 RDOilerfan
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| Goose wrote on Tue, 09 February 2021 12:23 |
| Adam wrote on Tue, 09 February 2021 00:54 |
You really can't judge Smith based on the game against Ottawa. He didn't fail, but that's about all you can say in a game against an opponent so weak. We now have three different wins against the Sens with three different goalies, and both Smith and Koskinen looked decent, but really weren't that challenged.
Smith is still ultimately the same guy who has been around .900 or worse the last couple seasons, and now he's a year older. It's really really unlikely that he's going to have a renaissance, even if he has a good game sometimes. I really hope that the Oilers brass understands that, but I have little faith that they do. I would still be pulling out all the stops to get a better goalie this year, and as soon as I could if I was the GM.
That said, it's nice to win again and hopefully they can do it again tomorrow and pull above .500 for the first time this season. You do hope that they don't get cocky up 3-0 in the season series, and outscoring the Senators 15-8...
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Ya, it's tough to get a read on what this team is right now. 3-0 against Ottawa, 4-7 against the rest of the division. And Ottawa isn't just, "not a Cup contender", they're trending to be an awful team. On pace to win less than 10 games this season. They've given up 26 more goals than they've scored which pro-rates to -164 over an 82 game season. Detroit was brutal last year and were only -122 in 71 games (-140 prorated). But that was an exceptionally bad season. The worst team the year before was only -60.
That being said, wins count the same regardless of the opponent, so good to see them bank these points.
After tonight's game, they play 11 games against not-Ottawa, so I think we'll have a much better read on how good this team is after that. A pretty good mix, with 3 each against CGY & TOR, 2 against WPG & VAN and 1 against MTL. Then 3 in a row against OTT.
As for Smith, I'll just say the sooner the Oilers get goaltending help, the better.
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What gives me some hope about the Oilers is other than the first game against Habs where they were completely outplayed, any of their losses, they were right there. They have split games against the Leafs and a couple of the Leafs wins they got goals from lucky plays or plays that won't happen ever again. The got some bad breaks in a few other games where pucks go off legs or asses or guys backs. They get a save or 2 more and they win a few games. The Flames game. Koskinen was flat out bad, Markstrom stood on his head and they still got 4 and were probably a little unlucky not to have a couple more in the first.
At the end of the day, they lost but they aren't losing because they are grossly outmatched, they are losing because a couple of plays or bounces didn't go their way, their goalie didn't give them a few extra stops but I do wonder if that was just flat out because he played so many games in a row and a few very correctable errors cost them.
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