Skinner may have been the second best goalie but he plays well enough to win most nights. You’re expecting Patrick Roy to steal games when we constantly hang him out to dry, he ain’t that. We score more than 2 goals and give him some support and he’s fine.
You have to be somewhat good in the first place to get Salo’ed out.
Yet another whiny bunch of posts about Skinner when you have multiple skaters giving up on defensive zone coverage. Only Hanifin’s point shot goal against did we defend adequately, and how many times have we played Vegas, they won a playoff series against us the exact same way, waiting until we give up on defending and get guys in on net clear where they can walk up and score.
So what rhe hell is Bouchard doing here in the same side of the ice as the play on the wall and why did Podkolzin do what he did here?? You have 4own zone skaters and not one of them covered the second Vegas skater trailing the play. But yeah, all Skinner.
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Bottom six isn’t the issue here. It’s all top six and they need to look in the mirror, they’re not getting in good positions nor taking advantage of scoring opportunities on offense and bailing on defensive responsibilities. A rookie 4th line center and some garbage goals by the checking line isn’t going to fix anything.
Think they can get away with playing pond hockey as long as the shot count is even or ahead. It’s ridiculous and team leadership and lax coaching is to blame.
You only need 4 on a lot of nights if you have the worst goaltending in the league. We have scored 4 goals in 5 of 14 games
