That's a tough pill.
Sorry but this one is squarely on Skinner. Three against in 10 shots, 14 total all game. He shows up, we get at least a point. On every goal against he either barely moved or literally didn't move.
Has a line of vision on goal one easily if he's alert and gets beaten along the ice from the point before he even reacts. Like come on.
Second goal is a 2 on 1 granted, but my goodness the pass side of the net was basically completely unoccupied, what a delayed push across.
Third goal was embarrassing. Player's loose fine, but like five hole from that tight at that bad angle for the shooter? And then losing the puck after that, no reaction whatsoever? You don't hear your post or look behind you? The disengagement was ridiculous.
Thompson at the other end, despite giving up tons of rebounds, found a way to cover pucks, push them out, direct them down into himself. Frustrating to watch. We created enough overall to win.
Couple other draggers that hurt us tonight, Bouchard and Nuge asleep at the wheel on the powerplay. Routine passes getting turned over in the offensive zone. Bouch didn't hit the net nearly enough on his blasts, poor Podkolzin got the gift twice. Was a good adjustment to put Ekholm on the PP this game. Another glitch was none of our wingers really pounced on those many rebounds.
Was a good effort given the situation. End of the day, this is (another) one of those Skinner games that lost us 2 points. That's 3 in a row by him with early 3 spots to the opposition (Col, Van, Wsh). After a pretty good run of 6 or 7 games, the bad version appears to be taking hold again where at least 3 sneak through, that too early and often.
And my ref complaint of the day: BS non-call on Arvidsson and BS call on Emberson. Game management BS per usual.
Back to back regulation L's sting hard. First place is so effing elusive for this team, just not fair.
