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Do You Think This Season's Version of Stuart Skinner Can Win the Cup This Season?

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Do You Believe That This Version of Stu Can Win the Cup This Season?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 8.6%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 3 4.3%

  • Not Likely <5%

    Votes: 17 24.3%

  • Nope

    Votes: 8 11.4%

  • No Way In Hell

    Votes: 36 51.4%
  • Total voters
    70
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Bryanbryoil

Bryanbryoil

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2 games post deadline, time to see who still believes in Stu this season (forgot past or potential future performance)?
 
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I'm just trying to see what the %'s are since management seems content with Stu as the #1. We're 2 games post deadline so this is still close enough to the deadline for us to get a good idea of where the fans side in relation to management. Then we'll see come playoff time how things shake out.
 
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Get once in 3 decade offensive performances from 2 players again, and something extra equivalent to legendary pking, and we have a chance. Maybe need to avoid Vegas and Colorado again too. Then decent chance to at least look decent in the finals
 
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I'm just going to regularly spam this until hell freezes over and he's finally fired.

But more seriously - we need to fire Schwartz before we get rid of Stu if we have any sense. Management was hilariously stupid to not make a move to fix goaltending, but honestly even if we snagged, say, Gibson, he'd probably only be good for one run before Schwartz ruined him too (maybe that's all we can ask for under Katz???). It's honestly impressive how poisonous the touch of Schwartz is.
 
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Aerrol said:
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I'm just going to regularly spam this until hell freezes over and he's finally fired.

But more seriously - we need to fire Schwartz before we get rid of Stu if we have any sense. Management was hilariously stupid to not make a move to fix goaltending, but honestly even if we snagged, say, Gibson, he'd probably only be good for one run before Schwartz ruined him too (maybe that's all we can ask for under Katz???). It's honestly impressive how poisonous the touch of Schwartz is.
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I’m at the point that Bernie Sanders with his knitted mitts might be the best option in goal. Although I always thought he played left wing.
 
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He definitely could

The team will tighten up for the playoffs. He'll ride that wave.

Plus, the word "can" has lots of wiggle room.
 
Here's the problem with S. Skinner:

-- 2022-23: He was great, considering he was technically a rookie (almost won the Calder).
-- 2023-24: He was good-ish, but had some worrisome long dips (notably early in the season, but also vs. Vancouver in the playoffs).
-- 2024-25: He has been quite unimpressive all season, with the one winning period that seemed little to do with his play.

In other words, through three NHL regular seasons, he's got worse each season. I could understand a bit of a dip in year two after a big 'rookie' year, and to some extent he redeemed himself in the playoffs vs. Dallas and Florida, but now, in year three, we need to see him reaching peak level of play, not bottoming out to minimal-NHL level, which is kind of where he's at at the moment.

So, in short, my answer to the question is 'no'. But I guess there's some hope in the sense that he did perform very well vs. L.A., Dallas, and (eventually) Florida last spring, so we can at least hope he'll suddenly turn it on.
 
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The Panther said:
Here's the problem with S. Skinner:

-- 2022-23: He was great, considering he was technically a rookie (almost won the Calder).
-- 2023-24: He was good-ish, but had some worrisome long dips (notably early in the season, but also vs. Vancouver in the playoffs).
-- 2024-25: He has been quite unimpressive all season, with the one winning period that seemed little to do with his play.

In other words, through three NHL regular seasons, he's got worse each season. I could understand a bit of a dip in year two after a big 'rookie' year, and to some extent he redeemed himself in the playoffs vs. Dallas and Florida, but now, in year three, we need to see him reaching peak level of play, not bottoming out to minimal-NHL level, which is kind of where he's at at the moment.

So, in short, my answer to the question is 'no'. But I guess there's some hope in the sense that he did perform very well vs. L.A., Dallas, and (eventually) Florida last spring, so we can at least hope he'll suddenly turn it on.
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Yup. Someone needs to do the Scooby Doo villain meme with Steve Mason under the mask
 
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The Panther said:
Here's the problem with S. Skinner:

-- 2022-23: He was great, considering he was technically a rookie (almost won the Calder).
-- 2023-24: He was good-ish, but had some worrisome long dips (notably early in the season, but also vs. Vancouver in the playoffs).
-- 2024-25: He has been quite unimpressive all season, with the one winning period that seemed little to do with his play.

In other words, through three NHL regular seasons, he's got worse each season. I could understand a bit of a dip in year two after a big 'rookie' year, and to some extent he redeemed himself in the playoffs vs. Dallas and Florida, but now, in year three, we need to see him reaching peak level of play, not bottoming out to minimal-NHL level, which is kind of where he's at at the moment.

So, in short, my answer to the question is 'no'. But I guess there's some hope in the sense that he did perform very well vs. L.A., Dallas, and (eventually) Florida last spring, so we can at least hope he'll suddenly turn it on.
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You're leaving out the Vegas series collapse in 2022-23, where Jack Campbell had to come in and stop the bleeding, and played so much better than Stu that some people actually think he could've saved that series...

Even in the LA series, in 3 out of 5 games Stu had a save percentage in the .800s. In the only loss of the series, Stu had an .808...the team lost in OT. He had two great games, one OK game (Game 1: had a shitty .892 but faced 37 shots), and two poor ones (.857 and .808). When your team wins a game and your goalie has an .857, well...unless you're giving up a crazy amount of high-danger chances (and the Oilers were among the best at suppressing those), you probably have to drag your goalie to victory.

And glad you added "eventually" for the Florida series, because he was poor in the first three games...but Game 3 especially, which his cheerleading section conveniently ignores, saw him finish with an .826 while McDavid had two assists and the Oilers only lost by a single goal. You still have people on here dancing their way around that performance, but that's as clear a smoking gun as any that he was the team's single biggest reason for that loss.
 
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