All I’m saying is if you asked me if I’d rather have Smith take a shot on Skinner from where he was in that screenshot or miss the net from the goal line I’d take the latter every time.
Its not a copout. You're not in the position of having had to work twice as hard as opponents over the course of around 3years now because you have a clown #1 in net.
Yes, it ended up in the net because of an own goal. Skinner forced a shot wide that had a 0% chance to go in otherwise. He can’t account for Draisaitl putting it in lol.
We had players that played poorly and made bad decisions throughout the game. No one is denying that. But at the end of the day, you need a goalie who can bail you out of some of them, makes for a championship team. Your response is the completely cop out and not acknowledging that he is a problem in the net.
Yeah I agree. We need to stop looking for the long breakout pass all the time. Vegas has adjusted to that and we can't keep having our forwards blow the zone looking for a stretch pass at centre. They're getting their sticks in lanes.
Obviously Skinner did not turn this into a "shot that literally had 0% chance of going in"
He didn’t force a shot wide- he allowed a shot to a wide open net, 6 inches from the goal line. Are you Skinner intentionally didn’t stop the puck because he was directing it to go wide? Do you honestly believe the expectation from Skinner is no player is ever in the crease the puck could deflect off of? Skinner failed on multiple fronts- he sold out to the shot with seconds left. He then couldn’t push off effectively to stop a shot towards the net. You know that blue area- that’s the crease Skinner is supposed to be in.
Smith had no other option but to shoot from a bad angle, based on where he was and the time remaining. All Skinner had to do was hold the net and cover the angle. But instead, he loses his mind and charges wildly out, with no concept of time and space.
You have to secretly hate the Oilers team to go to bat this hard for the one player that is negating success here more than any other. Its basic contempt of the team that they are supporting Skinner alone so ardently. Of course Drai is target #1 for the media. I bet he didn't have a good postgame either talking to the press.
If Skinner can't make that stop off Reilly from that sort of angle unscreened he shouldn't even be in the league. whoops.
McDavid and Drai are always the number one target. Media here have no idea how the game is played. None.You have to secretly hate the Oilers team to go to bat this hard for the one player that is negating success here more than any other. It’s basic contempt of the team that they are supporting Skinner alone so ardently. Of course Drai is target #1 for the media. I bet he didn't have a good postgame either talking to the press.
I thought Nurse was one of our best dmen and was pretty good last night overall. I don't hate Skinner. I just think he's a shitty goalie.
He's too much of a dope to even realize the semantics of what he's saying. Thats giving him more credit than one should that he even thought about it.
Steve Valiquette, former goalie and goalie analytics guru (works for Clear Sight Analytics) said Stuart is a non-NHL goalie on rush chances. He has issues judging speed of the skater, his space, and timing. This was a perfect example. Skinner races out, then he screws himself because he misjudged the players speed, mis-timed the shot, and really ended up being a pylon that Smith skated around
A stat like Pickard's record is one destined to be a product of small sample size, and it even did depend on Hill giving up too many goals as well. And no, I'm not saying Skinner was as good as Pickard. I think if Pickard was in net we would have won. What I'm saying is that if we go up against an actual good goalie then we are going to be in big trouble unless we clean up our play, which was bad in front of Pickard too
