This in from top NHL analyst Ray Ferraro of ESPN, his take on the many issues confronting the struggling Edmonton Oilers, and his suggestion that the quickest fix will be to bring in a new back-up goalie to replace Calvin Pickard.

Said Ferraro on the Ray & Dregs podcast of the Oilers: “Their play in front of him (Stuart Skinner) — and whoever’s in there — is not even close for what it needs to be. … They are off in several different areas. And the biggest problem becomes you fix one problem and another one seems to spring up. That’s where they are right now.”

For one thing, the Oilers miss injured Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. “He’s such a valuable piece for them in almost every facet of their game, right? He’s really, really a quiet, very important piece.”

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