Injury Report: LTIR for Smith
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Panda Bear
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Andersen for Larsson could make sense. Don't know how deep the Oilers are on the back end but if they are deep enough this trade could help both teams.
Jim was a wee lad of 40 when Hall began that streak so you can forgive him for being a bit nostalgic.
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Koskinen can play as many games in a row as he needs to play. I think the over playing thing is a bit over hyped. The worry is that he gets hurt of that he goes into a soft period of bad play.
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The overplaying him is a realistic worry, his stats took a dump when he was forced to play the last 23 of 24 games for the oilers after Talbot was traded
jukon
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I agree. Apart from injury concern, I'm glad Koski will be playing a lot. Sure in his first season with us he played a ton and had a slump, but he's bound to have grown from then.
29Beast97Mode
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Maybe signing an old man to be the backup wasn't such a smart move, total signing for Dave Tippett in my opinion.
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Del Preston
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To be fair, Smith was like Plan D or E after they lost out on some UFA goalies and any potential trades didn't happen.
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Are the quarantine rules different if the trade is with another Canadian team?
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If there is a game you want to rest Kos it's the 2nd game against MTL on the 18th. That would give him 3 days off before the road trip and only 2 games next week. Knock knock Stuart Skinner.
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This is all Corey Crawfords fault. If he doesnt retire, devils arent looking. Carolina doesnt take forsbeg in case they lose nedelkjovic. Even if hurricanes do take forsberg, jets still have comrie and oilers reclaim forsberg.
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Feels like this mutant 56 game season is a good time to see what we got in the pipeline as far as the crease goes. Maybe there’s a Binnington/Murray lurking in our system.
They should claim Anderson, he’s ancient but he’s made a career of having decent numbers on teams that give him a bunch of shots. Maybe they can squeeze the last bit out of him and get a throw back Anderson for 10-15 games this year
They should claim Anderson, he’s ancient but he’s made a career of having decent numbers on teams that give him a bunch of shots. Maybe they can squeeze the last bit out of him and get a throw back Anderson for 10-15 games this year
Well let's all hope Koskinen has been eating his wheaties because whatever happens he's bound to play a lot dowb the stretch. Go go go big guy!
Hopefully Skinner can provide a couple of "max focus, opportunity of a lifetime, standing on head"-performances in relief.
Hopefully Skinner can provide a couple of "max focus, opportunity of a lifetime, standing on head"-performances in relief.
Jesus Take the Wheel
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How dare a gm not plan to have his #4 goaltender become his #2 is the timeframe of a week 
Hopefully Holland finds a quick solution to this, but in the meantime in Kosk we trust
Hopefully Holland finds a quick solution to this, but in the meantime in Kosk we trust
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Both sides of this discussion have valid points, as is always the case with all things Oilers.
Some foresight on Holland's part when it came to waivers should have been expected.
At he same time, Klefbom's LTIR decision probably forced Holland to spend whatever goalie money he was budgeting on replacement for 77.
We will weather this storm. These situations are rarely as terrible or as fantastic as the extreme ends of the opinion spectrum predict.
I didn't like the Smith re-signing and more than the next guy. This does give us the opportunity to debut Skinner for a couple of NHL starts. worst case scenario, Skinner shits the bed and we're forced to overpay for a suitable replacement. There is also a not impossible chance that Skinner dials it in and makes the most of this amazing opportunity.
Time will tell.
Some foresight on Holland's part when it came to waivers should have been expected.
At he same time, Klefbom's LTIR decision probably forced Holland to spend whatever goalie money he was budgeting on replacement for 77.
We will weather this storm. These situations are rarely as terrible or as fantastic as the extreme ends of the opinion spectrum predict.
I didn't like the Smith re-signing and more than the next guy. This does give us the opportunity to debut Skinner for a couple of NHL starts. worst case scenario, Skinner shits the bed and we're forced to overpay for a suitable replacement. There is also a not impossible chance that Skinner dials it in and makes the most of this amazing opportunity.
Time will tell.
KeithIsActuallyBad
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I’m super shocked that re-signing Smith was a bad idea. Holland got too focused on Markstrom.
If Smith got hurt before he even played what are the odds he will remain healthy when he actually plays?
If Smith got hurt before he even played what are the odds he will remain healthy when he actually plays?
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In a compressed season I can't think this is a good idea. Koski starts to have trouble when he sees too many games in a month. His game starts to fall. He's best around 2-3 games per week. We were able to play him in a B2B because its start of season and he's fresh. Come Feb, March and the same thing won't look good.
