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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

{allcanada} EAKINS TO YAKUPOV: EARN IT

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The Edmonton Sun points out that Oilers winger Nail Yakupov will be benched for the third time this season Tuesday. Head coach Dallas Eakins and the 20-year-old each counted their 45-minute chat as productive.

"We talked about life, about hockey, we had a good chat," Yakupov said. "It was a happy end. We just chatted me and him, so it was good. We have a deal between me and him, so we'll see what happens.

"It's hockey, I'm 20 years old, you have to be strong and keep working, keep practising, keep listening to the coach and get things going."

Eakins had many complimentary notes about Yakupov. Bottom line though?

"It's still back to, you have to earn it," Eakins said. "You have to earn it and you have to do a number of things on the ice every day. Every day, it can never change. We cannot give things to people, you have to earn them. You earn them a whole lot of ways.

"Our veteran guys, they have a bit of an off-game, they've already earned the right for a second chance through their experience. That's the other challenge of being a young guy. You have to take your knocks a lot of the time early on in your career. It's a lot of different things with Nail. But the biggest thing he's run into is maybe not so much his play, but it's the play of others at his position."

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