The thing is, a lot of hockey players come across like robots because they simply aren't good at public speaking. They haven't been trained for it, they don't have an aptitude for it, and when they come into the league, they aren't experienced enough to have picked it up naturally. And I think a lot of the PR direction that players get about what to say in interviews is aimed at those guys – the lowest common denominator.
Parekh has an aptitude for talking to the media. His PR training should be on the level of, ‘Don't say X, Y, and Z, because those things could actually get us into trouble.’ He certainly doesn't need to be coached on the correct number of y'knows to put in a sentence.
Very few things in life are ‘one size fits all’, and even fewer in teaching or coaching.
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