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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Kr55 wrote on Mon, 02 December 2019 14:30 |
| Adam wrote on Mon, 02 December 2019 14:26 |
| PlusOne wrote on Mon, 02 December 2019 14:10 |
| Adam wrote on Mon, 02 December 2019 12:24 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Mon, 02 December 2019 11:15 |
| overdue wrote on Mon, 02 December 2019 10:55 |
Eating some crow is in order.
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I mean, we can put it on the menu, but we're only a third of a nervous season into the success story.
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Yeah, posts like that make me scramble for a piece of wood to knock on.
There's the chance you win the lottery any time you buy a ticket...it doesn't mean it's a good investment though.
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I am definitely more confident in him than Smith, that is for sure.
I dont know how long it will take for me not to worry about the wheels falling off but for now I am very happy at the overall stability Koskinen has brought to the net. I think it is time to make him the starter and a normal rotation until he loses the net.
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I'd play him more than Smith, but I wouldn't play him all the games. 66-75% of the time and that's it. I look at the way he fell apart down the stretch last year and I'm worried about his workload, so I'm managing it the best I can this year if I'm Tippett.
Starts so far are 15 for Smith and 14 for Koskinen - I'd be happy to see Koskinen's workload increased some - but I don't want him playing 40+ of the remaining games if I can avoid it. maybe 35/53...and even that might be high.
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Still would love to know what Hitch was doing when he refused to play a backup instead of Koskinen. Was he just trying to grind Koskinen into the ground to make him know how hard an NHL grind is, like, as a development thing? Or did Hitch get stubborn and refuse to play Stolarz because the media kept telling him he had to play Stolarz 10 of the last ~25 games for us to keep his RFA rights?
From Feb 16 (when we got him) to the end of the year Stolarz got 2 starts. 23 for Koskinen.
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It was bizarre. If Koskinen was excelling, maybe it would have made some sense but his save percentage by month was:
Jan: 0.891
Feb: 0.904
Mar: 0.901
Apr: 0.900
Hitchcock just stubbornly trotted him back out every night. The Oilers have made some weird decisions though on goalies - they year before with Montoya, McLellan played him just enough that they lost a better draft pick, despite Talbot being healthy and Brossoit being available if needed.
With Stolarz/Koskinen, I still don't see any good reason for the Talbot trade other than that the Oilers management didn't want to look bad if Talbot continued to outplay Koskinen the remainder of the year so fixed the problem by just dumping Talbot - basically for nothing.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireLowe #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky
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