Player Discussion Stuart Skinner

[PatRoy33]

That third goal summed up everything there is to say/know about Skinner.
My little boy stared at the screen in disbelief. Even he knew that the game was definitely lost right there.

Everything Skinner says is just semantics. He's not the type to say 'I suck'.

 

[MessierThanThou]

That third goal summed up everything there is to say/know about Skinner.
My little boy stared at the screen in disbelief. Even he knew that the game was definitely lost right there.

Everything Skinner says is just semantics. He's not the type to say 'I suck'.

You could almost say he's the Anti-PatRoy...

 

[PatRoy33]

You could almost say he's the Anti-PatRoy...

At the very least he could try and start a fight with the other goalie.

 

[gretzkyoilers]

So its got to this point. I've followed the club, watched the games, gone to games since 1972. If Stu Skinner is again our #1 goalie next season I'm done. I'm not even watching. So f***ing done with this clown in net. I find watching him frustrating at this point. If the org continues to see this as the #1 guy than I don't see a lot of hope for the team.

I wonder how many of the players feel this way.

I can't help but think they do feel this way. You mean to tell me the Oilers do not have Bob envy? How many games did players like Drai give Skinner a dirty look at the end of a bad loss? I know the team is tight and players are good friends, but Ceci a popular teammate got moved after last season and personally it must have been tough but that's professional sports...

 

[Tarus]

Terrible season from Skinner, which with any competent organization should signal an immediate removal for a replacement considering how close the Oilers are towards winning a cup. The idea that the coach basically had to do a franchise-wide consult about whether to play Skinner or Pickard in game 6 of the stanley cup finals when facing elimination is just astonishing, and frankly downright embarrassing.

The added pressure and stress for the other players who are playing in front of such a consistent letdown in tightly contested games must be immense. I can imagine just removing all this unreliable, game to game side-show nonsense would be an immediate boon to the confidence of the skaters on the ice going forward.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Terrible season from Skinner, which with any competent organization should signal an immediate removal for a replacement considering how close the Oilers are towards winning a cup. The idea that the coach basically had to do a franchise-wide consult about whether to play Skinner or Pickard in game 6 of the stanley cup finals when facing elimination is just astonishing, and frankly downright embarrassing.

The added pressure and stress for the other players who are playing in front of such a consistent letdown in tightly contested games must be immense. I can imagine just removing all this unreliable, game to game side-show nonsense would be an immediate boon to the confidence of the skaters on the ice going forward.

You'd think that until you remember they started Pickard in game 5 after he helped them win game 4 and they responded with arguably their worst game of the season.

They were closer last year than this year, and I don't just mean games-wise. They needed better goaltending but those efforts were putrid.

 

[Tarus]

You'd think that until you remember they started Pickard in game 5 after he helped them win game 4 and they responded with arguably their worst game of the season.

They were closer last year than this year, and I don't just mean games-wise. They needed better goaltending but those efforts were putrid.

The gap got a bit wider in the 12 months since the last finals, Florida is a better team than they were last year. Oilers basically played from behind the entire series due to poor goaltending, and Florida's improved and superior depth took full advantage by rendering the Oilers increasingly ineffective as the series wore on

It's not an issue of good or bad efforts, it was pretty obvious in the final two games that the Oilers weren't in control of their own destiny.

 

[BobbytheBrain]

He's gone. Close thread please