Drivesaitl
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We're cap strapped, we have hardly any usable wingers, but lets spend 2.5M of that on an unknown other back up goalie. lol offseason starts.
Confirmed with Link: Oilers sign Mikko Koskinen
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We're cap strapped, we have hardly any usable wingers, but lets spend 2.5M of that on an unknown other back up goalie. lol offseason starts.
KeithIsActuallyBad
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Well that's the rub, isn't it? They THINK he can. They don't know. And if he doesn't they're stuck with him for another year.
$2.5M and two years is fine for a guy with a track record whom you can reasonably expect to push your starter. For an unknown guy who is 29 and has played all of 4 NHL games it's a gross overpay.
Tobias Kahun
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You think you’re signing a goalie for 2.5m that you know can challenge your starter?
Not a chance
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I think people are complaining because this is how Anders Nilsson played out
Koskinen was one of the best earning goaltenders in the Eurasian free market so of course he won't come there to just spectate games and earn less. You are paying 4,1 million dollars for your back-up goaltender Talbot so it should be fine deal financially.
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Tobias Kahun
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People are complaining to complain, pretty common from certain posters here.
Probably go outside and yell at clouds when it rains too
KeithIsActuallyBad
You thrust your pelvis, huh!
But they don't know that he can. They hope he can. They couldn't work his price down a little bit? We're not swimming in cap space anymore.
It's cute you guys think McL will actually play his back up.
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2.5 should buy you a proven backup.. Not Anders Nilsson 2.0
Bad deal until proven otherwise.
Bad deal until proven otherwise.
Drivesaitl
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3.14GAA and .900 Save % on the year is not what I would call solid. Nilsson had one brief stint all season where he wasn't being exposed. From Nov 20, 2015, -Dec 6, 2016 Nilsson had good numbers. Total of an 8 game stint. But he's rarely ever found that kind of success. That brief couple of weeks he had way different numbers than his overall work here or since.
He's a goalie that is easily exploited at this level.
ThePhoenixx
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If they bury him he counts as 1.5 mil against the cap IF he signs for that. Small risk if he comes over and plays like he did across the pond.
Drivesaitl
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lmao. Lets see who the backup ends up being. Talbot was one of the best goalies in the NHL just last season. No reason to believe he won't be great here again.
But of course Koskinen is Finnish, so I've come to expect the hyperbole here. I look forward to a special cheering section next season where like Puljujarvi, Koskinen is our best player..
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The chiarelli factor. Pay an extra million.
Did it to Drai, lucic as well.
Did it to Drai, lucic as well.
Tobias Kahun
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That’s exactly what we need, a goalie to push Talbot. We can save the $1M we spent on Montoya by sending him to Bakersfield or trading him in the off season but I’d go in with 3 goalies and have the goaltending depth we haven’t had in decades.
Market dictates and for that money comes expectations he’s starting 35 games.
Drivesaitl
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So Koskinen is another Islanders goalie draft fail that is 30yrs old and couldn't make it here in the NHL or AHL but he's here now because..?!
This guy is a UFA, is he not? I'm assuming there's other teams in the hunt for his services as well, so you gotta pay what you gotta pay to get him.
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If the Oilers had an abundance of cap space I would say this would be a solid gamble. But for next year it does get tight unless the plan is to either stay pretty much pat with the rest of the roster or to move out a big ticket player. Now if they move Nuge who is the only big ticket guy they might move with any value just "to make space" then that would be stupid.
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But he's not prime Dominik Hasek and getting paid league minimum, so the sky is falling and the Oilers are doomed forever.
You had also one of the best playbooks in the whole NHL infront of Talbot who has done nothing since the lockout which would suggest he is at Koskinen's level or superior to him. I don't know about he Northern American discourse but in Finland we tend to take the context in mind and goalie is of course continuation of his team.
I would expect it to begin with 50-50 chances with Koskinen taking over the job full-time. Take in example Bobrovski in the lockout season. He had put great numbers for SKA yet Steve Mason got the nod at first, only to lose it to Bobrovski who had enjoyed some Finnish goaltending coaching during the lockout. Well Bobrovski then won the Vezina trophy that season while mister Mason swapped diocese.
Chad Johnson, Ondrej Pavelec, Jaro Halak, Carter Hutton, Anton Khudobin? There's always tons of NHL-calibre options out there.
I mean, this could pay off, but it's a pretty big gamble. More to the point, Chia is now batting 100 on seasons where they've started without a proven NHL back up.
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