OK then, but that begs a question? Will the result of benching Brady be positive overall? I mean from a short term perspective, for the games he misses we might be less likely to win. From a longer term perspective, how will Brady react? Does this push him closer to the exit door?
Lol this post is a complete joke. Believe what you want to believe. It's insane how willing you are to twist the words of the coach because you want it to fit your agenda of having Brady be the whipping boy. What kind of fan does that?
Legitimate criticism of player's game isn't dumb. Calling for the team to trade him or strip the C off him is, and I will stand by that every time, and if Green didn't feel like being kind to the suffering fanbase, he would've called those fans a lot worse than "dumb".
6 years of trolling from you.
The truth is it's only happened once and it's on a team that's been given every advantage in the NHL universe to succeed. Might be more of a commentary on how poorly our "star" players have done when they've left.
You’ve cited 2 examples. One game we lost, and the other (Rangers) game we won.
Brady is the captain and leads by example. When he plays well and is competitive, they win (go figure). When he’s lazy and uncommitted, they lose. that’s how it goes when you’re made the captain (and clearly he wanted this, his family brought it up during contract negotiations too)
Seeing how it has worked for other superstars, I'd like to believe that Tkachuk (and every other player on roster) has the professionalism to understand why they might be getting benched and respond with improved play when given another opportunity. I don't think Tkachuk will, but he proved me wrong by improving defensive play last year and would love to eat some crow if he responded to be being benched by addressing the flaws of his game. If it pushes Tkachuk closer to the door, so be it. We need professionals who can handle critique from their coaching staff.
over the years, it has been noted that we hero worship. Teams and leagues use it as a marketing tool. And a as means to distract.
What exactly do you want Brady to do? Put on a Superman cape and dangle 5 players every shift? He's not McDavid, he's no MacKinnon, and he's not prime Erik Karlsson. He's Brady Tkachuk. He can score, he can hit, and he can fight, that's what he does well. He did all 3 last game, but because he made a mistake defensively, when there are 19 other guys who also made mistakes that game, he deserves to be criticized? He deserves to have his commitment questioned, his leadership questioned?
Someone wanting the C off Tkachuk or trading him doesn't invalidate them as Sens fan either. Like it's one thing if someone is cheering for the team to fail, but the things mentioned in this thread are explicitly not that lol
Oh so that's how it works, a team is just as good as the captain? Why does Pittsburgh suck so much this year then? Is Crosby a bad leader?
Are you comparing Sidney Crosby and Brady Takchuk like all NHL Captains are equal and the same?
Crosby’s old and has 3 Stanley cups to his resume lol why don’t we bring up the fact their team went to the playoffs like 15+ straight years…
Obviously not, but keep makin your bad faith arguments.
He was 14th in NHL scoring last year, age is clearly not an excuse here. His team is going to miss the playoffs 2 years in a row now, so he's a bad leader then right? I'm just using your logic here.
Pal, I watch the same games you do. Feel free to make an argument without questioning my ability to read the game. I know what it looks like when someone coasts on a backcheck, or disappears from the d-zone to cheat a breakout and then has to circle back into the zone because he left his squad a man down. I'm gonna provide an example. You wanna provide an example of a defensively responsible play?
10/10 hyperbole. Not a single person here is asking for this. Being defensively responsible doesn't require a herculean effort, my god.
You seem to be very defensive and haven’t even addressed the question about what Green can do. And regardless of not addressing the question, you are making several assumptions such as: 1. Fighting in the late stages of the game (last few minutes) is appropriate. 2. There are no other alternatives than fighting and even so, there is no other time to do it other than the last few minutes? 3. Brady is the only person that can do this. There are no other players that can fight assuming that’s even the appropriate or effective response of course. Your responses are emotional (paradoxical) ones even though you say things like “show me the logic”.
There is enough blame to go around multiple times over.
When Brady makes the playoffs as many times as Crosby did, he’ll get the benefit of the doubt. I think you’re just being obtuse cuz there isn’t much of a Defence for Brady’s immaturity
This is so unnecessary, I already said he makes mistakes defensively. That's not my point, bringing up examples of bad defensive play (in the form of screenshots, wtf is that?) is pointless, because I'm not saying he's fine defensively.
