Post-Game Talk: This team has a problem in net
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Do you think Florida, or Vegas, or Colorado's management if they were given McDavid and Draisaitl would have Stuart Skinner as their starter in a make or break Cup window? Would any serious franchise do that?
The Oilers front office is the equivalent of that kid who somehow has fanagled his way to 12th grade while reading barely at a 3rd grade level and is now hoping he can eek out some Final exams good enough to graduate by the skin of his teeth instead of just sitting down and learning how to read properly.
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CantHaveTkachev
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you quoting ".901" while not giving me one solid reasoning as to why we can't win this him lol
just say you didn't watch the playoffs last year
CantHaveTkachev
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Vegas won a Cup with their 3rd stringer
Colorado won a Cup with Darcy f***ing Kuemper sporting a .902 save % in the playoffs
0.901 is the reasoning, no goalie has won the Cup with a worse save percentage since 1988. “Watch him play” is not a rebuttal because he is visibly shit as well.
Vegas won a Cup because they took a chance on Adin Hill who had good numbers on bad teams, just another one of their like 20+ pro scouting wins.
The Oilers would never do that.
Colorado built the most loaded team of the last 7-8 years probably and Sakic still made sure to spend on goaltending (he spent a 1st on Kuemper), the team he built was so good it turned out didn't really need Kuemper after a brutal eye injury because they steam rolled everyone else.
The Oilers management is a steaming turd compared to those groups.
Ritchie Valens
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Right, Campbell had to come in and bail them out against LA too, I forgot about that. Skinner was meh and Hill went on a tear. If Brossoit didn’t get hurt, I think the Oilers might have beaten them.
i think Kuemper had one of the lowest save percentages in a long time when Colorado won. If I remember right, most cup winning goalies go about .920 or higher through the playoffs.
Kuemper was a legit good goalie, he was like .920 that season. Dude got his eye almost ripped out, apparently eyes are important for goaltending.
Sakic built such a wagon of a team it didn't matter but that is the textbook example of the exception and not the rule.
Even Sakic himself went out of his way to make sure they made the Kuemper acquisition at the cost of a 1st because he wasn't 100% sold on his goaltending.
Sakic built such a wagon of a team it didn't matter but that is the textbook example of the exception and not the rule.
Even Sakic himself went out of his way to make sure they made the Kuemper acquisition at the cost of a 1st because he wasn't 100% sold on his goaltending.
It was another classic NHL overreaction to one offside play where Duschene was 6 feet offside.
lol Oilers media won't touch that with a 50 foot pole nor will any of the Skinner apologists here.
The excuse will be 100% "It doESn'T MaaTTER anyWAyz! Stooooo is GooD foR it, cUZ playOFfs laST sPriNG gaURuntEEs iT!".
He could be 0-11 against the top teams in the league and not one of the cucks in the media corps here would grow a spine and say anything.
If Skinner played in a market like Toronto, he would be getting his ass lit on fire for that stat line, front page of the sports section zero doubt.
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CantHaveTkachev
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and yet refused to start him until Brossoit got injured and they got desperate...that's called "getting lucky"
the Oilers were within 2 goals of winning it all...but MacKinnon actually assisted on the Cup winning against Vasilevsky and didn't use the excuse "their goalie is too hard to score on!" for the Avs like many here do with McDrai
KeithIsActuallyBad
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If management thinks goaltending is good enough who are we as second tier fans to question them, right? Bojack have not impressed so far.
CantHaveTkachev
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MacKinnon managed to get points against Vasilevsky....why couldn't McDrai?
That does sound like him. What a joke of a writer. This guy's job is literally to report on and question the players on behalf of the fans.
Even if you accept his premise that Skinner is an average goaltender and that it happens to every team, is that really the standard? This team was supposed to be best in class for everything.
I think part of it is that when people say average, they register that in their brain as being good because they like consider themselves average. However statistically average in the NHL means just good enough to be on a playoff team. The goal here is to win a stanley cup. I dont get why average goaltending should be acceptable.
Also he's not even good enough to be average by pretty much every metric.
Messrules11
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I agree, the electronics need to come off the bench and I’ll go one further and say if you’re going to take a timeout then your ability to challenge should be taken away.
Ironically- that’s not what he was tweeting when Koskinen was in net
The Oilers wouldn't have made that trade for Hill to begin with, they'd have settled on Broissoit and called it a day. That's the difference between them and us, McDavid/Draisaitl would already have a Cup, maybe 2, if they had they played for those franchises/management groups.
Sheikyerbouti
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Both the eyes and stats show it. We didn't give them a lot tonight, it was way too easy to score.
CantHaveTkachev
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Again, your self owns are hilarious. Defending Skinner by saying the other goalie made saves on McDavid or Draisaitl is something…
