I am guilty of liking the signing. I watched most Leafs games last year.
You know, when something is not doing good for a long time in business, sometimes you just make changes for the sake of making changes after a 10+ year run.
We've seen some incredible athletic saves from him from time to time. so the physical part of it is fine. Unfortunately, at this level, with everyone so tight, what separates the pack is the mental fortitude, focus and toughness, and he is lacking in that area badly.
Probably not, but it’s inevitable in this market and any player signing here would and should know that.
It's like he folds his shoulders in and just shrinks. I feel like just keeping his shoulder up and holding his chest out high would have him cover a bigger portion of the net.
Kosko was the same. I called him Little Big Man from the first time I saw him play.
Like the idea of retaining on Campbell rather than a buyout. Why end up paying in cap for twice as long?Reimer is having a tough year but he is at .892SV% and this is the first time in his career he has been under .900. He wanted to go to a contender.
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I'd revist the Karlsson deal in before the draft.
To SJ: Yamamoto, Ceci, Campbell ($1.75M retained) 2024 1st 2026 1st
To Edmonton: Karlsson ($4.25M retained --$3.50M by SJ and $725K by third team) Rights to Reimer
To get the third team to retain Edmonton gives their 2023 second and SJ give a 2023 3rd and 2023 4th
SJ has to sign a goalie anyway. Campbell at $3.25M might be a decent bounce back risk. If he does not rebound they can buy out the last two or three years of his deal.
I need to watch some video in slow motion. I'll watch for the folding shoulders. There seems to be so many wide open areas available compared to most other modern goalies. He's so gifted athletically. It's such a shame he can't figure it out yet. He should hire his own goalie coach.
Indeed Smith had enough confidence in himself to rebuff the goalie coaching offered to him here (the usual) and ran with his own style instead.
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I'm not gonna pretend I'm an expert on goalies but I do notice him lying down sprawled out and panicking quite often even if he makes the save. Smith is another goalie who was quite chaotic and even he didn't even seem to be down on his sides/stomach as much as Campbell.
His positioning is so bad, that is why he has to make those saves from time to time. I do not understand how he was an all-star last year with this positioning.
I agree the Oilers need a new goalie coach. It's insane that he's lasted through as many head coach changes as we've had and we always have goaltending issues.Indeed Smith had enough confidence in himself to rebuff the goalie coaching offered to him here (the usual) and ran with his own style instead.
Its time for Jack Campbell to do that. People ask what happened to the Campbell of last season. Dustin Schwartz?
I'll ask anybody here. Which Veteran goalies did Dustin Schwartz ever improve?
Anybody?
On what basis, any, does Justin Schwartz still have employment here?
This was posted over a year ago and a bit of a rundown. The one thing wrong on the article is that Smith and Talbot both at times deferred on using Schwartz much at times.
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But we still have the same problem.
Nor do I think teams should have a one size fits all goalie coach. There are block goalies and reaction goalies and blends of the two. We have a goalie coach that sells block form all day long. Its a problem.
Most goalies stay upright in the butterfly position and try to stay square to the shooter as they slide across the net. This guy shows it well.
He tries to play like Quick but you do that in tight not from shots from the points. Most 6+ft goalies would make themselves as big as possible in long rang shots but he always goes to his knees and does the shoulder down thing so any redirected shots usually go right over his shoulder which is usually at the same height of most players knees.
