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Adam Messages: 6859
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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CrusaderPi wrote on Sun, 14 May 2023 23:25 | Same old problem for the Oilers. In their six losses they gave up 5, 4, 5, 6, 3, and 4 goals. Even with the two ENs I remember, that's simply not a recipe for success.
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I feel for Stuart Skinner. That's a really tough way to end what was a great rookie season. In the end he was pulled four times in 12 playoff games. That's really, really bad. He struggled in the AHL playoffs last year too so maybe it shouldn't have come as a big surprise - and really, the surprise was that he was in the position to not only be the starting goalie in the playoffs, but to be so entrenched as the starter that even his third pull of the playoffs didn't cause the coach to go to the other guy.
To me, that's all on Ken Holland. He didn't bother getting a real goalie the prior two years - one of which we cratered early along with anyone else potentially considered a favourite in the "Western" Conference - gifting the Montreal Canadiens a trip to the Finals. Then again the same tandem last year - which saw us get through two round despite goalies that allowed 55 goals in just 16 games. Three goalie pulls last year too.
So then we decide to go get the goat of the Toronto Maple Leafs most recent flameout - Jack Campbell. He just completely failed to give the team anything resembling solid goaltending all year - so can we blame Woodcroft for putting the season in the hands of the goalie that did the most towards getting us here? The crazy thing is that it looks settled that this is going to be the tandem for the next several years yet...
On top of that, we made no attempt to upgrade the top six. There was no creative cap solutions to buy us a little more space. There wasn't even really an investigation as to whether there was another deal out there - while Hextall failed to generate interest in JVR in Philly, Holland had already hung up his hat for the year. My mind is still blown by the fact he originally wanted his press conference to be an hour before the trade deadline.
Ekholm was a heck of a pickup. I'll give him a lot of credit for that one, but he created more cap space by moving Puljujarvi and Barrie and then he didn't really even try to use it. Ultimately it cost us. The top six was weak already as Yamamoto is more ideally a top-9 guy, and then an injury or two and all of a sudden we're paper thin and relying entirely on 97 and 29 to win it for us.
We outplayed them most of the last two games, so a bounce or two goes our way and we are the ones celebrating tonight. When you have the best player in the game, you can overcome a lot of team flaws, and even some weaker than expected coaching - as I didn't think Woodcroft did well in adjusting to what Vegas was giving them. They all collapsed low to try to block everything from getting through, and the Oilers just didn't find a way to deal with that.
But ultimately, goaltending was the difference in this series and our hopes should NEVER have rested on the shoulders of a rookie netminder.
The scariest thing is that we may only have one more shot at it with this group. Draisaitl can be extended in Summer 2024, and if he won't re-sign, then I don't know that we have any choice but to trade him. And the season after McDavid faces the same decision.
Oh yeah, and we're going in to those critical last seasons with Campbell & Skinner as our goalie tandem for both...not to mention the architect of this disaster, Ken Holland, still steering the ship.
"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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