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Post-Game Talk: Dallas Does Skinner

A f***ing crushing collapse, and an embarassment after 2 really solid periods. WTF is with this team, man I swear. FFS, As always, as ever, the Oilers with the self inflicted head wounds to completely sewer themselves. All they had to do was f***ing hold it over a final 20 minutes and they chose to turn in that.

If there was ever a game and period to forget it's that 3rd and this one, but I'm frankly worried this heralds a return to their fragile collective state. Skinner reverts to form, a few idiotic penalties and the inevitable 'game management' BS to hand DAL some freebies and here we are. This f***ing team just never seems to learn a) you can't let up with f***ing Skinner in net, b) you need to be disciplined because you know the refs are going to manage the game, and c) you often have multiple defensive lapses, so bear the f*** down on the details and keep your head in it, individually and collectively.

Holy f*** this team is going to be the death of everyone.
 
As much as I hate Skinner, this was a complete implosion by the entire team, and placing the blame on a single player lets way too many people off the hook.

Phantom high stick was a brutal call. But the others were justified. No need for Perry to cross check a guy in the face.

Skinner was bad, but blaming him for the loss is a scapegoat for an absolutely egregious third period.

I would have liked a timeout or something after the tie goal to kind of settle things down.
Skinner was 90% of the problem full stop. Other guys made mistakes but he gave the game away and you could tell very early that he wasn’t dialed in.
 
We need Pickard back ASAP. If he's not, Skinner is going to cost us Cup #3.

Should be up 1-0 in this series and now game 2 is basically a must-win.

Absolutely dominated that team through 2 periods and then collapsed spectacularly. Gave them all the momentum when they should have none.
 
Oilers dominate 5-on-5 for the first two periods. Game turned on the refs falling for a dive by a known diver, Marchment. Then the terrible PK took over. Stars knew to shoot high on Skinner when after he moves laterally and/or loses the puck.

Bit on the dive and then bit on the embellishment by Dushbag.

But honestly the PK needs to f***ing show up for once this playoffs and Skinners inconsistent play is going to cost this team a cup.
 
Skinner is a disaster. Impossible to win with this guy. He didn’t even try on the fourth goal, what the f***!

These mostly uneducated hockey fans, are back to laughing at him. Yet our management and many fans in our fanbase are insistent that it isn’t true.
He did look rather relaxed on that 4th one.
 
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I’m not even going to talk about Skinner because unfortunately that just is what it is. Need to work around him in Game 2 and there is a lot that can be done to make that better.

The forecheck the Stars came at us with was the heaviest we’ve faced in the playoffs by far, and they actually have the talent to finish chances in tight unlike Vegas or LA. I think this caught us off guard. If Ekholm is at all available - get him in because Stecher was getting killed and Bouchard was doing his best to hand them one a few times under pressure. Puck needs to get moving way faster and we need to win way more battles low.

PK is trash, but I don’t really know what we’re supposed to do other than get another goalie. I didn’t think there was any egregious error on any of them. Don’t take penalties, that’s all we can do.

McDavid is over handling the puck at all strengths, and it’s crippling him and pretty much single handedly crippling the power play. He needs to get the puck moving, the skating around until he turns it over thing needs to end yesterday. Shoot the god damn puck once in a while maybe.

I’d be concerned if we didn’t have a carbon copy of that Game 1 about a half dozen times (literally) over the past 4 years. I think how aggressive they were on our D surprised us and we’ll adjust. Find a way to get a win in Game 2 then get Pickard in net and go from there.
 

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