Would Juuse Saros be an improve that the Edmonton Oilers want in web to place them excessive?
B/R Open Ice: Frank Seravalli on if the Edmonton Oilers must improve in web. They’re restricted in cap area, commerce property, and the goalie market is skinny. Would Nashville Predators goaltender Juuse Saros be the reply?
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“Should you’re satisfied that Stuart Skinner will not be the reply, and I feel we’ve seen sufficient of a pattern dimension to have the ability to even no less than ask that query. 118 video games began for Stuart Skinner during the last three seasons, and a save proportion is strictly .900.
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So, barely under league common. And you may say league-average goaltending isn’t bringing a Stanley Cup to Edmonton, and also you could be proper. Though his playoff numbers are fairly good, and as my pal Bob Stauffer identified just lately on Edmonton radio, he did outduel Jake Ottinger, unequivocally probably the greatest goalies within the league in back-to-back Western Convention Finals to assist get the Oilers to the Stanley Cup last.
However what’s on the market? That is an Edmonton workforce that doesn’t have a ton of cap area. That doesn’t have actually a lot to commerce when it comes to prospects. So how do you exit and purchase a goalie, and is Saros the reply?
I do know there’s not a teaming goalie market, however Saros wouldn’t be the selection for me for quite a few causes. One, he’s getting into, or he’s within the first yr of an eight-year contract that can take him all the way in which till age 39. Two, his numbers haven’t been good for 2 consecutive seasons now, this one and final. And three, from an general holistic perspective, for a workforce that doesn’t actually have the cap area and hasn’t devoted the cap area to goaltending in plenty of methods.
What, what you could have is what you get with, with Stuart Skinner and what they’ll afford to pay on their cap the previous few years. That’s kind of been what they’ve been left with, is, in case you’re going to commit twice as a lot cap area to goaltending, is Juuse Saros at 5 foot 11, is he the reply?
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He had a observe report for a very long time as probably the greatest goalies within the league and the spine to the Preds franchise. However on the subject of his dimension and skill to win on the subject of the playoffs, that’s the massive query that everybody asks about Saros. Does he make you any extra comfy in case you’re an Oiler fan, given the value and the dedication in your cap? I don’t know that he does sufficient for me to warrant that kind of acquisition.
After which the subsequent query is, is there a value to that acquisition? Sure, we all know the goaltending market is skinny. That is simply my view. The way in which I see it from 30,000 toes is the pure predator ought to should pay you to tackle Juuse Saros’s deal, given how a lot is remaining on it, and given how poor the play has been of late.”
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