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Originally Posted by Darkon
Question for all of you, as I am living in BC and have only actually seen the Oilers play once this year, and then highlights. I have 2 friends who are die-hard Oiler homers and their latest narrative is that with even half decent goaltending they would be leading the division.
Now I laughed at them, but then I was reading the post game from last nights Jets/Oilers game and a number of Oiler fans are voicing the same opinion in that thread.
As I said to my friends there is a salary cap so just "adding a good goalie" (the example they used was if they had Markstrom) just can't work. But their response is that they are a good/great team with complete crap goaltending.
So for those of you living in Alberta with more opportunity to actually watch the Oilers, how would you actually describe the Oilers play this year.
I put this here, because I was hoping for a fairly unbiased response and figured this was a much more likely place to get that than in the E=NG thread.
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I would say that it is not far from the truth. Realistically the Oilers are a talented team on offense and have the ability to outscore most teams on any given night. Where they fall apart is on defense and goaltending. Those two go hand-in-hand because a goalie can't do everything on his own. The Oilers are just under 3 goals for per game that they lost so obviously that points towards the issue being more on the back end than the front as 3 goals should be leading towards more wins than losses. The Oilers are currently leading the league in goals for. Unfortunately they are also 4th in goals against. If they could reduce the goals against either through defense or just relying on solid goaltending they could easily be at the top of league for points.