You are defending a player who by any objective measure does not do his job well. Believe me, if Edmonton loses game 7 the first thing they will go to is blaming their goaltending for not being Cup winning material.
Why do you know better than everyone else?
Something and someone always gets blamed. But, even so, playing that game, players who have been bigger passengers than Skinner. Nurse, Nuge, bigger passengers, even McLeod only had 1 in 36.
Look at all the players that got blamed in New York even though they made it to the eastern finals.
No one says the other team was simply better. Florida didn’t simply get outplayed they choked. It’s always hyperbole.
Improving on Skinner to Shester is not worthwhile if it’s going to cost Drai. You have to pick your weaknesses in a cap world. Do you spend on a goalie or forwards or D. There is no perfect team. Yet, Florida and Edmonton have enough strengths in enough areas to have got them this far. One will simply get a little further and win the cup. Who that is, depends on a lot of factors, namely luck. Yet they have managed to make it that far, everyone else hasn’t.