Former NHL defenseman Jason Demers joins Tyler Yaremchuk and Liam Horrobin to break down the awful play from Stuart Skinner lately, and where the Oilers go from here.
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26 Comments
Oilers are done if they don't start rolling the 4 lines, plain and simple. Also, playing Pickard for a game or 2 is not the end of the world and it would make Skinner very, very hungry.
JD is 100% right… being out-coached… panic time for Knoblock
Score effects.
Roll 4 lines!
With even average tending, oil are ahead 3-0. Even with just the one line. They were fools to let Woody and the "fans" run out Koskinen.
Playoff struggles? He's been a below average goalie his whole career.
Demers is exactly right – even if by some miracle we beat Vcr and advance, McD and Drai will have NOTHING left for Dallas /Colorado
How is vancouver suppose to get offense in if they have to spend 30 mins a night defending against one of the greatest offensive lines in nhl history, Edmonton running 4 lines would be disastrous vancouver would just expose them like they did in the season.
Skinner out.
Repeat of last year boys skinner not the goalie yall were praying he could be. Zero chance they go anywhere in playoffs with this guy is what it is
Emotions will be the downfall. Van has too much too early, the first game you'd think they just won the cup. It's not over.
This guy Demers knows what he is talking about Knoblach is sinking this ship.by only playing Mc David, Draisaital and Hyman and not rolling 4 lines that got them to this point and what gave them a 16 game win streak. He's coached this team so well I don't know what he's doing now is mindboggling
Start Skinner in game 4 I wouldn’t even bother going back to Vancouver for a game 5. Just concede.
Subscribe everybody . Im a Canucks fan. Im from here so … If the Oilers win I will be happy for their fans but I really want the Canucks in the final 4. That goal that Silovs saved was totally across the line btw ….It was an Oilers goal. You can see it cross the line from a different camera angle on a different broadcast . You guys would have won the game and gone on to win the series and ultimately The Cup but instead… You're prolly out Champs ☹
Juulsen will be in for game 4. The guy hits harder than Torres on cocaine.😮
You can’t score when you’re on the bench and feeling like a fuckup. Just roll four lines. Show your players you have confidence in them. Knoblauch talked about the dangers of over-coaching before. He should take his own good advice.
Goaltending wins cups, Canucks goaltender is playing well enough to give them a chance, Edmontons tender isn't, you better pressure your ownwrship to go out and get a number one goalie or you'll never win another cup.
Yup what demers says is %100
Heymen is finally getting checked. He has no free space "in the net" So less goals. Funny other teams are crowding the net too.
2:54 "if you play 5 or 6 mins a night, it's hard to get out there and produce"… THANK YOU!!! Oilers fans want magic from these guys who are warming the bench.
he is 1000% right
Play these lines coach or where out
Kane McDavid Hyman
McLoad Draisaitli Foegele
Holloway Nuge Henrique if heathy
Janmark Ryan Perry
If Henrique isn’t put Perry up to the third and bring in Brown. Grind the crap out of all four lines and we will win if our goaltender can make the first stop. 😮
Your forgetting Nuge doesn’t produce period with lots of ice time.
Not a Canucks or an Oilers fan, but the Canucks are a complete team and the Oilers are an incomplete one. Top-heavy offensive teams with suspect defense is just setting your goalie up for failure. Now when you start Pickard, you will have the same problem – you will make it as difficult as possible on the goalie, and you will lose the series. New and improved defense? No- you only improved against mediocre teams in the regular season, and weak playoff teams, not an elite team in a playoff series…Smoke and Mirrors…if you understand losing the rhythm for forwards due to not playing enough, you should also understand that goalies who are ice-cold due to long stretches in the other end, and then you cough up a defensive turnovers like Foegle on the 2nd goal, or McDavid and Ekholm losing their coverage on 3rd goal, then bad things happen. Stop blaming the goalie and get a clue how to play a structured game.
So funny to hear the difference in how fans and analysts claim that skaters get cold with a lack of ice-time, so that is understandable, but a goalie who is ice cold because you're in the other end all night gets zero leeway when the Oilers D gets lost in coverage or cough up a Foegle – like turnover. Harder to play goaltender cold than it is to play forward.
they’re not just loading up that line ‘bc things have gotten tough’, it’s bc leon is injured again.
they should be playing the 3rd and 4th more, but there’s a different reason 97&29 are together again.