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 Adam
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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
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