Can the Edmonton Oilers Find More Consistency on Defense and Goal

The Edmonton Oilers Could Get a More Consistent Goal and Defense Next Season

TSN: Hockey analyst Frankie Corrado joined Jay Onrait last week on SportsCenter as he broke down one burning question facing Canada’s seven teams. Heading into the Western Conference, Corrado believes the biggest question facing the Edmonton Oilers is the balance and consistency they find on defense and scoring.

** NHLRumors.com transcript

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Jay Onrait: “Join for the last time this season our hockey analyst, Frankie Corrado. There are coach questions about the Western Edition and Frankie this is the last time we will talk to you until September. The rosters of most NHL teams are set pretty well. So what I’m going to ask you to do is pretend to be the coach of each of these teams and I’m going to ask you the biggest question on the minds of all of these Canadian head coaches right now.

We’ll start with the Edmonton Oilers. They added Viktor Arvidsson, adding Jeff Skinner to an already impressive forward group. They ran a lot of running backs that took them to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. If you’re Kris Knoblauch, Frankie, what do you think when you look at this list?”

Frankie Corrado: “So I think I see a very explosive offense from Jay and I can account for this team that scores a lot of goals. They also improved a lot defensively and Stuart Skinner played well at times. But I guess the big question I want to ask is, will there be a big difference between how good my team is offensively and what I get from my D corps and my scoring?

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As this group will be strong. He will be led by McDavid and Draisaitl. Like he’s going to have a lot to offer there offensively but as a D core, can they take another step? Can the goalkeeper, Stuart Skinner, be as consistent as we see him playing really well? Can he do that more often? And if that’s the case, you don’t have that much of a difference between how good you are defensively and maybe not defensively.

And you know, let’s be fair, the team improved a lot defensively as the season went on last year when Knoblauch took over, but maybe making sure there’s less of a difference between the forwards and the D and the goalie would probably be too big of a ask. to Chris Knoblauch. “