Speculation: Jeff Skinner has no plans to leave the Oilers

[Talonted]

Because they don't want to hurt his feelings.

I get so annoyed with lots of my family/friends always saying they hope we re-sign/extend player X because hes “nice” or has a cool nickname I want a winning team and have been made to feel “mean” for my opinion lol. Good riddance to Poolparty.

 

[izzy]

wait until one day we potentially speak of him as 500 goal scorer jeff skinner

 

[BLNY]

No one's taking him either.

 

[LTIR]

I am one of them. Skinner needs to mesh with this team but once he does he will be important. I bet he's a fixture of the top six by playoff time. That's my fantasy. Maybe that will be a key event in McDavid ramping up his production


On a true contender like the Oilers hope to be, having poor defense is awful. Skinner is tantalizing but either he can't do defense and therefore shouldn't play a single playoff game, or he figures out defense and becomes a likely playoff hero. He's a risky add but I like that

Doesn't need to be Skinner.. if it's Connor friggin Brown then so be it.. Skinner, Arvidsson, Kane, Brown, Janmark , Hyman, Nuge , Podkolzin are in the same tier for me.. play whoever is clicking in top 6... could even be Savoie or Kapanen.. heck even Janmark or Henrique could be in top 6.

 

[BlueAzN]

Has he actually been that bad? He seemed alright in most of the games

 

[ManofSteel55]

Oilers fans are fine with fantasizing about guys like Hyman, Henrique , Kane , Skinner and Kapanen producing from bottom 6

If three of them are on a line together, they may. Skinner-Henrique-Hyman?

 

[Bounces R Way]

guy sucks

 

[MisterT]

He just wants to make the postseason. Apparently as a healthy scratch.

 

[sxvnert]

Or Skinner could not be a dbag to the fanbase and team by being a complete waste of space. Time to move on.

 

[Pure Slaughter Value]

Or Skinner could not be a dbag to the fanbase and team by being a complete waste of space. Time to move on.

NMC.

What are they going to do, bench him? Send him to minors where he'll refuse to go? Send him home after rolling the dice on 3% of the cap?

 

[spaghtti]

NMC.

What are they going to do, bench him? Send him to minors where he'll refuse to go? Send him home after rolling the dice on 3% of the cap?

He can't be sent to the minors he has a NMC, I wasn't a fan of the signing to start with but , he hasn't been a negative and now has a goal and 2 assists in the last 3 games

 

[Spawn]

Has he actually been that bad? He seemed alright in most of the games

Considering he's played almost exclusively in the bottom 6 this year he's not producing all that bad. On pace for ~30ish points. But the -9 on a team that prides itself on playing strong defensive hockey just doesn't fly with the head coach. He's responded well to the single game healthy scratch though. 3 points and +2 in 3 games playing ~10-12 minutes.

 

[Steddy33]

Jeff Skinner has no plan to back check or play defense either