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Re: Review: Florida @ Edmonton (Game #31) [message #839642 is a reply to message #839633 ]	Tue, 17 December 2024 13:33

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Adam wrote on Tue, 17 December 2024 11:09

Rocksteady wrote on Tue, 17 December 2024 09:08

Radio people, heck even some on here were saying the Oilers were playing their best hockey and they are doing all the little things right.

They had a bad game, Bouchard blew a wheel on the first goal, Ekholm just wasn't himself. Skinner let in a couple of stinkers and it's right when people say J.Skinner is wasting away here and now I know why that guy hasn't seen the playoffs in his career. Just doesn't do anything. Bad fit really.

At the end of the day, The Oilers are fine, they don't need to ship or sit anyone (except for maybe J.Skinner) and everything is fine, just a bad game.

Too bad it's to those south Florida nogoodnicks.

Worth noting, while he didn't get much done last night, I have generally liked Jeff Skinner this year. He's a skill guy playing limited minutes on the third line, so he's always going to get the criticisms from people who think he should be contributing more, but I think he's been generally pretty good.

We're one game away from him scoring an important goal against Vegas.

I do agree that the team had some moments yesterday, and that several players probably would like a do-over on many plays. We have seen a few of those moments - the Vegas game had some too as we let off when we reached 5-0 there, similar to the team at 4-2 yesterday.

Skinner can be our Phil Kessel on the 3rd line in the playoffs. He's never going to be amazing defensively, neither was Kessel. I still could like to see him tried more with McDavid, but if Knob doesn't trust him, he can still contribute on a 3rd line and take teams by surprise now and then, especially in a playoff grind. Even with crap ice time, somehow Skinner is managing over 2 shots/game. Actually highest shots/60 5v5 on the team, 6th goals/60.

We overcame the usual crap we seem to do vs Minny. We overcame it vs Vegas. Florida still played with us enough to throw a lot of guys off their game. 2/3 in this series of games isn't too bad. Couple more saves and we had the game last night too. Florida had a total of 6 high danger chances all game, vs our 12. Was one of those throwback nights where every big mistake was in our net. Not to excuse the big mistakes.

I would kinda appreciate some other team taking Florida out next playoffs for us if I'm honest :)

[Updated on: Tue, 17 December 2024 13:36]

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Review: Florida @ Edmonton (Game #31)	By: OilFans on Mon, 16 December 2024 21:00
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