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Originally Posted by Blaster86
Silovs will be the one to move.
I love an Arty Party and I think he has promise to be an NHL goalie but outside of May on wards he looks lost at times.
Despite his gaudy numbers in the AHL play-offs this year, he still had immense trouble tracking pucks that come from outside of the top of the circle. He had these issues despite the shots not just being at a slower velocity than they would at the NHL, but also the shot developing slower giving him more time to track the puck as it moves. When he has any sort of traffic in front of him on these shots, he's downright awful.
He is so good down low and in one-on-one situations but an inability to pick up shots coming from a distance is the type of flaw that will kill his career if he cannot sort it out. We saw it in the NHL when he played this year. He was actually a big part of why the Canucks did not make the play-offs, that's how bad he was despite only playing a quarter of the season.
Demko re-signing and Lankinen already being locked up leaves Arturs as the odd man out. It's the right call for right now. Silovs is not an NHL goalie yet.
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Sounds PERFECT for the Oilers then!