lol the other reason is most teams aren't stupid enough to leave goaltending until a trade deadline to figure out. Most Cup winners have a good goalie in place long before the freaking trade deadline before what is supposed to be a Cup run.
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lol the other reason is most teams aren't stupid enough to leave goaltending until a trade deadline to figure out. Most Cup winners have a good goalie in place long before the freaking trade deadline before what is supposed to be a Cup run.
Blackwood and Wedgewood's doing relatively well in Colorado imo. Their former goalies in Georgiev and Annunen were simply not getting it done. Reminds me of our current duo if anything. As a result, the avs management decided to change things up. I can respect that as an opposing fan. Staying pat while potentially keeping our current tandem would be just bad when a lot of the metrics in the advanced stats show this team is top or elite among the league outside of poor goaltending.
This would have complicated consequences ....and potentially enforce a new direction. Stan doesn;t have the balls to make that TRADE successfully and even though im not a JJ fan even he would realize this.
Adin Hill would be another example of a goalie that came in relatively late in a team's Cup cycle, he only played 27 games for the Knights before leading them to a Cup in the playoffs.
And of course Roloson in 2006.
Generally most contenders have their goaltending shit figured out longer before hand. Very few contenders are ever looking for a goalie at the trade deadline because they make their move on the position beforehand.
And of course Roloson in 2006.
Generally most contenders have their goaltending shit figured out longer before hand. Very few contenders are ever looking for a goalie at the trade deadline because they make their move on the position beforehand.
Unfortunately we don't have that luxury. But we can AT LEAST tune up the weakness in net with a new add.
Gibson or Vejmelka aren't world beaters but they surely are both better as a 1A with Skinner compared to with Pickard.
I think Gibson is very much a Roloson tier talent if not better. Before freaking Eakins (who would tank most goalies in a rebuild), many people looked at Gibson as a top 3-5 goalie in the league period.
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Not if they are professionals.
Players dont decide not play a system because the goalie is struggling.
As I have said previously...if this team did have an all star goalie it would only temporarily mask other issues.
Anyone that thinks goaltending is going to solve everything is going to be very disapppointed.
Other things need to change as well.
For example...I dont even like the way this team is built. They gave up speed (and some size in Holloway) and committed to players that make them older a little smaller and slower.
That IMO will be an issue when the big boy (and tighter defensive) hockey starts in the spring.
Offensive chances will be less and the fight for puck possession and creating open ice with body position (against big body teams) are not strengths of this team the way it is currently built.
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The concerns about Gibson are rightfully his injuries issues but yeah, I'd happily have him here in a heart beat. Eakins as a coach is utter dog shit, but the one they have right now is pretty bad too from what I've seen and heard. Imagine thinking Mason McTavish is a '3rd line player.
Get this team a proper goalie, and I'll be happy. Whether its Gibson or Vejmelka.
Dallas Eakins playing a big role in the Oilers even having a chance at a goalie they should probably have zero chance at (Gibson) would be somewhat fitting given that he basically took a rebuild here that was generally actually going in a positive direction (the Oilers had improved every year with Taylor Hall under Renney and Krueger) and totally bombed the org. As a result we got Draisaitl and McDavid.
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Dallas Eakins is the worst defensive coach I have ever witnessed, our GA in the Taylor Hall era was declining and moving in a positive direction under Renney and Krueger until he came here and completely destroyed the team.
I take Gibson's career going sideways because of the Eakins era with a massive side of salt. I don't think any goalie would hold up in that situation over multiple years.
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Dallas Eakins is the worst defensive coach I have ever witnessed, our GA in the Taylor Hall era was declining and moving in a positive direction under Renney and Krueger until he came here and completely destroyed the team.
I take Gibson's career going sideways because of the Eakins era with a massive side of salt. I don't think any goalie would hold up in that situation over multiple years.
He outplayed the f*** out of Gibson too. Poor guy was gassed out.
And for this year, the ducks are top 3 of most shots against from opposing teams per games.
Literally imagine how much better we would be having a Dostal or Gibson in net.
Skinner and Pickard would be giving the ducks the #1 lottery pick if the 4 goalies switched teams.
Yup, they set the record for most 50 shots against games in a month I believe, or it was like something that hadn't happened in the NHL since like the 1930s or something as I recall. Total gong show of a coach.
Eakins talks a big game, but man oh man are his defensive "smartest person in the room" systems horrific.
The whole "Decade Of Darkness" is really only that because of Eakins. Before that the rebuild in the Hall era was actually going OK. Like not ahead of schedule, but the team was getting better every year until Eakins got here and pushed us into another scorched earth rebuild.
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One can argue that ANA goalies would be just as bad playing for the Oilers.
Oilers D group is one of the worst in the league and our forwards look lost defensively at times.
Emberson is pretty much our best defensive Dman this season.
I can't agree with the Oilers D being one of the worst in the league after checking the stats. Forwards do look lost defensively at times for sure, but both can be helped by having a proper goalie in net.
Also very bad of our goalies.
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I’ve seen some online say they think if Skinner is traded he will go on to play well elsewhere like Dubnyk
Note that Dubnyk played under some of the worst Oilers teams of all time, and one of the worst coaches of the post lockout era
Skinner is playing for a team chasing the cup I don’t think they are comparable
Note that Dubnyk played under some of the worst Oilers teams of all time, and one of the worst coaches of the post lockout era
Skinner is playing for a team chasing the cup I don’t think they are comparable
TSN is talking a lot about Edmonton, Binnington and Gibson.
Last week I think some of us should've mentioned that Ray and Dregs talked about Oilers considering Binnington as an option in net
Last week I think some of us should've mentioned that Ray and Dregs talked about Oilers considering Binnington as an option in net
lol, pure ridiculousness. The Oilers D system behind Coffey/Knob is legit, if it wasn't they would have lost in any one of the first 3 rounds ... you think they won any playoff round last year playing run n' gun hockey?
Go look at the last 3-4 games of every playoff series, the system we have here choked the life out of every team's offense, even Florida barely scored 2 goals per game in the last 4 games of the Cup Final.
To say our defenive system isn't better than say the Ducks in the Eakins era is pure bullshit cope like a guy saying "yeah well dating that Victoria Secret model that I actually had a shot with wouldn't have been so great anyway", lol.
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about f***ing time, eh? what took so long?
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Aiden Hill was never acquired to be THE goalie for the VGK. He was acquired b/c of injuries. VGK had absolutely NO INTEREST in Hill or forsight he was that good
Col also got goaltending cuz they were losing games upon games directly b/c of goaltending
The Oilers are one of the best teams in the NHL, so clearly goaltending isn't the same issue
They should be.
Can you imagine if the Leafs or Habs had McDavid and no Cups in his tenure there and the two goalies were both sub .900?
It would be goalie talk non-stop 24/7, it would be the no.1 story in the f***ing country, lol, not just sports, but right above tarriff talk, lmao.
The Edmonton media is hilariously inept.
Idk how the bolded doesn't relate to the Oilers personally. I'm not saying every loss has been primarily on the goaltending this season as there's been numerous gaffes from the defense and offense alike, but the goaltending has been by far the Achilles heel of this team.
You cannot go into the post season having these two goalies who are literally in the bottom.
Goaltending aside (because I agree with you) forward is a way bigger need than defence. You don't sign Klingberg to 1.8 if he isn't going to be a regular.
Management will also see it this way when we trade for a starting forward over a starting defensemen so laugh all you want.
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I posted it over in the PGT, but the Oilers have gotten -0.90 GSAA/60 goaltending against the top two teams in every division this season.
That is "take the worst goalie in the league and make him 15% worse" levels of goaltending.
The Oilers also have zero Stanley Cups and 1 lousy Finals appearance despite having the best player since Mario for 10 years. And another Malkin-tier player to go with that.
And a big part of the reason for that is they won't take goaltending seriously.
The difference between Crosby era Penguins and McDavid's time in Edmonton is plainly obvious for anyone to see. Sid won multiple Cups because he had fantastic goaltending, the Oilers are too stupid to give McDavid any.
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So how does this explain the Oilers record?
I love these stat morons. Take 2 stats and combine them to create a narrative then leave out the most important part. Basically stats as a whole nowadays
