Confirmed Signing with Link: [EDM] Tyson Barrie signs with the Oilers (1 year, $3.75M)

[Mickey Marner]

Surprised he turned down Vancouver.

 

[Dion TheFluff]

A player who will pick up points but is trash defensively.... should fit in nicely with the rest of the Oilers core

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

A player who will pick up points but is trash defensively.... should fit in nicely with the rest of the Oilers core

Barrie should be used to playing with those sorts of players after this past season.

 

[Soundwave]

A player who will pick up points but is trash defensively.... should fit in nicely with the rest of the Oilers core

Do Leafs fans really have any leg to stand on in taking shots at any one else's D? The Oilers were a mile better than the Leafs in GA last year.

 

[Dion TheFluff]

Barrie should be used to playing with those sorts of players after this past season.

he may have a chance at going for the green jacket this season, playing with Draisaitl now.

 

[Dion TheFluff]

Do Leafs fans really have any leg to stand on in taking shots at any one else's D? The Oilers were a mile better than the Leafs in GA last year.

a 0.886 SV% from your backup will do that sometimes

 

[Soundwave]

a 0.886 SV% from your backup will do that sometimes

The Leafs have been going downhill in GA for three straight years and were way worse than the Oilers last year. You have no business thumbing your nose at anyone lol.

 

[Dion TheFluff]

The Leafs have been going downhill in GA for three straight years and were way worse than the Oilers last year. You have no business thumbing your nose at anyone lol.

if you took a closer look at most defensive metrics, you would see that the Leafs were middle of the pack in most categories this year and improved significantly after Keefe took over.
But let's continue to just use the stat that is heavily influenced by goaltending

 

[Soundwave]

if you took a closer look at most defensive metrics, you would see that the Leafs were middle of the pack in most categories this year and improved significantly after Keefe took over.
But let's continue to just use the stat that is heavily influenced by goaltending

And the Oilers GA was even better after Jan 1 when they switched to a two line deployment for McDavid Draisaitl.

Was comparable to the Penguins who were top 10 in GA.

Or do only the Leafs get to cherry pick certain metrics?

 

[Oilers in NS]

Do Leafs fans really have any leg to stand on in taking shots at any one else's D? The Oilers were a mile better than the Leafs in GA last year.

Leafs are another mess. I don’t even bother bickering with them

 

[McIce Whole]

if you took a closer look at most defensive metrics, you would see that the Leafs were middle of the pack in most categories this year and improved significantly after Keefe took over.
But let's continue to just use the stat that is heavily influenced by goaltending

You can’t call the Oilers defence trash and then cherry pick stats when your team had worse numbers. Don’t take shots when you have no leg to stand on.

 

[Kelly]

More like Babcock costing them every night. Barrie looked good under O'Keefe

For like 5 games, then went back to being pure trash again.

New team, he may go back to his old self -- where he wasn't a total liability in his own end. Regardless it's a low risk move on the Oilers end, and Barrie is going to put up huge points with Edmonton's three good forwards. Good signing.

 

[48g90a138pts]

There's going to be a lot of crow to eat in this thread once the season is done.

 

[Bring Back Bucky]

if you took a closer look at most defensive metrics, you would see that the Leafs were middle of the pack in most categories this year and improved significantly after Keefe took over.
But let's continue to just use the stat that is heavily influenced by goaltending

Yeah man. Metrics. Talk about that all you like. Pucks in the net are the only f***ing metric it takes to debunk your foolishness.

 

[Maple Leaf]

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There's going to be a lot of crow to eat in this thread once the season is done.

Good luck with Barrie

 

[48g90a138pts]

Good luck with Barrie

 

[Leafmealone11]

if you took a closer look at most defensive metrics, you would see that the Leafs were middle of the pack in most categories this year and improved significantly after Keefe took over.
But let's continue to just use the stat that is heavily influenced by goaltending

Leaving you goalie hung out badly has heavy influence on goaltending.

 

[RoadWarrior]

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There's going to be a lot of crow to eat in this thread once the season is done.

Barrie is junk. Listen he might score 15 or 20 goals if you put him on the wing where he belongs. Otherwise expect a lot of panicking in your own end.

 

[ToDavid]

Do Leafs fans really have any leg to stand on in taking shots at any one else's D? The Oilers were a mile better than the Leafs in GA last year.

GA = D?

Unfortunately our defensemen Freddy Andersen and Michael Hutchinson had pretty rough years.

 

[ToDavid]

Leaving you goalie hung out badly has heavy influence on goaltending.

True, luckily there are metrics to measure that. Not to mention, anyone with two eyes could see how bad our goaltending was this year.

 

[Skolman]

@Dion TheFluff just got taken to the cleaners, you done embarrassing yourself bud?

On a side note, if anyone wants to know why Leafs fans have the reputation they have, read this thread.

 

[Syckle78]

If the leafs had as many playoff wins as their fans have excuses they wouldn't be one of the most pathetic franchises in sports the last 50 years.

 

[Leafmealone11]

Barrie is junk. Listen he might score 15 or 20 goals if you put him on the wing where he belongs. Otherwise expect a lot of panicking in your own end.

Or they can shelter him and use him on the PP, they are not pulling a leafs and expecting him to play a huge roll and carry the weight of saving the teams defense. They got a average paid offensive player out of need.
He could suck but it won't be the end of the world like it was in Toronto.

 

[Leafmealone11]

True, luckily there are metrics to measure that. Not to mention, anyone with two eyes could see how bad our goaltending was this year.

There is metrics that kind of measure that but not really. Anyway you had almost identical shots against as the oilers and almost identical 5vrs5 goals against. It looks like a wash.
They even finished with almost identical points. The gap beetween the two teams is almost zero.

 

[Divine]

Do Leafs fans really have any leg to stand on in taking shots at any one else's D? The Oilers were a mile better than the Leafs in GA last year.

That's because the Leafs had Barrie on the ice