 RDOilerfan
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Registered: January 2016
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| Oscargasm wrote on Wed, 30 March 2022 15:09 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 30 March 2022 14:45 |
| Adam wrote on Wed, 30 March 2022 14:30 |
| Mike wrote on Wed, 30 March 2022 11:59 |
| Adam wrote on Wed, 30 March 2022 14:56 |
The Oilers have a goaltending issue - everyone knows that (other than the GM, I suppose).
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So barring injury, are we really going Koskinen/Smith the rest of the way? No chance to bring up Skinner to see if he can catch lightning in a bottle? Go all 1986 Patrick Roy on the league?
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You've seen how Holland works now. He waits until a problem is so persistent that it should have been dealt with long before before he acts. If the coaching change was any example, then should we fall a couple games down in a playoff series with both goalies playing terrible, MAAAAAYBE we'll make the call to Bakersfield. Or maybe he'll wait another game with his decision resting entirely on what happens in that 60 minutes?
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The Oilers gave up 4,1,5, and 4 goals while getting swept by the Jets last year and they still came back with the same 39 year old starter. The Oilers are already way beyond the problem being so persistent. Never mind the playoffs, I have to see that the Oilers aren't coming back with the same duo next season before I believe it.
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It’ll be smith and skinner next year due to a)Smith being given that second year 🤪🙄 and b) they’ll swing out on every goalie this offseason. Skinner as the 1, Smith as his backup. And Fanti lights the A on fire.
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I am holding out hope that Smith will have an mysterious injury and be in LTIR all year. Hips tend to go on old goalies and I don't think he's had anything related to that.
He's a pretty arrogant guy so maybe how much he's been hurt, how his game seems to have fallen off and how the press has been ripping him (rightly so) will be a huge shot to the ego so rather than admit he's getting old and losing it, he will want to glam on to a "injury" as the reason he fell off and not his age.
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