Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | With Klingberg in the Mix Who Are Our 7D After the Deadline?

[Soundwave]

Yep.

These are world class smooth brain takes.

"If you take a goalie with great stats, and put him on a team with better defense, his stats are going to get WORSE!" - Gregor and his ilk. These guys are f***ing idiots.

This is why as a journalist you have a duty to be objective and not get attached to players. Clearly a segment of our media are basically buddy-buddy with Skinner and/or "like him".

Be a f***ing professional and do your job. If Skinner was having this kind of season in Toronto or Montreal (and they were in a Cup window), he would be getting torn a new strip off his ass. Even the Calgary media would be asking questions long before now. Edmonton sports media is a massive embarrassment.

Complete kiddie glove treatment.

 

[BudBundy]

A few thoughts:

-I admit to having become a bit unnerved by Skinner in goal. We he is bad, he’s horrible. That said, Gibson has been hot garbage for years now and has a long history of being injury prone. We have precious little cap space and precious few assets to improve. All things being equal, Gibson isn’t the move I’m going to make.

- this team still cannot handle an aggressive forecheck. As surprisingly good as our D corps has been in shot suppression and has gotten over the early wobble defending the rush, if we run up against Florida again, we are cooked. What’s the answer?

-maybe a healthy Kane and “playoff version” Arvidsson fixes this, but our wingers are on the perimeter way too often. We miss Holloway and Foegele a lot. A big crease crashing winger with top six finish would be highly desirable if one becomes available.

-lastly, a 3rd line center with hair on his ass that can take a hard match against the opponents #1C would improve our Cup chances a lot. Henrique, whom I respect a lot, doesn’t look like he’s it, and Philp probably isn’t quite ready.

 

[Captain Controversy]

If mcdavid is hurt, oilers should rest him. Load management. I would rather have healthy Mcdavid for the playoffs than a 70 percent mcdavid. So...who's the idiot in charge ?

 

[McShogun99]

Name a starting goalie who sustained a good sv% for years on a bottom of the league team. Im struggling to think of any.

Either way getting peppered by shots under Eakins system I imagine isn’t a good thing.

Ullmark with the Sabres.

 

[bobbythebrain]

You don’t buy that putting your team down 3-0 or 4-0 after 20 minutes is bad. Okay.

What then in your mind would represent bad goaltending?

You clearly didn't understand the post. Must be too hard focusing on anything else other than bashing Bowman

 

[CupofOil]

Knoblauch just said it on Oilers Now: we need better goaltending and we can improve on it

Just listened to the segment, you're reading too much into it. He said it as a passing comment in the middle of saying that everything needs to be better, Special Teams, defense, goaltending etc.
He's essentially saying that the team needs to improve in certain areas like every coach does, he wasn't implying that they need to upgrade on Skinner if this is what you were implying. It was a nothing comment really tbh.

In fact, as I listen to the rest of the segment right now and his horrible connection finally cut off, he was talking about how "phenomenal" Skinner was later in the Vancouver series and the next two series so quite the opposite actually, he praised Skinner if anything.
With all due respect, you're misleading people with this post which you tend to do sometimes.

 

[VeteranPresence]

You clearly didn't understand the post. Must be too hard focusing on anything else other than bashing Bowman

I was replying to the words you typed, so if I didn't understand them, that's not on me. You're trying to downplay Skinner's poor play in favor of some nebulous concept like "missed assignments". Meanwhile, in reality, we have actual numbers that show a) our overall team defense is excellent at suppressing high danger opportunities b) our starting goalie sucks at stopping low danger opportunities. Hmm, which has more credibility?

 

[McDoused]

If mcdavid is hurt, oilers should rest him. Load management. I would rather have healthy Mcdavid for the playoffs than a 70 percent mcdavid. So...who's the idiot in charge ?

McDavid gets what McDavid wants. He wants to be at the 4Nations tournament.

 

[Wewillrise]

I have a feeling a couple of posters in here are bots trying to piss people off.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Ullmark with the Sabres.

Wasn’t Hutton the starter?

 

[bobbythebrain]

I was replying to the words you typed, so if I didn't understand them, that's not on me. You're trying to downplay Skinner's poor play in favor of some nebulous concept like "missed assignments". Meanwhile, in reality, we have actual numbers that show a) our overall team defense is excellent at suppressing high danger opportunities b) our starting goalie sucks at stopping low danger opportunities. Hmm, which has more credibility?

The 2 goals against Det were direct results of missed assignments after Skinner made the initial save

Nuge and Hyman getting stuffed in the crease by their dmen was the result of successful assignments

This isn't rocket appliances. It's hockey 101.

So when you post stuff like credibility...it's pure comedy

 

[harpoon]

The issue is this would be a bigger mistake than getting rid of Dubnyk and seeing him win the Vezina.

I don’t think that happened. Dubnyk’s best season was 2014/15 when he went 27-9-2 with a 1.78 gaa and a .936 sv%. He finished a distant third (one first place vote) to Price (27 first place votes) in the Vezina voting.

Skinner does have one thing in common with Dubnyk. A tendency to not pay attention and suffer from wandering concentration. I swear I still recall Dubnyk letting in so many goals on shots from the corner because he wasn’t ready and they would bounce right between his legs. Dubnyk learned to pay attention. I wonder if Skinner will.

 

[Mr Kot]

I have a feeling a couple of posters in here are bots trying to piss people off.

Haha I wonder who these people are haha, certainly not me haha, who would ever do such a thing haha...

I'm not a bot haha

 

[soothsayer]

I have a feeling a couple of posters in here are bots trying to piss people off.

*beep boop* your mother *beep poop*

 

[ThePhoenixx]

What do you guys think of Jordan Greenway from Buffalo for an add up front?

UFA. 3 Mil.

 

[Canovin]

If mcdavid is hurt, oilers should rest him. Load management. I would rather have healthy Mcdavid for the playoffs than a 70 percent mcdavid. So...who's the idiot in charge ?

GM McDavid trying to add the right players to the Oilers