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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 am also living in BC, but have watched a lot of Oilers games this season. The Oilers do in fact have two crappy goalies, but this is not the only thing keeping them from total hockey dominance. The Oilers bleed chances. They rank #25 in shots-allowed. They are a bottom-five team in shooting-attempt splits, and are also in the bottom half for HD scoring chances allowed.
The Oilers are a tire-fire defensively, which is why they have surrendered more goals than everyone except for Ottawa, Vancouver and Columbus. It is why they have a 5-8-0 record v. every team that is not the Ottawa Senators.