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 Skookum Jim
Messages: 6160
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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Fun Fact I read over at Cult of Hockey
https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/nhl/cult-of-hockey /edmonton-oilers-vancouver-canucks-game-day-stu-skinner-calv in-pickard
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Cast your mind back to two weeks ago today. The Edmonton Oilers were on the west coast for the first leg of their ongoing cross-and-recross-continental tour of seemingly random NHL cities, as a road trip that would next take them to Boston started, logically enough, in Seattle.
Having played in Edmonton the night before, the Oilers started well enough, building an early lead though flagging a bit by the third period. That was when netminder Calvin Pickard misjudged a change-up from Kraken defender Vince Dunn, attempted to direct the reboud into the corner but instead poked it weakly onto the stick of winger Jaden Schwartz, who scored.
That cut Edmonton’s lead to 3-2 midway in the final frame, though the Oilers would ultimately see it through, add an empty-netter and start their January journeys with a 4-2 win.
Why do I mention this random event from what is becoming ancient history?
Because as of this moment a fortnight later, this was the last time the Oilers allowed a goal against in the third period of any game.
In the SIX (6) games since, five of them officially road games and the sixth effectively so, Edmonton netminders Stu Skinner and Pickard have faced 61 third-period shots and stopped all 61 of them.
The Oilers won five of the six, all in regulation, with three of those wins being by a single goal. Three times the squad was tied entering the third period and found the one goal needed to win it; on another, they nursed a slender 1-0 lead forged late in the second period all the way to the final buzzer.
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