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Eakins On His Coaching Style
by Paul on 06/10/13 at 06:58 PM ET
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from Ryan Dittrick of EdmontonOilers.com,
In order to win and become a perennial Stanley Cup contender, it takes a total team effort to succeed.
On the development side, Dallas Eakins says, it's up to the coach and 23 individuals to maximize their potential for the greater good.
"I don't coach a team, I coach individuals. It's important to remember that," Eakins said after he was named the 12th head coach in Oilers history Monday afternoon. "I like to treat all my players the same when it comes to work ethic and discipline, but they're all wired differently.
"You've got to get to know them, inside and out. I need to learn out what triggers them, what motivates them and look under every stone to see what makes them tick. There's a lot of motivation for players in this game. Some want to carry the load for their team and others want to make their parents proud.
"I've got 23 new players that I've got to get to know and find all that out."
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Dallas Eakins Becomes The 12th Head Coach For The Edmonton Oilers
by Paul on 06/10/13 at 03:39 PM ET
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via a release by the Edmonton Oilers...
General Manager Craig MacTavish announced today the Edmonton Oilers have appointed Dallas Eakins as the clubs' new Head Coach. Eakins becomes the 12th Head Coach in Oilers franchise history.
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MacTavish Wants To Speak To The Media
by Paul on 06/08/13 at 04:14 PM ET
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via the Edmonton Oilers,
General Manager Craig MacTavish will speak to the media at 4:00 PM MT today at the Edmonton Oilers Head Office.
Your guess is as good as mine, two hour notice for the media to gather, a Saturday and two hours before the WCF game.
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MacTavish announces Krueger has been let go and he hopes to have a new coach in place soon.
Numerous reports point to Dallas Eakins being named as the next head coach within the next few days.
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Will A Team Pay Streit $15M Over 3 Years?
by Paul on 06/05/13 at 12:25 PM ET
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from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal,
In other contract developments potentially affecting the Oilers, with New York Islanders captain Mark Streit turning his back on the Isles’ three-year offer of about $14 million, the Oilers would almost certainly have interest with his ties to head coach Ralph Krueger, as Krueger once coached Streit on the Swiss national team.
The problem is Streit turns 36 in December and wants at least $5 million per for three years, and his play has dropped off the last two years. He’s still a good on the power play, but he’s not a strong defender.
With the NHL salary cap coming down to $64.3 million for 2013-14, I don’t see the Oilers giving him $5 million or more per season, not for three years.
- Also, there is NHL interest in forward Linus Omark’s rights. The one-time Oiler (they hold his rights) led the Swiss league in scoring this year. The Oilers don’t have a fourth-round draft pick in June — I suspect that’s what they’re trying to get for Omark.
more Oilers talk...
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Trying To Move Ales Hemsky
by Paul on 05/20/13 at 01:52 PM ET
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from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal,
Oilers general manager Craig MacTavish simply isn’t going to pay $5 million a season for a second-line player who has world-class ability.
Although Hemsky goes into traffic, gets hurt and plays hurt — both admirable traits — the Oilers can find better ways to spend his salary. They need bigger forwards, even if they don’t have Hemsky’s skill set, which, apart from his first two seasons, has made him pretty close to a point-a-game NHLer.
The problem is that Hemsky has missed 118 games the past four seasons — a red flag for other teams who like healthier players on their roster.
Can the Oilers get anything substantial for Hemsky these days?
“I don’t think there’s a market for him … I shouldn’t say there’s no market,” said former NHL general Craig Button, who now works for TSN. “But the salary cap is coming down to $64.3 million. He makes $5 million for one more year. Would the Oilers pick up half of that to trade him, 50-50 (with another team)? That would still free up $2.5 million in cap space for the Oilers.
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Some Non-Playoff Teams Related Tweets
by Paul on 04/29/13 at 01:40 PM ET
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Edmonton Up 6-0 On Minnesota After 2 Periods
by Paul on 04/26/13 at 09:42 PM ET
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I think the Wild TV crew is getting tired of calling Edmonton goals.
The first by Corey Potter 27 seconds in to the game...
Fast foward to the middle of the 2nd period, Nail Yakupov makes it 5-0 Edmonton...
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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Canucks @ Oilers
by Paul on 04/26/13 at 07:00 PM ET
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By Eli Epstein, TiqIQ
To close out the 2012-2013 NHL season in Western Canada, rival teams the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers will collide at Rexall Place in Edmonton Saturday night to put one last exclamation point on the shortened campaign.
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If You Are Rooting For The Oilers Tonight Against The Wild
by Paul on 04/26/13 at 12:46 PM ET
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from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal,
The chances of the Oilers actually digging in and beating the Wild in Minny are slender, to say the least, where they’ve only lost 19 of the last 20 to the Wild, outscoring the Oilers 69-32. Yeah, 19 of 20. Where Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom is 17-0 against them at the Xcel Energy Center, with a 1.34 average, a .948 save percentage and only twice has he surrendered more than two goals. Backstrom always looks like a cross between Glenn Hall and Marty Brodeur against the Oilers in Minny.
One sliver of hope for the Oilers? The Wild, currently eighth (53 points, tied with Columbus but with more seasonal victories), have scored six goals in its last six games at home. And the Oilers have the eighth best road record in the West, where they’ve won more games (9) than at home.
more on the Oilers...
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Do You Consider This A Dive By Yakupov?
by Paul on 04/25/13 at 09:54 AM ET
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