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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Kr55 wrote on Fri, 28 November 2025 13:37 |
| NZ Oiler Fan wrote on Fri, 28 November 2025 12:22 |
| Kr55 wrote on Fri, 28 November 2025 14:42 |
| Skookum Jim wrote on Fri, 28 November 2025 11:22 |
The problem with any goalie change now is that that the worse problem IMHO is the defense.. including forwards.. even putting Vasilevski in net might not be enough to change the win loss column.. Every Oiler defenseman is having a horrible season so far.. Oil don't have any assets or cap for a proven goalie.. not that unicorn even exists.. they'll have to take a risk on whoever they get.. and it will still cost them the farm .. might have gone after Dipietro when they were available .earlier this year. Dipietro is rockin' a pretty good AHL record last 2 seasons for Providence.. but then again Providence might have a kick ass defense helping those stats..
Providence Bruins (GP/GA/S%/W/L/T)
2024-2025 40 2.05 .927 4 26-8-7
Playoffs 7 1.85 .928 1 3-3-0
2025-26 10 1.80 .942 0
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Our skaters can be much better. We know that.
What we also know is that no matter how good our skaters play, we have a "starting" goalie that will outright sabotage games for us and go into a deep pit of depression when we need our goaltending the most. Then we need a backup to save the day while Skinner does daily 10 hour sessions with Mumford to get his head on straight. That's the issue that needs to be fixed.
Waiting around for Skinner to kinda look better for a while because our skaters start to play better is not a solution to the real problem. That's just what our management keeps waiting to happen so they can go back to lazy mode and not address goaltending. And then we just watch our goaltending inevitably bite us in the ass again.
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Yep. Other teams make bad defensive plays too, but their goalies still seem to be able to find some saves. With ours it just seems inevitable that it'll end up in the back of our net.
We can definitely be MUCH better defensively, but at some point you need a save out of your goalie, and this year especially we're just not getting that.
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If they are now going into games knowing that they will pay for almost every mistake, that's a death spiral that may only stop if the goalie is able to regain the confidence of his teammates. That may be an insurmountable hill to climb for Skinner after all these years of disappointment.
We've seen this before, players quitting on our goalie, and usually doesn't end well without some change that mixes things up and resets everyones brains.
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You wonder if it doesn't actually start changing players' behaviour on the ice if there's a general feeling you can't let the other team have ANY shots. If we're getting worse goaltending than the other team every night, it means you're only winning if you can consistently badly outshoot the other team.
"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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