I disagree. Berube just needs to be a strict dad with Kyrou right now. And Kyrou needs to realize he sees the ice a lot differently than the other players on the team. He's going to be a star, but, he has to remember that he's on a team as well.
Both can be true. It took Walt hammering it into Person's head when he first came up that his pure talent will only carry him so far. Ultimately it's up to Kyrou. But it can't hurt having a guy in your ear that came up in a similar way who has had a long, successful career.
kyrou and thomas are super talented but they are so frustrating. i get that they are young, but your young stars pull this crap that is how you become edmonton oilers. they don't need perron to mentor them. there are other vets on team who serve as good role models (ror, schenn, faulk, krug, parayko, tank even). they need the coaching staff to show them tough love and hold them accountable.
yes, and no. all the good teams do lose to bad teams on occasion. but we do it way too often. the reason bad teams are bad is they lose more than they win. we actually have much better record against playoff teams than bottom-dwellers. and philly hadn't won on road all year. so it's not like eveyone else was doing this against them.
Drawing a penalty that led to a goal is a positive stat. As is two shot attempts including one from a very dangerous area. He was far from our worst skater tonight and if he was benched while trailing by a goal then Berube is part of the problem. He’s by far our most dangerous offensive player. He should be double shifted while trailing by a goal in the third. It’s ridiculous we allow Bort and Perron to take awful penalties game after game, Scandella and Mikkola to give the puck away constantly, Thomas and Buch constantly pass up scoring chances in favor of low percentage passes etc. and bench our best player. It’s moronic.
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There are other ways to get through to young players than to bench them and essentially throw away a very winnable game. If anything this should make Kyrou more arrogant. Look how useless this team is when he’s not out there driving the play every shift.
??? I didn't want Kyrou to be Benched. I was just saying that Perron didn't need to mentor him.
Okay, sorry. I thought by “strict dad” you meant staple is ass to the bench for a mistake.
Oh no. I meant as in scold but teach in a meaningful way. You can reprimand someone for something without grounding them. For a 23 year old in the NHL everything is a teaching moment.
I don’t mean to be a jerk, but this is one of the silliest posts I’ve ever seen. Berube is trying to make him into great player, not just talented floater. If you think he should get a free pass because of his talent you couldn’t be more wrong.
this team is kitten soft and mentally weak. not a good recipe for playoff success.
again passing up shot attempts: "That's a huge problem on this team." They also missed the net 16 times. Unacceptable.
Cause they play binner in most of them and he stinks this year and the team has zero will to fight (score 5+ goals) for those starts. so they just pack it in and call it a day.
