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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Sun, 12 May 2024 23:09 |
| Kr55 wrote on Sun, 12 May 2024 22:25 |
| tardigrade81 wrote on Sun, 12 May 2024 22:20 |
Pickard needs to start next game. Plain and simple
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100%. Skinner is in zero confidence mode. There is no reason to keep playing him now. We've seen this show before.
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Strong disagree. They can’t panic. Stick with what brought you and all that. Unless the coach thinks they absolutely cannot win with skinner AND Pickard is the guy who’ll win them the cup, then let’s go Jean luc! Come back Tuesday and earn the split at home.
One step closer to the prophesied Campbell redemption arc though, so that’s cool. I heard he had a good off season and AHL season.
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I'd go back to Skinner again. I don't think Calvin Pickard is going to be a world beater in the playoffs. Nothing in his long history suggests we can expect that. So while I am really not thrilled with Skinner's play - and to be fair, there were no awful goals tonight, just no saves really, while the guy at the other end made many - I feel like he's the only one that might get hot enough to get us to the end.
In case anyone was wondering, Campbell didn't do well in the AHL playoffs. Got absolutely lit up for 5 goals on 35 shots. Condors played Rodrigue in the other game and he only allowed two on 33, but the team didn't overcome.
The thing is, against Vancouver, we just need adequate goaltending. The media wants to try to make Silovs a story, but he's let in 11 goals in 3 games. He's hardly bulletproof there. He's been better than Skinner, but that's it.
Fact is, if we play like that the rest of the series, we have a good chance of not losing again, no matter who the goalie is. But we need someone who can have a hot streak if we make the next round because either Dallas or Colorado will be tough.
Some other thoughts - the Oilers need to do some systems adjustments on breakouts. They too often are surrendering the puck at our blueline. Often when they do get it out, it's just a give away to the far blueline. Less of a problem in the second half of the night when the Canucks barely forechecked, but when they're coming, it's an issue.
The Canucks breakout seems mostly to be a high flip which they try to skate in to - they must have done it 15-20 times tonight. It's again something the Oilers should be adapting towards. We've struggled with getting in to their zone too - especially when McD isn't on the ice.
The team also is going to have to figure out how to score at even strength. That PP is amazing, but we need to at least be dangerous in order to draw more penalties. We're getting perimeter play, but we may need to bang in a couple greasy ones to knock the horseshoe out of Silovs hindquarters.
Reffing was dreadful again. It must be super frustrating trying to figure out what you can and can't get away with. There had to be 60 cross-checks tonight and the three they called were hardly the most egregious. Four I guess - they did give Soucy one after the final buzzer, but that's a whole different story. They ignore ridiculous stuff, and then they call a ticky tack one. The interference on Draisaitl was the same...weak weak call, and then they allow it on virtually every faceoff, with some having a Canucks player literally pull down the guy lined up across from him. It's stupid. Get it together NHL.
I actually think the suspension at the end should be for Zadorov. He's the third man in, hitting an unsuspecting player from behind and putting him in peril as a result. After the final buzzer too. I'd give him a game, but I don't have the Parros Wheel-o-Justice here. I suspect they'll think that post-game minor will really teach him a lesson. There's just no other sports league in the world that is totally fine with a couple of plugs gooning the best player in the sport. It's bush league.
Final thought? It's just one game and one we deserved a better fate in. Come back, play like that again, win the next three and get rid of these chumps. Teach them a lesson for trying to cheapshot our superstar.
"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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