g2k wrote on Wed, 13 December 2023 17:39

Adam wrote on Wed, 13 December 2023 11:30 g2k wrote on Wed, 13 December 2023 10:43 Kr55 wrote on Tue, 12 December 2023 23:22 Connor Brown the only consistently useless Oiler Dead last tonight analytically and visually. Was 14 rows behind the bench last night. Draisaitl was visibly agitated about something after some shifts. Pissy, if you will. Brown looks like a career AHL'er filling in due to a raft of injuries. He's starkly out of place out there. It's kind of crazy how hard they've tried to fit that square peg in to the round hole. I always wonder with things like that how much influence the GM is using to try to make his atrocious signing (and even more atrocious decision to keep him after 9 games) look better by hopefully getting some level of production. But between Kane's inability to make a pass and Brown's inability to do anything, it's not great for Leon. Or a bad goalie signing by the GM, that’s taking a ton of starts from Rodrigue and hampering his development in the minors But that’s more to have a “possible” NHL backup for Starter Stu, than it is the GM trying to save face. I’m just not convinced that Campbell will ever be that guy. His numbers are pretty weak against AHL talent. He seems terminally broken. The Skinner/Pickard tandem doesn’t give me much comfort. Unless somehow Holland can parachute a goalie into this organization, the conversation of bringing Rodrigue up needs to start happening. He’s only had 5 AHL starts this season.

The AHL goalie handling since the demotion sure seems to suggest that the Oilers haven't given up at all on Campbell. They're sacrificing the development of the guy who's the organization's best chance as goalie of the future in order to keep running out a shattered wreck of a netminder to get lit up by AHL shooters again and again.

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