[News] Oilers Scratch Yakupov... Again

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by albertGQ

Didn't he sign a 4 year deal? I think he's safe for a bit even if he does deserve to be fired.

I wonder how much they're paying him. $1M/year?

I was looking on a website, it didn't have all the coaches salaries but it did have Babcock at 2 million, AV at 2 million, Torts at 2 million and surprisingly Roy at 3 million.

Eakins was in demand. He's going to a city like Edmonton, and coaching a team of notorious coach killers. I wouldn't be surprised if he was making two to two and a half.

[EYE_Overstand]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I was looking on a website, it didn't have all the coaches salaries but it did have Babcock at 2 million, AV at 2 million, Torts at 2 million and surprisingly Roy at 3 million.

Eakins was in demand. He's going to a city like Edmonton, and coaching a team of notorious coach killers. I wouldn't be surprised if he was making two to two and a half.

to add to that… i know torts and AV both signed 5 year deals to that money

[Lil Pedro]

This is the hockey gods getting back at the Oilers for stealing the 1st overall pick from CBJ. Love how he feels entitled to more ice time even though he had the worst +/- in the game

[Jets4Life]

The Oilers are the most exciting team to read about. I cannot believe what a gong show that organization has become. Sad, really....

[calumniate]

Any bets on the icetime he gets tonight? Wow has he ever put a lot of pressure on himself to perform, ha

[killer_carlson]

The Oilers are hockey's equivalent to Rob Ford.

The opponents are finding the scandals and failures so entertaining. The supporters are losing faith and getting angry about it.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by killer_carlson

The Oilers are hockey's equivalent to Rob Ford.

The opponents are finding the scandals and failures so entertaining. The supporters are losing faith and getting angry about it.

Yes! Rob Ford should become the Mayor of Edmonton.

This is a thing that should totally happen.

[stemit14]

I hear so many people trying to side with yakupov and it confuses me. They try to use the excuse that he is young and still learning and you can't give up on him yet. After pulling a stunt like this with his going public about ice time and playing as bad as he is... I would get rid of him so fast it would make his head spin.

He's 20 years old and he thinks he can dictate to the coaches how he needs to be used?! There are literally thousands of hockey players out there that could be doing a better job than him right now and they would do whatever it takes to be even given the chance to play 2 minutes in an NHL game. He hasn't done a thing to earn the right to be given so much slack from the coaching staff and management. And now he's taking things into his own hands by talking 2 minute long shifts?!

Forget trading him... I would teach him some humility by sending him down to the minors. Who cares if he chooses to pout and go to Russia instead... Good riddance and let him stay there. If he ever wants to come back to the greatest league in the world he would have to fulfill his original contract. And I would put him right back to the minors again to make him earn a spot.

[TjRhythmic]

Originally Posted by stemit14

I hear so many people trying to side with yakupov and it confuses me. They try to use the excuse that he is young and still learning and you can't give up on him yet. After pulling a stunt like this with his going public about ice time and playing as bad as he is... I would get rid of him so fast it would make his head spin.

He's 20 years old and he thinks he can dictate to the coaches how he needs to be used?! There are literally thousands of hockey players out there that could be doing a better job than him right now and they would do whatever it takes to be even given the chance to play 2 minutes in an NHL game. He hasn't done a thing to earn the right to be given so much slack from the coaching staff and management. And now he's taking things into his own hands by talking 2 minute long shifts?!

Forget trading him... I would teach him some humility by sending him down to the minors. Who cares if he chooses to pout and go to Russia instead... Good riddance and let him stay there. If he ever wants to come back to the greatest league in the world he would have to fulfill his original contract. And I would put him right back to the minors again to make him earn a spot.

It's already pretty bad, but I think Yakupov is the player that is ultimately going to bring the ship down.

The spotlight is on him, and he has no interest in playing for the oilers. He's playing for himself now, and he won't listen to anyone. Wouldn't be surprised if after his next goal he celebrates by himself.

[FlameZilla]

What happened to all the Oiler trolls that used to drive-by threads like this in the past? Are there any Oiler fans left?

[FAN]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Eakins was in demand. He's going to a city like Edmonton, and coaching a team of notorious coach killers. I wouldn't be surprised if he was making two to two and a half.

I'm not so sure Eakins was really "in demand". He was one of the top candidates for pretty much every coaching job available over the summer, but the Oilers were the only team that offered him a job and he took it. For what it's worth, Eakins was never the rumored frontrunner for the coaching positions in Dallas, New York, and Vancouver. I think those teams were clearly more interested in a more experienced coach.

[Resolute 14]

Eakins got a big Toronto push, and that skews perceptions. I look at him like I do Craig Button as our GM. It became very obvious very fast that what we got was not what the hype machine said he was.

[Vinny01]

Originally Posted by FlameZilla

What happened to all the Oiler trolls that used to drive-by threads like this in the past? Are there any Oiler fans left?

Ever since the Smid trade I have been reading quite a bit of the Oilers board on hf. They are much harder on themselves than us flames fans have been. It has been a great read. They absolutely hate their organization from Lowe down. Eberle, Yak, Ganger are players that some want traded. Their disgust with the Smid trade is my personal fav

[moon]

Originally Posted by FlameZilla

What happened to all the Oiler trolls that used to drive-by threads like this in the past? Are there any Oiler fans left?

Money guy is probably busy setting up duplicate accounts and it is hard to show up when for the past two years his trolling has consisted of garbage get used to it posts anytime the Oilers were ahead if the Flames.

[TheCommodoreAfro]

Originally Posted by FlameZilla

What happened to all the Oiler trolls that used to drive-by threads like this in the past? Are there any Oiler fans left?

Bring back Verve!

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by TheCommodoreAfro

Bring back Verve!

Yeah what ever happened to him and his ludicrous arguments? I expect maybe now he knows that we were right after all.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

Eakins got a big Toronto push, and that skews perceptions. I look at him like I do Craig Button as our GM. It became very obvious very fast that what we got was not what the hype machine said he was.

The fact that the Leafs passed on him is kind of telling of how good of a coach they thought he really was. They were sitting right on him and if they thought he was the next great young coach they surely would have hired him. Flames interviewed him as well and it seems like he has interviewed for a few positions over the years but only one team was willing to give him a job and it just happens to be the most incompetent one in the NHL which may also be telling.

Personally I feel he's finding that coaching in the NHL is a lot more difficult and challenging than coaching in the AHL and it appears to me at least that he thought he could use the same tactics in the NHL that worked for him in the AHL and it's just not working and he hasn't or won't adjust.

[Itse]

Yakupov is to blame for his own problems, but at the end of the day he's the kid in this. It's up to the adults (Larionov, Eakins, MacTavish) to not let stuff get blown out of proportion the way it has.

But since it's the Oilers, they're probably just doing it on purpose, hoping that it serves as a distraction from everything else that's wrong with the team.

[sureLoss]

Seems a growing story among Oilers fans is that there are players on the Oilers deliberately avoiding passing the puck to Yakupov.

Would mean that the dynamic in the locker room is toxic if true.

[calumniate]

Poor poor Gene Principe, hehe