For some reason, Draisaitl always ends up stuck with stone-handed wingers. By now he should realize that he just needs to take initiative and shoot more at ES. Two shots and two goals. He needs to stop passing to these stone-handed fools and shoot the freaking puck himself. He's a perennial 50-goal scorer. Shoot the puck, Leon!
Over the last year, he's been just lunging with his arms on cross seam passes, now, not even attempting to butterfly slide. I think the goalie coaches have given up on improving his lateral movement to the point where he now just tries to desperation dive with his upper body instead of using his legs to push off.
The Oilers have given up 2 HDSC’s I each of the last two games. The defence has been fine. The issue is any shot being directed at the net stands a good chance of going in. The problem is Skinner.
I mean no, Skinner hasn't been good enough, but they need to find someone new.
The linemates have been open. Several times a game because Leon see's double coverage. The wingers don't finish shit. You could park even Foegele and McLeod with Leon for 16games and they might have a combined 10G. Actually this season they have that without him. But this was the big "offensive improvement" we were getting with Skinner and Arvid. These were the two that were going to complete our offense is what posters were saying in July. People have to dig a bit deeper than just looking at scoring stats.
Say you don’t watch the games without saying you don’t watch them.
Which isn't saying any of us loved Koskinen, I didn't, he had some similar flaws but the guy at least tried hard to improve and to some extent did. Koskinen was also a fish out of water here and had to adjust culturally as well as on the ice. Skinner was born here and spent all his time being lazy here. It just pains me to see tired ass Skinner haul himself off the ice after going down. Looks like the biggest effort he makes. Anybody notice how when he goes for a puck he saunters back to the net like its beer league. His lack of pace doing anything is ridiculous. I swear I thought he was breathing hard and tired in the third period from all that standing...lol
The only one I can think of is Dubnyk. Who else.
Say what now?
That poster to be one of the laziest MFers out there or blind to say EDM is not playing any good D lol. Or a huge Troll
What’s frustrating the hell out of me is that whenever he’s sauntering out of the net he’s screwing things up too. He usually ends up misplaying the puck by passing it out of the reach of the defence man or slowing the play down enough to where the fore checker has time to paste the defence man. Either way, he creates more turnovers when he leaves his net then when he stays in his net and just lets the defensemen retrieve the puck. I brought this up in the GDT last night. It gets overlooked because his performance in the crease is so bad nobody bothers looking at other aspects of his game but it’s just as bad and one more way he makes things more difficult for the team.
Its like people don't even see how protected Skinner is here by the general play and puck possession of this team. Many nights Skin is seeing something like 20shots. The shot count is often higher because Skinner himself creates around a handful of rebound shots or due to playing a puck poorly. Skinner see's hardly any rubber last night and its 3GA, another 2 posts, Another 3 plays where he has no idea where the puck is. Other plays where he's slow moving and the opponent just missed their shot. The last two games Skinner has seen minimal work. Faced hardly anything. Oilers completely dominated these two games. he still finds a way to give up 6 goals. Skinner gave up 6 goals on something like 5 HDSC. NYI last night gave up 15HDSC and vast majority to the most dangerous players in hockey. It isn't even conceivable last night that Skinner wouldn't give up a TD if goalies were reversed.
I've mentioned the same in past seasons. it seems almost like piling on to list all his flaws. Thing is opponents know them as well. So many plays too where he goes to sleep and opponents try to catch him napping. I swear that open his eyes wide thing he's developed over the last year is to keep his awareness. Strikes me as somebody that stays up late playing video games and then isn't rested enough. This actually was stated. He's some kind of king shit video game player on the team. Maybe he's good at goaltending in NHLEA...guy can dream.
Then he should go to the professional gaming league and leave NHL Goaltending to someone who can.
My wife just swears at him. She gives him the gears on his latest f*** up, Says he's a moron and leaves the room before third period. She knows whats up.
Check out this visulizer capture of the goal. Total timbits hockey with everyone becoming too puck focussed with the kill shot of StuSkin rebounding the medium-low danger shot to literally the only spot on the ice that was dangerous.
That’s one of his biggest problems.
Sometimes the puck hits him and sits in the crease and he just stares at it. It’s bizarre.
