Oilers hire motivational speaker for stirring locker room speech in playoffs
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The Edmonton Oilers are looking to embark on another long playoff run this season, and have hired a motivational speaker with a life changing story to address the team.
The Oilers also hired a sports psychologist who worked with Kobe Bryant for last year's playoffs, showing how much the organization values the mental aspect of the game.
NHL insider reveals Oilers have hired motivational speaker for locker room speech
On today's edition of the 32 Thiughts Podcast, insider Elliotte Friedman revealed that the Oilers have hired Jason Campo, a former hockey player and dogsledder with a stirring story of survival.
There's a guy by the name of Jason Campo. He played for the North Bay Centennials when they went to the memorial cup.
He's a sled dog racer, and he was actually in a big race in Yukon in 2018. He fell off the sled and was temporarily knocked unconscious. One of the things that can happen is your dogs can take off on you. If your dogs take off on you, it's extremely serious. You can be left to die in the wilderness.
He talks about how whether you're the leader of the pack or your part of the pack, you don't survive unless you're all together. He credits his dogs, his pack, with making sure that he survived.
- Elliotte Friedman
The analogy to the Oilers is pretty direct. They've got the superstars with Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, but they'll need the entire supporting cast of players to play a key role if they're going to go on another long playoff run.
In Game 1 of the playoffs, that problem was pretty distinctly on display. Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl were dominant, but any other Oilers like struggled to generate anything.
This year's Oilers team isn't quite the same as the squad that went deep last season.
The returning players will know what they need to do for success, but new players will need to begin to get with the program and step up - or the Oilers won't survive.
He's a sled dog racer, and he was actually in a big race in Yukon in 2018. He fell off the sled and was temporarily knocked unconscious. One of the things that can happen is your dogs can take off on you. If your dogs take off on you, it's extremely serious. You can be left to die in the wilderness.
He talks about how whether you're the leader of the pack or your part of the pack, you don't survive unless you're all together. He credits his dogs, his pack, with making sure that he survived.
- Elliotte Friedman
The analogy to the Oilers is pretty direct. They've got the superstars with Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, but they'll need the entire supporting cast of players to play a key role if they're going to go on another long playoff run.
In Game 1 of the playoffs, that problem was pretty distinctly on display. Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl were dominant, but any other Oilers like struggled to generate anything.
This year's Oilers team isn't quite the same as the squad that went deep last season.
The returning players will know what they need to do for success, but new players will need to begin to get with the program and step up - or the Oilers won't survive.
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