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 Adam
Messages: 7757
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| cpcos wrote on Sat, 04 November 2023 16:06 |
Absolutely nothing is working….no attack…. no defence, no system in place.
It is clear that there is huge internal conflict into the room.
Woody benched Skinner because he left practice….
We are not going to turn this around…
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I would tend to disagree here.
The way the Oilers have played the last two games, they should generally win both. We outshot and outchanced both teams and controlled play for huge sections of the game. The problem is goaltending.
Could finishing and defence be a little better? Absolutely. We're apparently now 11th worst in the league at allowing high danger chances - ideally, a team looking to win a Stanley Cup would be well in to the 20s on that stat. We're currently 27th in goals for, and have not a sniff from our third and fourth line (I'm not even counting the Gagner goals because he's done that playing with top-six players). Obviously, that needs to be a lot better, but I think sometimes there's some luck attached to that. If we have a lot of 50 shot games we're going to get scoring at some point.
But the netminding has been beyond abysmal and that's soul-crushing for the team. When we score early and then immediately the Predators score on a wrap-around where Campbell is on the absolute wrong side of the net - that's a lot of wind out of the sails. When the Stars goalie makes several huge saves, only to have Skinner whiff on an easy unscreened shot from the hash marks, that's a killer. We have the worst goaltending in the league - and that is a hole that badly needs patching.
And sadly, it's maybe the most difficult one to patch in-season, but it's pretty critical that they address it. I still wonder what they could have got if they dealt Skinner while he was a Calder nominee in the summer...
"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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