Skinner losing the net to Pickard reminds me so much of Dan Cloutier losing the net to Alex Auld in Vancouver.
Can't win a cup with this goaltending. Not sure WTF they were thinking.
Post-Game Talk: Oilers score 5 goals and an ENG without McDrai
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Can't win a cup with this goaltending. Not sure WTF they were thinking.
Salvaged Ship
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If that is true I take it back, Knob doesn’t have balls the size of raisins he has no balls at all. Never heard of such a thing
Fourier
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S. Skinner's play in terms of consistency is tanking fast. At least if the goal is to be consistently good. He use to bounce back after a bad game but now he is just stringing them together. Had the Kraken scored one more and they lost this game in OT I think it would have been demoralizing.
As for J. Skinner, what he has done in the last 20 or so games is offensively play much closer to the guy who put up so many goals over his career. He's always been streaky but now he is consistently getting his chances and without giving up a lot which is the real bonus. Personally, I don't mind him playing down the line-up. It lets him be "the guy" rather than having to defer to McDavid or Draisaitl. In the past he has done well playing away from the team's top line center.
Finally, Nuge looked like the kid who broke into the league. I still say that passive Nuge has a lot to do with what he has been asked to do by many of his coaches. Play safe. Defense first and defer to others.
As for J. Skinner, what he has done in the last 20 or so games is offensively play much closer to the guy who put up so many goals over his career. He's always been streaky but now he is consistently getting his chances and without giving up a lot which is the real bonus. Personally, I don't mind him playing down the line-up. It lets him be "the guy" rather than having to defer to McDavid or Draisaitl. In the past he has done well playing away from the team's top line center.
Finally, Nuge looked like the kid who broke into the league. I still say that passive Nuge has a lot to do with what he has been asked to do by many of his coaches. Play safe. Defense first and defer to others.
dssource
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Great win. The team leaders, Nurse and Nuge, had really strong games and led by example.
FlameChampion
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I don’t give Knoblauch a pass on this nor Jackson or Bowman. They could over rule Schwartz.
FlameChampion
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I used to dislike Skinner because he was so inconsistent. But to be fair to him, hes been more consistent this year than inconsistent. Hes been consistently bad.
Having a game like tonight is fine. But this is the norm for him this season.
Kicks out bad rebounds. Can’t look around screens with his 6 foot 4 frame. And on the breakaway he just falls forward like Mike Smith when he was 39 years old and injured.
Having a game like tonight is fine. But this is the norm for him this season.
Kicks out bad rebounds. Can’t look around screens with his 6 foot 4 frame. And on the breakaway he just falls forward like Mike Smith when he was 39 years old and injured.
FlameChampion
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I would probably swap Perry for Janmark based on play this year. I suspect that playoffs might be too fast for Perry though depending on the team, so I could see Janmark coming in.
KK will probably swap JS out though
MoontoScott
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This can't possibly be true--that a head coach exerts so little authority? Did he say this in an interview? if so then for god sake's man grow a set.
Oil53
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Still don’t understand not trading for a veteran goaltender with 1 million left on the table.Would make sense if the farm team had a hot goalie.Depth everywhere except net
Stuart just never makes it easy for the Oilers
When you finish the game and have access to these hidden players
Leon McKaneric: Stuart sucks like usual
tardigrade81
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If I was in net we would have won 5-0. But I'll take it. Good offense without drai and McDavid!!
As we have seen for over a decade now, no one overrules or is more protected than Schwartz
The oilers themselves sent down Campbell who had a slightly worse save %. Skinner is untouchable. They left a million in cap space on the table and didn’t upgrade Skinner. “Too much of a risk” as some local media put it. “What if the new guy isnt as good as Skinner” they said.
ohheyhemsky
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Watched the game back, and although the Skinner hate is largely warranted, 3 of those goals fall squarely on our defense and our defense only.
Kakko's second goal, what a surprise, Bouchard flubs it on the blue line with a 0/100 effort play trying to force the puck into the middle without support, Kakko is sprung.
3rd goal against, it's 5v5 and they're rolling us with a cycle, Ekholm is caught in no man's land having completely missed his assignment, and stops dead in front of Skinner for a full screen.
Last goal against, what the actual f*** is our whole team doing here? But, Nurse decides to go down on one knee, with a man to his right, trailing his back leg - which would only effectively take a pass away into the slot where another Oiler is also rushing back (so, a useless decision) and stops skating. There are two forwards sitting at the opposite side of the net waiting for that cross crease pass, no Oiler is behind that line. Nurse doesn't take away the man, and blows the assignment.
I get it. Skinner isn't it, but holy shit, our D is making absolutely bone headed plays every single game and are getting off because the goalie can't stop a puck either.
Kakko's second goal, what a surprise, Bouchard flubs it on the blue line with a 0/100 effort play trying to force the puck into the middle without support, Kakko is sprung.
3rd goal against, it's 5v5 and they're rolling us with a cycle, Ekholm is caught in no man's land having completely missed his assignment, and stops dead in front of Skinner for a full screen.
Last goal against, what the actual f*** is our whole team doing here? But, Nurse decides to go down on one knee, with a man to his right, trailing his back leg - which would only effectively take a pass away into the slot where another Oiler is also rushing back (so, a useless decision) and stops skating. There are two forwards sitting at the opposite side of the net waiting for that cross crease pass, no Oiler is behind that line. Nurse doesn't take away the man, and blows the assignment.
I get it. Skinner isn't it, but holy shit, our D is making absolutely bone headed plays every single game and are getting off because the goalie can't stop a puck either.
Been terrible since his dad left the organization to be goalie coach for the panthers organization
Knobs partially cost us the cup by putting Kulak and Nurse back together in the finals. (to his credit he made a lot of good line up moves throughout the playoffs)
frag2
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Been saying for the past few years...with Skinner in net, need 4+ goals in order to have a chance at winning.
With most teams, 4+ is almost guaranteed win but not with the Oil
It's funny because our best Nurse pair has been: Nurse with Stetcher.
You can't call out Bouchard without being told that you are special needs. It's the way it works around here....
Danmark should probably b in over perry esp in playoffs gonna need some speed. But yes Janmark needs to pick up alot
Picakard can't handle full time duties been proven they will litterally have to rotate these guys every game and I'm not even joking
