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Originally Posted by Philly06Cup
Koskinen is terrible. Mike Smith showed he can still play, and this is a good contract for the Oilers given his stats last year. Weird how fans here are celebrating this contract.
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This is true. Because they're hampered by the Koskinen contract, having a guy sign for cheap and play above his AAV is really the only viable option.
But people are celebrating because this is two more years of the Oil having Mike Smith as their goalie. I think it's fair to say he's not very good, last year was an anomaly, he will be worse this year, and on top of that they just lost his best defensive defenseman. Even in a good year, he still screwed up when it mattered. Not that he was alone, but again... it was 4-1. That's the kind of aptitude for choking you like to see in a rival franchise.