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Originally Posted by HOWITZER
5 coaches? Yeah, that's on the organization for lack of good teaching. As well, you can add rushing him into the big leagues without giving him sufficiently sheltered minutes to mature as another blight.
Inconsistent centres/usage? That's on Yakupov. If your boss puts you on a different team you don't get ahead by crying in the press that you don't have an all-star on your team to help make you better. If you want to get ahead you put the work on your shoulders and you carry your team to the end of the project. And what good are you to a team/company if you can only work on one type of thing? It's about adaptability, and Yakupov has basically admitted he can't adapt.
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I don't agree with this.
I think skill players have roles to play the same as traditional role players. I always hate it when we bring up a guy from the minors who is a skill player and then dump him on the 4th line and expect him to suddenly turn Matt Stajan into an all star. (to use an example)
I think skill players need to play with skill players. I don't think Yak has had that opportunity. I also think he's been dumped out on the 3rd and 4th lines with zero accountability and zero direction. The player has responsibility in this, but I think he's been set up to fail by an organization that hasn't a clue how to develop players.
Yak is one of the few Oilers i'd actually take on our team because I think there is stuff there to work with.