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Lowetide.ca
- It’s out there from enough credible sources that Ken Holland is knocking on doors in search of goaltending help. Man, it’s a tough market, and when you force a trade, you lose it.
- For me, I think Koskinen can handle one part of the job if he’s not overworked. Smith is a complete wildcard, at this point there’s no way to count on him. Skinner had one tough outing Saturday but for me he’s a solid option, certainly more reliable than Smith if only due to health.
BLH’s Thoughts: Wasn’t it only a few days ago LT was saying that acquiring a goalie is easy? I dunno, maybe I’m remembering things wrong, but the one thing he’s right about is that when you force a trade you lose and that’s what we’re looking at right now.
I don’t know if keeping Mikko is the best idea. As nice as he is, I think he’s really lost in that room right now and his teammates don’t exactly have a ton of faith in him. Maybe Holland should bite the bullet with him and either pay to move him or send him to the AHL.
Do you think there’s a way that Holland can move Koskinen AND bring another goalie in without paying heavily for both transactions?
I mean, I suppose he could try and accomplish both goals with the same trade like moving Koskinen to Buffalo for Aaron Dell OR maybe there’s an opportunity to trade the big Finnish netminder to Montreal seeing as they’ve lost both Carey Price and Jake Allen recently.
Oilersnation
The Day After: It’s time for the Edmonton Oilers to blow it all up
- …after another, after another, after another went into the Oilers net. No fight back. No drive. No desire. No willingness to try and bail out their goaltender.
- Edmonton had some hard practices this week as we all heard but it meant nothing. They didn’t even show any fight late in the game. In fact, they looked to all but give up in that third period. There was just nothing there.
- At this point, how does anyone keep their job? This isn’t me yelling for the sake of yelling, either. The people who hold the high-end coaching and management roles have been compensated more than fairly to turn this team into a contender and have failed miserably in doing so.
- Tippett has failed to get the most out of the roster he has been given with.
- His systems aren’t putting the Oilers in players to succeed, and he has failed to maximize the talent he has on his roster.
- The special teams his staff employs have gone from being elite to nothing short of a laughing stock.
- In two playoff appearances, his teams have been embarrassed by Chicago and then Winnipeg. Edmonton never seemed ready.
- Last night’s 6-0 loss to Florida, in a microcosm, is the perfect example of what the Oilers have been for the last decade: a team that shows so much hope only to ultimately fold like a cheap deck of cards.
BLH’s Thoughts: It’s possible by the time this is posted that a change has happened, but if it hasn’t, I don’t think it will take long until somebody gets their pink slip.
They could fire Tippett today and go into the game against Calgary this weekend with Gulutzan and Playfair, but if the Oilers lose again, it’s status quo and the raging continues.
Whereas if they went in with somebody else, behind the bench, there’d be a bit of pause given to the rage as the new guy would at least have some leash to get things going.
Now, if nothing happens organizationally before Saturday’s nationally televised Battle of Alberta and Edmonton loses, you would think that surely seals the deal.
The Daily Goal Horn
- Darren Dreger noted that if Kane is not suspended, he is very likely going to sign with the Oilers…The Edmonton Oilers supposedly have a deal in place to sign unrestricted free agent Evander Kane.
BLH’s Thoughts: Bob Stauffer intimated on the telecast last night that the Oilers could be adding some more players with size soon and mentioned ex-Oiler Bryan Marchment’s 26yr old 6’4″ 200lb son Mason specifically.
Mason Marchment has 11pts in 15 games this year but seems to be stuck on Florida’s bottom line.
His fancy stat line (relative format) on the season goes thusly,
pts/60: 2.89
CF%/60: 5.14
FF%/60: 6.26
SF%/60: 4.47
GF%/60: 15.91
xGF%/60: 7.21
SCF%/60: 7.38
HDCF%/60: 4.72
HDGF%/60: 4.62He’s averaging 12:27 of TOI this year to boot. I do believe he’s a UFA at season’s end. So draw your own conclusions on this young man, do you think he’d help Edmonton’s bottom six?
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