Post-Game Talk: Sewart Skinner in the FLA Swamp

[Captain Controversy]

Bouchard playing his way to 9 million x 8 years. Love to see it.

 

[Fourier]

From my perspective: Skinner is way too inconsistent to comfortably see him as a strength in the playoffs, but there are probably no realistic alternatives this year that would be any better so make the rest of the team as good as possible and take your best shot.

 

[TheNumber4]

Bouchard playing his way to 9 million x 8 years. Love to see it.

Do we though? Do we?

But in all seriousness, him having an iffy regular season reducing his cap hit would be advantageous , as long as he brings what he brought in the playoffs last year to the playoffs this year, it won't be a problem.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

McDavid won the freakin Conn Smythe.

I know
But he still didn’t score in the Final 2 games…I mean, that’s a fact

You haven’t. You argument just has zero merit

No different than the “Skinner cost us the Cup” argument

They don’t even make it that far if they performed on the level that Skinner did

And they don’t make the final if Skinner doesn’t outplay Oetinger

 

[harpoon]

Your obsession with save pct is very reminasant of the plus/minus crowd from years back. Just saying

I know, right? The people who ignore SV% and +/- and focus exclusively on Xthis and /60that are the ones with all the right answers.

 

[bobbythebrain]

I know, right? The people who ignore SV% and +/- and focus exclusively on Xthis and /60that are the ones with all the right answers.

Or focus on watching and understanding systems, execution and breakdowns. Usually the most reliable way

 

[Soundwave]

Or focus on watching and understanding systems, execution and breakdowns. Usually the most reliable way

I mean by any metric, Skinner is nothing special, even his own advocates on this board will admit he's a massively up and down goalie.

I would say he is basically a David Riitich tier goalie.

Which ever one of those points you align with, the fact is we are massively handicapping ourselves in net for not a great reason.

Every opponent we face is happy we have him in net, because if we had someone better they'd really, really be f***ed as no one in the league has a 1-2 as good as McDavid-Draisaitl upfront. With Skinner at least they have a shot, if they have a better goalie, they can claw back some of the disparity there.

 

[iCanada]

McDavid won the freakin Conn Smythe.

Just to add to that and properly put it in perspective - he won the Conn Smythe by breaking a Gretzky record so outlandishly absurd and unheard of it was literally thought to be unbreakable.

Meanwhile Skinner set the record for lowest recorded save percentage ever in a series win since the league started recording save percentages.

One of those things is obscenely ridiculously good. The other is obscenely ridiculously bad.

It's absurd we're having this discussion.