Pete DeBoer’s explanation for pulling Jake Oettinger in elimination game falls flat

Jake Oettinger sat at 8:07 Loss of 6-3 Dallas Stars in front of Edmonton Oilers, Jake Oettinger sat on the bench next to the reporter Ray Ferraro de Rinkside. Pete Deboer’s decision to throw Oettinger with his team’s season on the line raised some questions and provided an explanation after the game.

The stars have spent a miserable time trying to play with leadership in these playoffs, falling for the first time in 15 of their 18 games. Thursday night match was especially bad with the Oilers who scored each of their first two shots.

Oettinger did not blame for the fault of either goal, but Deboer took his franchise goalkeeper in favor of Casey Desmith’s backup. In his postgame press conference, Deboer explained that he was trying to provoke his team, but he also worried about the history of Oettinger’s playoff against Oilers.

“Whenever you bring a goalkeeper, reasoning is always trying to provoke your group, so it was the number 1 reason,” said Deboer. “We had talked endlessly in this series about trying to play with leadership. Obviously we were in a 2-0 hole immediately. You know, I didn’t take it lightly and I didn’t blame it on Jake.

“But the reality is that if you return to last year’s playoffs, he has lost six of seven games against Edmonton. We have left two shots and two goals in a elimination game.

“It was partly provoking our team and awakening them, and partly knowing that the status quo had not been working, and it was a fairly large sample size.”

A few moments after taking the ice, Desmith allowed a third goal when a gentle shot by Jeff Skinner hooked on his legs to make 3-0. The other two goals that Desmith allowed: a showstopper by Connor McDavid and a bad bounce in a scheduled pass by Evander Kane, probably not his fault.

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Despite Deboer’s response, stars fans could ask -always what would have happened if Oettinger stayed on the net.

Stop the shot of Skinner? Does it come with a denial that saves the game of McDavid? Do you react half a second faster to a bad turn off the Patí de ESA Lindell?

Deboer cited a size of the seven -party sample as his reasoning for his work. What happens to a 174 -game sample size? This is the number of games Oettinger has played for the last three seasons, and its 48.1 goals saved above average in sixth place Nhl, For statistical natural trick.

Regardless of the Oettinger’s post -season history against Edmonton, Dallas has him to be the boy to win this kind of game. He is definitely paid to be that guy and he should have given him the opportunity to recover -after a tremble start.

In this post -empower, Oettinger has saved 3.76 goals above the average, even when he took into account the Thursday night debacle. Without Oettinger, the stars don’t even go so far. Only four teams promised less than the 2.5 goals from the stars per game, and three of them were eliminated in five games in the first round.

Dallas needed a spark long before game 5, but never came. Pull Oettinger was never the answer unless he went to play and score a couple of goals. Deboer should have left his franchise goalkeeper on the net. Instead, he went down with him from the margin.