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Post by yuke on Jan 27, 2020 12:20:28 GMT -7
Currie can score, kinda concerning the next highest Condors only have 9 goals compared to his 18, he's having another fine season in the Bake along with Benson and Bouchard. And though his #s aren't quite as impressive I've heard McLeod has been impressive as well. Skinner too, his #s were poor to start the season but he's been on fire the past ten games or so and has won the net. Overseas JP continues a point per game pace so that's gotta bode well for his value, certainly can't hurt. And looky looky C2G's boy Sleppy has 28pts in 43gp, not too shabby, go Sleppy Go lol. Possibly the most impressive prospect season thus far has been from the Q where Lavoie continues to light it up since being traded to Chicoutimi, 37gp-24g 31a-55pts. Looking forward to seeing him in the AHL next year. I hope to see Slepy back next season. I think he is one of the 3rd liners we are missing
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Post by Marshall Bruce Mathers III on Jan 27, 2020 12:37:05 GMT -7
Currie can score, kinda concerning the next highest Condors only have 9 goals compared to his 18, he's having another fine season in the Bake along with Benson and Bouchard. And though his #s aren't quite as impressive I've heard McLeod has been impressive as well. Skinner too, his #s were poor to start the season but he's been on fire the past ten games or so and has won the net. Overseas JP continues a point per game pace so that's gotta bode well for his value, certainly can't hurt. And looky looky C2G's boy Sleppy has 28pts in 43gp, not too shabby, go Sleppy Go lol. Possibly the most impressive prospect season thus far has been from the Q where Lavoie continues to light it up since being traded to Chicoutimi, 37gp-24g 31a-55pts. Looking forward to seeing him in the AHL next year. I hope to see Slepy back next season. I think he is one of the 3rd liners we are missing Anton Slepyshev? I doubt we see him back. Although, I do like him. I think the line was Lucic-Draisaitl-Slepyshev that was our best line against Anaheim in the playoffs in 2017.
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Post by Marshall Bruce Mathers III on Jan 27, 2020 12:45:19 GMT -7
Currie can score, kinda concerning the next highest Condors only have 9 goals compared to his 18, he's having another fine season in the Bake along with Benson and Bouchard. And though his #s aren't quite as impressive I've heard McLeod has been impressive as well. Skinner too, his #s were poor to start the season but he's been on fire the past ten games or so and has won the net. Overseas JP continues a point per game pace so that's gotta bode well for his value, certainly can't hurt. And looky looky C2G's boy Sleppy has 28pts in 43gp, not too shabby, go Sleppy Go lol. Possibly the most impressive prospect season thus far has been from the Q where Lavoie continues to light it up since being traded to Chicoutimi, 37gp-24g 31a-55pts. Looking forward to seeing him in the AHL next year. Aapeli Räsänen (Round 6, 2016) - NCAA - Boston College - 22GP 9G 11A 20P +10 5PPG 2GWG 10PIM 9BLK
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Post by SuperDave17 on Mar 1, 2020 13:22:44 GMT -7
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Post by fogolin2 on Mar 1, 2020 13:49:08 GMT -7
Thanks SD. Wow! Konovalov with 14 shutouts in his last 70 games is a pretty crazy stat!
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Post by SuperDave17 on Mar 1, 2020 14:22:51 GMT -7
I have a gut feeling he may become our Vasilevskiy, but that is still some time away. We should appreciate Smith and Kosk for what they are, serviceable stopgaps.
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Post by happyhappy on Mar 16, 2020 6:08:54 GMT -7
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Post by SuperDave17 on Jul 12, 2020 2:47:39 GMT -7
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Post by toley on Jul 12, 2020 14:08:30 GMT -7
I have a gut feeling he may become our Vasilevskiy, but that is still some time away. We should appreciate Smith and Kosk for what they are, serviceable stopgaps. That would be something, but goaltending is straight up nonsense. Haha. With the pieces the Oil have and coming up(Bouchard, Broberg, Lavoie, and Maksimov, etc.) This team is Consistent goaltending away from being a contender. I don't trust Smith, or Koskinen.
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Post by mrtea on Jul 12, 2020 17:44:50 GMT -7
I have a gut feeling he may become our Vasilevskiy, but that is still some time away. We should appreciate Smith and Kosk for what they are, serviceable stopgaps. That would be something, but goaltending is straight up nonsense. Haha. With the pieces the Oil have and coming up(Bouchard, Broberg, Lavoie, and Maksimov, etc.) This team is Consistent goaltending away from being a contender. I don't trust Smith, or Koskinen. The way Koskinen battled back this season was one of the reasons we had success in the standings, I think he earned a longer look . We might have a decent tender there who just needs to polish up his techniques. Remember his first year he was getting used to the North American rinks ice size. He has also shown he is coachable and he even seemed to learn from Smith a little stick work shooting the puck. Going into a play off atmosphere could be just what the doctor ordered for a guy like Smith who showed up last year even though his then team Calgary did not help him. I like Smith's battle level and I'm excited to see what Smith and Koskinen can do in the play offs. Kesselring sounds like he may be another diamond in the rough defenseman like Bear who was himself a late round steal. It's nice that it's happening for the Oilers lately. I remember when I read about it happening to other teams but never the Oilers.
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Post by toley on Jul 12, 2020 18:34:37 GMT -7
That would be something, but goaltending is straight up nonsense. Haha. With the pieces the Oil have and coming up(Bouchard, Broberg, Lavoie, and Maksimov, etc.) This team is Consistent goaltending away from being a contender. I don't trust Smith, or Koskinen. The way Koskinen battled back this season was one of the reasons we had success in the standings, I think he earned a longer look . We might have a decent tender there who just needs to polish up his techniques. Remember his first year he was getting used to the North American rinks ice size. He has also shown he is coachable and he even seemed to learn from Smith a little stick work shooting the puck. Going into a play off atmosphere could be just what the doctor ordered for a guy like Smith who showed up last year even though his then team Calgary did not help him. I like Smith's battle level and I'm excited to see what Smith and Koskinen can do in the play offs. Kesselring sounds like he may be another diamond in the rough defenseman like Bear who was himself a late round steal. It's nice that it's happening for the Oilers lately. I remember when I read about it happening to other teams but never the Oilers. Right. Short term yeah, I don't mind Koskinen, thing I don't like is age and money . Smith not interested for a re-sign, I hate his style. I'm talking about a solid consistent, long term tender. Yeah, there's a lot to like in the prospect pool, fingers crossed most work out. I hate we lost Marino to Pitt, and is a serviceable defender. I'm scared of this expansion draft, think we'll lose someone good.
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Post by Marshall Bruce Mathers III on Jul 12, 2020 18:55:48 GMT -7
The way Koskinen battled back this season was one of the reasons we had success in the standings, I think he earned a longer look . We might have a decent tender there who just needs to polish up his techniques. Remember his first year he was getting used to the North American rinks ice size. He has also shown he is coachable and he even seemed to learn from Smith a little stick work shooting the puck. Going into a play off atmosphere could be just what the doctor ordered for a guy like Smith who showed up last year even though his then team Calgary did not help him. I like Smith's battle level and I'm excited to see what Smith and Koskinen can do in the play offs. Kesselring sounds like he may be another diamond in the rough defenseman like Bear who was himself a late round steal. It's nice that it's happening for the Oilers lately. I remember when I read about it happening to other teams but never the Oilers. Right. Short term yeah, I don't mind Koskinen, thing I don't like is age and money . Smith not interested for a re-sign, I hate his style. I'm talking about a solid consistent, long term tender. Yeah, there's a lot to like in the prospect pool, fingers crossed most work out. I hate we lost Marino to Pitt, and is a serviceable defender. I'm scared of this expansion draft, think we'll lose someone good. I don't mind Koskinen's age. 32 isn't that old for a goalie. If you look at all the goalies who played at least 30 games, a bunch in the top 15 save percentage are over 30. The top 2 being 34 and 33.
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Post by mrtea on Jul 13, 2020 4:41:41 GMT -7
The way Koskinen battled back this season was one of the reasons we had success in the standings, I think he earned a longer look . We might have a decent tender there who just needs to polish up his techniques. Remember his first year he was getting used to the North American rinks ice size. He has also shown he is coachable and he even seemed to learn from Smith a little stick work shooting the puck. Going into a play off atmosphere could be just what the doctor ordered for a guy like Smith who showed up last year even though his then team Calgary did not help him. I like Smith's battle level and I'm excited to see what Smith and Koskinen can do in the play offs. Kesselring sounds like he may be another diamond in the rough defenseman like Bear who was himself a late round steal. It's nice that it's happening for the Oilers lately. I remember when I read about it happening to other teams but never the Oilers. Right. Short term yeah, I don't mind Koskinen, thing I don't like is age and money . Smith not interested for a re-sign, I hate his style. I'm talking about a solid consistent, long term tender. Yeah, there's a lot to like in the prospect pool, fingers crossed most work out. I hate we lost Marino to Pitt, and is a serviceable defender. I'm scared of this expansion draft, think we'll lose someone good. At the moment I'm focused on our short term future, specifically the up coming play offs. There are a handful of teams that have a serious chance of getting hot and going all the way to the cup. The Oilers are one of those teams! Right now Smith and Koskinen are our goalies and either one could get hot and lead our team to the promised land. I'm actually getting really pumped to see these play offs. Long term Konovalov looks like he could one day be the guy to step in, but for the next couple of years we'll have Kos in net who can at times look very good.....we'll see how that plays out. We also have a couple of other prospects that could turn into good goalies so for the time being I'm not really worrying about our net minders, they are plenty capable to get the job done in the short term.
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Post by toley on Jul 13, 2020 5:49:58 GMT -7
Right. Short term yeah, I don't mind Koskinen, thing I don't like is age and money . Smith not interested for a re-sign, I hate his style. I'm talking about a solid consistent, long term tender. Yeah, there's a lot to like in the prospect pool, fingers crossed most work out. I hate we lost Marino to Pitt, and is a serviceable defender. I'm scared of this expansion draft, think we'll lose someone good. At the moment I'm focused on our short term future, specifically the up coming play offs. There are a handful of teams that have a serious chance of getting hot and going all the way to the cup. The Oilers are one of those teams! Right now Smith and Koskinen are our goalies and either one could get hot and lead our team to the promised land. I'm actually getting really pumped to see these play offs. Long term Konovalov looks like he could one day be the guy to step in, but for the next couple of years we'll have Kos in net who can at times look very good.....we'll see how that plays out. We also have a couple of other prospects that could turn into good goalies so for the time being I'm not really worrying about our net minders, they are plenty capable to get the job done in the short term. Like I said before, goaltending is straight up nonsense. You can't predict goaltending.
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Post by mrtea on Jul 13, 2020 8:11:17 GMT -7
At the moment I'm focused on our short term future, specifically the up coming play offs. There are a handful of teams that have a serious chance of getting hot and going all the way to the cup. The Oilers are one of those teams! Right now Smith and Koskinen are our goalies and either one could get hot and lead our team to the promised land. I'm actually getting really pumped to see these play offs. Long term Konovalov looks like he could one day be the guy to step in, but for the next couple of years we'll have Kos in net who can at times look very good.....we'll see how that plays out. We also have a couple of other prospects that could turn into good goalies so for the time being I'm not really worrying about our net minders, they are plenty capable to get the job done in the short term. Like I said before, goaltending is straight up nonsense. You can't predict goaltending. Okay Toley, I'm calling you out on this one. Why did you wait till now when the Oilers are about to play in the play offs to respond to a post made March 1st about the status of our goalies? Do you already have us losing? Is it so you can say "I told you our goalies were not good enough"? Well chances are better that we will lose than they are that we will win the cup. I would like to point out that if we lose it has more to do with a defense that is getting better, but still has a long way to go and can get a lot better yet. It will have a lot to do with we don't have enough depth at goal scoring. Sure goal tending could be better, but I saw our goalies bail out our defenders that just let the opposition walk in alone at least once or twice a game. Both defenders and forwards are guilty of leaving our goaltenders exposed at times. These are things they were working on and getting better, but there was a lot of room for improvement. I believe the Oilers have a good shot at making some real noise in the play offs. Of course that will mean a full team commitment where everyone plays their best hockey and players can depend on their teammates, but this is true for every team that goes deep. One thing I am certain of is if the Oilers do lose, it won't be just the goalies to blame.
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Post by drtaf on Jul 13, 2020 9:06:03 GMT -7
I agree, I may sound capt obvious, but the team who can get up to speed quickest is likely to have a good long run and the oilers have as good a chance as anyone to do that. Goaltending is obviously and IMO always the biggest Q-mark for any team? you simply cannot win a playoff series with bad goaltending no matter how good your team is. However, a bad team can go pretty far with great goaltending (See Hasek and Sabres, Halk-Canadians)
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Post by toley on Jul 13, 2020 9:17:42 GMT -7
Like I said before, goaltending is straight up nonsense. You can't predict goaltending. Okay Toley, I'm calling you out on this one. Why did you wait till now when the Oilers are about to play in the play offs to respond to a post made March 1st about the status of our goalies? Do you already have us losing? Is it so you can say "I told you our goalies were not good enough"? Well chances are better that we will lose than they are that we will win the cup. I would like to point out that if we lose it has more to do with a defense that is getting better, but still has a long way to go and can get a lot better yet. It will have a lot to do with we don't have enough depth at goal scoring. Sure goal tending could be better, but I saw our goalies bail out our defenders that just let the opposition walk in alone at least once or twice a game. Both defenders and forwards are guilty of leaving our goaltenders exposed at times. These are things they were working on and getting better, but there was a lot of room for improvement. I believe the Oilers have a good shot at making some real noise in the play offs. Of course that will mean a full team commitment where everyone plays their best hockey and players can depend on their teammates, but this is true for every team that goes deep. One thing I am certain of is if the Oilers do lose, it won't be just the goalies to blame. Why did I wait til now to comment on a post from March? Cause it's the first time I'm seeing it. 😂 Dont get me wrong, T. I'm hoping they come up big, I just think it's the most questionable position for the Oilers right now. I have faith in Koskinen more so than Smith, just an opinion.
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Post by mrtea on Jul 13, 2020 16:18:52 GMT -7
Okay Toley, I'm calling you out on this one. Why did you wait till now when the Oilers are about to play in the play offs to respond to a post made March 1st about the status of our goalies? Do you already have us losing? Is it so you can say "I told you our goalies were not good enough"? Well chances are better that we will lose than they are that we will win the cup. I would like to point out that if we lose it has more to do with a defense that is getting better, but still has a long way to go and can get a lot better yet. It will have a lot to do with we don't have enough depth at goal scoring. Sure goal tending could be better, but I saw our goalies bail out our defenders that just let the opposition walk in alone at least once or twice a game. Both defenders and forwards are guilty of leaving our goaltenders exposed at times. These are things they were working on and getting better, but there was a lot of room for improvement. I believe the Oilers have a good shot at making some real noise in the play offs. Of course that will mean a full team commitment where everyone plays their best hockey and players can depend on their teammates, but this is true for every team that goes deep. One thing I am certain of is if the Oilers do lose, it won't be just the goalies to blame. Why did I wait til now to comment on a post from March? Cause it's the first time I'm seeing it. 😂 Dont get me wrong, T. I'm hoping they come up big, I just think it's the most questionable position for the Oilers right now. I have faith in Koskinen more so than Smith, just an opinion. It's all good Toley. I think there are a few question marks with the team and certainly goaltending is always an issue with any team. I hope our boys have been putting in good training habits and come back "READY TO RUMBLE!!
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Post by mrtea on Jul 30, 2020 19:27:20 GMT -7
I just saw another short article about the possibility of Puljujarvi coming back to the Oilers. If anything substantial develops and it appears he actually is going to give it another try someone should inform him how Bear and Yamamoto made the jump to the NHL. Show him it took hard work and commitment to improve that makes the difference between making it and not quite getting it.
It would take almost two Yamamotos to make one Puljujarvi in physical size, but it would take two JPs to equal one Yam in production on the ice.( Man am I ever eating my own words!! I was against the Oilers drafting Yammer, live and learn.)
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Post by AlwaysOil on Jul 31, 2020 8:55:33 GMT -7
I just saw another short article about the possibility of Puljujarvi coming back to the Oilers. If anything substantial develops and it appears he actually is going to give it another try someone should inform him how Bear and Yamamoto made the jump to the NHL. Show him it took hard work and commitment to improve that makes the difference between making it and not quite getting it. It would take almost two Yamamotos to make one Puljujarvi in physical size, but it would take two JPs to equal one Yam in production on the ice.( Man am I ever eating my own words!! I was against the Oilers drafting Yammer, live and learn.) Josh Wegman on The Score: After spending a year playing overseas, Jesse Puljujarvi has come to the realization his best chance at continuing his NHL career is returning to the Edmonton Oilers. Puljujarvi requested a trade from the Oilers last year, but with a new regime in place, he's not ruling out the possibility of a reunion. "You can never say no," he told Finnish news outlet Tampere Iltalehti, as translated by NHL.com. "I have grown and I see things a little differently. There's now a different GM (Ken Holland) and head coach (Dave Tippett) out there. "They're building a winning team in Edmonton. It may be possible that I will still be playing there." The 22-year-old gave the Oilers an ultimatum last year, stating he would spend the year in Europe if he wasn't traded. That proposition came about a month after the team hired both Holland and Tippett. Puljujarvi wound up playing the 2019-20 season with Karpat in the Finnish Elite League, finishing fifth in the league with 24 goals and fourth with 53 points in 56 games. He said a recent conference call with Holland and Tippett "left a positive overall picture," though he wouldn't divulge details. The Carolina Hurricanes were one team to reportedly kick tires on the fourth overall pick of the 2016 NHL Draft, but no deal ever came to fruition. Puljujarvi remains a restricted free agent. The Oilers retained his rights by giving him a qualifying offer. The 6-foot-4 winger has collected 17 goals and 37 points in 139 career NHL games.
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