If we do nothing in net, that's virtually guaranteed to happen. Skinner's agent can just bring up the playoff wins stat and blame the team for the mediocre stats. Even if it comes off as lame, management will just cave because we have no options and no other goalies to compare him to.
Yeah they’re a top 5 team in the league, absolutely terrible. Fire everyone.
That's what the deadline is for.
It got them to within a goal of winning last year and they’re a better team this year.
Expected goals for game 1 was something like 7.5 to 1.5. Guaranteed that Bobrovsky was in the teams head for game 2 and the first part of game 3. I doubt Skinner is ever in the other teams head before a game.
Wouldn’t be a panic trade since we’re already a top team with Skinner/Pickard. We just need that 1B that can take over when Skinner starts slipping. Also would be good insurance with Pickard as the third string goalie if anyone gets injured.
ahh yes, absolve the 2 best and most offensive players in the world of blame cause "scoring was too hard!"
weird...Vegas managed to score goals against him 2023, didn't make up excuses
He’s due for a Nurse type contract. The defacto no1 Dman who played way more minutes and put up more points than he should, playing with elites. He played the minutes because there was no one else. VS. The defacto starting goalie who plays way more than he should because it’s all we have. And he can prop up empty stats like wins/losses and GAA, which are team stats because he plays on a juggernaut.
No you see every single problem on the Oilers was Skinner. Even when he wasn’t playing and before he was even drafted it was only Skinner. If the Oilers lose today it’ll be Skinners fault.you're right, Oilers scoring was just fine the Finals
if we had Thatcher Demko in net, Oilers probably score at least 1 goal in Game 1 and like 2 in Game 2 easily
Honestly, change the word skinner for the word goaltending. And you aren’t really that far off. Goaltending has been a big issue for this team for years.
Florida was decimated by injuries during the finals and I think I read somewhere that Bobrovsky was dead tired from the travel schedule between Vegas and Florida with the short break between games. The NHL scheduling last years finals with 2 day breaks between games was an advantage for Bobrovsky.
You must remind me, what records did Skinner set in the playoffs?
why does Skinner have to set records?
