Get a 1B goalie
My post was in direct response to a discussion about Blackwood's HDsv% this year as a means of concluding that he is better than Skinner. The point is small sample sizes do not have a lot of value when the guy has a history of very inconsistent play. IN his last 8 games Blackwood's HDsv% has been .778 which was a lot closer to his career numbers than his .877 over his first 11 games in Colorado. And that is with two shutouts in those 8 games.You can't just look at these things as equivalent, Skinner plays on one of the 2-3 best teams in the league that is now 2 years deep into a massively improved defensive structure, Blackwood has been on freaking San Jose that has been tanking seasons.
Even his .899 from San Jose the year they were tanking for Celebrini isn't bad in that context, he was nearly .900 on a terrible, terrible team, lots of goalies would have far worse numbers in that situation (likely Skinner included).
A legit goalie here should be .910+ or if they're not have some kind of * selling point, like their playoff save percentage or big game play is very good. We are poorly settling when we say .902-.905 the last two years along with .883 and .901 in the last two playoffs is "acceptable". We should be aiming a lot higher than that.
If we had listened to him historically, we'd have Carey Price on our books.My post was in direct response to a discussion about Blackwood's HDsv% this year as a means of concluding that he is better than Skinner. The point is small sample sizes do not have a lot of value when the guy has a history of very inconsistent play. IN his last 8 games Blackwood's HDsv% has been .778 which was a lot closer to his career numbers than his .877 over his first 11 games in Colorado. And that is with two shutouts in those 8 games.
I also think you significantly overestimate how team play impacts some of these goalie numbers.
I am gong to repeat what I have said multiple times. I want the Oilers to upgrade goaltending. But I want consistency not a series of hope and prayer moves. To be honest had they followed your advice over the last year or so they may have used up all their decent assets have more cap on the books and be no better off than they are right now.
My post was in direct response to a discussion about Blackwood's HDsv% this year as a means of concluding that he is better than Skinner. The point is small sample sizes do not have a lot of value when the guy has a history of very inconsistent play. IN his last 8 games Blackwood's HDsv% has been .778 which was a lot closer to his career numbers than his .877 over his first 11 games in Colorado. And that is with two shutouts in those 8 games.
I also think you significantly overestimate how team play impacts some of these goalie numbers.
I am gong to repeat what I have said multiple times. I want the Oilers to upgrade goaltending. But I want consistency not a series of hope and prayer moves. To be honest had they followed your advice over the last year or so they may have used up all their decent assets have more cap on the books and be no better off than they are right now.
If we had listened to him historically, we'd have Carey Price on our books.
Cam Talbot playing for the Oilers isn't going to cause Bobrovsky to not play among the best I've ever seen a goalie play through the first 8 periods of that series.
That's the reason we lost those games, not Skinner.
does that make the Oilers score goals?Talbot is capable of being better than sub .900 for the 1st three games of that series, in the 2017 playoffs he was frankly our best player in the playoffs period (not McDavid).
I posted this last week. Only reason they arent running away with the president's trophy is goaltendingDamn this team is good.
does that make the Oilers score goals?
Pretty much any goalie can get hot for short periods of time. The Leafs lost to a Zamboni driver. So what. As I have repeatedly said two guys who are a coin toss to lose you any given game are no better than one.The problem with this philosophy of waiting for the "perfect" fit is you could be flushing multiple Cups down the toilet waiting for this magical fit, like a woman who spent all her 30s dismissing several decent guys waiting for Mr. Perfect and now is 40+ and complaining and desperate for a family, while those other guys went off a got married to someone else.
I'll give a direct example here. The Oilers could have signed Cam Talbot to be the "back up" last summer for probably like even 1.2 million + bonuses. Dirt cheap, he was coming off an injury plagued year in Ottawa, but was an experienced, competent NHL goalie with good runs of play in multiple markets.
If they had done even that, is there a chance a Cam Talbot could have won one of the three first games in the Florida series in particular?
Quite possibly yes. And you'd have a Cup now instead of having nothing. For a whopping spend of 200k more than Pickard.
It doesn't have to necessarily be some slam dunk, home run deal that costs two 1sts. It's often really just a market of being vigilant on the market and keeping eyes open, which I think is the big problem with this team ... I don't think they're even looking, I think they're completely overwhelmed with just trying to find like 1 D-Man.
Well I'm not sure if you noticed but he retired/LTIRed himself after taking the Habs to a Cup FINAL that the Habs had no business even sniffing a part of (you think he'd lose with McDavid and Draisaitl instead of the Habs pop gun offense?), so no even if we had made a move for Price, it would have little to no bearing on what we can do now.
Pretty much any goalie can get hot for short periods of time. The Leafs lost to a Zamboni driver. So what. As I have repeatedly said two guys who are a coin toss to lose you any given game are no better than one.
Would I object if they got a James Riemer or even a talbot for something small. No. Because the cost does not restrict your ability to improve the team in other places. The problem with your strategy is that you are using most of your assets and cap space on a hope and prayer. If you are going to use that much of a scarce resource you better be giving yourself a real chance to improve not just duplicate what you have in another sweater.
Talbot is capable of being better than sub .900 for the 1st three games of that series, in the 2017 playoffs he was frankly our best player in the playoffs period (not McDavid).
Was Talbot going to score a single goal in Game 1 and more than 1 goal in Game 2?
San Jose series games 1,2, and 3 the Oilers scored 3 goals total.
They led the series 2 games to 1. Guess the reason why.
San Jose series?
And not always finding that finish.I posted this last week. Only reason they arent running away with the president's trophy is goaltending
One of the greatest defensive cores in their primeSan Jose series games 1,2, and 3 the Oilers scored 3 goals total, Kassian had 2 of the 3 Oilers goals (lol).
They led the series 2 games to 1. Guess the reason why.
Yeah it can make a difference.
2017, McDavid era, first time in the playoffs for this group. They couldn't barely piss a drop of offense to start that series, guess who saved McDavid and Draisaitl's ass.
Would a .915 or .920 in a game 3 behind a raucous Rogers crowd have changed things? Sure perhaps.
I also think Talbot could have stopped the second goal Skinner allowed in game 7. It was a good shot, but stoppable from a fair distance.
Any one of those things could have swung a series.
In 2017 we scored f*** all in games 1/2/3 vs. San Jose and Talbot basically put us on his back and had us up 2-1 somehow. We could have very easily have been down 1-2 or even 0-3.
What about Skinners .826% Game 3? What's ur excuse for that?Was Talbot going to score a single goal in Game 1 and more than 1 goal in Game 2?
Can you lose a game 0 to 0?does that make the Oilers score goals?
If Arvidsson has an off game your chances that it will result in a loss are pretty minimal. If your goalie has an off game I'd say they are significantly worse.I mean it comes off as hypocrisy when this logic is ONLY used for goaltending.
How about the 10 f***ing million dollars this team just spent on Arvidsson, Skinner, and Henrique and all three of them are having piss poor seasons? We spent a load of money to score more goals and scoring is actually down. Are forwards "voodoo!" now too?
There's not much talk about "yeah but now you can't spend more on forwards because those three didn't work out". Why is it only goaltending we are supposed to just accept nothing being done because Jack Campbell had a drinking problem? Like it sucks, but boo hoo get over yourself as an organization and do something. Did Colorado have a years long pity party for themselves because Georgeiv sucked? No. They went out and addressed the issue.
Every area of this team has had major amounts of money and asset costs spent on it except for goaltending.
No, but when you have 2 of the most dynamic players in the NHL on the same team, I kind of expect at least 1 goalCan you lose a game 0 to 0?
But you don't expect the goalie to save the puck what a load. 40 and 30 points respectively and they are fair play for your criticism but a guy who had to be replaced by a career ahler to right a series isn't.No, but when you have 2 of the most dynamic players in the NHL on the same team, I kind of expect at least 1 goal