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Chapter 1: What recent developments are impacting the Canucks?
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Chapter 2: How is the Oilers goaltending situation evolving?
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Chapter 3: What insights does Kevin Woodley provide on goalie performance?
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Canucks' GM search?
How are we doing this morning, boys?
We're well. A lot of different things to dive into. We could start Canucks, the jar manager search. We could dive into some of these goalie stories.
We're going to start with the Oilers goaltending situation. And even though Tristan Girardi played fine yesterday, if the Oilers lose to Anaheim and they are down 3-1 right now, How does Stan Bowman explain the fact that he went into the playoffs with Conor Ingram as his starter?
I mean, when you put it like that. I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.
Chapter 5: What lessons can be drawn from the recent NHL playoffs?
I have no problem with Conor Ingram as their starter, except for the fact that they invested in two more years of Tristan Jari when Stuart Skinner would have been a UFA they could have walked from at the end of the year. like that makes it even worse. Like Connor Ingram, I said, I do weekly radio in Edmonton.
And I said, after they made the Connor Ingram deal, that he had the most upside of anyone on their goalie depth chart. And that the only way to know where he, once you figure out where he's at, between the ears and how he's feeling about things.
The only way to know where his game at between the pipes was to get him into the National Hockey League because you would never see it in the American Hockey League. Connor is a guy that reads the game really well, sits back and lets it come to him. He's got a good skill package. He's not explosive.
Chapter 6: How do injuries affect team performance in playoffs?
He's not dynamic, but he really thinks his way through the game. And so at the American Hockey League level where it's a game of mistakes and broken plays and
It's really tough to read off, and like I said that on the air in Edmonton after the trade, and they didn't get a look at what Conor Ingram could be in the National Hockey League until after they traded for Tristan Jari, and then only because Tristan Jari once again got hurt.
He ends up being their number one, and you can debate whether, I mean, do they need a better goaltender than Conor Ingram to be their number one? Fair. But at his peak when he was in Arizona, he was producing numbers that would have been just fine behind a decent defensive team, which, by the way, the Oilers were not this year. And so it's almost like everything shifted on them.
What they needed out of Connor Ingram for the previous two years going into the playoffs would have been more than enough for the Edmonton Oilers to have the success they had and maybe take another step and win a Stanley Cup. His numbers were that much better. The problem is you didn't even give him a look until you'd already ā
Chapter 7: What cultural changes are needed for the Canucks' success?
committed to Tristan Jari for two more years at the expense of being able to get off Stuart Skinner. And so you, you basically created a problem that, that lasts even longer. And I know it hasn't gone their way. The ducks are not the Kings. Obviously they can score. The Oilers thought they'd be able to, after a season of playing totally loose in their own end and not bothering to defend at all.
There was sort of a, and Canucks fans of, of, a significant enough vintage will remember the term flip the switch. It looked like that's what they were trying to do most of the year. And down the stretch, it looked like they did.
Chapter 8: What have we learned from the Canucks' recent season?
Hey, we can play defense. We have this in our DNA. We've got, but they're not, they're not able to sustain what, what Anaheim is creating. And so goaltending is part of the problem. And they exacerbated it with the move they made. But I'm not going to look at it and be like, Connor Ingram is the problem. Connor Ingram is getting beat on screens and rebounds. 13 goals.
Nine of them are screens and rebounds. Now, rebounds are an issue. And the Ducks are clearly going after it. Like I said, not explosive laterally. So if you... And a really wide butterfly. If you can get pucks off his pads, they're going to bounce into the middle. And he's... Unless guys are going to box out, he might not be able to beat you to that next spot. And they scored five goals that way.
Screens... Like, there's times where it's on him. There's times when it's on them. Like, guys are in the wrong lanes. I think that was one of the biggest differences I saw in Jari's game and why I can understand going to him. He was picking his lanes early, getting there early, and finding sight lines.
You know, and I think they had five screen shots, which is a lot in a single game against him last night. It's almost like they were still trying to beat Conor Ingram. And he managed all of those quite well. The problem is, for all the good you get out of Jari in terms of more explosive laterally, better managing screens,
You're also going to get a guy who doesn't take away the bottom of the ice as a default, you know, for how he plays. And there are going to be pucks that leak through him, as we saw off the net play bounce. And, you know, Connor, it's ironic because Connor Ingram probably makes those saves, but maybe not enough of the other ones. And so I get the criticism of the goaltending there.
This is a team that for the past two years wasn't built. They just needed average goaltending to win. And maybe that shifted. They need better goaltending to have a chance. But the moves they made this season, back to Stan Bowman, haven't given them that. And I just, I don't think you can say, oh, it's Conor Ingram's fault, as much as he hasn't been the best goalie in the playoffs, for sure.
This team just has not been able to do what they were the past two years. And now they're leading on him a little harder than they probably should.
What did you think of the move from Pittsburgh head coach Dan Mews going from Stuart Skinner as the starter to Artie Silovs in Game 4? At least for one game, it looked like a smart move.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know that it matters the way that series has gone, who's in goal. Again, you've got a bunch of guys that are sort of just giving you league average goaltending. And then the guys that are...
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