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Is goaltending already a major concern for Edmonton?



Craig Button joins Jay Onrait to break down the Canucks’ dominant opening night win over the Oilers and discuss if Edmonton should already be concerned about their goaltending.

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  1. Campbell will never be a starter? Did you watch the game? Defence, the whole team stunk and Skinner is the starter? The guy on the right’s head is so far up his ass he will need to call 911 to get a doctor to get it out🤣. Skinner let in as many as Campbell dumb ass🤯. This is one game to reach such ridiculous conclusions?🤯🍕🤷

  2. It was last year, and it's worse this year. Him and skinner drop to their knees faster then monks at prayer time. The Oiler D is not good right now, and I don't think it's near contender at it's best, with the players they have now. Ouch…

  3. That, among several other pressing matters, namely, competent defencemen and effective systems.

    But it's not so much that Jack Campbell is a bad goaltender (he is), but it's the fact that Ken Holland gave the man 5 million and the fans chased out Miko Koskinen, who they probably could've got for 2 million if they asked nicely.

  4. The defense was so out of position on so many, and there were some bounces that don’t happen at that rate. Sure they can be better, but oilers have a lot of cleaning up to do

  5. They've got to give the net to Skinner… and better do it quick! NHL shooters tend to figure out Goalies very quickly… and it you don't give em the net to then shore up those holes… then you risk dumping your Goalies confidence in the dump… and he'll always seems a step behind when facing Grade A scoring opportunities!!

    The Oilers are in Win now mode… that's why I was grimacing when Skinner signed that team friendly deal: I was like Bro they'll throw you to the trash if you're not good enough… and u just got in the league… so you might not have enough time to figure out these snipers before you're next deal… so take the $$$ now since they need u now! But hey I just hope he's decent enough to stay in the league!!

  6. The coilers will make the playoffs no problem. I predict they will win at least one round but no more than two

  7. Campbell has always been average at best and Skinner still doesnt have much experience. Can also blame the turnovers, poor defense and overall nonexistent 5 on 5. It was a lot of things.

  8. Goaltending was NOT the problem.
    The defense was. The offense wasn't very good either. The whole team left EVERYTHING to the goaltender.

  9. Oilers can’t win with nurse and Campbell’s contract. Period. 14 million for mediocrity is impossible to overcome.

  10. That Minten guy must be a superstar….cause Lafferty looks real gooooood!!

  11. Oilers are poorly coached and the team doesn’t play defense. It’s going to be a long year for Edmonton until they get a better coach

  12. Oilers should've addressed goaltending and defense over the summer. It was so obvious what needed to be worked on

  13. seems a pretty good assessment – Holland is making lots of 'lazy' mistakes based on hopes the load on McD is just too large; signing Bouchard for $8mil vs trading when had chance, McLeod $4.2m … Campbell $25mil etc etc… it catches up. Nice to be 'friends' w players… but ultimately do need value contracts.. or end up w players being overrated due to McD-PP inflating player values when 'winning' is based on players that outplay their pay Go Oilers

  14. These 2 Jokers need to be held to accounts later in season when teams come into form…. I thought better of Button, Onrait has always been a Clown and since returning and getting single attention has just got worse

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