Frankly - I will make errors again, and if I realize I have made them I will correct them. I'm sure you'll make errors as well, we all do, that's part of the human experience. You refuse to acknowledge that I admitted I made an error, and that after the correction it's still damning, and instead just hammer on the fact that I made an error. It's kind of exhausting and not really conducive to discussion, frankly.
We certainly agree on the final paragraph.... except I suppose where it comes to Skinner. I'm sure you can see the irony.
That's a goal (mistake*) you wouldn't even remember if it happens in the regular season. You are upset your goalie made a mistake* so you are using xGoal "math" to justify how
objectively inexcusable it is. When really the only reason it is inexcusable (to you) is because it
subjectively wounded all of us Oiler fans (myself included, I wish he stopped it too).
* as for "mistake", I'm not even sure how much of a mistake he made on that play. Goalies miss pucks, in the same way that snipers miss top corners. 90% of the position is reading/anticipating and honestly just getting hit with the puck. Sometimes your neurology works in your favor, you see the puck, your brain reads the trajectory, your glove moves to that position... and other times it doesn't. Even for the very, very best... you can see a half dozen goals just like that one every night on the highlight reels. Certainly he would want that back, and yeah, as you say >90% he'd likely stop it... but 10% of the time it's still in. Nothing he, or you, can do about it... except avoid the overt mistakes & misreads and be in the right position so that the numbers skew in his favor.
I'd personally have preferred he stand stronger at the top of the crease, but with Kulak backing up, it is understandable that he faded and then (I'm projecting a bit here) you can get in positions where you get a bit handcuffed short side when you are sitting too deep in your net, that's my best guess for how that went in... that's the type of imperfection a typical goalie commits to memory ("stand tall - don't let your own defender back you up, or call step up! step up! next time so you can see better... its your responsibility to let him know!"), but it's also the type of super minor mistake you need to forgive yourself of... as you say, we all make 'em... and it was likely the 3rd if not 4th most obvious mistake the Oilers collectively made on that play. (Foegele
knows he's responsible to be goal side, he picked his man up too late and was chasing, Kulak
knows he's supposed to take a stand further out and close that gap, if he had, Reinhart probably doesn't even take that shot and instead crashes the near post, likely an easy poke check for Skinner at that point, etc)
Major errors? You commit 'em to memory and you train 'em out of your system.
Minor errors? Same thing. Get rid of those too so that the numbers skew in your favor
But just getting beat by a puck? Meh... you gotta give yourself some grace there. Unless you pick it up clean, the puck is physically faster than you are.
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