Someone should tell Florida the first 3 games of the series don’t count.
I can’t believe people are arguing with a straight face that a goalie who barely manager to put up a .900 sv% was good enough.
It’s been 25+ years since a team won a cup with a starting goalie with a save percentage as low as Skinners was this year.
Give your head a shake and stop being such a homer.
The first 2 games of the Florida series, the Oilers scored 1 goal (ONE in Two games) yet that's Skinner's fault somehow? Game 3 he couldn't make a big save so, yeah, that was a frustrating one.
Anyway, you literally said that Skinner was below average the entire playoffs, the weak link the entire playoffs. I posted numbers of a 12 game sample size in which he was darn near unbeatable - 11-1 with roughly a .940 save pct. in Games 4-7 yet you completely ignored that.
Yes Skinner had bad games particularly early in the playoffs but he was sensational late in series in crunch time.
Besides those stellar numbers I posted, I can isolate games which he was arguably the Oilers best player.
Game 4 against the Kings when the entire team no showed (pretty pivotal game, no?) then shut down the Kings in Game 5,
Held the fort in Game 6 and 7 when the Canucks made pushes,
Game 6 against Dallas when the entire team went into a shell and Skinner saved their bacon,
Game 4 against Florida when the Panthers came out strong and made a very notable huge save against Verhaege when it was 1-1 and the Oilers were on the verge of collapse,
Game 5 against the Panthers when the Panthers were overwhelming the Oilers in the second half of the game,
Game 6 with 1 goal let in and even in Game 7 when the Panthers made plenty of pushes he held them to 2 goals (maybe score more than 1 goal?).
See, I can admit that Skinner had bad games (the beginning of the Canucks and Kings series there were some terrible games by Skinner) but you refuse to acknowledge any good he did which was a lot of good as I pointed out.
I'm not being a homer because I'm providing specific examples of when he was very good but you're acting like a hater or just being stubborn because you can't admit that maybe, just maybe, Skinner did some good.