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 Mike
Messages: 2005
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
2 Cups
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| Jay wrote on Mon, 13 May 2024 08:20 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Sun, 12 May 2024 23:09 |
| Kr55 wrote on Sun, 12 May 2024 22:25 |
| tardigrade81 wrote on Sun, 12 May 2024 22:20 |
Pickard needs to start next game. Plain and simple
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100%. Skinner is in zero confidence mode. There is no reason to keep playing him now. We've seen this show before.
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Strong disagree. They can’t panic. Stick with what brought you and all that. Unless the coach thinks they absolutely cannot win with skinner AND Pickard is the guy who’ll win them the cup, then let’s go Jean luc! Come back Tuesday and earn the split at home.
One step closer to the prophesied Campbell redemption arc though, so that’s cool. I heard he had a good off season and AHL season.
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Same as last year - they have to keep playing Skinner because if not it will look like they're panicking. Or if they don't play him it will ruin his confidence and he'll never be the same. All while he crumbles again and again in big moments.
It's like he's so untouchable and solidified as this bonafide starter that he has to start every game - but also so fragile that he couldn't possibly come back and do his job if, god forbid, he got benched for a game.
I have no idea if Pickard can win them a Stanley Cup, but I have zero confidence that Skinner can.
I'd definitely start Pickard in game 4. They can't keep sewering the team based on this desire to justify the misplaced confidence in Skinner.
It will be interesting to see if/when he is done with the Oilers what he becomes. I'm not convinced he's a starter anywhere else in the league - certainly not on a playoff team - let alone a team with 29 and 97.
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That's where I am at. I want to believe he can be the guy, but he has had far more stinkers than average games, let alone great games.
The sample size is now a bit bigger. 20 games. Of the 57 goalies who have played 20 or more playoff games in the cap era, Skinner is dead last by a big margin in both save % (.881) and GAA (3.49). 2nd worst are Nabokov with .901, and Theodore with 3.05.
Pickard on the other hand is one of 9 goalies in NHL history with perfect goalie stats of 1.000 and 0.00 
Kidding aside - I don't know if Pickard can win a series let alone a Cup, but I don't have much faith left in Skinner anymore. Neither guy has much of a regular season resume - both around the same number of games played over their career (though Pickard over a much longer period obviously). Pickard did quite well as a backup to start his career with the Avs, but over the last 6 years just bounced around with not much playing time. Both guys have done decent in recent years in the AHL, but I don't put much stock in that. This past year, Pickard had better counting numbers than Skinner, but admittedly playing softer competition.
Personally, I would start Pickard with an incredibly short leash. and see what happens. Worst case he does like Skinner and doesn't stop anything where he needs to move. Best case, he goes on a heater.
We're not talking about replacing prime Hasek or Brodeur here. This is essentially a 2nd year goalie with, IMHO, more bad playoff games than good. And literally the worst stats in the cap era of any goalie who has played as much as him.
How many people thought Adin Hill would win Vegas a Cup after Thompson and Brossoit went down? He was basically Pickard last year - a bit younger, but very similar numbers.
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