 RDOilerfan
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| Adam wrote on Tue, 23 May 2023 10:55 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 23 May 2023 08:35 |
I thought I'd seen max crazy when a Leon trade was floated out there but then the crazy gets doubled down with trading Skinner.
Even if he isn't able to be your starter, he's already shown he can be an extremely good back up. Gone are the days where you have 1 guy playing 65+ games and all your need your back up to do is play the odd back to back and start maybe once every 2 weeks. In today's NHL you need your back up to be able to play 30-35 games. If the expectation is your starter wins 2/3 of his 50 starts, then to have a chance to be a good team, your back up needs to win at least 1/2 of his starts. So you need a legit GOOD goalie as your back up. At 2.6 mill, if Skinner is your back up, that's not a bad contract.
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The logic is pretty easy:
- the goaltending wasn't good enough.
- Jack Campbell probably can't be moved, but may be good enough to play a backup role still.
- If you're not playing Campbell, then either A) you have to park him in the minors with big cap consequences, B) buy him out, also with major cap consequences, or C) trade a bunch of assets with him in order to get someone else to take the contract - which would likely be massive ask given how much time he has left on his deal.
- Skinner will have significant value coming off a rookie season where he is now the odds-on favourite to win the Calder Trophy. Not only could we trade him, but we could probably get a relatively high price for him. We should know the goalie the well as possible and that should give us a better sense than most whether his problems in the post-season are easily curable.
We've seen before that some goalies that look like world-beaters early get figured out by the league's shooters. I don't feel like Skinner is a slam dunk hall of famer so if we can get someone who has a little more consistent pedigree, then I would absolutely consider it.
I feel that our goaltending was a big part of our failures this year - we likely win the Western Conference in the regular season, and don't go out with a whimper in the post-season if we had more consistency. Given that, status quo seems a dangerous thing to just accept.
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I agree that Skinner wasn't good in the playoffs. In my opinion, I think part of it was he played too much. He played 12 games in a row. He's never done that before. I keep hearing goalie guys saying they think teams need to stop deciding on 1 guy in the playoffs when they don't do it in the regular season. The league is going towards a tandem. So if during the year you are used to only getting 2-3 starts in a row max, expecting a goalie to go 12 in a row isn't realistic. Secondly, he is a rookie. The playoffs are another animal. It can be a tall ask for a rookie position player in the playoffs, asking a rookie goalie is a lot. I expect him to use the fact he wasn't that good as fuel and he will be better.
That being said, if there is a better goalie out there that is cheaper than Skinner, then sure trade him. I am not a goalie expert. The position seems to be the hardest one to judge. Who say goalie BOB going off after 4 pretty mediocre to bad years? But it's happening right now. So if you have a list of better goalies that make less than Skinner, list away please.
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