Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | Y'all Got Any Good Goalies?
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It's his first pass that has been great which is what we need. For some reason, Ducks aren't as high on him lol. This should be our #1 target.
I still can't believe Pagnotta said weeks ago that our #1 target is David Savard. What a joke
The Oilers need a 2nd pairing Dman and just as importantly real insurance just in case a top 4 Dman goes down. They aren't going into the postseason of a real Cup run with Stecher playing regular minutes in the top 6 (who is solid but more of a 7) and the guy off of waivers as their 7. The Dman market is more plentiful than the goalie market and will be moreso as more sellers emerge closer to the deadline so it's an obvious target and an obvious need for a Cup run.
I know you and others hate Skinner but he's going to be the guy they run with whether you like it or not. I do think they should add a goalie because you can never have enough goalies but I just don't think it's going to happen so top 4 Dman it is,
Neither did Stuart Skinner lol.
Skinner was good in the Dallas series. That’s pretty much it. He sucked at the start of the Florida series and in the critical game 7 gave up a brutal goal on the game winning goal.
KeithIsActuallyBad
SPEEN!
Guess we're f***ed then.
Anyway, Bowman could earn a lot of good press by acquiring a 2nd pairing D. Chasing anything more than a backup is pointless.
Because we want the Stanley Cup not a great friggin regular season. I didn't see Vegas or Florida stand pat when they won the Cup
Yeah so get someone reasonable and affordable. We need someone Kulak tier not some massive splash.
As is our D is going to be capped out when Bouchard gets his extension anyway, Bouchard at somewhere between 8.5-10 and then Nurse at 9.25 doesn't leave a lot of money to spend, spend, spend on D.
I'm sorry but we have a defensive system that works, it worked last year under Knob, it worked in the playoffs, and it's been working this season minus a grace period of a couple of games right at the start of the year for a Cup hangover.
This is not a smart area to spend big assets on. The bigger fish you bring in the harder it is to resign said player too, people are just thinking about one year's cap, even if you could land a Provorov or Andersson, where is the $6.5+ mill for Provorov or 9+ mill for Andersson's extensions coming from?
We probably are. I think it’s crazy they don’t appear to have any desire to upgrade on Pickard to get someone who can push Skinner for starts.Guess we're f***ed then.
Anyway, Bowman could earn a lot of good press by acquiring a 2nd pairing D. Chasing anything more than a backup is pointless.
OilerTyler
Disgruntled
Then spend on goaltending because that's the primary reason you don't have a 2024 Stanley Cup banner now.
KeithIsActuallyBad
SPEEN!
I don't think it's that huge of a priority. The duo aren't amazing but they get the job done.
And hey, maybe Pickard shuts out the Wild tonight. Wouldn't that be the story of the season.
Florida being gifted a 3-0 start meant no matter what they have like a 99% chance of winning the Cup.
If we had a goalie that could've held serve in any one of the first 3 games we probably win the Cup.
Skinner was horribad in the Vancouver series, we're lucky he didn't flush that series down the toilet because if they did you'd be getting taunted by dumb Canucks fans probably to this day of this site.
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KeithIsActuallyBad
SPEEN!
They did. They completely f***ed up. That's why we're paying for the "solution" not to play for us.
There's no use reasoning with them. It's just blind hatred really, kinda silly to be that way but it is what it is.
I thought he was pretty inconsistent in the Kings series but that legendary performance in Game 4 made up for that IMO.
Legendary performance lmao. You Skinner homers are hilarious.
That doesn’t mean you just stop trying to make improvements.
OilerTyler
Disgruntled
He still put up a 2.59 GAA and .910 save percentage in the LA series despite some garbage time goals in game 1 hurting his stats. His stats in each series:
vs. LA - 2.59 GAA, .910 SV%
vs. VAN - 3.17 GAA, .833 SV%
vs. DAL - 1.91 GAA, .922 SV%
vs. FLA - 2.33 GAA, .909%
Listen, I know Skinner is wildly inconsistent and was pretty bad this year up until the most recent stretch. That doesn't mean he wasn't good for us in the playoffs last year. This is now a league where the average GAA and save percentage hovers around 3.00 and .900. Putting up the numbers Skinner did in the playoffs against some of the league's best offensive teams was impressive. You can't really ask for more from a goalie at his pay grade.
If our offence didn't disappear in 3 of the 7 finals games we are Stanley Cup champions.
KeithIsActuallyBad
SPEEN!
The Oilers got as far as they did with Skinner. I'd rather see an Ekholm-type addition. I wouldn't trust the Oilers to actually scout a goalie since they haven't done so since Roloson.
I mean this is it. Hard to win when you only score once or less. Certainly Bobrovsky played really well in game 1 but a true championship team finds a way.
Yes it was. The Kings destroyed the Oilers in that game and they won 1-0 in a series that could have easily been 2-2 after that game.
That was one of the most lopsided Oilers playoff games I've ever seen against the Oilers that wound up being an Oilers win, well that and Game 6 vs. Dallas which Skinner also stole which was kind of a big game.
"Skinner homer". Hilarious, I've stated on many occasions that he was shit most of this season, said he was inconsistent in the Kings series yet you Skinner haters hate to acknowledge any good he does. I think it's unhealthy to dislike a player on your team that much especially a guy that has done some good in his time here.
To sum up. Yes, Skinner has been inconsistent, yes he lacks athleticism, yes he was terrible in his first playoffs and had his ups and downs the last playoffs (lots of ups in the last two series though and the Game 4 against the Kings as I mentioned) but some of you act is if he doesn't belong in the NHL or is just a backup. I think he's proven that he can be a #1 starter in this league albeit an inconsistent one.
If they're too stupid to find someone better than Jack Campbell, I guess the question then needs to be asked ... do you really as an organization deserve a Cup? On what basis exactly? Because other teams figure that out.
TheGingaNinja
Edmonton Ex-Pat who still loves his hometown team.
Heh, you definitely misunderstood me. When I said I didn't want anyone form that tire fire of a team, I meant Gibson as well. The team played bad in front of (Like real bad), but he wasn't great either. He's too big a risk at his cap and likely acquisition cost imo. Dostal on the other hand...
I think Skinner is a perfectly mediocre 1B who has far too many instances of horrid play along with having choked at key times in back to back playoffs. He’s been playing well the last couple weeks, hopefully he keeps it up.
I think it’s negligent that the Oilers aren’t looking to find someone more suited to stepping in over Pickard, should Skinner falter again in the playoffs.
SupremeTeam16
5-14-6-1
A couple names I’ve wondered about are Chris Driedger and Kaapo Kahkonen. Both have NHL experience and have posted decent numbers in the past, both are in the AHL and frankly have atrocious numbers but I wonder if either could run with a last chance to get onto an NHL squad as a 1B. Both have a cheap cap hit and wouldn’t be expensive to acquire. The issue is both are in contenders systems and for the same reason you mentioned those teams likely want to hang onto their 3rd stringer in case of injuries.
Either could possibly be an option as a 1B and if they don’t seize it, easy enough to cut them loose. At some point we really need to get a look at Rodrigue or else he’ll end up being another prospect that’s jettisoned before we know what he is.
The time to get Dostal was last year, but of course this team is too lazy to be proactive on things like that. Now Dostal would cost a 1st + Savoie if the Ducks are even interested in selling.
TheGingaNinja
Edmonton Ex-Pat who still loves his hometown team.
Savard is the only name on that list that scares me (I'm kinda meh on Dumoulin). Rest are varying degrees of interesting too good.
