OilFans.com :: Fan Forum: Oilers => Goaler Analysis

Guest

This day on May 16
None

Happy Birthday To: Slapshot, welcometotheOC, markn29, Gobb, wildman134

OILERS INFO OILFANS
Saturday, May 16, 2026 11:37 AM MT

F.A.Q.

Members

Home

Oilers » Goaler Analysis

Re: Goaler Analysis [message #848693 is a reply to message #848692 ]	Fri, 28 November 2025 09:54

Jay
Messages: 1341
Registered: January 2007
Location: Edmonton

1 Cup

Kr55 wrote on Fri, 28 November 2025 09:16

Would have been great to try to do this search for a trade for our ideal goalie in the summer after we were a cup finalist.

Now? No way a team is gifting us a young and consistently good goalie without us selling the farm to get him. If we miss the playoffs or have a crap playoff run with goaltending clearly being a major cause? It won't be much easier this coming summer. And things can snowball from there if we are still too scared to take a chance on a goalie to try to make our team not appear so pathetic in that position.

Trying to go from poop to perfection would be extremely difficult. Maybe need a stepping stone first. First make us not look like goaltending is going to tank us singlehandedly with some passable goalies. Stop the entire world from knowing we're desperate to pull out goaltending out of the gutter and at least be around average there. Then try to make another move for this ideal goalie.

too bad we gave 4M of cap space for 8 years to an AHL-tier winger (IMO incorrectly listed as C. Maybe he could play C in the AHL), or we would have a lot more cap space to play with this year to try to make that stepping stone move.

That isn't the Oiler way though. They always need to wait for their assets to hit rock bottom before moving on. The most obvious play in the world this summer would have been to move on from Ekholm and Skinner. And they probably could have gotten real assets/cap room back. Now? Not so much.

Yeah the Frederick deal is just continuing to double down on terrible analysis from their pro scouting. Remember they paid extra for him so the bruins would retain salaray only for him to miss the rest of the regular season anyway! lol

Mmm I wonder if there's anyone that money could have been spent on that is low risk, provides grit and leadership and is inanely clutch in big moments. Maybe someone playing for the Kings confused2

Nah that isn't someone they could use.

"Initiative comes to thems that wait"

Report message to a moderator

Goaler Analysis	By: Skookum Jim on Wed, 26 November 2025 17:13
Re: Goaler Analysis	By: HamBlaster on Thu, 27 November 2025 18:21
Re: Goaler Analysis	By: Jay on Fri, 28 November 2025 06:11
Re: Goaler Analysis	By: Adam on Fri, 28 November 2025 09:54
Re: Goaler Analysis	By: Kr55 on Fri, 28 November 2025 10:03
Re: Goaler Analysis	By: Jay on Fri, 28 November 2025 10:14
Re: Goaler Analysis	By: Kr55 on Fri, 28 November 2025 09:16
Re: Goaler Analysis	By: Jay on Fri, 28 November 2025 09:54
Re: Goaler Analysis	By: Skookum Jim on Fri, 28 November 2025 10:50
Re: Goaler Analysis	By: Adam on Fri, 28 November 2025 14:16
Re: Goaler Analysis	By: PlusOne on Sat, 29 November 2025 15:30

Previous Topic: Review: Edmonton @ Seattle (Game #26)
Next Topic: Pregame: Edmonton @ Seattle (Game #26)
Oilers NHL Minors Speculation For Sale

Copyright © OilFans.com 1996-2022.
All content is property of OilFans.com and cannot be used without expressed, written consent from this site.
Questions, comments and suggestions can be directed to oilfans@OilFans.com
Privacy Statement

Hosted by LogicalHosting.ca