Would Juuse Saros be an improve that the Edmonton Oilers want in internet to place them excessive?
B/R Open Ice: Frank Seravalli on if the Edmonton Oilers must improve in internet. They’re restricted in cap house, commerce belongings, and the goalie market is skinny. Would Nashville Predators goaltender Juuse Saros be the reply?
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“For those who’re satisfied that Stuart Skinner will not be the reply, and I believe we’ve seen sufficient of a pattern dimension to have the ability to even not less than ask that query. 118 video games began for Stuart Skinner over the past three seasons, and a save share is strictly .900.
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So, barely beneath league common. And you possibly can say league-average goaltending isn’t bringing a Stanley Cup to Edmonton, and also you is likely to be proper. Though his playoff numbers are fairly good, and as my pal Bob Stauffer identified lately on Edmonton radio, he did outduel Jake Ottinger, unequivocally top-of-the-line goalies within the league in back-to-back Western Convention Finals to assist get the Oilers to the Stanley Cup remaining.
However what’s on the market? That is an Edmonton crew that doesn’t have a ton of cap house. That doesn’t have actually a lot to commerce by way of 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 a variety of causes. One, he’s coming into, or he’s within the first yr of an eight-year contract that may take him all the best way till age 39. Two, his numbers haven’t been good for 2 consecutive seasons now, this one and final. And three, from an total holistic perspective, for a crew that doesn’t actually have the cap house and hasn’t devoted the cap house to goaltending in quite a lot of methods.
What, what you will 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 form of been what they’ve been left with, is, if you happen to’re going to commit twice as a lot cap house 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 top-of-the-line goalies within the league and the spine to the Preds franchise. However in the case of his dimension and talent to win in the case of the playoffs, that’s the large query that everybody asks about Saros. Does he make you any extra snug if you happen to’re an Oiler fan, given the worth 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 following 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 ft is the pure predator ought to must 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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