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Adam wrote on Tue, 11 August 2020 14:28

Kr55 wrote on Tue, 11 August 2020 13:25

Somehow Mike Smith and his 0.902 sav% during the year and helping to toilet game 1 of our series is finding himself getting a vote of confidence from Holland and media guys like Spector, suggesting our goal-tending overall was a strong point this year.

I remain concerned. Are they using some kind of sav% stat that excludes goals that Smith single-handed created against us with stupid plays? Maybe he looks better if you look at it that way. Possibly would get him up near Koskinen's 0.917.


I will be livid if the Oilers bring back Mike Smith. He was not good all year, but somehow people still seem to think the sun rises and sets on him - and they'll point to a handful of games where he didn't get skunked as evidence.

We've seen before that the braintrust here doesn't do well with goalies - they sunk a bunch of money in to Gustavsson with ZERO evidence that he'd done anything but sucked for a couple years previously (I believe Holland also signed him to TWO deals, despite the fact he sucked in all those years too) - so I'm a little concerned that they may actually believe that Smith was better than his numbers show. That's always a challenging assumption, and even more so with a 32 year old who's put up .898 and .902 save percentages the last two years.

I forgot the Oilers signed Koskinen to a 3 year 4.5 million dollar deal. That's a lot of cheese for a guy that's never been trusted and wasn't the #1 going into the playoffs... to me this means they're going to look for a steady hand that can come in whenever and, most importantly, is trusted by the coach and GM.

Mike's getting a 3 year deal.



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