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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| Ragnarok73 wrote on Thu, 16 March 2023 16:58 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 16 March 2023 13:56 |
I'd start Campbell tonight. Saturday's game against the Kraken is far more important and eventually Stu is going to need a night off. But why not ride a rookie into the ground?
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Given how tight the standings are, the Oil don't have the luxury of tossing games away like they would be by starting Jacky-Boy.
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I'd argue the opposite. Seven points up on Nashville with 17 Predators games to go and two other teams between us and them, we are just not in much danger of missing the playoffs. The team would have to completely melt down now for that to happen.
Half our games are against teams who are out of the playoff picture too - so there's only a few more games that are of the highest priority - the Seattle one being one of those.
Campbell is 17-9-4, so despite some real challenges with his play, I don't think it's fair to say that the points are automatically forfeit when he starts.
Of greater concern to me would be the amount that Skinner has played. Here's his games played stats since turning pro - these are all in numbers at NHL, AHL & ECHL levels including both regular season and playoffs:
2018-19 - 51 games played
2019-20 - 44 games
2020-21 - 38 games
2021-22 - 53 games
He's already at 40 games this year and we are hoping he's the playoff starter through several rounds of playoffs. Worth knowing is that he underperformed in the playoffs Bakersfield the last two years too with a significant drop-off in his numbers.
I think we need to make sure he stays fresh, so I would be looking to play the goalies close to evenly down the stretch. At most maybe 8 games for Skinner compared to 6 games for Campbell. Give him all the time off we can now, because that's not going to be an option for much of the post-season.
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