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FlamesAddiction · 12-05-2014, 10:57 AM

I think it all started with management this season..

Going into the season, everyone in the Oilers seemed confident and optimistic, and then the whole "Vladdy Hockey" thing happened and I really think that was the first domino to fall in the debacle. With such fragile confidence after years of losing, all it takes is some negative press to really destroy the psyche of the players.

MacTavish keeps saying that they don't have confidence, but how are players supposed to have confidence when their bosses constantly bring negative attention to them?

No doubt that some of the players are probably ruined and will never overcome the downward spiral, at least not in Edmonton; but MacTavish basically directing everything at them sure won't help. His message was mixed and he seemed to say the players are good, they just play like ####. Yet he refuses to try and understand where that comes from. Not coaches or management, at least according to him.

12-05-2014, 10:57 AM	#466
FlamesAddiction Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Vancouver Exp:	I think it all started with management this season.. Going into the season, everyone in the Oilers seemed confident and optimistic, and then the whole "Vladdy Hockey" thing happened and I really think that was the first domino to fall in the debacle. With such fragile confidence after years of losing, all it takes is some negative press to really destroy the psyche of the players. MacTavish keeps saying that they don't have confidence, but how are players supposed to have confidence when their bosses constantly bring negative attention to them? No doubt that some of the players are probably ruined and will never overcome the downward spiral, at least not in Edmonton; but MacTavish basically directing everything at them sure won't help. His message was mixed and he seemed to say the players are good, they just play like ####. Yet he refuses to try and understand where that comes from. Not coaches or management, at least according to him. __________________ "A pessimist thinks things can't get any worse. An optimist knows they can." Last edited by FlamesAddiction; 12-05-2014 at 11:01 AM.