Worst Oiler goalie ever

[rboomercat90]

The question asked should probably be a little more specific. Are we talking “cup of coffee” or injury call up goalies or guys the team actually had to count on for extended periods of time?

 

[Yablo21]

Dubnyk -pre-trade several goals from outside the circles, blueline and center ice. We had no choice but to let him go.

 

[oilersblue]

Not even a mention of Joaquin Gage? Guy stuck around the Oilers franchise for years and was horrible in his NHL games. That 2000-01 season where we had Gage and Dominic Roussel (probably the next worst goalie) as backups, poor Tommy Salo barely got any rest.

 

[Jepprey]

Bulin wall.

Sure our defense corps or "corpse" in front of him was so bad. He still couldnt stop anything at all.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Oh that's harsh. He was at least good enough to have been an NHL goalie and wasn't completely bad by the time he got here.

To which I'll say that Jacques Plante, the Oilers version, was largely here for show and to sell some tickets. He was occasionally decent but on his worst nights when he was showing his age and didn't give a crap except if the pay cheque is coming he was a nightmare.

But the Early Oilers had a fair amount of bad goalies.

The funniest early goalie was Louis Levasseur, and some of the Slapshot goalie character was based on him. He even got an uncredited spot in the movie as an opposition goalie. Levasseur also had a lot of strange quirks, even by goalie standards, and was a through and through character. The WHA was loaded with them.

here are some names from the NHL
Bob Dupuis
Don Cutts
Pete LoPresti
Gary Edwards

 

[Jumptheshark]

too bad we missed out on Hardy Astrom--the oiler nearly traded for him on two occasions

 

[smokersarejokers]

I hated Ben Scrivens, but I think my vote would be for Labarbera. Seems like a decent guy, but he really sucked.

 

[bucks_oil]

Pokey Reddick might be the alltime worst Oilers goalie although several already mentioned are honorable mention. Pokey, it should be mentioned, played on a good team, and only when Fuhr, and Ranford weren't getting the starts and he usually only got starts against teams that were considered a joke yet his GAA was something like .830 and he was comically bad. To the point people joked he would be better without skates on, or conceivably, in any other sport.

The odd thing is Pokey is somewhat revered by Jets fans who liked him, and by Junior hockey fans, who liked him. He was horrible as an Oiler. He spent most of his time here, in Cape Breton.

When I was a kid, I lived near the 'Peg. My Dad saved his money for trip to see Gretz and the Oilers at the Jets. Pokey stood on his head and shut out Gretzky (maybe the whole team? can't remember). Anyway... I HATED HIM for that.

 

[Canada Drai]

Probably Talbot, according to some posters.

 

[rambo97]

Our worst goalie was Conklin and LaBarb...Essensa was good for us, I don't know what anyone here is talking about.

Essensa was good as Cujo’s backup and was fine as a backup but do some of you forget how bad he and the Russian were when Cujo left.

I hated Tommy Salo but I remember how much better we were once we traded for him.

For the question, yes agree with Pokey Reddick. L.A. Barbara was pretty bad as well

 

[booyakasha]

Devan Dubnyk.

 

[I am the Liquor]

Dave Dryden.

Most of you are too young to remember the goalies from the first few years

He was good.

Yet another thing you know nothing about.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

At least Morrison was a shoot out specialist. Mac T was trying to revelutionize the game but it didn’t catch on.

It didn't also I don't think it was just a hockey "revolution" as much as "these guys all kind of suck, but this one guy does this well, so lets let him do that"

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

I feel like 80% of the goalies we've had over the past 20 years have been varying degrees of bad.

 

[Arpeggio]

I remember watching Steve Passmore as a kid and being shocked at how he played goalie. I could be way off, but I distinctly remember his first game against Buffalo (I think it was Buffalo), and he must've dove headfirst across the crease a half-dozen times. Could just be my child brain misremembering, but it's one of the few games that stuck with me from that period.

 

[Faelko]

We were spoiled for years...Moog/Fuhr to Ranford to CuJo to Salo and then the Wheels started to come off...

Talbot has been the best goalie we’ve had in a long time, since Roloson anyway.

 

[TheRebuild]

LOL, I thought this was going to be a thread about Talbot.

 

[yukoner88]

Essensa was good as Cujo’s backup and was fine as a backup but do some of you forget how bad he and the Russian were when Cujo left.

I hated Tommy Salo but I remember how much better we were once we traded for him.

For the question, yes agree with Pokey Reddick. L.A. Barbara was pretty bad as well

Being miscast due do the lack of a true starter is alot different then being a really bad goaltender. It wasn't Essensa's fault Cujo left. In that 99 season he may have been inconsistent but he is far from the worst goalie in franchise history.

If we're including the cup of coffee guys, it has to be Tyler Bunz by a country mile.

 

[Tw0Shoes]

>GAA was something like .830

That's a damn good GAA.

 

[Jumptheshark]

He was good.

Yet another thing you know nothing about.

Not his last year with oilers

 

[Patch101]

LaBarbera was the worst but .... hmmmm Gage .... Roussel .... Morrison all earned respect for being bad in that sense.

 

[Samus44]

Essensa and that Russian goalie Shytorikin or whatever his name was weren’t great.

Didn’t we have that other Russian goalie as well that was afraid of bears and made fun of Edmonton being to cold. He was crap as well (Bryzgalov)

Essensa was a quality backup, bringing him up is ridiculous. Shtalenkov wasn't good but he wasn't all time bad either, he was a tweener goalie. Mike Morrisson would probably be my vote, 21 games for a guy who struggled badly at times in the AHL and even ECHL, his NHL career saw him post a .871 sv% in 29 career games.

 

[Samus44]

Markkanen was definitely the best goalie amongst the 3 headed monster.

Not good enough obviously but he was at a fine backup level while the other two were below AHL quality.

Conklin played 216 games in the NHL which is really respectable for a goalie, his .906 sv% over that time isn't great but it's not horrible either. It's not reasonable to suggest he was below AHL quality, he was a serviceable backup.

 

[Samus44]

Dubnyk -pre-trade several goals from outside the circles, blueline and center ice. We had no choice but to let him go.

He had a bad start to one season under terrible coaching. The team threw him under the bus, he was a good goalie before MacT-Eakins ruined him for a time. Prime chance after prime chance ruined him, there was a reason every other goalie sucked too under Eakins.

 

[oXo Cube]

Conklin played 216 games in the NHL which is really respectable for a goalie, his .906 sv% over that time isn't great but it's not horrible either. It's not reasonable to suggest he was below AHL quality, he was a serviceable backup.

After that year, and after his stint with the Oilers, yeah.

I don't see how those things are relevant to this thread, though.