Toggle sidebar

GDT: Game #70 - Kraken @ Oilers - 8PM - All Decks On Hand

  • We sincerely apologize for the extended downtime. Our hosting provider, XenForo Cloud, encountered a major issue with their backup system, which unfortunately resulted in the loss of some critical data from the past year.

    What This Means for You:

    • If you created an account after March 2024, it no longer exists. You will need to sign up again to access the forum.
    • If you registered before March 2024 but changed your email, username, or password in the past year, those changes were lost. You’ll need to update your account details manually once you're logged in.
    • Threads and posts created within the last year have been restored.
    • Our 2025 light and dark themes were lost, so we are rebuilding them. Light theme is currently available, but work in progress

    Our team is working with Xenforo Cloud to recover data using backups, sitemaps, and other available resources. We know this is frustrating, and we deeply regret the impact on our community. We are taking steps with Xenforo Cloud to ensure this never happens again. This is work in progress. Thank you for your patience and support as we work through this.

    In the meantime, feel free to join our Discord Server
Status
Not open for further replies.
Mr Positive said:
I don't follow the exact placement of players in the flow of a game so much, but I'd have to guess that if Skinner isn't getting the opportunities he appears to deserve, it's likely that he isn't committing to his role in the team's systems. A player scoring goals doesn't mean he's doing all the other little things, and it undermines the whole team to allow exceptions. Also, in playoffs, anyone not committing fully will be your downfall. In the regular season you can get away with it.

I don't know if that's the reason, but it at least makes sense. Knoblauch is more knowledgeable about hockey decisions like this than anyone here.

It's also possible that against this opponent maybe spreading out talent is the right call. What would matter is how these lines are used.
Click to expand...
The counter is Skinner has fully committed to what Knob has preached judging by all his metrics. They have improved every single month to the point that since Jan 1 he’s been one of our most defensive minded forwards. Not only that, by the eye test, you can see he is fully committed to the d-zone because he is constantly back tracking, and last game alone he probably saved 2 goals. Jonathan Willis tweeted his metrics last week. There is absolutely not argument against Skinner. To top it off J Skinner has never complained.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Duke74, Jarvi, Bring Back Bucky and 1 other person
foshizzle said:
The counter is Skinner has fully committed to what Knob has preached judging by all his metrics. They have improved every single month to the point that since Jan 1 he’s been one of our most defensive minded forwards. Not only that, by the eye test, you can see he is fully committed to the d-zone because he is constantly back tracking, and last game alone he probably saved 2 goals. Jonathan Willis tweeted his metrics last week. There is absolutely not argument against Skinner. To top it off J Skinner has never complained.
Click to expand...
Seconded. Unless there’s something I’m missing he’s committed to the system and is in the right positions defensively. He’s even winning his share of board battles and turning pucks over.

I get that Knob clearly hated Skinner as a player prior to him coming to Edmonton, but the deadline is gone and Skinner is here for this year, check your ego and play him.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Duke74 and Jarvi
Status
Not open for further replies.

Latest posts

Ad

Ad

Top Bottom