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Edmonton @ Toronto (Game #68) [message #831215] |
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 tardigrade81
Messages: 2266
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
2 Cups
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Hoping hyman at least gets 50 tonight. Overall sluggish game. Third period was solid. Leafs will be swept in the first round.
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tardigrade81
Messages: 2266
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
2 Cups
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5-3 holy smokes
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tardigrade81
Messages: 2266
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
2 Cups
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6-3 final. Poop
Leafs have a solid team. They should go game 7 in the first round before they lose.
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Ragnarok73
Messages: 2419
Registered: February 2011
2 Cups
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Who’d a thunk giving the opponents 5 goals before showing up wouldn’t work as a tactic? 
"There's no greater springboard to development than failure." - Craig MacTavish, April 13/15.
5-14-6-1
"Sabres think the suck is their ally? They merely adopted the suck. The Oilers were born in it...molded by it."
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watchman
Messages: 1422
Registered: October 2019
Location: River City
1 Cup
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IMHO Knoby waited a period too long before sitting SKINS and separating 97/29.
...this time, it's for real (isn't it?).
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NCREDiBLE
Messages: 258
Registered: February 2007
Location: Cold Lake, AB
No Cups
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First 40 mins was trash.. Skinner should have been pulled after the 3rd. 4th gone for sure. That final 7 mins was sure fun to watch tho… where was that earlier? Then Matthews had to sour it with the empty net.
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Not much you can pull from this. The Oilers got whooped.
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Jay
Messages: 567
Registered: January 2007
Location: Edmonton
No Cups
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Hot take - Pickard is a better option for the playoffs than Skinner.
"Initiative comes to thems that wait"
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JPro
Messages: 810
Registered: January 2006
Location: Edmonton
No Cups
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| Ragnarok73 wrote on Sat, 23 March 2024 19:49 |
Who’d a thunk giving the opponents 5 goals before showing up wouldn’t work as a tactic?
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Did the Oilers show up in the third or did the Leafs enter Choke Mode? Good thing they created such a big buffer prior to activating that usual move.
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JPro
Messages: 810
Registered: January 2006
Location: Edmonton
No Cups
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| Jay wrote on Sun, 24 March 2024 07:12 |
Hot take - Pickard is a better option for the playoffs than Skinner.
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Skinner certainly seems to have higher highs and lower lows. Pickard very steady in 2024. It’s nice to have a competent secondary option to look to.
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Adam
Messages: 7177
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| Jay wrote on Sun, 24 March 2024 07:12 |
Hot take - Pickard is a better option for the playoffs than Skinner.
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I think you have to look at the player's entire career and question whether his stats this season (10-4-0, .920 Sv%) are the real deal or an anomaly. In his career, without this season, he's 35-54-10 with a save percentage around .900. He hadn't had a season where he was above that mark since 2016-17 with Colorado.
It's not completely out of the realm of possibility that at age 31, he just turned a corner and figured things out, but it's probably not the most likely explanation. I would not be trusting Pickard with my team's results in the playoffs just yet.
Lots of reasons to worry about Skinner too of course, but the team clearly felt that they believed in the guy strongly enough not to address goaltending in any other way, so cross your fingers and hope for the best.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireBobbyNicks
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Dragon_Matt
Messages: 766
Registered: January 2009
Location: edmonton
No Cups
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It is worth noting who he played for in that history though.
14-17 played with colorado for 86 games, gaa was about 2.6 and ave % was .920
17-19 played for TO, Phili and Arizona for a total of 18 games 3.8 gaa and 875%
19-22 for detroit for a total of 12 games 4 gaa and 865%
perhaps he's always been better than he was given the chance to show?
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