 RDOilerfan
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Registered: January 2016
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Another disappointing weekend in the books. They had a chance to do some damage against Pacific Division opponents and pissed it away. The game was lost in a 5 min span when they gave up 3. Plenty of blame to go around as I don't think a lot of players were that good. But it came down to goaltending once again. Fleury was good making several really good saves when his team needed them, Talbot sucked AGAIN. When you give up 6 goals and have a .806 save percentage, that isn't NHL goaltending. Oilers make a mistake on the PP, Eakins comes down the just flat out beats Talbot with a wrister to the far side. Was it a decent shot? Sure I guess so but he's a freaking 3rd line center. This isn't Ovie for F- sake. Make a freaking save!! Then Marchessault comes down 1.5 mins later and does the exact same thing. Same side of the ice, from the same spot, goes in the same place. How does an NHL goalie let in the same goal not even 2 mins later? Is Marchessault a real good player? Yes he is but you just saw that same f-ing play not 2 mins earlier. How does that happen?
I am not excusing the GM for the roster, it clearly isn't good enough. I am not excusing the coach because something is not working, it's obvious. BUT as a team, how do you do ANYTHING with goaltending like that? I am not an NHL coach but I would think that as a team defensively, the goal would be to not give up the middle and keep the shots to the side just like they did on those goals. There wasn't much to shoot at YET they still went in. The defense isn't great I know that but my god, if the expectation of the defense has to be that you basically give up no shots from ANYWHERE in your own zone, I don't care who's on defense. That just isn't realistic. If you had a picture of the Oilers end of the ice, is there any spot that you can circle that you can say with confidence you are safe to give up a shot from with Talbot in the net? I would say no.
They have to roll with Koskinen for a bit. This shouldn't be about hurting a guys feelings or getting you previous "guy" going. This is about playing the guys that give you a chance to win. The Oilers basically have zero margin for error on most nights, they can't afford to play a guy in net that isn't up to NHL standards right now.
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