When a new GM is put in place it seems like the attitude changes for the first season and the team starts being built for the future, but after that first season it feels like the focus becomes on trying to make the team competitive in a season or two. In my opinion, the Oilers have been plagued by short term thinking resulting in decisions with long term consequences. It was a mistake at the time and only looks worse now because he’s been so great in Minnesota.įor longer than the last decade, the Oilers would have been better off had the GM drafted using central scouting reports, only signed UFAs to fill holes on the bottom line/pairing, and kept their players rather than trying to trade to fill holes. Again, it was a huge issue with him in 2013-14 not a normal trait of his.Īny way you slice it, letting him go was a mistake. He succeeded in Arizona and again in Minnesota in part due to the defence-first shutdown styles those teams play, and largely because the organizations worked with him to rebuild his confidence. Maybe you remember those high blocker goals but the stats don’t lie he was better than average with the league’s worst (or almost worst) defence. League average is incredible considering how poor his defence was and how many high percentage scoring chances his team was leaking every game. 914 and in the worst of those 3 seasons (2011-12), he managed a. The NHL average save percentage at the time was. None of them had the consistent success Dubnyk had. I’m not claiming he was elite by any means but the defence in front of him was awful how many goalies did we see since him perform well with it? We had Deslauriers, Khabibulin, Bryzgalov, Scrivens, and Fasth. He never had a chance after that.ĭubnyk was never elite but he was always a quality goaltender running him out of town was the beginning of an era of goaltending inconsistency that the team is still suffering from. Renney liked him, Krueger liked him, but his game fell apart after a rough start and some stupid comments from McTavish that were devastating to his confidence. The biggest problem was twofold: we had an absolutely useless goalie coach in Fred Chabot who had not corrected the technical flaws Nashville immediately noticed in Dubnyk, and secondly the organization had absolutely no faith in him and repeatedly threw him under the bus. The Oilers made the fatal (and frankly ignorant) mistake of assuming his collapse in 2013-14 was the new norm and not a result of a lack of confidence and some small technical flaws. Playing behind what was the worst defence in the NHL for 3 straight years, he put up above average save percentage numbers.
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