Player Discussion Calvin Pickard

[ahmedou]

Goalies who are 3-0 in the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season:

1) Calvin Pickard

 

[Da McBomb]

Heard Tyler Yaremchuk describe Pickard on the Gregor show today and I thought it was a good description of Pickard. He said that Pickard is more of a Low Ceiling but High Floor goaltender... which I feel is pretty accurate. Pickard is never going to be an elite great #1 goalie... but on the other end of the spectrum.. he also won't be as horrible and bad as well. I think a team like the Oilers can get by well with this type of goaltender. They don't need a truly elite goalie to steal them games.. just one who can stop the saves you're supposed to make and keep the team in the game. Skinner on the other hand can be a very low floor goaltender... where his bad can be really bad.

 

[Macheteops]

Heard Tyler Yaremchuk describe Pickard on the Gregor show today and I thought it was a good description of Pickard. He said that Pickard is more of a Low Ceiling but High Floor goaltender... which I feel is pretty accurate. Pickard is never going to be an elite great #1 goalie... but on the other end of the spectrum.. he also won't be as horrible and bad as well. I think a team like the Oilers can get by well with this type of goaltender. They don't need a truly elite goalie to steal them games.. just one who can stop the saves you're supposed to make and keep the team in the game. Skinner on the other hand can be a very low floor goaltender... where his bad can be really bad.

Skinner's floor starts in the basement. His ceiling is also in the basement

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Skinner's floor starts in the basement. His ceiling is also in the basement

So basically a casket then.

 

[MessierThanThou]

I have to wonder, does being an unorthodox, Tim Thomas-like goalie make it harder to scout and give him an edge in the postseason?

Also, I think the more he plays, the better he'll get because he'll have the confidence to make bolder decisions to make saves he shouldn't make. Or come out of his net more to strip opposing players of the puck. He might let in the odd unbelievable blooper, but he'll be a wall otherwise.

 

[oilexport]

He is a good AHL goalie. That's it. He's the best we got right now, so I'm cheering for him.

 

[HockeyGuy1964]

We, as a fanbase, better get behind Calvin because we're only going as far as he takes us. I doubt Skinner plays another game this playoffs unless Pickard gets banged up & needs a game off which could happen.

There's no sense complaining about what management did or didn't do at this point since the focus should be on the Stanley Cup & not whether you were right about everything.

We just need competent NHL caliber goaltending to go deep & I fell Calvin has shown he can give us that & I think the players feel the same.

 

[oilexport]

We, as a fanbase, better get behind Calvin because we're only going as far as he takes us. I doubt Skinner plays another game this playoffs unless Pickard gets banged up & needs a game off which could happen.

There's no sense complaining about what management did or didn't do at this point since the focus should be on the Stanley Cup & not whether you were right about everything.

We just need competent NHL caliber goaltending to go deep & I fell Calvin has shown he can give us that & I think the players feel the same.

Its Calvin's position to lose. Skinner will get another opportunity to sub in, at some point. It depends on how Skinner plays at that time, that may dictate a rerate. Skinner should be traded or re-evaluated after the season. I'm sick of Skinner, but I know his ceiling is higher then Pickards.

 

[brentashton]

Skinner's floor starts in the basement. His ceiling is also in the basement

Kinda like Tyler Yaremchuck as a broadcaster. Woof.

 

[Satoru Gojo]

This guy is a great story !!

 

[Satoru Gojo]

Heard Tyler Yaremchuk describe Pickard on the Gregor show today and I thought it was a good description of Pickard. He said that Pickard is more of a Low Ceiling but High Floor goaltender... which I feel is pretty accurate. Pickard is never going to be an elite great #1 goalie... but on the other end of the spectrum.. he also won't be as horrible and bad as well. I think a team like the Oilers can get by well with this type of goaltender. They don't need a truly elite goalie to steal them games.. just one who can stop the saves you're supposed to make and keep the team in the game. Skinner on the other hand can be a very low floor goaltender... where his bad can be really bad.

This sums up tonight’s game, he allowed 4 and probably wants the second goal back but made some keys saves especially in the last 10 minutes

 

[Porkleaker]

Picks has been wonderful.

 

[MikeS24]

All Hail Pickard. Not perfect, but he made some big stops this series and we do not win this series if he doesn't come in.

 

[Porkleaker]

All Hail Pickard. Not perfect, but he made some big stops this series and we do not win this series if he doesn't come in.

He was miles better than skinner lol

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

He had some early jitters in game 6 but he calmed himself and made a lot of big saves when the Oilers were playing some rather questionable defense.

 

[OilerFanInLangley]

Pickard has been more than good enough so far imo.

He's come up big on some breakaways, 2-on-1's, and late in games, and there hasn't been that head-scratching moment where they were pulling another puck out of their net, wondering: "How bad do we have to outplay those guys to win a game?"

For me the main thing has been a solid first ten minutes of the game. Unfortunately for the Oil, a lot of Skinner's bad goals have come early in games - first 8 shots - which puts the team behind the 8-ball all night.

It's hard to roll 4 lines and give all your d-men minutes when you're down 2 or 3. The Oilers need to get more mileage out of the Connor Browns and less out of the Connor McDavids if they want a long playoff run. They can't be trailing all the time. Bad goals in the 1st are the worst.

Game 1, the Kings had the lead from the 3rd minute until the 2nd-last minute, a 2-goal lead for most of that time, and then the Oilers only managed to tie it for about 45 seconds.

Game 2, LA led from the 8-minute mark to the end.

That's zero seconds with the lead, and maybe 12 minutes tied, out of 120 minutes. Trailing for 108/120 minutes, with probably half of that at -2.

I don't think our stars can stay healthy for 24 games with bad 1st-period goaltending. It's too draining for the team physically. Trailing in games is just harder.

 

[OilerFanInLangley]

Pickard leads all NHL goalies with 5 wins right now. Pretty good for only having 5GP lol.

Woll has 1 of Toronto's wins right now, and Kotchetkov has one of Carolina's wins.

Other goalies' records:

4-1 One goalie (Anderson - Carolina)
4-2 Three different goalies
4-3 Three different goalies

 

[JordanGalhanth]

Apologies if this was posted elsewhere...but as much as I don't really like Sportsnet, this interview nearly made me cut onions...

 

[Drivesaitl]

May as well put this here as well. Pickard now has more wins than Skinner this reg season and playoffs and had 20 Less starts in regular season. Pickard a pretty amazing 27-11.

 

[MessierThanThou]

Apparently the average playoff save percentage is .893 in these playoffs according to StatMuse so Pickard is at least really close to average at .891? I mean people said we only need league average goaltending to win it all...

I'm more impressed that he has a better GSAx and GSAx per 60 than Vasi, Ullmark, Adin Hill, and Hellbuyck... I think he'll only get better as the playoffs go on and he gains more confidence.

 

[MikeS24]

NHL.Com is not updated after tonight, but here are the top goalies save % with a min of 3 games played

1 - Andersen (935)
2 - Thomspon (923)
3 - Comrie (923)
4 - Oettinger (911) - Posted a 0.935 tonight
5 - Stolarz (901)
6 - Pickard (891)
7 - Hill (876)
8 - Bob (876) Posted a 0.800 tonight
9 - Helly (830) Posted a 0.875 tonight

Woll posted a 0.850 coming in on MON and posted a 0.893 tonight

It is still mindboggling the turd management did not think goaltending was of priority though.

We are #1 in SC, #1 in HDC, we are 2nd best behind FLA in xGA, and we are also tied with FLA for least HDC allowed....

We are at a 0.990 PDO

#1 TO - 1.078
#2 WSH - 1.035
#3 1.013
#4 EDM - 0.990

 

[UHHHH SON]

May as well put this here as well. Pickard now has more wins than Skinner this reg season and playoffs and had 20 Less starts in regular season. Pickard a pretty amazing 27-11.

All we need to do is give Skinner more games to get going… /s

Hopefully he never sees the crease again, as many of us fans have been saying for far too long.

 

[MikeS24]

All we need to do is give Skinner more games to get going… /s

Hopefully he never sees the crease again, as many of us fans have been saying for far too long.

I am curious as to what the Oilers do. There is only one choice. He is broken even more now after losing the net (something everybody and their dogs knew would happen). He just lost it in record time lol.

I am going to see where he goes (he better not stay here) and how he does.

 

[UHHHH SON]

I am curious as to what the Oilers do. There is only one choice. He is broken even more now after losing the net (something everybody and their dogs knew would happen). He just lost it in record time lol.

I am going to see where he goes (he better not stay here) and how he does.

It will be interesting, however, he is terrible at skating. Leading to his fundamentals being terrible. Sure he can turn it around on a new team. I hope he does, that is ok. We can’t be worried about that, it is unlikely.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

May as well put this here as well. Pickard now has more wins than Skinner this reg season and playoffs and had 20 Less starts in regular season. Pickard a pretty amazing 27-11.

Yup, in the end they don't ask how, they ask how many (wins).

Just win baby.