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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| inverno76 wrote on Sun, 21 May 2023 17:11 |
Like Pittsburgh was for years with Crosby and Malkin, the window stays open as long as 97 and 29 are here. Sure we don’t have Fluery and Letang, but we saw the Pens win a Cup with suspect D and a hot goalie.
That’s the Oilers right now, except the goalie. I still believe in Skinner, but that’s the only thing I believe is holding us back. We are good enough to beat any team, on any given night with average goaltending. We didn’t get it this spring. So disappointing.
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But Pittsburgh had won a Cup, plus been to another Finals before Crosby & Malkin were at risk of facing UFA. They both extended a year before they first had the opportunity to go UFA. Crosby chose a route similar to Matthews, where in his second deal he didn't give many UFA years, and then signed long-term the year before he first could be a UFA. He doesn't face it again until 2025. Malkin has never done a very long-term deal and is actually on his fourth contract. He signed a year early the first time around and even was briefly available as a UFA last year.
The biggest difference is the team around them in those early years was so consistently better. Malkin had never missed the playoffs before this year, and Crosby was a rookie the last time they missed. They lost out early more times than they'd be happy with, and both faced some adversity (lots of injury issues for both) but even when they missed large stretches, the team was still good enough to make the post-season and compete.
I'm not sure it's the same with the Oilers. They haven't been good enough to compete, and have had to have super-human performances by 97 and 29 in order to advance in the playoffs the last couple of years. The management hasn't had a real legit goalie behind them since 2017. I agree - as long as those players are here the window is open and I wish that management had come to that conclusion 3-4 years earlier. We have an awful lot riding on whether we go deep in the post-season next year.
"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
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