Mc5RingsAndABeer
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- May 25, 2011
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Remenda was on Saskatchewan sports radio today talking about the Oilers.
He thinks that it's time to build around McDavid, Draisaitl and Nurse. He thinks the team needs to deal Hall (because he'll get a monster return), RNH (because he doesn't think his body will ever allow him to play an 82 game season) and Yakupov because, well, Yakupov. He's had one foot out the door all season.
He said he'd keep Eberle based on the fact he's a 30 goal scorer and has chemistry with McDavid.
Also said that this team can't stick to playing a system because it's hard. It's hard to win and easy to lose. Once they see how hard winning is, they quit and go back to old habits. That's a tough thing to get out of a team culture once it has set it. As it has here over the many years.
Said that this team needs to think about how the 80s Oilers looked at the ice bags on the joints of the 80s Islanders to figure out what it means to want to win.
I think Remenda is dead on. I know his board hates his guts because he doesn't coddle this team enough, but he's 100% correct; this team doesn't care to find out what it means to win because losing is so much easier.
And to make it clear, he never said that any of these guys are bad players... Just players who need to be moved out to bring a new culture in.
That doesn't make sense though. If you want to bring a new culture in, you trade Eberle. He is most guilty out of the old core of being complacent.
I also don't get how everyone is ready to anoint Draisaitl and Nurse as stalwarts of the new core. They haven't proven anything yet.