Player Discussion Brady Tkachuk (LW) - Part XI

[frightenedinmatenum2]

I am worried about Brady's feelings.

 

[PlayOn]

 

[BankStreetParade]

You don’t fire people from leadership roles when their role isn’t linked to the success or failure outcome you’re examining. It’s not the captains fault it took 7 years for this team to have 4 legit top 4 defensemen. It’s not the captain's fault this team can’t figure out the goaltending position.

You strip the captain of their leadership role when the room is divided and conflict filled. From all sources, that’s not at all the case in Ottawa.

You dont strip the captain for not making the playoffs when the team (GM’s job) wasn’t nearly playoff quality.

What you’re suggesting is not accountability, it’s scapegoating.

Nope, not the only reasons you take away the captaincy or give it to someone else.

Look at Tavares...look at Thornton...there's been several high profile players to lose the C and some who even stayed on with their teams.

I mean cut me a break with that first paragraph. This guy's performance as a captain should only be viewed through the prism of the quality of the team around him? Like he's some helpless bystander or victim of circumstances beyond his control? It's honestly baffling, after 4 years of him as captain, that he's somehow completely beyond reproach. Nothing he does or doesn't do matters. All you know is that it's not his fault. It's everyone else's fault but certainly nothing to do with him.

It's such a bizarre line some of you are drawing. Many many years of no playoffs, some of them with him as the captain, and it's somehow completely out of the question to ask if he's the right guy for the role.

 

[thinkwild]

It seems so disconnected from the obvious though to question whether the most obvious captain who is coming into his own and being praised around the league as a great captain should be captain. Sounds more like pouting

 

[Norris4Norris]

I personally like Tkachuk, not to be too anti-establishment.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

I personally like Tkachuk, not to be too anti-establishment.

The Tkachuk's are the establishment!

 

[Bileur]

Nope, not the only reasons you take away the captaincy or give it to someone else.

Look at Tavares...look at Thornton...there's been several high profile players to lose the C and some who even stayed on with their teams.

I mean cut me a break with that first paragraph. This guy's performance as a captain should only be viewed through the prism of the quality of the team around him? Like he's some helpless bystander or victim of circumstances beyond his control? It's honestly baffling, after 4 years of him as captain, that he's somehow completely beyond reproach. Nothing he does or doesn't do matters. All you know is that it's not his fault. It's everyone else's fault but certainly nothing to do with him.

It's such a bizarre line some of you are drawing. Many many years of no playoffs, some of them with him as the captain, and it's somehow completely out of the question to ask if he's the right guy for the role.

You’re advocating to replace a working engine on a car that didn’t drive but the reason it didn’t drive was because it didn’t have wheels.

Could the engine have performed better? Maybe? Hard to tell without wheels.

It’s fine to consider replacing the engine if it starts to fail but let’s see if it can run with wheels on first.

Thornton and Tavares were on stacked teams where success was expected. That’s the point. Their cars had all the bells and whistles (and wheels) and still wouldn’t drive. Terrible comparison.