Craig MacTavish, Our coach.

kotalik horc hemmer nilsson gags poopoo head o'sullivan cogs piss reddox brodz storts so.. our genius of a coach puts our newest acquisition, supposedly brought here to help our offense.. on the 3rd line after playing only 2 games with us. And he puts nilsson back in on second. AND WE WONDER WHY WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE. If you aren't going to bench all the other guys, quit benching Penner. It's obvious that he is lazy but who hasn't been this season? You are wrecking the guy's already fragile confidence and the more you call him out and the more you bench him the more you are going to wreck the guy until you get to the point where he won't even want to play for you... oh too late. Look at Gagner- What did MacT do with him? Gotta let them play it out right. Lots of the guys on the team play just as lazy as penner but because MacT has called him out, we the fans, are now also on his back, when realistically we should be on everyone's back equally. This is more Mactavish's fault then Penners fault. The whole damn team is underachieving not just one guy. Instead of benching and calling him out all season and watching this team under perform night after night, MacTavish should have resigned from coaching for just ONE month this season and allow kevin Lowe to take over and see if ANY difference was made. He didn't need to get fired but we could have saw if it would have made a difference. If the whole team was playing awesome and it was only penner that was lazy i may be MORE critical of him. But i am only NOW starting to realize that perhaps Penner's problems are not because he is "lazy" or "fat", but it's because of a whole plethora of issues. Also trying to play up to a skill level you probably dont have is stressful enough, but who in their right mind would turn down a 4.5 million dollar multi year contract when u were making 450 000 the year before? Take this: You are on the Oilers. You haven't been having the best season. But you look around your locker room and realize that neither have all the other guys. For some reason, YOU get called out to the media, to a whole city, and your coach says you are lazy and out of shape. WOW, that hurt. I have a bit of hatred for this guy now, but im a classy guy so im just gonna agree so i dont start something. I keep watching my teamates play like shit.. why isnt the coach going after them? oh well.. continue to play. Second time around, he benches me and calls me out again. WTF. why me!? what about everyone else. This is a team effort, im not the only one on the team. Benches me again. Now i feel like i dont even belong here to play hockey. I feel the coach doesnt like me and its embarrassing for me to talk to the other players cause i feel like less of a man and a bad hockey player because i keep getting called out and no one else is. Why show up for optional practice? Who gives a shit- I dont like playing for the guy anyways and i have NO respect for my coach. THAT is why penner didnt show up for optional. At first i was pissed off at penner for now showing up, but now, i cant blame the guy. Look who is coach is and look how is coach has treated him this season compared to other equally shitty players. Look at our stats on PP, PK, F/O, etc- they suck and guess what boys and girls? Penner didnt make up those stats himself. And to have a coach that gives optional after a HORRIFIC collective team play that night before is absolutely ridiculous. NO ACCOUNTABILITY. We have a coach in the stretch drive who has a team play with NO heart, NO passion, NO effort against the sens and he has a fucking optional the next day!? WHAT does that say to the team. it says THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES.. UNLESS YOUR NAME IS DUSTIN PENNER. We NEED Penner if we are going to make it to the playoffs no matter how bad his season has been, but the way MacT treats him, he is just not going to want to play at all. It's probably also making it awkward for other team members having to be around this situation and talk to Penner about it, etc. Way to help the guy out MacTavish. Just like you did with Garon and just like you did with Schremp. MacTavish is a horrible person because what he has cleverly done, is turn everyone on Penner when really, we should be focusing on the team as a whole, because surely there are other players (just look at the stats even last 5 games on oilers.com) who have been playing just the same as penner. cole goes back to the canes and has been lighting it up. coincidence?