Sports interview CAN be better. This is an interaction today between Leon Draisaitl of the Edmonton Oilers and Jim Matheson, Hall of Fame hockey writer.
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Great take!
I did not click on this to listen to you babble on endlessly! You might be wise to remember THEY are the ones playing the game, THEY are the ones battling evey night, THEY are the ones getting paid millions to have an opinion, you not so much, yet all I hear is your voice!
This Brodie guy doesn’t know shit either lol
great video. thanks
He's sick of Edmonton.
Matheson has outgrown his usefulness….Granted he has been covering the team for decades but if he can't do better than to try and provoke Leon into saying something he cant answer in public…its time to move on.
Matheson is a bum for that.
It's almost like a retail setting where a customer mistreats a store worker who can't really come back at them
11:33 This part is incorrect. To say that Leon gave him nothing is blatantly false. Leon gave him the best answer to his question since there wasn't just one thing to get better at. "Everything" was a valid answer. Jim was clearly looking for Leon to throw someone under the bus. Leon is not in the position to call out one thing on the team that needs fixing. That's management and the front office to work on, that's not a question for Leon.
Oilers fans are sick of Matheson asking the players stupid questions but he'll give management a lot of soft balls. They're too afraid to lose their credentials for doing their job.
Overall, it's a great breakdown of the exchange than most podcast put out there trying to piggy back off the click bait.
I think this is the biggest problem with sports in Edmonton. I grew up in Edmonton and don’t watch sports much anymore and never listen to the reporters. Jim should have retired 20 – 25 years ago. Leon and the team are frustrated with the media and the stupidity at question time. The coach would do his team and the fans a favour if he didn’t allow it to happen at all. Tim
You watch the questions the media asks. A few years ago it was all about winning face offs so the team improved. Earlier this year we were winning games but the media was complaining about the goals against. Crazy. We have an offensive team. Run and gun. I liked it. Well now our coach is trying to reduce the goals against and if you look at the losses over the last month there have been very few goals against but fewer for. Now the media is complaining about the losses. I think when you complain to much everyone gets sick of it. Think about when your wife nags and complains. How gracious are you?
How quickly the media wants trades, wants someone fired or thinks they can run the team better. I’m sick of it and the players are sick of it and its starting to show. How sweet it would be if the team heard positive reinforcements instead of the nagging. Turn off the media and watch patiently as they transform into a defensive powerhouse. Would everyone be happy then? Would we find something new to bitch about? What do you think Jim? Tim
Your making out of a mole hill
Jim Matheson should retire. He thought that he is SOOOOO privileged to ask bully questions and cried when he did not get what he wanted. Many don't care if Jim is 'Hall of Fame hockey writer'. He is pure garbage!
Jungle Jim is just doing the same crap all the media hacks do. Reporters are in a tough spot b/c they HAVE to ask questions, but do they HAVE to be as dumb as most of them are? It's unfortunate that most people in that line of work have never competed at a high level. Also, it seems like youre kind of trying to make a story out of a non story.
Maybe Matheson is getting old? Time to consider retirement?
It's the Oilers who cares….they now have Kane they be real good now lmfao
To me it’s obvious. Teams need to establish a rhythm. Get into a groove and develop some positive momentum. To achieve this they need to play a predictable stable schedule, with the same linemates game after game. Teams have not been able to do that this year, especially in Canada. It’s called Covid. And you can’t ignore it.
I saw jim matheson at a grocery store in Edmonton yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
This is GOLD nuggets on top of the GOAT's hot chili 🌶️ 🔥
Low point of the season for sure. We were six points out of the playoffs at this point, and now we've clinched a playoff spot as well as being one win away from clinching home ice to boot. Leon has 55 goals, and 108 points with three games left in the regular season. Huge turnaround when we fired Tip, and promoted Jay Woodcroft to head coach.
Wow great piece.
Thanks for showing this.
we Germans always try to be as polite as possible, believe me, but there is of course a limit.
this has nothing to do with "wanting to be there" … those reporters could ask a ton of interesting questions … but no.
"why are you so pissy, Loyn, äh .. Leon ?"
maybe booze a bit less, my reporter friend.
“Why are you so pissy, Leon?” Because I’m forced to be here taking these dumbass questions from you. As far as being pissy… Welcome to Canada.
Mathewson deserved ack days him and marks Spector wanted Paul Coffey out town to be traded probably Leon heard that already not chance Mathewson not with Leon sorry good for him 😅