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 Adam
Messages: 7757
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| inverno76 wrote on Fri, 22 November 2024 08:50 |
| Mike wrote on Thu, 21 November 2024 21:55 |
Is Dustin Schwartz really still with the team?
As I’ve said many times - I don’t know if he is the problem, but the boatloads of goalies who’ve come through here only to flounder under his tutelage tells me he most certainly is not part of the solution.
How has he survived half a dozen head coaches and a few GMs while being responsible for one the worst aggregate decades of goaltending any team has experienced in the history of the game.
We’re not talking an NHL legend here. Not only has this guy never played in the NHL, he’s never even played in the AHL. But somehow he is still around.
Punt him to the curb, and go with Pickard until he falters. Skinner obviously can’t handle the workload of a NHL #1
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I have heard the argument he pre-scouts opposition goalies to find their tendencies for our forwards to take advantage of, and here we are near the bottom of the league in scoring. Done with Schwartz.
Skinner has the body language of a kitten-less Jack Campbell. He's broken. Pickard is our guy until Stu either figures it out, or they make an upgrade in net. Is chasing Gibson at 50% retained and Skinner going the other way a realistic option? Is that even worse than where we are right now?
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I was advocating for pulling Skinner when it was 1-1 yesterday. At that point, the Oilers had carried the bulk of the play, but three pucks had already hit the back of our net. We got saved to that point by an off-side with nothing to do with the scoring play, and a quick whistle on one they banged in. I don't really believe Skinner ever had that one under control. Then the Boldy goal, which maybe there was a bit of a screen for, but it wasn't exactly a rocket and I thought he should be done right then. I'm not sure why they stuck with him the whole way.
The goals against seemed to rattle the team. We played a pretty strong first really, but the wind came out of their sails.
The problem for the Oilers is that while Skinner hasn't been great this year, Pickard has been the worse netminder. He's a 30+ journeyman who's never carried the mail anywhere so he's not a great second option when you have a hot & cold guy like Skinner as your #1. It seems an area where the Oilers NEED to bolster, although I fear that Skinner's going to have another hot January, the team will feel the problem is solved, and we're going to rinse and repeat here.
"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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