Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | Y'all Got Any Good Goalies?

[TheNumber4]

There you go with a flair for the dramatic again. It wasn't some special insight. It was need.
Broissioit had hip surgery, and Lehners struggles surfaced. They needed a backup for their rookie Thompson and depth

Hill was also SJs worst goalie att with Reimer and Kahkonen outplaying him

You keep coming on here trying to make it sound like some grand move of GM brilliance

Pure hindsight going on with they VGK praise. For every story about a successful Hill, there’s 31 stories of a failed whoever goalie in the League every year. And if we scored 1 more goal in game 7 the Oilers would look like the genius management group.

 

[VeteranPresence]

Pure hindsight going on with they VGK praise. For every story about a successful Hill, there’s 31 stories of a fail whoever goalie in a League every year.

How does this make Stuart Skinner's shitty numbers/play better than they are?

 

[Stauf4Prez]

He actually is not beating out Pickard lol. He just gets the starts given to him. Not always earned.

Pickard is 2.41 / 0.901%

6/8 games with a 900+

Skinner's SV% gets worse while his GAA remains the nearly the same - as our defense improves and allows less SOG, Skinner saves less as he lets more shots he does face in lmao. How people defend this inept mental midget to wits end is beyond me.

 

[Slats432]

Normally the Oilers would not team up with any private companies and let them use their name and logo for their products. But this is McDavid here... so of course they don't mind lol. Oilers website even did a feature with Lauren. But I think it is great... just another reason for the McDavid's to attach to the Edmonton market.

Simply put, if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. The Oilers are working with people (Jackson, Knoblauch, Lauren) that enhance their relationship with their most prized asset. It is smart business.

 

[CanadasTeam99]

Skinner's SV% gets worse while his GAA remains the nearly the same - as our defense improves and allows less SOG, Skinner saves less as he lets more shots he does face in lmao. How people defend this inept mental midget to wits end is beyond me.

Skinner is trending up, but he always starts off in the depths of hell

October - 0.872%
Novemebr - 0.898%
December - 0.906%

Took him 3 whole months to just get to average/barely above You can't have your goalie tank the start of your year. Just normal with Skinner though. October was the "easy" month too.

Woof

Here are Blackwoods numbers on a shitty SJ team

October- Also below average - 0.894
November - 0.916
December - 0.935

Yup, as people here say, this guy would not have been an upgrade......LMAO

 

[TheNumber4]

How does this make Stuart Skinner's shitty numbers/play better than they are?

Did I say it did. Or was i making a comment about hill in reply to a comments about Hill?

 

[VeteranPresence]

Did I say it did. Or was i making a comment about hill in reply to a comments about Hill?

You're making excuses for why the Oilers shouldn't give another goalie a try. "It worked that one time but might not work again!!!" is not the winner you think it is.

 

[McTonyBrar]

We lost 1 of our last 9 games.... and this place is going full on crazy

 

[Stauf4Prez]

Skinner is trending up, but he always starts off in the depths of hell

October - 0.872%
Novemebr - 0.898%
December - 0.906%

Took him 3 whole months to just get to average/barely above You can't have your goalie tank the start of your year. Just normal with Skinner though. October was the "easy" month too.

Woof

LOL that October month was something else.

I think he should stick to his stupid closet commercials and worrying if he moustache is groomed or not.

 

[VeteranPresence]

We lost 1 of our last 9 games.... and this place is going full on crazy

We lost to the exact same team we lost to in the SCF just a few months ago in a similar way (horrible defensive mistakes, horrible goaltending, no accountability from the coaching staff). Florida is the Everest and there's every sign they'll be back to the ECF again if not the Finals. It doesn't matter if we beat Joe Blow team- we need to beat the Panthers to win a Cup, and last night made it obvious we're no closer than we were in June. That's what is driving people crazy, along with being completely predictable given we kept the main suspects the same.

I guess I have to ask, are you okay with never winning a Cup during McDrai's prime? Because that's what we're going to do if Bowman continues to f*** around with the edges of the roster rather than addressing its weakest parts.

 

[TheNumber4]

You're making excuses for why the Oilers shouldn't give another goalie a try. "It worked that one time but might not work again!!!" is not the winner you think it is.

If I was making a post about why the Oilers should go with Stu I would have made that post. And the reasonings behind it would be a lot more than VGKs experience with Hill. So stop strawmanning my arguments, stick to what I said.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

You're making excuses for why the Oilers shouldn't give another goalie a try. "It worked that one time but might not work again!!!" is not the winner you think it is.

Oilers scouting. That’s the excuse.

 

[OilerTyler]

We lost to the exact same team we lost to in the SCF just a few months ago in a similar way (horrible defensive mistakes, horrible goaltending, no accountability from the coaching staff). Florida is the Everest and there's every sign they'll be back to the ECF again if not the Finals. It doesn't matter if we beat Joe Blow team- we need to beat the Panthers to win a Cup, and last night made it obvious we're no closer than we were in June. That's what is driving people crazy, along with being completely predictable given we kept the main suspects the same.

I guess I have to ask, are you okay with never winning a Cup during McDrai's prime? Because that's what we're going to do if Bowman continues to f*** around with the edges of the roster rather than addressing its weakest parts.

We lost against Florida in the playoffs because our offence didn't show up in 3 different games. This was actually a completely different type of loss. If we get the goaltending/defence that we got in the finals combined with the offence that we got yesterday I don't think anyone would be able to stop us.

 

[VeteranPresence]

If I was making a post about why the Oilers should go with Stu I would have made that post. And the reasonings behind it would be a lot more than VGKs experience with Hill. So stop strawmanning my arguments, stick to what I said.

If quoting your own words is a bad faith argument, it's your words that are the problem.

We lost against Florida in the playoffs because our offence didn't show up in 3 different games. This was actually a completely different type of loss.

Our goalie was worse than theirs and our defense was worse than theirs. How is that different?

 

[CanadasTeam99]

We lost to the exact same team we lost to in the SCF just a few months ago in a similar way (horrible defensive mistakes, horrible goaltending, no accountability from the coaching staff). Florida is the Everest and there's every sign they'll be back to the ECF again if not the Finals. It doesn't matter if we beat Joe Blow team- we need to beat the Panthers to win a Cup, and last night made it obvious we're no closer than we were in June. That's what is driving people crazy, along with being completely predictable given we kept the main suspects the same.

I guess I have to ask, are you okay with never winning a Cup during McDrai's prime? Because that's what we're going to do if Bowman continues to f*** around with the edges of the roster rather than addressing its weakest parts.

I truly think some people are fine with it. They want to win, but only with certain players here.

 

[TheNumber4]

We lost to the exact same team we lost to in the SCF just a few months ago in a similar way (horrible defensive mistakes, horrible goaltending, no accountability from the coaching staff). Florida is the Everest and there's every sign they'll be back to the ECF again if not the Finals. It doesn't matter if we beat Joe Blow team- we need to beat the Panthers to win a Cup, and last night made it obvious we're no closer than we were in June. That's what is driving people crazy, along with being completely predictable given we kept the main suspects the same.

I guess I have to ask, are you okay with never winning a Cup during McDrai's prime? Because that's what we're going to do if Bowman continues to f*** around with the edges of the roster rather than addressing its weakest parts.

We lost a 1 goal game against the best team in the League while making multiple stupid, uncharacteristic, and easily correctable mistakes. It’s not that bad.

If quoting your own words is a bad faith argument, it's your words that are the problem.



Our goalie was worse than theirs and our defense was worse than theirs. How is that different?

Quoting my words and interpreting an entire other argument not even addressed in the post is what you did though.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

We lost 1 of our last 9 games.... and this place is going full on crazy

Losing to Florida hurts.

Plus we've got important players trending down. Skinner isn't as good as last year. Bouchard isn't as good as last year. Ekholm isn't as good as last year. RNH isn't as good as last year, and he wasn't as good as the year prior, either. Hyman's coming on but he started in a massive funk. JSkinner is meh, Arvidsson is made of glass and also meh. Some of the on the fly fixes have looked good - Pod, Kap, Kulak to RD - but the goal of this team has to be the Cup and right now I don't know if that's feasible.

Is this still a very good team - yes, absolutely it is. Is it a team that can take out the likes of Winnipeg, Vegas, Florida in a 7 game series...

 

[CanadasTeam99]

EDM lines & pairings at Tuesday’s practice:•

No Hyman* on the ice

RNH - McDavid - Arvidsson*
Podkolzin - Draisaitl - Kapanen
Janmark - Henrique - Brown
Skinner - Ryan - Perry

Ekholm - Bouchard
Nurse - Kulak
Stecher - Emberson

Skinner
Pickard

 

[OilerTyler]

Our goalie was worse than theirs and our defense was worse than theirs. How is that different?

Yesterday the Oilers defence/goaltending wasn't good enough to win. Our offence performed well and couldn't bail them out.

In the finals our defence/goaltending WAS good enough to win but our offence didn't show up. That's the difference.

 

[TheNumber4]

Maybe if we didn’t waste a $1M on Carrick and didn’t leave $1M unused, we could have gotten a scoring winger last year and scored the one extra goal we needed.

 

[OilerTyler]

Skinner is trending up, but he always starts off in the depths of hell

October - 0.872%
Novemebr - 0.898%
December - 0.906%

Took him 3 whole months to just get to average/barely above You can't have your goalie tank the start of your year. Just normal with Skinner though. October was the "easy" month too.

Woof

Here are Blackwoods numbers on a shitty SJ team

October- Also below average - 0.894
November - 0.916
December - 0.935

Yup, as people here say, this guy would not have been an upgrade......LMAO

You are getting roasted for posting this on the Oilers subreddit lol

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

I wonder, with all the things happening with the NYR, if you could build a deal around Jeff Skinner + for Kaapo Kakko

Kakko hasn't put up a ton, but has good size and fancies.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Yesterday the Oilers defence/goaltending wasn't good enough to win. Our offence performed well and couldn't bail them out.

In the finals our defence/goaltending WAS good enough to win but our offence didn't show up. That's the difference.

I'm not even sold that the defence was that bad. High danger chances were 12-6 Edmonton. 6 high danger chances against is tied for the 5th fewest Edmonton has allowed all year.

Tkachuk kicked one in that somehow counted. Reinhart scored on a shot that wasn't even a scoring chance. Florida also got a fluke pinball goal off of Emberson's back.

Bad luck and not being able to get a save when we needed one are the bigger culprits (while agreeing that none of the D had particularly outstanding games)

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

You are getting roasted for posting this on the Oilers subreddit lol

lol Reddit.

 

[TheNumber4]

You are getting roasted for posting this on the Oilers subreddit lol

Damn he’s got a lot of Replies to get to. I await the results.

I wonder, with all the things happening with the NYR, if you could build a deal around Jeff Skinner + for Kaapo Kakko

Kakko hasn't put up a ton, but has good size and fancies.

Why are we trading JSkinner when his game is rounding into form and providing offence and play driving from the 3rd line. Something that we’ve always lacked on this team.