Post-Game Talk: Below average goaltending + below average finishing + below average defense = ugly losses

[MessierThanThou]

Which people were these? I think the fanbase universally shit on him for not upgrading the goaltending or at least trying something.

Are you kidding me?

When I entered the deadline thread and shat on the Simps for their stanning for Stan and Stu, the first reply I received started with, "Read the room."

They're just awfully quiet today because there's egg on their faces. They're even ignoring my callouts in the GDT

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Same culprits as always, Skinner and Bouchard. Not much more to say, how do you win a Cup with these two playing prominent roles.

Bouchard and Skinner, Skinner and Bouchard.

 

[iCanada]

Watch this guy skate some time. How is he even in the pros. He's like old school goalie 50yrs ago where skating wasn't focused on as much. But its like every aspect of him it isn't honed, practiced, perfected. Nothing about him is sharp. Even when he's out to the boards fetching a puck he skates back like he's in a beer league game. its hilarious except he's our goalie. The Skinner shuffle. I'll get back to the cage sometime. .

Like...

And for Schwartz... If your guy is literally so clearly not sound fundamentally... What the f*** are you actually doing?

Schwartz has to be literally a total charlatan. How can you work with someone for years as a Goaltending guru and not draw attention to the fact that his fundamentals are that dog shit? How do you let that stay a thing for years? How do you not recognize that that reflects on you? Either you're not teaching him shit or you're utterly incompetent.

Idk, Skinner will never be Hasek doing backflips to stop pucks, but like come on. You're a professional.

 

[McAsuno]

I'm waiting for the war and peace treatice part 17 on how its not my fault Skinners faullt. Its the team for not scoring enough goals to account for Skinner shitting the bed again. This was like 3GA on around 5 Buffalo chances and goal posts too. Fortunately Sabres shot wide on vast majority of their looks.

I feel good about my game = inevitable post game bullshit from fat f*** moustache.

 

[MoontoScott]

I honestly at this point don't even understand. How can you be that large and that immobile?

How do you play goal your entire life and not have the ability to push off laterally? That's literally what they teach you day 1.

And literally after a certain point, at what point do you not just go back to school and learn how to do it? He should sit for 2 weeks and just be spending 12 hrs a day pushing from one post to the other. Like what the f***.

I think the answer to your question is that he's just not a great athlete.

 

[DaGap]

Meh Knob turned this team inti a two man show. hope they enjoy the 30m between them

 

[trick91]

I thought the effort was really good. 5 posts and no puck luck. This is the type of game where you need your goalie to hold the fort. Instead skinner let's in the first and second atrocious goals.

 

[Louis Cypher]

For the love of God get a shooter on the PP instead of Nuge. I like Nuge but he's so cold right now. And stop the cross ice passes through 3 opponent's sticks.

 

[McFlash97]

See I question that. Shit on me all you want, but I really think he its too one dimensional and teams have figured him out.

I think I'm going to end up being right at the end of the day with Bouchard.

Go fn get someone like Byram. Fire this 10 million dollar pretender into the sun. Je isnt getting a dime over 6. Go fxxx off.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I feel good about my game = inevitable post game bullshit from fat f*** moustache.

Stop calling him names. You'll harm the sensitivities of someone here that complains about this. Think of the children.

We need to be pleasant to him all the time. you're givng him ptsd....he might be reading you know...

<people were actually saying this stuff>

 

[Salvaged Ship]

Knob has to go. The team is idiotic, but he’s making it worse

The team is playing exactly like its coach, lethargic and emotionless. They need someone to light a fire under their asses, this sloth has no chance to do that. Last year was a honeymoon, no more. Get a coach in here with a pulse to start holding players accountable, get the team motivated and moving. At times they look like zombies on the walking dead, brainless and stiff.

 

[McAsuno]

I thought the effort was really good. 5 posts and no puck luck. This is the type of game where you need your goalie to hold the fort. Instead skinner let's in the first and second atrocious goals.

Just look at that positioning. Holy f***, he was extra cooked tonight.

 

[Duke74]

Nuge getting more minutes with McDavid while mustering up a single goal as production in the last 15 games is just pathetic. Get him tf off the PP and McDavid's line.

No f***ing shooting mentality ever from him.

I honestly think RNH would be better served on the second line wing. It would give Draisaitl another actual hockey player to play with. But we all know that won't happen with Knobby.

 

[MoontoScott]

Kind of somewhat. Any game against Buffalo and this one as in Buffalo is J Skinners personal SC. You could see the try from him on occasion but also how little he gets done out there. This was his jump game and it wasn't anything.

I'm not saying he's been good but at least a better effort than some of what we have seen from his team mates.

 

[McAsuno]

Stop calling him names. You'll harm the sensitivities of someone here that complains about this. Think of the children.

We need to be pleasant to him all the time. you're givng him ptsd....he might be reading you know...

<people were actually saying this stuff>

Waiting for that specific dumb ass poster with the 'bumblebee simpson' picture to simp and defend skinner.

 

[iCanada]

Stop calling him names. You'll harm the sensitivities of someone here that complains about this. Think of the children.

We need to be pleasant to him all the time. you're givng him ptsd....he might be reading you know...

<people were actually saying this stuff>

No need to call him names, imo.

I think ad hominems weaken our point, paint us as haters.

Besides his play rips itself.

 

[Shanahanigans]

Offense is as big a problem as goaltending. We have 2 guys who can make plays and absolutely nothing on the bottom 6 or Drai's wings. The last time the team felt this reliant on 97 and 29 were the early Tippett years. The priority this offseason needs to be undoing last summer, getting rid of the old, slow, useless players, and actually having useful players in the bottom 6.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I'm not saying he's been good but at least a better effort than some of what we have seen from his team mates.

Death by association is still pretty meager. So he has company. Connor Brown say hi.

 

[Heavy Dee]

The team is playing exactly like its coach, lethargic and emotionless. They need someone to light a fire under their asses, this sloth has no chance to do that. Last year was a honeymoon, no more. Get a coach in here with a pulse to start holding players accountable, get the team motivated and moving. At times they look like zombies on the walking dead, brainless and stiff.

When Stan gets over his food poisoning, he should call Quenneville.

 

[brentashton]

Stop calling him names. You'll harm the sensitivities of someone here that complains about this. Think of the children.

We need to be pleasant to him all the time. you're givng him ptsd....he might be reading you know...

<people were actually saying this stuff>

Do you remember the waitress Flo from the Alice sitcom?

“They can kiss my grits”.

 

[MoontoScott]

Death by association is still pretty meager. So he has company. Connor Brown say hi.

You realize that when Connor Brown gets that rumored 5 year extension (NMC) that you are going to get a real rough ride around here.

 

[Salvaged Ship]

Just look at that positioning. Holy f***, he was extra cooked tonight.

That’s the classic swiss cheese position he was taught growing up. Textbook

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Offense is as big a problem as goaltending. We have 2 guys who can make plays and absolutely nothing on the bottom 6 or Drai's wings. The last time the team felt this reliant on 97 and 29 were the early Tippett years. The priority this offseason needs to be undoing last summer, getting rid of the old, slow, useless players, and actually having useful players in the bottom 6.

yup Drai is saddled with 6-goal Podkolzin and McDavid stuck with Nuge, who hasn't scored in weeks

 

[iCanada]

I think the answer to your question is that he's just not a great athlete.

I don't even think it's that. It can't be?

Honestly the average Goaltender in U13 does a better job pushing of laterally and covering the net.

 

[McAsuno]

That’s the classic swiss cheese position he was taught growing up. Textbook

Hurrrr durrr i know how to goalie coach!