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 Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| Hibernia wrote on Fri, 22 November 2024 10:56 |
The problem isn't Skinner. The problem is the team in front of him.
Just like Ullmark isn't the problem in Ottawa. It's the team in front of him. There's a reason why some goalies look great behind good teams and crappy when they get traded to a bad team.
When you have a team that doesn't give up the puck in the slot, your goalie looks good. When you continually turn the puck over in high-danger scoring areas, your goalie is going to suffer. And right now, there's a bunch of Oilers who have no idea how to handle the puck in their own end. It's brutal. Clean up the back-end and Skinner's good enough but he's not a goalie who will steal you too many games.
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Last night, just from watching highlights, definitely a case of bad coverage being more of a culprit, but no "good" goalie has consistent toilet sav%. Good goalies still manage to have decent sav% on bad teams. Ullmark was one of those guys.
There is a similarity between Ullmark and Skinner. They are goalies that have major confidence issues. Ullmark had good sav% in Buffalo behind a bad team when he got to play loose and like he had nothing to lose. As he moved to a better team, as pressure ramped up he started to crumble. Now he's really crumbling under the weight of a huge contract and expectations. We have loads of proof how about how much Skinner struggles to keep his confidence up. We likely have a very short playoffs last year without Mumford putting all his time into him.
Maybe we can survive still with Skinner, but maybe it gets a little harder every year for some mental health coach to find new buttons to push. Or maybe he finally figures himself out. I hope one day we can get another goalie that is actually elite at self motivation, like Mike Smith was, but he was unfortunately old and on the edge of broken most of his time here.
[Updated on: Fri, 22 November 2024 11:15]
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