 RDOilerfan
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For 70 games the Oilers goalies were good enough that the team was in first or second place in their division the whole season.
The team for most of that year had 3 top 6 forwards in Leon, McDavid and Nuge, a few 3rd liners, then a whole bunch of 4th liners. For most of the year, and in the play in series, they had 2 top 6 lines, and 2 forth lines. They didn't have a 3rd line which in the NHL is pretty important. They had an amazing PP but 5 on 5 they severely lacked because like I pointed out, they only had 3 top 6 forwards for most of the season. This season, the Oilers should be able to ice 2, very good top 6 lines, each having an art ross winning, MVP winning, elite center. They should be able to ice a good 3rd line with a legit, good, 3rd line center. They should be able to ice a legit 4th line. Then in addition have real NHLers, guys who can play on other teams as extra forward.
In a league that requires your defense to have good skaters and puck movers in all your pairings and preferably those type of dmen makes up the majority of your entire defense core, the defense last year had 2 guys playing significant minutes that couldn't skate in Larsson and Benning. Plus 2 guys in Klefbom and Bear who were just OK skaters. The defense that had 3 guys playing significant minutes that couldn't move the puck in Larsson, Benning and Russell. Those 3 struggled to make a cross ice tape to tape pass on a significant basis. They had 2 other dmen who 2 were just OK in moving the puck in Klefbom and Nurse. If you look at the defense this season, they added Jones, Barrie and Koekkoek all of whom are very good skaters and all of whom can move the puck really well. So now the Oilers defense will have at minimum Barrie, Jones and Bear as very good puck movers. Nurse is an OK puck mover. So puck moving has improved dramatically which helps your goaltending. I could see Koekkoek getting minutes over Russell and if that happens, you'd had 4 really good puck movers. Skating wise, Nurse is elite, Barrie and Jones are very good, Russell is a good skater and Bear is decent. Again I see Koekkoek getting time. So now at minimum you have 4 very good skaters and 1 good skater on defense all the time. So skating wise, they have improved dramatically which will help them defend.
That goaltending had a real bad 1.5 week - 4 game stretch in the play in series. The entire team was god awful, the defence played as bad as they had played in years but the 2 goalies didn't come up with enough good saves. There is no denying that. But like I said, the goaltending except for 1.5 weeks was good enough to have the team in first or second place with a lacking defence and lacking forward ranks. The defence and forward ranks have improved dramatically. So I prefer to go in looking at the 70 decent games the goalies played behind a flawed team that was good enough for first or second last year and think they are capable of doing that again vs focusing on 4 games in the play in where the entire team played about as bad as they possibly could in front of them.
Fingers crossed.
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