Post-Game Talk: Literally shooting yourself in the foot

[Oilerfan4lyfe]

Skinner showed exactly why he needs a one way ticket to join Yakupov in the KHL. Gives up two quick goals after we come out on fire and completely deflates the team. Pickard stops at least one of those (probably both). We score a 3rd goal and it’s curtains for Vegas.

Won’t even comment on Stu somehow having his stick by the side of the post at the end and botching it so badly that the puck ends up in the slot.

Blame Drai all you want, but those turnovers don’t turn into goals against if the goalie does his job. The last goal I’m not putting on Drai. He’s trying to keep the puck out and can’t know that it’ll miss the far post. If anything it’s partly on McDavid for covering no one, then going down when he knew Nurse would sprawl already. Again, doesn’t happen if goalie keeps his stick tight on the post. The puck just stays behind the net or ends up in the corner.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Possible but I don't think the Oilers have any confidence in Oliver.

Well, the Oilers put themselves in this position.

I think the boys will win on Monday night.

100%. We were all screaming for a 1A goalie all season.

Mutt & Jeff gave Oiler fans and the team the Judge Smails “YOU’LL GET NOTHING…AND LIKE IT!” treatment.

 

[Shizuka]

I thought it was a winnable game tbh

It was winnable. It was right. f***ing. there. Up 2-0. But as per usual, they break down defensively and Skinner can't come up with a save at all. They've been frankly spoiled having the steadying presence of Pickard to cover over their mistakes, and now instead have one of the worst tending the net when it comes to those HDSC. This feels so much worse knowing they could have seized a stranglehold on the series and ended it here.

 

[OilerMcLord]

If Pickard's in net, we're up in this series 3-0.

Absolutely sickening way to lose. Similar to LA game 1. McDavid ties it up late, Skinner chokes right after.

Game 4 is a must-win. Pickard has to be back in the net. Have absolutely no confidence in this team being able to win a game or play well with Skinner in net.

And Draisaitl is horrendous this post-season. Is he injured again because that's the only explanation.

How the F did Skinner choke? The Oilers turned it over AGAIN, and Draisatl deflected it in.

Stuart Skinner, GTFO.
f*** him.

 

[Markham30]

Would you want this guy back stopping you. Pathetic. Rodrigue or Pickard must play.

Everyone who has watched this season and playoffs can see it. Hopefully it’s addressed this offseason. He had a horrendous year, that just keeps getting worse. There’s no denying that.

As soon as it was announced he was starting tonight, we all knew it was going to be a loss. Hopefully Pickard can go next game.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Behind the calm, happy go lucky demeanor, his interviews scream arrogant f*** face who thinks his shit doesn’t stink. Most goalies would say “I should have had this goal or that goal, I’ll review the tape and see what I did wrong so I make the save next time.”

Skinner basically says “It’s not me who sucks, it’s everyone else.”

The fact he was smiling when talking about Foegele on the game 1 LA game winner says it all about him.

 

[iCanada]

No, he's right to be happy.

That .833 tonight really boosts his numbers this playoff. Like huge increase from .600 or whatever the f*** he was at.

He improved both his SV% and his GAA tonight by an entire standard deviation.

3 more games if this and he might hit NHL average.

 

[NotAVacuumSalesman]

Say what you want about skinner but Drai wears the goat horns tonight and was absolutely putrid from start to finish.

He was absolute dog shit tonight.

And he’s my favourite player too.

 

[Heavy Dee]

Skinner is delusional. He may need a therapist.

Or a different one.

 

[K1984]

Skinner made one big save.

All he has to do.

Forget those other 4, he made that one big one once!

 

[foshizzle]

C'mon. That play is instinctive and D would do it too. Puck is going across an empty net and there is no way in real time to know that puck isn't going in. Its a reaction play, and every player will try to bat that away. Didn't work out.

I'm sure theres going to be enough Drai hate tonight. Forget about his MVP level season,

Skinner was the goalie that allows that complete nothing play with hardly any time left to go right through him. All Skinner has to do there is stay in cage. But he's an idiot so we lost the game.

4more GA by Skinner in 20sog.

What a save % and GAA.

Skinner 0-3 in playoffs.

The other guy is 6-0


Oilers deserved to lose tonight, as a team. They were outworked all over the ice for 3 periods. We're even getting hockey gods miracle stuff with own goal to tie in a game were bringing nothing.

I love Draisaitl, but he was horrendous tonight. We taught in peewee don’t keep an open blade and jab out your stick towards your net- it’s like a shot on goal. On Vegas’ first goal- Drai knows you need to manage the game and not try to go through 5 guys- turns it over and it’s in the net. That third goal- he is the centre on the line- he can’t go from the far boards for a line change at the far bench when Vegas has the puck in the neutral zone. He has a habit of coasting when changing.

You’re right, he had an MVP season. Best player on the planet. No doubt. This is a different season and right now is being outscored by Reilly Smith. He looks to be several notches below Eichel.

Now- that last goal was a comedy of errors. Knoblauch not learning from Game 1 of the LA series. I don’t know what Kulak was doing. Nurse decides to take himself right out of the play. Then, there is Skinner. The master of shit. He has no sense of what is happening in the game. He has no idea where his net is. He didn’t stop the puck. He took himself right out of the play.

I don’t blame Skinner. Fans knew who he was as a goalie. Media outside of Edmonton knew. Everyone was calling for an upgrade. Oilers management and its media cronies thought they knew better. They decided to hook McDavid’s Stanley cup dreams (and him re-signing) to Skinner. Vegas may very well pull the reverse sweep on the Oilers. Like you said- one guy is the WORST goalie in the cap era and the other is 6-0. I f***ing hate oilers management

 

[Dieseloil]

I don’t know what the team was doing during the last 30 seconds. They completely abandoned structure to try and win the game in the last 30 seconds just like game 1 in LA. Why was Kulak pinching with 30 seconds left instead of just staying put.

Coaching, there is only one answer here. High risk high reward. Which is asinine when we were lucky to tie it.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

They absolutely were not, they killed themselves to allow as little as possible at their net. They played like they have NO trust in Stu.

They generated virtually no offense after going up 2-0. They had the Knights buried and just let them off the hook.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Rob Brown:

“Skinner made the big saves they needed.”

I can’t make this up.

The gas has never been more lit.

 

[oobga]

What a complete and total ass. If I was a teammate standing next to him when he said that, I don’t think I could stop myself from punching him in the mouth.

His ego could not handle him being accountable.

 

[Gnome17]

Dubnyk who is usually very positive and has players backs is ripping Stu apart on Oilersnation.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

They generated virtually no offense after going up 2-0. They had the Knights buried and just let them off the hook.

Vegas didnt generate much either, we just had Skinner in net.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I mentioned Skinner in the OP too.

Drai had like 3 bad plays which led directly to goals against.

DRai was even on the night and had two EV assists and was on ice for only two GA. Not 3, in anycase.

Jam line didn't have a good night tonight and Janmark -2. Nurse and Kulak had rough nights despite Nurse making some good defensive plays.

I'm gonna defend our good players. You know thats my DNA.

 

[Stoneman89]

We were in complete control thirteen minutes, and then Draisaitl makes a lazy careless giveaway. But the defenseman makes a great play and it’s snuffed. Danger over. But then Hague takes a shot from the corner that hits Skinner in the chest and you think he’ll just swallow it with his body. But he inexplicably flops down and rolls over and it’s an easy goal. We weren’t the same after that.

 

[Missing smitty]

Skinner played fine rest of the team failed him on the last play

Is it hard being this stupid?

 

[The Trash Man]

Heartbreaking the way that went down
But oh well it’s a seven game series
On to game four

Let’s go Oilers!!

 

[McAsuno]

Here’s the difference that dumb ass Stuart skinner supporters can’t comprehend.
Draisaitl had a poor game by his standards in the post season but I’d bank on him bouncing back for next game.
I however cannot say the same for Skinner who’s been absolutely dog shit in the regular and post season.

6-0 with Picks
0-3 with Skinner
Enough said. Skinner f***ing sucks.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

DRai was even on the night and had two EV assists and was on ice for only two GA. Not 3, in anycase.

Jam line didn't have a good night tonight and Janmark -2. Nurse and Kulak had rough nights despite Nurse making some good defensive plays.

I'm gonna defend our good players. You know thats my DNA.

2 GA because he decided to make a line change when the puck was pretty much in our zone.

Or did you miss the third goal?

 

[oobga]

Skinner is delusional. He may need a therapist.

This is probably the result of therapy.

I have a family member that saw a "life coach" and she came out blaming everyone else for everything wrong in her life, and just started refusing to talk to some family members who she marked off as negative influences (because they would call our her bull).

Stu is living in a bubble of delusion of his own creation. And how guys play in front of him shows how everyone knows it. He's only fooling himself.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Vegas didnt generate much either, we just had Skinner in net.

They knew all they had to do was wait for the Oilers to make mistakes.