Talbot Named NHL First Star of the Week

[Del Preston]

 

[Aceboogie]

You add 2 top 4 D and get Klefbom back and suddenly his first star of week turns into a month which turns into a Vezina nom

 

[fuswald]

You sign enough defensemen eventually one of them will be good?

Davidson

 

[Mc5RingsAndABeer]

That is insane, especially considering the D corps those teams have.

 

[AlowlyMcOilersfan]

Well deserved.

Hope he continues to drag us out of the very bottom.

 

[McShogun99]

I remember the first 2 months of the season where Talbot was horrible and kept letting in shots from below the goal line. Just a complete 180 in play since he retook the net from Nilsson.

 

[McDeathbyCheerios*]

I remember the first 2 months of the season where Talbot was horrible and kept letting in shots from below the goal line. Just a complete 180 in play since he retook the net from Nilsson.

All his bad goals were very similar too. Which is why i think it was so easy to turn that around.

 

[Tyrolean]

You acquire enough goalie (Fasth, Scrivens, Nilsson, Talbot) eventually youll find a starter

Have Talbot as #1 for next 2 years, maybe Brossoit develops enough by then to challenge him

I don't have my hopes up on Brossoit but time wlil tell.

 

[MoneyGuy]

You hire enough gm's eventually one of them will find a goalie

Hire enough CEOs and eventually one will find a GM, and one will eventually find a goalie.

 

[Tyrolean]

You acquire enough goalie (Fasth, Scrivens, Nilsson, Talbot) eventually you'll find a starter

He forgot to include Dubnyk.

 

[Halibut]

If you sign 100 Grebeshkovs, how many of them turn out to be that top pairing dman?

I think your getting confused with the infinite monkeys eventually writing Shakespeare thing.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

If you sign 100 Grebeshkovs, how many of them turn out to be that top pairing dman?

Depends. Can you pair them with Visnovsky


Hell, Gerbeshov paired with Gilbert was actually also decent. That's one (more) falloff I will never understand.

 

[duul]

He has been incredible for months now behind the worst D in the NHL. Wouldn't surprise me if he's actually a top 10 goalie in the NHL.

 

[Soundwave]

I remember waking up late that second day of the draft but thinking I was going to be extremely choked if Calgary got him, thankfully I saw that Slats' did the right thing and traded him here, lol.

 

[Alberta]

So even with the best goalie in the NHL (statistically) the Oilers are 12-13-3 (8-13-3 before this four-game run) which ranks 23rd in the NHL during that time. Hopefully they think long and hard about what needs to be done to legit improve this team next season.

 

[Soundwave]

So even with the best goalie in the NHL (statistically) the Oilers are 12-13-3. Hopefully they think long and hard about what needs to be done to legit improve this team next season.

Powerplay needs to improve badly so does the D.

I actually think the PP is the biggest bottleneck right now.

 

[Alberta]

Powerplay needs to improve badly so does the D.

I actually think the PP is the biggest bottleneck right now.

I think you're 100% right.

The thing that worries me is the most likely offseason moves will be two of Eberle, Hall and RNH moved out for two defencemen. I guess if the defencemen are offensive that should help the PP but most likely one of them will be Hamonic.

Basically, the expectation is that offence up front will diminish but if the D can provide more offence maybe there will be an overall improvement there.

 

[duul]

I think you're 100% right.

The thing that worries me is the most likely offseason moves will be two of Eberle, Hall and RNH moved out for two defencemen. I guess if the defencemen are offensive that should help the PP but most likely one of them will be Hamonic.

Basically, the expectation is that offence up front will diminish but if the D can provide more offence maybe there will be an overall improvement there.

We are right near the bottom in goals for per game. We can't score goals with all the talent up front. Our lack of defensive talent is annihilating our offence.

 

[Aceboogie]

We are right near the bottom in goals for per game. We can't score goals with all the talent up front. Our lack of defensive talent is annihilating our offence.

Lack of puck movement is biggest cause. To often puck is just throw off the glas sin our zone and the only way forwards enter zone is after a battle. If we had good puck movers we could hit our forwards in speed.

Also D arent a threat from the point

And our depth scoring sucks

 

[Stud Muffin]

If you sign 100 Grebeshkovs, how many of them turn out to be that top pairing dman?

Only top paring guy the oilers have signed in a while has been Sekera

 

[Blitzago*]

Only top paring guy the oilers have signed in a while has been Sekera

I don't know if I consider him a top pairing defender

 

[McShogun99]

Outside of Sekera and Klefbom we have no defenceman that can get the forwards the puck in full flight or have a big slap shot from the point. Davidson was staring to develop all of that so that's a positive.

 

[Stud Muffin]

I don't know if I consider him a top pairing defender

Not number 1 Dman but IMO is the definition of #2dman

 

[McFlyingV]

Not number 1 Dman but IMO is the definition of #2dman

He's the definition of a 3. He could maybe pass as a 2 alongside an elite #1, but he's not good enough to play top pairing 25 mins a night without that support.

 

[duul]

I really don't like Sekera's game. He's a #4 in my opinion. Guy can't get shots through, can't skate very well, is not physical, is rarely seen make a breakout pass.