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Re: Goaler Analysis [message #848704 is a reply to message #848692 ]	Fri, 28 November 2025 14:16

Adam
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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.

I would love to see a list of all the goalies that have moved teams, whether by free agency or trade in the time since Skinner first crapped the bed against Vegas three playoffs ago.

I was saying at that point that he probably had market value and could be traded for a decent return but the Oilers should look at the three straight pulls as indicative and be looking for someone with a little more clutch to their game.

There's still some really bad GMs out there, so you'd think someone like the waterboy in Buffalo would want a guy with Stu's history of getting to the Cup finals! I'd be making a lot of calls if I was Bowman.

I will say though about some of the most recent rumours - if we give up Bouchard for a goalie we're just blowing another hole in the roster. It's inanity. Do we really want Nurse or Ekholm as our powerplay defenceman? Or an old broken down guy like Parayko?

If it was Buffalo and we're getting back Colten Ellis and Owen Power maybe. Otherwise, forget that. We're not going to be successful if every time we patch one hole we create another.

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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
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