GDT: Preseason Game 6, Canucks at Oilers beer leager. Sportsnet 7PM

[OfCorsiDid]

FFS Sklnner is exhibit A of a player that has never been in playoffs and is the type of player that contributes to teams he's been on not making playoffs. I'm a purist. Its predictable I wouldn't want Jeff Skinner anywhere around here.

Every coach Skinner has ever had has problems with his play. I wonder why.

Never been a fan of his.

ohhhhh boyyyy white smoke flows from the chimney, Replac...I mean Drivesaitl has picked his annual whipping boy. Rejoice! Rejoice!

 

[Drivesaitl]

ohhhhh boyyyy white smoke flows from the chimney, Replac...I mean Drivesaitl has picked his annual whipping boy. Rejoice! Rejoice!

lol jeff Skinner was the whipping boy contract of the entire NHL for awhile. At least we don't get him at his huge contractual price. Team is in a win situation. Skinner is a player that has been selfish and one dimenstional his entire career. He's not even doing that here thus far. Can't stand the guy. lol

My last whipping boys were Yamamoto and Connor Brown. Unfortunately wasn't wrong on either. But yeah, Skinner better perform, I'll have the whip out.

jk aside what coach has ever liked Jeff Skinners play. Serious question.

Scary thought. Now when I say f*** Skinner its in stereo.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

lol jeff Skinner was the whipping boy contract of the entire NHL for awhile. At least we don't get him at his huge contractual price. Team is in a win situation. Skinner is a player that has been selfish and one dimenstional his entire career. He's not even doing that here thus far. Can't stand the guy. lol

My last whipping boys were Yamamoto and Connor Brown. Unfortunately wasn't wrong on either. But yeah, Skinner better perform, I'll have the whip out.

jk aside what coach has ever liked Jeff Skinners play. Serious question.

Scary thought. Now when I say f*** Skinner its in stereo.

lol this post is so bad.

 

[AddyTheWrath]

lol jeff Skinner was the whipping boy contract of the entire NHL for awhile. At least we don't get him at his huge contractual price. Team is in a win situation. Skinner is a player that has been selfish and one dimenstional his entire career. He's not even doing that here thus far. Can't stand the guy. lol

My last whipping boys were Yamamoto and Connor Brown. Unfortunately wasn't wrong on either. But yeah, Skinner better perform, I'll have the whip out.

jk aside what coach has ever liked Jeff Skinners play. Serious question.

Scary thought. Now when I say f*** Skinner its in stereo.

Connor brown was pretty important against Florida

 

[McHelpus]

lol jeff Skinner was the whipping boy contract of the entire NHL for awhile. At least we don't get him at his huge contractual price. Team is in a win situation. Skinner is a player that has been selfish and one dimenstional his entire career. He's not even doing that here thus far. Can't stand the guy. lol

My last whipping boys were Yamamoto and Connor Brown. Unfortunately wasn't wrong on either. But yeah, Skinner better perform, I'll have the whip out.

jk aside what coach has ever liked Jeff Skinners play. Serious question.

Scary thought. Now when I say f*** Skinner its in stereo.

I wanted them to match Holloway. In 38 games last year Holloway had more hits (91) than Skinner in almost 4 seasons combined (96).

 

[bellagiobob]

lol this post is so bad.

Lemee guess, the same guy who said that PLD was a stud and a puckhound, and just wait, would be a huge difference maker in the playoffs. .)

 

[Patch101]

Hey, it was a fun game to watch.

Seen more live games already than I ever have before. Its so funny how the perspective totally changes from watching on TV to live.

 

[fireantz]

Keep the Drai line together. Did the organization not see this coming? Chemistry doesn’t happen without working together. Game six and they finally play together. By now JSkinner should have seen shifts with Drai and with McD. Maybe they’ll figure it out before we’re 2-9-1 like last year.

 

[harpoon]

JSkinner should play the last 2 games.. his play has given hope to guys like Podkolzin, Janmark and even Lavoie etc in cracking top 6 at some point this season

Maybe it’s just me but I thought that was Podkolzin’s worst showing so far. Messed up zone entries multiple times on one shift. Had a couple nice looks off McDavid feeds and squandered them. Kid was probably nervous playing first line against his old team. But I don’t think he exactly rose to the occasion. May have actually been trying too hard.

Contrary to what others may have seen, I thought Arvidsson was fine. He looked really dangerous on the first Oilers PP set up in the low slot. I’ve seen him have four or five glorious chances in the two games I’ve watched him play. It’s a shame he hasn’t cashed some of them, but to me he looks fast and motivated.

I liked Stuart Skinner tonight as well.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Maybe it’s just me but I thought that was Podkolzin’s worst showing so far. Messed up zone entries multiple times on one shift. Had a couple nice looks off McDavid feeds and squandered them. Kid was probably nervous playing first line against his old team. But I don’t think he exactly rose to the occasion. May have actually been trying too hard.

Contrary to what others may have seen, I thought Arvidsson was fine. He looked really dangerous on the first Oilers PP set up in the low slot. I’ve seen him have four or five glorious chances in the two games I’ve watched him play. It’s a shame he hasn’t cashed some of them, but to me he looks fast and motivated.

I liked Stuart Skinner tonight as well.

Agreed. Podz had a rough game and Arvi had a pretty good one IMO. Jeff Skinner was pretty well invisible to me though. Made one good takeaway that almost led to a chance and was quiet beyond that and the penalty drawn. Hopefully the last 2 preseason games he starts to feel more comfortable with Drai and Arvi.

 

[JeffSkinner53]

To all canucks lurkers

 

[alphahelix]

I wanted them to match Holloway. In 38 games last year Holloway had more hits (91) than Skinner in almost 4 seasons combined (96).

They didnt have to match Holloway they just needed to send him not-a-lowball offer, or even just maintain thoughtful communication with his camp.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Connor brown was pretty important against Florida

Oh wow. He showed up in the SC final for like 3 of the games. Anybody with a pulse should b e able to motivate for that. The guy has been an abject floater. The whole I don't have confidence thing is BS. Interesting as well Connor Brown this offseason saying the same things he was last offseason that he's healthy, training hard, and prepared to be the best he's been. All words until he puts something together. This season we can't afford to carry guys like Brown around all year.

Brown scored 4 goals all season and only 2 in playoffs. Mott of the playoffs he was awful. Was so bad he was benched in some games. Not exactly important.

 

[McSuper]

First game of the season ?

RNH- McDavid - Hyman
Skinner - Draisaitl - Arvidsson
Brown - Henrique - Janmark
Podkolzin - Philp - Ryan

Out : Perry

Bouchard - Ekholm
Nurse - Kulak
Emberson - Brown?

Skinner
Pickard


Doesnt look like a faster, stronger and deeper lineup to me.

Hope to be proven wrong.

I like the line up but would change Ryan for Lavoie

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

First game of the season ?

RNH- McDavid - Hyman
Skinner - Draisaitl - Arvidsson
Brown - Henrique - Janmark
Podkolzin - Philp - Ryan

Out : Perry

Bouchard - Ekholm
Nurse - Kulak
Emberson - Brown?

Skinner
Pickard


Doesnt look like a faster, stronger and deeper lineup to me.

Hope to be proven wrong.

Josh Brown is not making this team.

 

[TB12]

I see the usual suspects have already made their minds up about Skinner and will absolutely rag on him all year, no matter what he does. Much like with Connor Brown last year.

 

[tardigrade81]

You dont need to practice your jokes on us.

My wife says I do

 

[joestevens29]

Keep the Drai line together. Did the organization not see this coming? Chemistry doesn’t happen without working together. Game six and they finally play together. By now JSkinner should have seen shifts with Drai and with McD. Maybe they’ll figure it out before we’re 2-9-1 like last year.

Struds said this last Monday. Said you can't just expect things to click, it might happen but if it doesn't you've kinda wasted time in getting it to click.

With the amount of new forwards they really needed to be trying actual lines sooner.

Seeing it NFL already how teams still aren't where they'd want to be and they are now around a fourth of the season done.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Struds said this last Monday. Said you can't just expect things to click, it might happen but if it doesn't you've kinda wasted time in getting it to click.

With the amount of new forwards they really needed to be trying actual lines sooner.

Seeing it NFL already how teams still aren't where they'd want to be and they are now around a fourth of the season done.

The nfl has a 16 game schedule and you can be out of it by week 4 depending on how things shake out. In the nhl you play 82 games and no one is out of it after the first month. It’s very different. The 49ers had a disastrous pre season with contract negotiations for Ayuik and injuries to CMC.

Would you prefer we play everybody for 8 games in the preseason and deal with injuries? Our offseason was less than 90 days. Slow is smart.

 

[MessierII]

Oh wow. He showed up in the SC final for like 3 of the games. Anybody with a pulse should b e able to motivate for that. The guy has been an abject floater. The whole I don't have confidence thing is BS. Interesting as well Connor Brown this offseason saying the same things he was last offseason that he's healthy, training hard, and prepared to be the best he's been. All words until he puts something together. This season we can't afford to carry guys like Brown around all year.

Brown scored 4 goals all season and only 2 in playoffs. Mott of the playoffs he was awful. Was so bad he was benched in some games. Not exactly important.

Saying Brown was awful in the playoffs is a joke. As soon as he got healthy late in the season he played fantastic.

 

[joestevens29]

The nfl has a 16 game schedule and you can be out of it by week 4 depending on how things shake out. In the bbl you play 82 games and no one is out of it after the first month. It’s very different. The 49ers had a disastrous pre season with contract negotiations for Ayuik and injuries to CMC.

Would you prefer we play everybody for 8 games in the preseason and deal with injuries? Our offseason was less than 90 days. Slow is smart.

I mean are we always going to luck out and go on massive heaters when we have these shit starts?

And no I didn't say play everyone 8 games.

 

[SupremeTeam16]

I wanted them to match Holloway. In 38 games last year Holloway had more hits (91) than Skinner in almost 4 seasons combined (96).

I know hits are far more important to winning then goal scoring but how does Holloway compare to Skinner in that department?

 

[Thomas Tatar]

J.Skinner better play like a top 6 F. He pretty much cost us Holloway+Broberg

This, all day long. I’d much rather pay 2.2 and put Holloway in that spot with the extra million or so if Skinner is going to float around like that all season.

 

[Stauf4Prez]

Jeff Skinner was the worst skater on the ice yesterday, and we dressed Josh Brown. He did absolutely nothing right.

 

[Thomas Tatar]

In fact. I would trade J. Skinner straight up for Holloway right now. But St. Louis wouldn’t.