Devan Dubnyk is playing great hockey right now.

[winnipegger]

Gagner looks to have permanent Oileritis, but Dubnyk's Oileritis was curable with the right treatment. Tobias Reider never developed full Oileritis so he is doing great.

 

[CraigsList]

Sean Burke is the reason.

Before coming to Ariozona, Bryzgalov was mediocre, Smith was mediocre, and now Dubnyk as well. See the correlation? There is something about Burke that makes these goaltenders good.

 

[BlazingBlueAnt]

Gagner looks to have permanent Oileritis, but Dubnyk's Oileritis was curable with the right treatment. Tobias Reider never developed full Oileritis so he is doing great.

Gagner has looked good once he was moved to the wing

 

[Fighter]

Glad for him, he took way too much crap for his play last year but now everybody can see that the problem was somewhere else.

 

[SladeWilson23]

.889
.916
.914
.920
.894

Those were his 5 years with the Oilers. He has out up solid numbers before, and imo last year was the anomaly, and not this year.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Speaking of thread-worthy, I always kinda thought Devan Dubnyk looked like an adult baby. Not trying to insult him that's just always how I saw it.

 

[oobga]

MacT and Eakins destroyed Dub's confidence last year. Took him the off-season to refocus. I'm very happy he is back to playing how he did for us in 12-13 under Krueger. And it really shines a light on MacT's failings which is a huge bonus.

It's not all Burke either, look at Smith on the same team. Dubs just needed to get his confidence back after the Oilers left him out to dry getting peppered by wide open guys in the slot from the start of the 13-14 season. Goalies confidence is huge and we were chipping away at it even before last season started when MacT let everyone know he didn't think Dubs was a #1 and let everyone in the world know about every attempt he made (and failed at) to replace him in the 2013 off-season. And of course MacT was more than willing to blame the whole season on Dubs and throw him away after years of development for another teams cap dump that we probably coulda got for the 7th round pick.

 

[Bo Ho*]

Remember when Oilers fans were ruthlessly mocked for thinking Dubnyk wasn't a terrible goalie?

Good times, good times.

I also remember the Dubnyk > Schneider posts from Oilers fans.

 

[izzy]

Dubnyk sucked in Nashville as well, who isn't exactly poor defensively.

This speaks more to Tippett than it does to Edmonton, just like Bryzgalov and Smith before this. Bad goalies go there to play well. This isn't new.

He played in two games in Nashville. If the system is so amazing, why does Smith have such gross numbers?

 

[Ogopogo*]

I never hated Dubnyk, I've always thought he was a decent goalie. This just goes to show that Edmonton is a goalie graveyard.

I always hated Dubnyk. He was crap in Kamloops, crap in Edmonton and, after he is done with this period of anomaly, will be crap in Arizona. The guy is not very good.

 

[HanSolo]

If Smith was in net last night the ducks would've beat the Yotes.

Granted I could say the reverse about Bryzgalov

 

[DisgruntledGoat*]

That also might involve the "forgive me if he wasn't clear" part of my post.

If you're going to ask me that then I'm going to ask you're dragging this on incessantly in a discussion you originally had nothing to do with. He clarified himself before you butted in.

Nah, Puritania was totally correct to call you on that.

 

[Classicnamesup]

I've never liked mike Smith, mostly because of his diving so this is fine by me.

 

[yukoner88]

5 of those wins are against Edmonton alone

that alone is almost thread worthy

 

[neelynugs]

Dubnyk played exactly 60 minutes in Nashville....

i think mitch korn went as far as calling him fat. maybe didn't use that word, but i guess they found dubnyk to be badly out of shape for what they expected in nashville. not surprised he didn't play much over there...and then was booted out of town.

 

[oilers_guy_eddie]

5 of those wins are against Edmonton alone

that alone is almost thread worthy

Only three of them, but you're right, it does pad Dubs' stats a little that he got to whip our little turd-farm 3 times this year.

 

[Stive Morgan]

Kind of wish Montreal kept him...

 

[oilers_guy_eddie]

i think mitch korn went as far as calling him fat. maybe didn't use that word, but i guess they found dubnyk to be badly out of shape for what they expected in nashville. not surprised he didn't play much over there...and then was booted out of town.

I don't recall that, but I do recall Nashville saying that they found he'd developed a lot of bad habits that they needed to break him out of.

 

[tsujimoto74]

Edmonton taking over where Philly left off as the place goalies go to suck?

 

[ratmanfu]

He's adjusted to the pad size change he struggled with last season and has a better goalie coach too. Glad to see him playing well again.

 

[Tecumseh]

Dubnyk is ruining Arizona's McEichel aspirations. Stop playing him.

 

[SimplySensational]

i think mitch korn went as far as calling him fat. maybe didn't use that word, but i guess they found dubnyk to be badly out of shape for what they expected in nashville. not surprised he didn't play much over there...and then was booted out of town.

Well, right now Korn thinks Holtby who is barely playing above average is super special.

 

[DisgruntledGoat*]

I also remember the Dubnyk > Schneider posts from Oilers fans.

Do you remember the Edler for Norris and Kesler for Hart posts?

 

[Bo Ho*]

Do you remember the Edler for Norris and Kesler for Hart posts?

I don't remember Kesler for Hart but Edler for Norris wasn't too far fetched at the time, he was in the top 10 for votes IIRC.

 

[TheTakedown]

Smith is just going through a slump... I think he will be OK.