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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 22 April 2025 09:09 |
The can't panic after game 1. Starting the backup in the playoffs is a last chance desperation play that leaves no plan c if it fails. Down 0-2 (or even 1-2) makes a lot more sense.
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Completely agree with this. Understand the sentiment, and wish that management had taken the goaltending issues seriously prior to this, but they decided that they'd prefer to have a traditional starter/back-up tandem and that's what they have. There isn't much of a Plan B.
Pickard played in 36 games this year starting 31 of them. That's the most starts or appearances he's had since 2016-17. He's almost never had to play back-to-back games in many years, so expecting him to play the next 20-odd games is probably a stretch. And how did he do? Well, his .900 sv% and 2.71 GAA aren't stellar. He's tied for 30th in save percentage among goalies with 20 or more starts.
And if you dig a layer deeper, here is how he did against playoff teams this year:
Winnipeg - 6-0 L (in relief, 1 GA on 7 shots)
New Jersey - 3-0 L
Montreal - 3-0 L
Minnesota 5-3 W
Colorado - 5-4 L
Washington - 7-3 L
Carolina - 3-1 W
Winnipeg - 4-3 OTL
Vegas - 3-2 W
Los Angeles - 3-0 L
St Louis - 4-3 W
Los Angeles - 5-0 L
He also played 6 scoreless minutes in a loss to Dallas after Skinner got hurt. For those keeping track, that's 4-6-1 not including the relief appearance. He ate up the also-rans, going 18-4-0 against non-playoff teams, but against contenders, he's not shown well, including two big losses to the Kings down the stretch.
The coach hasn't trusted him much to play against the good teams either - Of his 10 starts against playoff teams, 3 of them came when Knoblauch had really no other choice.
Skinner's numbers are worse than Pickard's but he's also played all the good teams, and left most of the games against the scrubs to his backup (again showing that the Oilers have fully embraced the 1990s approach to goaltending).
There's a chance that Skinner gets hot and goes on a run. We've seen it before. It's a possibility at least. There's just very little chance that Pickard can be that guy.
And as CrusaderPi says, if you switch now it just looks like panic. You have to give 74 back the ball and hope he can run with it. And if he can't, then fire everyone in management for blowing this.
"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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