The knee-jerk with the rabids on social media is that they have to pull the plug on the feel-good-story Connor Ingram and go to somebody else in net for Game 4, even if it’s Tristan Jarry, who has been less popular with their loud voices than Stuart Skinner.

I don’t think it’s a good idea.

Yes, Edmonton Oilers GM Stan Bowman has a seat at the table and might clear his throat when the topic of goaltenders comes up before his team tries to dig their way out of their 2-1 hole in Anaheim. He did, after all, deal the beleaguered Skinner and throw in his 4-5 defenceman Brett Kulak to make the money work on Jarry’s $5.385-million AAV when he did that December trade. So, he has a dog in this fight.

But managers usually stay away from coaching decisions in the playoffs.

That’s what he has his head coach Kris Knoblauch for.

That’s why Knoblauch has a goalie coach Peter Aubry.

They have the input and the intel. It’s their call, their gut, their eyes.

Knoblauch wouldn’t say Saturday who Oilers Game 4 starter would be.

So, again, I come back with Ingram even if the intel suggests, or implores, a change because the Oilers’ Masterton trophy nominee has given up 11 goals the last two Oilers losses, after he saved them in the third period in Game 1 with two big stops on Bennett Sennecke and Leo Carlsson in the Oilers 4-3 win.

“I don’t think Ingram was bad last night,” said Hall of Famer Grant Fuhr, who watched Game 3 between his work as a media commentator in Coachella Valley, the AHL team that is currently playing the Oilers farm team in Bakersfield in the playoffs.

“But sometimes you have to make a change to get the players’ attention,” he said.

Ingram won five of his last eight regular-season starts, and two of his losses were 1-0 in L.A. and 2-1 in a shootout against Colorado. In six of Jarry’s last eight starts, he had save percentages of .806, .741, .839, .800, .840 and .750. One of those starts was a 6-5 loss in Anaheim.

Ingram’s .899 seasonal save percentage was 24th. Jarry’s .882 was 51st.

Yes, Ingram’s .849 save percentage through the first three games of round one is roll-your-eyes stuff and he’s certainly part of the problem. But his save percentage hasn’t been much worse than Ducks’ goalie Lukas Dostal (. 874) and Ingram’s environment is way worse, trying to clean up the chaotic defensive mistakes.

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After Game 1, the Ducks mentioned they wanted to get more bodies in front of Ingram — yeah, all teams say that, but they have done so — and they have delivered several screened shots for goals on Ingram. As per Kevin Woodley, the founder and managing editor at InGoal magazine, Ingram has seen 13 scoring chances in the three games where a screen is the primary threat and only Boston’s Jeremy Swayman has seen more (15). Dostal has seen 11. Both Ingram and Dostal have given up four screened goals so far, tied for the most in the playoffs.

Of course, it’s also true that there are several more layers of bodies in front of goalies in the playoffs than in regular season, where they have to find pucks, head on a swivel, hoping shots hit them. Then, when they do, there’s loose change to scoop up. The Ducks wanted to do that, and they’ve been good at it. But it’s also incumbent on the Oilers defenders to clear some of those, right?

Ingram has given up five goals on rebounds, certainly revealing. Dostal, three.

So, both teams have watched video and seen that tendency. In Ingram’s case, he relies heavily on his reads — he has said that publicly — and working his way from first to last minute on what he sees and his strong athletic ability. The Ducks have made a conscious effort to block his vision, like all teams do with goalies, maybe feeling that Ingram doesn’t move as quickly to get to rebounds as some goalies.

“Whether or not the Ducks are targeting Ingram with traffic any more than most teams do with goalies come playoff time, the reality is those chances — and the rebounds from them that challenge his lateral recovery speed — have been a massive part of Anaheim’s success offensively,” said Woodley, who studies goals and goalies for a living and writes very well about it.

“There are some screens that I argue Ingram could have managed differently and somewhere his defenders appear to be in the wrong lanes,” he said. “But both sides are going to have to find a way to improve those results.”

Would it be any different with Jarry, if he was starting? From watching him the last several months, the active Jarry has had pucks ricocheting off his blue pads, too, and he’s been beaten, like all goalies, with heavy traffic. Chances are the Ducks won’t change how they operate, no matter who’s in net.

Fuhr says it’s a coin flip whether they switch out Ingram for Jarry, with the Oilers desperately needing a win Sunday.

“I would say it’s 50-50 right now. But if Ingram plays and you lose the next one, then you have to make a change,” he said.

Is changing the goalie for the Game 4 Oiler going to fix what’s really wrong, like the play in front of him? And is there anything to suggest that Jarry has a heater in him? Both good questions. He’s played 310 NHL games and we all know the former Edmonton Oil Kings Memorial Cup winner has talent, but he’s only had eight playoff games, going 2-6 with an .891 save percentage.

Absolutely, when your team has scored 12 goals in three games and your team is behind in a series, that is not a good look for Ingram. But I still stick with him on Sunday, maybe because Jarry hasn’t played in a game in six weeks.

This isn’t quite like last season, where Calvin Pickard was the clear Oilers backup but had a strong regular-season, playing 36 games with a .900 save percentage and a 22-10-1 record, and there was no hesitation to give him a shot in place of Skinner after two quick losses in Los Angeles.

Should Ingram be on a short leash if he does get the Game 4 start over Jarry?

“In my world, yes,” said Fuhr, one of the game’s greatest playoff performers and one of the 100 top players of all time.

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