The Edmonton Oilers’ awful start to the season continued last night. After a promising first two periods, the Oilers folded in the third period, allowing five goals to the Minnesota Wild. Another game that they had in their hands slips away.
Is it now time to worry about this team? That’s the question floating around the capital city today, with the Oilers now sitting at 1-4-1. Tyler Yaremchuk and Liam Horrobin will discuss that in today’s edition of Oilersnation Everyday. Join the two of them at noon mountain time for a good ole vent session about our beloved Oilers. You can leave your thoughts in the Century Mile Racetrack a,nd Casino live chat by subscribing to the Oilersnation YouTube channel.
Despite the bad result, there were a few positives to take away from last night’s defeat. Evander Kane seems to have got the ball rolling now after scoring a goal and an assist last night, along with a fight versus Brandon Duhaime. Additionally, Philip Broberg showed promise from the blueline bu, his minutes are still being restricted. Finally, Jack Campbell performed well between the pipes ma,king some grade-A saves; however, the defence in front of him didn’t help him enough to earn the win.
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16 Comments
The difference between a good goalie and a great goalie is the players play with more confidence knowing the guy back there is going to make the saves and not make bad mistakes.
Goalie coach needs replacement. 9 years of NOTHING!
97th like! he shall play outside!!!!
It really takes a special kind of talent to score 3 points and still end up being -3, danggg
What I’m the blue hell is happening
As a Wild fan, I was surprised by how much the Oilers wilted down the stretch. They controlled the first 25 minutes and then disintegrated. Campbell deserved better, honestly. He fought his butt off and got zero help from the guys in front of him. The spill on the first goal wasn't great, but he was left out to dry on the other five. Two or even three guys walking free below the dots for most of the game.
Also, we're in a league now where I think 3-4 goals against is going to be the baseline rather than an exception. Teams are just too good top-to-bottom offensively now — and defenses are too loose — to expect anyone outside of the freaks like Vassy and Juice to be putting up sub 2.5 GAAs. That's why you've seen the last couple of Cup winners simply ride a mid dude who gets hot. Goaltending is going to be what it's going to be. You're better off controlling play, limiting chances, and burying your obvious opportunities (5v5 rush, PP).
Lets be honest with ourselves here, it is a proven fact that a team plays way better and more of a cohesive unit when they have faith in the netminders. This team does not have that faith, and it needs to change. Yes there have been some defensive errors, and yes we seem to be getting stoned a bit offensively, but your goaltender needs to take his amount of slack and I don't think that ours are.
And to add to that, maybe it's time we look at Dustin, I mean take a look at history, every goalie that's failed in Edmonton has gone on to other teams and excelled, All I'm gonna say is Dubnyk
im going to call woody out here a little. Time out, not used. Keeping Bouchard on the rotation after massive giveaways…. At a loss. No accountability for the players when they mess up. The box +1 system is failing hard. I hope they get more grit in their game or this will be a disappointing season to say the least. Got something to prove, I'd say. Play like it for 60 minutes boys!
Put Bouchard on the wing. Seriously.
100% about goaltending, we only won once and what happened in the game our goalie was better. But on the losses our goalies are horrid…. hard to play when you expect every shot to go in. Skinner had a good game and then comes out and gives away a goal. Campbell makes great saves and then let's in weak ass goal. Don't know how we move forward unless Skinner finds his game
Big thanhs to Bruce C for talking us down from the ledge to let cooler heads prevail! 🙏🏽
Butter soft Bouchard has no Hockey IQ. I'm so glad we didn't sign him for more years. 2 is too many the way he's playing right now.
1. AHL goaltending or at best two back up tendys.
2. 9.25M cap hit for a 4.5-5M Dman.
3. D core is bottom tier in defending. The fundamental thing to do as a Dman
4. Zone D implemented
5. Justin Schwartz is the tendy coach.
6. Bouchard might be the worst defensive player in a top pairing role in the entire league
7. Ryan and Janmark were signed instead of Kostin
8. Coach refuses to bag skate group after sloppy game
9. Bottom 6 isn’t good enough, hard enough
10. Everyone but the Oil can see the above 9 issues
Wasn’t expecting the nba talk but I love it
Paul Cotter is a 3rd line player that only you have just heard of.