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

[Mr Kot]

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[brentashton]

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Stu Skinner does not have that range of flexibility.

Thats is all.

 

[GMofOilers]

Skinner couldn’t even do a jumping jack

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Skinner couldn’t even do a jumping jack

Neither can you.

 

[TheGingaNinja]

Leon looking forward to some Nashville style home cookin'

Time to feast!

 

[Jumptheshark]

Skinner is NOT starting against the preds

 

[Oildrum]

inb4 Skinner spoils McDavids big night

 

[Morpheus]

inb4 Skinner spoils McDavids big night

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[DavidHasselhoffsFist]

McDavid will become the 99th player to score 1000 points and is currently 99th all time in points with 999. Weird

 

[JeffSkinner53]

Draisaitl over 3 points

 

[Juxta Position]

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.

 

[GMofOilers]

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.

 

[Juxta Position]

They both suck, Pickard just might not suck as much.

 

[AUAIOMRN]

McDavid with a big "M" after tonight. This joke will be better when he gets to 1400 points.

 

[Canovin]

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.

 

[FlameChampion]

Hopefully the Oilers offense continues to pump the Preds.

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

 

[Scrapin Ice]

Utah's Kesselring with 2 primary apples. They are both good but the first one is special.

 

[GhostfaceWu]

Mcdavid hitting 1000 in the first period.

 

[iCanada]

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.

 

[AM]

McDavid will become the 99th player to score 1000 points and is currently 99th all time in points with 999. Weird

That’s how you surpass #99 in style.

 

[Juxta Position]

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]

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.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

McDavid on the cusp of 1000 points within historic time. Meanwhile Oiler goaltenders look on

https://x.com/i/web/status/1856794488443957279

 

[FlameChampion]

So we don’t have anyone to rep in for Arvidsson?

Lets run Dermott and make chaos within the pairings.

Running 12F seems so dumb to me. Accruing cap space when you can’t ice a full roster seems counter intuitive to me.

 

[bone]

So we don’t have anyone to rep in for Arvidsson?

Lets run Dermott and make chaos within the pairings.

Running 12F seems so dumb to me. Accruing cap space when you can’t ice a full roster seems counter intuitive to me.

If it's only one game or two I'm not too worried about going 11/7. If it was looking like it was a 3+ games. it would be nice to get a couple guys up like they did for the McDavid injury and use it as a opportunity to get a game off for guys like Ryan or Perry.

Also keep in mind Bakersfield is lean on forwards right now as well as they've been dealing with some injuries as well and lost Lavoie on another technicality that ruled in favor of Vegas.