Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | The Oilers Biggest Roster Need Is?

[Spawn]

You can only be started in the top six and shit the bed for so long before your a bottom 12 player.

Yeah because Nuge, Hyman and Podkolzin have all done so much to be stapled in the top 6 for the past dozen games.

 

[guymez]

Agreed, except that we are paying less for goaltending than pretty much every team in the league. $3.6M for two guys.

Is anyone paying less?

And what are the complainers willing to sacrifice (let’s be realistic… nobody is taking on Nurse) to bolster the position?

I’m for Blackwood, but even that requires cap creativity.

I wasnt aware of that the Oilers were the lowest in the League.
Thats stunning.

How is it that a team that is in their Stanley Cup window builds their team is such a way that goaltending becomes the lowest priority on the team?
They ultimately decide that low rent goaltending is their ticket to a Stanley Cup.
Amazing.

 

[MessierII]

I wasnt aware of that the Oilers were the lowest in the League.
Thats stunning.

How is it that a team that is in their Stanley Cup window builds their team is such a way that goaltending becomes the lowest priority on the team?
They ultimately decide that low rent goaltending is their ticket to a Stanley Cup.
Amazing.

This wasn’t plan A plan A was Jack Campbell with skinner as an up and coming back up.

 

[Jumptheshark]

I wasnt aware of that the Oilers were the lowest in the League.
Thats stunning.

How is it that a team that is in their Stanley Cup window builds their team is such a way that goaltending becomes the lowest priority on the team?
They ultimately decide that low rent goaltending is their ticket to a Stanley Cup.
Amazing.

That is what Holland did in Detroit in years they did not have Hasek

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Yeah because Nuge, Hyman and Podkolzin have all done so much to be stapled in the top 6 for the past dozen games.

None of them have been playing all that great. I'd add Arvidsson to that list as well.

 

[Louis Cypher]

Skinner was signed to play in the top 6. Hard to have any success when your C is Ryan.

Hes got more goals than Ardvidson, Nuge, Ryan and others with no PP time and pretty limited minutes. Not sure why everyone is shitting on him.

 

[rboomercat90]

Ive said it before, think Blackwood could be a bit of a sleeper in our system. I’d run him 1 and put skinner as 2 until proven otherwise.

Why should Pickard lose his job because Skinner is awful? If we’re bringing in another goalie it’s gotta either be Skinner going the other way or waived and sent to Bakersfield like it was with Campbell last year. If he wasn’t the one who was stinking out the joint nightly there wouldn’t be any need to make changes.

 

[FlameChampion]

This season is just killing my motivation for this team.

Honestly the organization just feels cursed.

Everyone that left looks better and everyone who comes here looks washed. Feels pointless to even make moves.

A new goalie will probably suck. Skinner would somehow probably look better if he was to leave.

Just a bizarre team and organization. It doesn’t make sense to me.