Some unpacking a day later. Look at the GA last night where Skinner is glaring at his D. This happened on a couple occasions and at least once was a striking display. With the D on the ice that the stare is directed at is Ekholm. That took me aback. Because my immediate reaction to that is that Stu Skinner, a bit part flaw on a club should not be glaring at a D that is the foremost reason why Skinner gets to pretend he's an NHL starter. I wouldn't comment on it except its become an increasing thing with Skinner, and apparently he has the delusion to think he has licence to blame others on the team the very few times that they f*** something up. Sure Booch had a bad game. Skinner had the again worst GA you've seen with his brutal misplay of the puck just the previous game. No Oiler came up to him glaring and with hostility. Nobody did that. It was just another in a long line of Skinner farts and the team went forward and scored again to seal the result, a result in a gme where Skinner kept the opponent in the game.
This is two shit games in a row again from Skinner who has a penchant for these and he has the gall to glare at the stud D we've had over the last several seasons, or indeed all the time Skinner has been here. Now I've never seen Ekholm initiate this with Skinner, or anybody, I've just seen him be a real solid and stabilizing D and person on the club. It strikes me that the only reason Skinner is now doing this sort of thing (which has to be offputting coming from him) is that he models and invokes Mike Smith and somehow thinks he has the standing on the club to do this sort of thing. This is the nature of thought, exposed, that we have in net. A guy that is satisfied with making even expected saves, that gets overconfident and sells saves that are just routine in nature, and seems to be easily buoyed with his really nothingburger game and indeed seen bopping his head now in games continually feeling real good about himself and hardly ever blaming himself in any presser.
Skinner in love with himself, blaming others for GA, and even Ekholm. He can be right even on a specific goal or misplay, but he should not think he has that position in the group to do that. he hasn't earned that, like Mike Smith did. If you're glaring at opponents, and on the team the only other guy that does this is McD, you better have earned it.
