You can't have it both ways. If it's not OK to bring it up when it's bad, you can't use it to say he's good.
The distortion on focus on the board so severe here that Drai was being blamed in the GDT thread for banging pucks off goal posts in a game he scored, and he just happens to be Rocket Richard again. Leon would seem to be the last one that should be blamed but..
But other teams don't get "goalied" for every loss. Occam's razor would actually say that the Oilers offense plays down to their competition rather than every other mediocre goalie turning into Hasek when they play us.
I’m no Skinner fan but he wasn’t awful in regulation, the numbers bare that out. Shootout was a different story, he didn’t make a save.You're delusional. It wasn't a great game, but it certainly wasn't garbage.
Nothing is the goalies fault, unless it's the other team, then it's on the skates for not scoring
100%
Despite the club having McD and Drai I wouldn't expect this roster to be shooting topten. In terms of overall scoring depth a lot of the depth we have are passed scoring, well past prime, and scoring is often the first thing to go. We had an outlier out of his mind scoring season from Hyman last year. That was never going to happen. J Skinner was never going to be scoring a ton here, or Arvid. Both of those players need either PP, regular usage and top usage to bag goals. They weren't going to be seeing first unit PP here.
He’s in the .920’s and 13-5-2 in his last 20 games. Goaltending hasn’t been an issue since the start of the year when the Pk was an issue the primary scoring was an issue the PP was an issue and the secondary scoring was an issue. This season is far from over. Since the team has been good he’s been good. You can’t argue with the numbers. His record, advanced stats, save %, everything in has been near the top of the league for way longer than it was at the bottom.
To be fair...what exactly did Lyon have to deal with in the shootout?
I’m 100% sure most beer league goalies save that McD shootout attempt.
But that would take away another irrational way of assessing Skinner - like crying about SV% right after a goal against.
His advance numbers are not anywhere close to the top of the league, what the hell are you smoking?
The Oilers roster suggests that are our scoring isn't as deep as might have been thought. Theres a lot of pad and logo stuffers we have in the lineup. Arvid has been not great scoring EV for years. Connor Brown is a joke from a scoring pov. Janmark looks like a guy that can score 3 a year. Podkolzin is a finishing disaster. It isn't complete surprise that on some nights we're going to have no scroring down the lineup and the usual suspects can't get it done every night.
I hear you.
C'mon. For a not big goalie that was still hard to get to. We're using after the fact here and its McD and he can bring the puck wherever he likes or shoot. The goalie played him reasonably well and McD made his choice but with nothing obvious being available. McD tucked it just inside the post. I've seen lots of those go in during shootouts and you have to. Credit goalie at least for not biting on any feint on the play. He read the play and came over, and just in time.
Lies, the Oilers can't score to save their lives, apparently. Just ignore that they're 6th best in the league at it.
So basically, you 100% agree with me. My original comment was that we're not getting goalied, so much as our shooters suck.
