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

[TheBrew]

Going to Game 7 is almost a burden for us.

Would Knob still be here after this last pathetic stretch if we were out in 4 or 5?

Would Skinner?

Why is it that the the Oilers problems are always the fault of the coach? Seems like Edmonton needs to start every year with a new coach

 

[MessierThanThou]

we all he hasn't been good enough but sorry, I get sick of the "hurr durr Skinner sux!1!1" for 8 straight pages

yes, he needs to be a heck of a lot better...we all know it, but there's nothing we can do now but hope he figures it out

It's his 44th game of the season.

Still waiting.

Why is it that the the Oilers problems are always the fault of the coach? Seems like Edmonton needs to start every year with a new coach

For some reason getting a new one always seems to work.

Yet the goaltending never seems to get better.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

This dumb f*** thinks our goaltending is fine!!!
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Looking at that choice of eyewear, I can see why.

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Knob has reached his 130 game shelf life. Bring in Quenneville, I guess.

Can’t find a goalie to make a save, can’t find a coach that maximizes the talent on the roster, can’t find a GM to make the necessary trades to improve the team. They’re so f***ed.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Looking at that choice of eyewear, I can see why.

Knob has reached his 130 game shelf life. Bring in Quenneville, I guess.

Can’t find a goalie to make a save, can’t find a coach that maximizes the talent on the roster, can’t find a GM to make the necessary trades to improve the team. They’re so f***ed.

He's probably trying to get fired. I respect it. He knows this is a graveyard.

 

[Mr Positive]

It's almost funny that our team can't seem to put down a bottom feeder. Colorado beat up on the Blackhawks. That just makes sense.

Even in our game, I feel like we carried the play more but just didn't execute at both ends of the ice

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

He won't, the franchise has accepted losing. This is what happens when you hire a potato for a GM.

well you have a lot of free nights the foreseeable future

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

well you have a lot of free nights the foreseeable future

I spent the night watching Star Wars episode II. Jack shit happens in that movie.

It was still a better use of my time than this game. BowJack should find themselves new jobs tomorrow.

 

[MessierThanThou]

Last effing pick of that entire draft. Why do we never hit on any of our late picks?

A losing culture and managerial idiocracy masked by generational players?

 

[Whoshattenkirkshoes]

I’ve posted his number. Someone posted Mike Kelly’s numbers.

Bouchard only turns over the puck on 11% of his possession- 6th best in the league. You have no idea what his intensity is.

Classic oilers fans- “he sucks- trade him” also oilers fans “why do players leave the Oilers and do better elsewhere?” Saw it with Foegele and McLeod. The team will spend the next decade trying to find a player like Bouchard

Sorry, but the numbers/analytics don't work when supporting Bouchard. It's the severity of his turnovers and lack of intensity that are his problems.

And yeah Mcleod and Foegele had issues. That is why they don't make over 3.5 million dollars and are depth players their respective teams......

 

[iCanada]

I’ve said it multiple times, my 13 year old son has better fundamentals and lateral movement then stu, it’s f***ing insanity!

I mean literally - all you have to do is go to any community rink on any given day.

The lateral movement in particular. How are 5' nothing amateur boys playing for fun able to cover more of the net then s 6'4 professional meeting millions??

 

[McAsuno]

Garbaaaage

 

[AustinHockeyYT]

Here's a fun stat from @StonyOil on X/Twitter:

Stu Skinner ranks among goalies and games played:

18/18 in GSAx (40+ GP)
30/34 in GSAx (30+GP)
42/54 in GSAx (20+GP)
60/69 in GSAx (over last 10 GP)

STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!

 

[McAsuno]

Here's a fun stat from @StonyOil on X/Twitter:

Stu Skinner ranks among goalies and games played:

18/18 in GSAx (40+ GP)
30/34 in GSAx (30+GP)
42/54 in GSAx (20+GP)
60/69 in GSAx (over last 10 GP)

STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!

But but but he’s not the problem! It’s every defense and forward in front of him lol!

 

[MessierThanThou]

Here's a fun stat from @StonyOil on X/Twitter:

Stu Skinner ranks among goalies and games played:

18/18 in GSAx (40+ GP)
30/34 in GSAx (30+GP)
42/54 in GSAx (20+GP)
60/69 in GSAx (over last 10 GP)

STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!

Look what Evan Bouchard and Evan Bouchard alone has done to poor Stu!

 

[Mr Kot]

Here's a fun stat from @StonyOil on X/Twitter:

Stu Skinner ranks among goalies and games played:

18/18 in GSAx (40+ GP)
30/34 in GSAx (30+GP)
42/54 in GSAx (20+GP)
60/69 in GSAx (over last 10 GP)

STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!

MOAR LEIK PUUUUUUUUUUUUU AMIRITE?

 

[oobga]

Here's a fun stat from @StonyOil on X/Twitter:

Stu Skinner ranks among goalies and games played:

18/18 in GSAx (40+ GP)
30/34 in GSAx (30+GP)
42/54 in GSAx (20+GP)
60/69 in GSAx (over last 10 GP)

STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!

 

[LeonDraisaitl29]

Did you guys see Ekblad got 20 games fpr PEDs?

If Stuart Skinner reps your products, do you increase sales....lol

 

[iCanada]

You think if we lock him in a California closet we can try someone else on an emergency basis?

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Skinner has been better than every forward not named Draisaitl and Perry when he’s played in his last 10 games.

Knobby probably sits him again next game so Connor Brown can miss more empty nets and Kapanen with Janmark can do more nothing.

There’s one media member turning on the HC. You know what that means .

I’m only 1/10th serious but Knoblauch looking like Woody all of a sudden with his deployment..

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

There’s one media member turning on the HC. You know what that means .

I’m only 1/10th serious but Knoblauch looking like Woody all of a sudden with his deployment..

I just don't get it. Knoblauch could do no wrong last year and now he's just Dave Tippett yet again. There have to be decisions coming from above.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Did you guys see Ekblad got 20 games fpr PEDs?


If Stuart Skinner reps your products, do you increase sales....lol

Can we smuggle some into Skinner’s water bottle? I’m not asking for it to enhance his performance, the Oilers need him to go away for 20 games.

 

[MessierThanThou]

Oh, you must work with @CantHaveTkachev!

(I know, that's like the third or fourth time I've made that joke...sorry)

 

[LeonDraisaitl29]

Can we smuggle some into Skinner’s water bottle? I’m not asking for it to enhance his performance, the Oilers need him to go away for 20 games.

With oilers luck, Skinner would pass as clean

 

[Ritchie Valens]

I just don't get it. Knoblauch could do no wrong last year and now he's just Dave Tippett yet again. There have to be decisions coming from above.

I don’t know dude, it very well could be.

T-Mac on all preached accountability, hard work, attention to detail, etc.

Then suddenly…only certain guys are scapegoated and benched for small mistakes, everyone else doesn’t see ice time cut for big ones (wasn’t Foegele in the doghouse? Holloway was I recall), McDrai is their only option when they’re down, they play lazy…I’m not kidding when I say coaches here have a 130 game shelf life. And Dustin Schwartz is still employed.

With oilers luck, Skinner would pass as clean

They’d probably mix up his piss with Jeff’s and Jeff would take the fall. Knob would then bench him for all of the playoffs for embarrassing the team.

 

[Messrules11]

Why is it that the the Oilers problems are always the fault of the coach? Seems like Edmonton needs to start every year with a new coach

It’s likely tied to poor goaltending. 10 coaches and no goalies for any of them.
The old saying is show me a good coach and I’ll show you a good goalie. Still rings true.