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The Edmonton Oilers May Have Found Their #1 Goalie

12/09/2015 at 11:06am EST

from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,

When do you know on a goalie? When does a good month become a great season, and a No. 2 morphs into a No. 1 you can count on?

They are stewing on that in Edmonton this week, where upstart Swede Anders Nilsson — whose father was both a Stockholm cop and Djurgarden goalie — has rolled into town on a one-year, $1 million deal and stapled Cam Talbot’s butt to the Oilers’ bench.

Suddenly, Nilsson has started nine of the last 10 Oilers games, and has a save percentage of .922. He hasn’t given up more than two goals in any of his last five starts, and his save percentage in those games is .951.

Big guy (6-foot-5, 225 lbs), big numbers. But does he have a big future?

“He’s kind of got that Pekka Rinne look to him,” mused his head coach, Todd McLellan.

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