GDT: Game #64: Oilers @ Sabres - 5 PM - SNW

[syz]

If I'm opponents I'm just chipping and charging on Skinner anytime. lol at all the players hammering and shooting wide. you don't have to. just get pucks on net and gravy will be around.

Oilers probably get this back but Skinner sure makes life hard on club.

Both are options but I think the league knows now how bad his lateral movement is. If you can put one off the boards and have it come out the other side he'll be lost 10 times out of 10.

 

[Murphinator]

ANY playoff team is going to f***ing dust skinner this year. Kings and Canucks licking their chops

 

[MessierThanThou]

Another terrible goal by Skinner. Should get first assist on it. Oilers completely dominating the game but losing 1-0 because Skinner is inept. He'd still be looking for that puck next period.

Credit to Buffalo fans. They seem to appreciate hockey and still supporting team through dark decades and even cheering on both teams (although Oiler fans in attendance too. Nice that they have Tage Thompson to cheer for. Special player, hope he stays healthy this time.

Now is a good time to go back to the deadline thread, bust out a bag of popcorn, and try not to choke on the kernels as you laugh at all the idiotic takes simping for the goaltending...

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Go back and read

No, no. That's not how this works. You're making a claim, it's incumbent upon you to provide evidence to substantiate said claim.

 

[mjd1001]

The replay of that goal by Tage Thompson looked worse the 2nd time.

One guy on the Sabres that is a freak scoring goals that you really have to take a way. Way too passive on him that play.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Skinner better not be the goalie next year.

Mind you the way this organization, scouts and acquires goaltenders were going to wind up with another Jack Campbell

I've been saying "better not be" for years. imagine how I feel. heh

 

[North]

Oilers are always so bad In Buffalo!

It’s not even that the team was that bad, it’s that Skinner can’t make routine saves and smother a puck.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

absolutely disgusting rebound. skinner deserves to be waived

Seriously, if this leaguewere structured likethe NFL, he would have been packing sent packing months ago already

 

[FiveFourteenSixOne]

Routine beer league save, all I'm doing is laughing at this point. What other NHL starting goalie does what Skinner just did, wow!

With the same regularity? None.

Can't wait to hear Gregor's charitable analysis of this goal.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Now is a good time to go back to the deadline thread, bust out a bag of popcorn, and try not to choke on the kernels as you laugh at all the idiotic takes simping for the goaltending...

Some of these posters must be bots. I'll say that by popular demand.

 

[MessierThanThou]

If I'm opponents I'm just chipping and charging on Skinner anytime. lol at all the players hammering and shooting wide. you don't have to. just get pucks on net and gravy will be around.

Oilers probably get this back but Skinner sure makes life hard on club.

The "not his fault" crowd is awfully quiet right now...or pretending they weren't making excuses for management on deadline day.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

So Ekblad's a cheater is he?

Thankfully he got caught after the deadline or the nhl would allow them to use his cap hit to acquire more players

 

[Ritchie Valens]

It’s amazing that management and oilers media can’t or refuse to see the obvious. Skinner is not an nhl starter.

Sorry, I hope my first sentence in my reply to you didn’t sound like I was coming off as an a-hole. I’m cooking my kids supper and forgot to add the laughing emoji behind. If so, I do apologize.

100% with what you said here. We all see it except the ones paid to make those decisions. Frustrating, just wasting McDavid’s & Drais careers because of piss poor goaltending.

 

[ToeMcDrag83]

That rebound control though.

Can't complain about our effort - enough with the damn posts and crossbars, we get it hockey gods, nothing easy for us.

 

[MessierThanThou]

Some of these posters must be bots. I'll say that by popular demand.

Think about the average Stu Simp...

 

[Drivesaitl]

Sorry, I hope my first sentence in my reply to you didn’t sound like I was coming off as an a-hole. I’m cooking my kids supper and forgot to add the laughing emoji behind.

100% with what you said here. We all see it except the ones paid to make those decisions. Frustrating, just wasting McDavid’s & Drais careers because of piss poor goaltending.

Its all OK though. Playoff tickets went up again in price just for the special opportunity to see Stewed Skinner in net in playoffs. Pay more for the same "opportunity".

Almost any game we play I'd trade our goaltending for whatever goalie we're facing.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Hate seeing a dominant road period with 3 posts and no finish slip into chasing a one goal lead on a bad goal.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Give skinner a 2nd blocker.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Think of the average Simp...

Don't get me started. i did that once..

 

[K1984]

Hate seeing a dominant road period with 3 posts and no finish slip into chasing a one goal lead on a bad goal.

Sounds like a normal Oiler game. Sadly.

 

[McSpecial DraiBlend]

I live in an area that ditched the whole idea over a decade ago.

Catch is now, all of a sudden the start times for everything shifts this time of year, so instead of the 6pm start, things start at 5 now

I think we should just get rid of it everywhere.

 

[FiveFourteenSixOne]

Some of these posters must be bots. I'll say that by popular demand.

They're either members of the Oilers media team, or have some sort of relationship with Skinner.

I find it impossible to believe that anyone with an ounce of objectivity would be so obtuse.

 

[Whoshattenkirkshoes]

Skinner bad (both)
Bouchard too many turnovers
Emberson the same
Arvy Falling down lots

Overall not that bad of a period

 

[North]

Give skinner a 2nd blocker.

Knowing him, it would bounce off one blocker, hit the other one, and end up in the net.

 

[Drivesaitl]

They're either members of the Oilers media team, or have some sort of relationship with Skinner.

I find it impossible to believe that anyone with an ounce of objectivity would be so obtuse.

Stick around..