a low hockey IQ or they still play the game like its junior hockey. Sometimes it's both (yakupov).

People can try to defend yakupov with his hot streak that got him a tie for the rookie scoring lead last year but he has demonstrated time and again to have a bad attitude problem. And I'm not just talking about the comments last week even though they were shocking to come from a "pro" hockey player... It's the flamboyant goal celebrations everyone warned about before he was drafted. It's the refusal to do interviews when he was having a bad world juniors even though you couldn't keep him away from the cameras 6 months earlier during the build up to the draft and everyone had only nice things to say about him. I even remember him dropping in on interviews with gregorenko and get galvhenyuk when TSN was doing interviews on that boat in New Jersey. He wants all the attention in the world when he scores a goal or is about to be drafted #1 overall... But when things are bad, he doesn't want to talk and he doesn't want to change his game.

You talk about his skill all you want... Their are plenty of skilled players whose teams were hurt by what they do to the team's character. Look at guys like radulov, Kostietsen, and Yashin... Highly talented but they ended up doing more harm than good to their teams. That's what I see in yakupov... If he isn't traded now, he will be within 5 years and the whole of Edmonton will cheer to see him go.

A streaky Russian sniper/puck hog with a bad attitude who refuses to play hard without the puck?! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where this is heading.

10-18-2013, 04:01 AM	#137
stemit14 Franchise Player Join Date: Aug 2013 Exp:	I really see no solution to the oilers problems... The way RNH, yakupov, Schultz, Hemsky, he'll, and dubnyk are playing... It's not like they are in a slump. They are playing the way they always play and we have all said it for years. All of these guys will pull off the odd dazzler but for every single toe drag or spinnerama... They have 5 or 6 turn overs or missed coverages. It's not that they aren't skilled... It's that they either have a low hockey IQ or they still play the game like its junior hockey. Sometimes it's both (yakupov). People can try to defend yakupov with his hot streak that got him a tie for the rookie scoring lead last year but he has demonstrated time and again to have a bad attitude problem. And I'm not just talking about the comments last week even though they were shocking to come from a "pro" hockey player... It's the flamboyant goal celebrations everyone warned about before he was drafted. It's the refusal to do interviews when he was having a bad world juniors even though you couldn't keep him away from the cameras 6 months earlier during the build up to the draft and everyone had only nice things to say about him. I even remember him dropping in on interviews with gregorenko and get galvhenyuk when TSN was doing interviews on that boat in New Jersey. He wants all the attention in the world when he scores a goal or is about to be drafted #1 overall... But when things are bad, he doesn't want to talk and he doesn't want to change his game. You talk about his skill all you want... Their are plenty of skilled players whose teams were hurt by what they do to the team's character. Look at guys like radulov, Kostietsen, and Yashin... Highly talented but they ended up doing more harm than good to their teams. That's what I see in yakupov... If he isn't traded now, he will be within 5 years and the whole of Edmonton will cheer to see him go. A streaky Russian sniper/puck hog with a bad attitude who refuses to play hard without the puck?! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where this is heading.