Del Preston
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He’s also not as knowledgeable as he thinks he is.
Confirmed with Link: - Oilers sign Mikko KoskinenIf this guy ends up being our #1 at anytime I'm just changing the channel.
Confirmed with Link: - Oilers sign Mikko Koskinenps watch the hilites in that link. The mobility is comical. All he does is stretch his pads out to posts and scramble a lot.
Even on the one play even resembling a solid cross ice play he only makes the stop because the player dusts the puck up instead of actually one timing it.
The oilers pk and pass coverage is suspect. How would this guy do on NHL one timers and solid finish? This guy is really scrambled eggs in net.
I like my goalies to have elite mobility. Talbot has that.
Confirmed with Link: - Oilers sign Mikko KoskinenHe looks incredibly slow to me. Just giraffe like. His goaltending style consists of stretching his appendages out as far as they can go without moving. If goaltending was simply a flexibility sport he would win. heh. Cross mobility is really bad with this guy. He kind of Tim Thomas tumbles around the ice to try to disguise the issue. Not one hilite I've seen is a cross ice pure one timer. Wonder how he fares on those.
Confirmed with Link: - Oilers sign Mikko KoskinenAfter watching every hilite available on Koskinen, who is extremely awkward, has poor mobility, and doesn't have a hope on NHL one-timers I can't agree there is any huge upside here. This guy looks worse than Nillson in mechanics. He's a flop around goalie. Literally throws himself on the ice because that's quicker for him than using his skates. This guy might have worked in the 70's. probably not.
Confirmed with Link: - Oilers sign Mikko Koskinen1) Few times is he handling the puck clean with his glove. He's more swatting it, blocking it, or just not catching it. Really weird. He's creating rebounds out of nothing. That's bad news in the NHL.
3) Cross ice mobility is still an issue as I see it in that video. That he's large disguises some of that but quick passes across can burn him. This was also uncharacteristic video as not one moment involved him making his desperation lunges where he's on the ice a lot. Seen that 50 times in other videos. He seemed intent on this game to play clean. Almost like a video of film of him is being shot for scouts. hmmmm.
He's intense and seems to try to do a lot to prepare but I really don't think he has much other than size to work with. Certainly not seeing a talented goalie here. I'm seeing a guy that's learned to do enough to excel at a far lower rung of hockey.
Confirmed with Link: - Oilers sign Mikko KoskinenMyself I see this as maybe a 25 % chance Koski will be good here. Less that he will cover his contract pay in games or worth. If he hits 25 games at this price he's maybe covering the bet but only if those games are getting good goaltending.
I see not even a 10% chance that he pushes Talbot or replaces him.
Confirmed with Link: - Oilers sign Mikko KoskinenMyself I think Koskinen is Nilsson all over again. Not meaning any compliment with that.
Be glad to be wrong but I don't like what I see in his game.
f***ing laughable. I may have missed some posts too.
That whole thread is him trashing Koskinen based on a five minute video, and talking down to Finnish and KHL posters who watched Koskinen play for years.
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