Military night in Edmonton time to post. youtu.be/3xva-cdBi8E?...

I wish my problem with the Oilers was goaltending at this point.

The Oilers offence consisting of only point shots at this point. I wish I could care about Skinner's lateral movement I am far more concerned about the teams lack of any coherence. Gave up so many odd man rushes for no reason. Didn't seem to give a shit until the final 5 mins. Sad.

I know Oilers don't really space both roster and cap wise but I keep hearing good things about Chinakov and I think he could be a real interesting turn around player.

hell ya

Coaching staff spent pre season dicking around and the team at the first sign of struggle is slumping hard with no solid lines. Only coach that seems to have coached in pre season is the goalie coach.

One thing I will like about that game was we hopefully will not have to hear about Skinner because there are way more pressing issues after the two New York games.

Oilers twitter worked themselves in such a tizzy about Skinner it is almost sad. They are bot posting even though I know they are real human beings.

Real smart to play games with Skinner in game 2 because 1 bad play. Please get him out of here for his own good. This team isn't looking to help him succeed and neither are the fans.

If the Oilers have a plan for goaltending why not do it? Setting up Skinner to fail and then having to panic move seems worse than just getting the upgrade.

Now that most of the contract work is done in Edmonton. Aside from decisions on Ekholm and Kulak. I would like to see the Oilers establishing a goaltending division of the front office to go with their scouting and analytics improvements.

I really didn't like the defensive structure the Oilers exhibited in pre season. Could be a rough start to the season in the GA department and fans likely will be quick to blame the goalies. However i really liked the offensive structure and bit more work on the breakouts and they will be golden.

Flames should probably put in a claim for Dipietro. While I think he could be an upgrade on Pickard I am not sure the move is good enough to upset the room for a maybe better in Edmonton especially since we have Ingram now.

McDavid and Draisaitl had a very casual pre season hope they can ramp up for the season opener. Still don't like them on one line.

So it seems unless McDavid is helping clean out the rodeo he isn't going to be in the arena on Monday.

@flopfish.bsky.social Just saw McKenna signed an exclusive signing contract with Topps. Does Topps have a good hockey offering?

Stauffer and Freidman both didn't have time for Reichel to the Oilers and given how camp has gone I can see that being the case. Not really room for another unknown. i would still move Janmark for him but maybe that is space needed for a potential goalie move.

Woodley not sure a waiver goalie would be an upgrade on the way the team plays for Pickard. Ingram would have been better than anyone likely to go down and he cleared.

Woodley has Oilers in 5th of goalie tandems in the Pacific division. Didn't like the spin from Skinner but did like that he wasn't lunging on the breakaway and also waiting for plays to make the Blueline before getting set.

Man Oilers twitter is miserable.

I criticise the Oilers for things like Oilers plus gating pre season games from fans. But the Oilers fan day was a fun time. Got to pick up some merch and got to see a practice with McDavid Draisaitl and Bouchard. Fans Gave Stu Skinner a good cheer coming out early.

If I am the Oilers I don't see why you don't look into Ingram. If he would prefer to go to a quieter market fine but he could potentially be an upgrade on Pickard and maybe even push Skinner. Cap wise it shouldn't be too hard to work out either. Only cost is potentially losing Pickard to waivers.

Why not just make it free at that point. Having people lie about smoking is dumb.

One memory I have as a kid that I am still not 100% it happened. I was playing at my friends house and a local hockey club had Creed playing their festival in a park nearby. My friend didn't want to go see it but i did eventually convince him to go.

It is kind of crazy tech already has it's next bubble when Ai finally pops. Quantum computing going to be next up for big investments.

www.iphoneincanada.ca/2025/07/21/r... Really should have been the point of government getting back into the telecom business by purchasing Shaw rather than letting a company outright purchase it and make service worse.

Oilers Now with Bob Stauffer. Bob and Dave Paperclip legal experts deliver their thoughts on the hockey Canada trial.

I thought Dennis King was joking with those Oilers Now with Bob Stauffer posts but I listened to a few interviews and man he does slip in the very conservative opinions into the show. I don't remember that much when i would listen every day.

Oilers got Dallas Eakins scouting for them in Germany.

In a regular world Danielle Smith's tenure would mean the conservatives were unelectable for years to come but I bet if an election was called today they would be right back in power.

A bit disappointed the Oilers haven't invested in a goaltending department but that hopefully is still a longer term goal. Nothing to really be mad about the coaching changes hopefully they work out.

From 32 thoughts sounds like Edmonton was in Maccelli which is nice to hear but I am guessing the cap was something stopping them from moving on him right away. I think it is a good bet for the Leafs would have like the Oilers to be in but cap is going to be tricky this and the next season.

I do think just saying 0.889 sv% in the playoffs doesn't tell the story. Shots on goal are very different in the modern NHL that shot isn't coming off the stick if it isn't from a good area anymore. Should they be looking to upgrade goaltending sure. But I think some of you are way too focused on it

I am sorry if you think Pickard is a better goalie than Skinner I can no longer take your goalie evaluations seriously.

Oilers fans looking at Kostin but I think Oilers should look at Kovalenko.

Now they got their potential top 6 guy. I think they should be digging for players that can come in on PTOs or buriable contracts and see what they can do in camp. If you could replace Henrique or Janmark you move on from them. Maybe you hit on one of those as well.

8th year bringing the AAV down? What is that magic? apparently you sign for 4 years to get the AAV reasonable in Edmonton.

Ned would have been maybe a marginal upgrade on Pickard. should the Oilers do that just to do it? Maybe if it would shut up fans already some of you are unbearable.

Forsberg or possibly UPL the only options I see for Oilers at this point. Maybe something frees up in pre season/during season.

Before firing Dustin Schwartz I do think the Oilers should hire a Sean Burke or ian Clark as a director of goaltending to make a decision like that. Oilers don't seem to have a clue when dealing with goalies at all and it might not all be on Schwartz. From drafting to acquisition they need help.

Missing out on Maccelli really annoys me.

I think the only move I have liked from Bowman is the Walman trade. That is a bad batting rate.

Panthers can get players to sign for below market to build teams. Oilers pay market and get bad years on deals. I don't know how you compete with that. Hope Bob flops.

I am actually starting to worry about the Boeser contract. Would have prefered to get a player like Maccelli than dip into the free agency pool. Just feels like a bad contract waiting to happen.

I am much more worried about the forward group for the Oilers going into next season and going forward.

1.3 for Kapanen. Why he was a waiver pick up that was in and out of the line up. Have not liked any of the contract work of this management group.

I have no idea why Oilers would be interested in Boeser. doesn't move the needle enough for me at all.

Some of the Oilers fans on twitter would do well to go for a walk and forget about goaltending for the Oilers until camp starts.

It is wild to me that Ken Holland has another job after the Oilers.