Post-Game Talk: Oilers lose late to Vegas

[FlameChampion]

Just saw the highlights of this one... Yikes.

(Yawn) People on here blaming Stu Skinner again. Skinner is an NHL-average goalie and has been great in 4 of the past 5 games. PIckard was bad last game and in one other game, but has been better than one might reasonably expect. Goaltending is the least of the Oilers' problems.

First priority is -- got to score some goals. They can't score on home ice. They got two in this one: One was a lucky deflection by a guy who literally never deflects a puck (Kulak) and the other was a lucky-bounce gimme.

I don’t pin this one solely on shoulders of Skinner. This team has LOTS of issues. But he aint average this year. Hes near the bottom of the league including backups.

 

[Ibanez]

I didn't like Caggiula being called up, but at least I saw him trying to provide energy by hitting people here and there. We have a team that's allergic to hitting.

For sure. He’s not an nhler but he was trying hard and doing the right things.

We are butter soft.

Charmin extra soft toilet paper has more grit than we do

 

[Reasonable Oil Fan]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1854378855714480556

Yaaaaaay! Death by a 1000 cuts.

No problem
Savoie is the answer now or in the future anyway

 

[McAsuno]

did you watch last year? the Oilers only decide to start playing when things get really bad...it's part of their MO

They're out of lunch if they think they can pull another 16 W streak. Getting real f***ing tired of them coasting out there.

 

[GMofOilers]

Because the team doesn’t score goals. Our goals against numbers are unbelievable compared to our goals for numbers.

Expecting to score 5 every night won’t win many games.

 

[McDNicks17]

Utter dog shit, holy f***.

That'll happen when your goalies have a .693 SV% on the PK.

 

[McHelpus]

Should have moved on from Ryan, Perry, and kept Holloway. Im still baffled we let him walk.

Should have ran it back with the same core and let the old guys walk.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Ours are pretty much always down on GSAA.

We were the best team in the league from like Nov. 12 onwards last year and Skinner still didn't crack the top 30 for GSAA. This year he's a hillariously bad 65th place.

Pickard is sitting at 43rd overall.

Our goalies aren't up and down, they just are what they are ... back up goalies.

They have a worse offense than the Sharks.

 

[MessierII]

Expecting to score 5 every night won’t win many games.

Could start with scoring more than 2. Check hills save %

 

[Soundwave]

did you watch last year? the Oilers only decide to start playing when things get really bad...it's part of their MO

Pretty much baked in to this team. They don't want to push back until their back is pushed to the wall or at least close to it.

Probably in part a byproduct of the last two coaches (especially) not having a big personality to light a fire under guys, and then no margin for error with goaltenders that don't win games.

 

[GMofOilers]

That'll happen when your goalies have a .693 SV% on the PK.

Isn’t that good? Lmao

 

[McAsuno]

That'll happen when your goalies have a .693 SV% on the PK.

All hail our lord and savior of making goalies into dog shit

 

[Ibanez]

Is Katz even alive anymore?

He’s always lurking in the shadows. Doesn’t make public appearances since his illness messed up his face

But he’s always got his fingers in the cookie jar

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Ours are plenty always down on GSAA.

We were the best team in the league from like Nov. 12 onwards last year and Skinner still didn't crack the top 30 for GSAA. This year he's a hillariously bad 65th place.

Pickard is sitting at 42 overall.

Our goalies aren't up and down, they just are what they are ... back up goalies.

because they scored the 2nd most goals after Nov 12th

 

[Soundwave]

They have a worse offense than the Sharks.

In this stretch sure, but the goalies having horrendous GSAA is pretty much now ongoing for years at this point.

 

[FlameChampion]

Next to Drai, I would have to say that Hyman has been the Oiler's best forward this season and he has 3 goals.

Draisaitl and Ekholm are probably the only 2 guys on the roster that have done their job. Maybe Kulak but hes a bottom pairing dman.

 

[Ibanez]

That'll happen when your goalies have a .693 SV% on the PK.

Lol
Is this true ?

 

[Duke74]

Couldn't possibly be.

The warmth of Celeste’s…home cooking and another pointless game. Things that make you go hmmmmm…

 

[GMofOilers]

Could start with scoring more than 2. Check hills save %

We needed 4 tonight to win. We had the lead but our goalie let in one of the weakest goals you will see, and you just knew he wasn’t done there.

 

[russ99]

Yet another whiny bunch of posts about Skinner when you have multiple skaters giving up on defensive zone coverage. Only Hanifin’s point shot goal against did we defend adequately, and how many times have we played Vegas, they won a playoff series against us the exact same way, waiting until we give up on defending and get guys in on net clear where they can walk up and score.

So what rhe hell is Bouchard doing here in the same side of the ice as the play on the wall and why did Podkolzin do what he did here?? You have 4own zone skaters and not one of them covered the second Vegas skater trailing the play. But yeah, all Skinner.

 

[Ibanez]

Draisaitl and Ekholm are probably the only 2 guys on the roster that have done their job. Maybe Kulak but hes a bottom pairing dman.

Could throw podz in there. Not scoring but he’s going pretty much everything else right

 

[Soundwave]

because they scored the 2nd most goals after Nov 12th

Their team defense improved a lot after Nov 12th, but you get what you pay for, Skinner/Pickard are two back ups, teams tend to not be in sync to start the year, for us that seems doubly so, having goalies with a poor GSAA in that case is a recipe for disaster because you need them to give you a little bit more room for error.

 

[MessierII]

We needed 4 tonight to win. We had the lead but our goalie let in one of the weakest goals you will see, and you just knew he wasn’t done there.

You need 4 to win on a lot of nights in the nhl. Most even. When was the last time we got 4?

 

[Drivesaitl]

The warmth of Celeste’s…home cooking and another pointless game. Things that make you go hmmmmm…

Samson and Delilah.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

They're out of lunch if they think they can pull another 16 W streak. Getting real f***ing tired of them coasting out there.

of course not....in 2022-23 they were 10-10 after 20 games and finished with 50 wins

this team coasts at the start of the year every single goddamn year and yes, it's frustrating