Pre-Game Talk: "That Shit Makes Me SOOOOOOOO Mad"!

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Everybody is so pumped for Pickard and his .563 SV% when the Oilers are short handed....we better hope the refs put their whistles away tonight.

Pickard has given up 7 goals on 16 shots shorthanded, with what is, analytically, the best powerplay shot suppression team in the NHL...and you guys are excited about that?

Pickard has an overall .886 SVP%, and Skinner has an .881 SVP%. They both have terrible numbers in one metric or another, so I'm not sure why the groupthink on this board has decided that Pickard is the better option. Pickard is not in any way an upgrade over Skinner. It's essentially a coin flip right now between these two guys; it makes no difference.
 

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Everybody is so pumped for Pickard and his .563 SV% when the Oilers are short handed....we better hope the refs put their whistles away tonight.

Pickard has given up 7 goals on 16 shots shorthanded, with what is, analytically, the best powerplay shot suppression team in the NHL...and you guys are excited about that?

Pickard has an overall .886 SVP%, and Skinner has an .881 SVP%. They both have terrible numbers in one metric or another, so I'm not sure why the groupthink on this board has decided that Pickard is the better option. Pickard is not in any way an upgrade over Skinner. It's essentially a coin flip right now between these two guys; it makes no difference.
They both suck, Pickard just might not suck as much.
 

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Everybody is so pumped for Pickard and his .563 SV% when the Oilers are short handed....we better hope the refs put their whistles away tonight.

Pickard has given up 7 goals on 16 shots shorthanded, with what is, analytically, the best powerplay shot suppression team in the NHL...and you guys are excited about that?

Pickard has an overall .886 SVP%, and Skinner has an .881 SVP%. They both have terrible numbers in one metric or another, so I'm not sure why the groupthink on this board has decided that Pickard is the better option. Pickard is not in any way an upgrade over Skinner. It's essentially a coin flip right now between these two guys; it makes no difference.
Pickard is the backup for a reason.
 

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Hopefully the Oilers offense continues to pump the Preds.

Hopefully we get a solid goaltending performance. Been few and far between for either goalie.
 

iCanada

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Skinner couldn’t even do a jumping jack

Give the guy a break, he just started working out a year and a half ago.

Everybody is so pumped for Pickard and his .563 SV% when the Oilers are short handed....we better hope the refs put their whistles away tonight.

Pickard has given up 7 goals on 16 shots shorthanded, with what is, analytically, the best powerplay shot suppression team in the NHL...and you guys are excited about that?

Pickard has an overall .886 SVP%, and Skinner has an .881 SVP%. They both have terrible numbers in one metric or another, so I'm not sure why the groupthink on this board has decided that Pickard is the better option. Pickard is not in any way an upgrade over Skinner. It's essentially a coin flip right now between these two guys; it makes no difference.

Just because Pickard sucks doesn't mean Skinner doesn't also suck.

Guy was out of the league and couldn't find work as a backup, yet he still has a better save percentage and better win percentage than Skinner.
 

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Give the guy a break, he just started working out a year and a half ago.



Just because Pickard sucks doesn't mean Skinner doesn't also suck.

Guy was out of the league and couldn't find work as a backup, yet he still has a better save percentage and better win percentage than Skinner.
The difference in save % between the 2 is .005%, that's the equivalent of 1 goal on 200 shots, so effectively equal. Pickard also has an objectively horrendous, PK sv% of .556. Pickard and to lesser extent Skinner,, but mostly Pickard are the sole reason the PK is dead last in the league.

Every single time a Powerplay shot is taken by the other team on Pickard, statistically there is a 50/50 chance it goes in the net...that's absurdly bad.

Look, I'm not arguing for Skinner here, I just don't get why people on this board are excited to put in Pickard over Skinner when the stats say it's effectively "same shit different pile" with either of them in net.
 

iCanada

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The difference in save % between the 2 is .005%, that's the equivalent of 1 goal on 200 shots, so effectively equal. Pickard also has an objectively horrendous, PK sv% of .556. Pickard and to lesser extent Skinner,, but mostly Pickard are the sole reason the PK is dead last in the league.

Every single time a Powerplay shot is taken by the other team on Pickard, statistically there is a 50/50 chance it goes in the net...that's absurdly bad.

Look, I'm not arguing for Skinner here, I just don't get why people on this board are excited to put in Pickard over Skinner when the stats say it's effectively "same shit different pile" with either of them in net.

I bet Skinner even beats toddlers at arm wrestling matchups. We should pay him an extra 3 million AAV for his toughness.
 

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