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 Mike
Messages: 2004
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
2 Cups
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| Hibernia wrote on Tue, 22 April 2025 11:30 |
| Mike wrote on Tue, 22 April 2025 09:56 |
| Hibernia wrote on Tue, 22 April 2025 08:41 |
Two of the Kings' goals were lucky.
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he has never been all that good
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Never. No b'y. I guess that was a different Skinner in the nets last post-season. He doesn't need to be an elite goalie. He's needs to be this team's version of Osgood with the Wings or Vernon with the Flames. This team wasn't built to win games in their own end. It was built to win games on offence. On those sorts of teams, the goalie often gets hung out to dry.
It's always easy to pick on the goalie, the last player to make a mistake.
Could Skinner make an additional save here or there? Sure. But last night, both goalies had an .800 save percentage and the Kings are supposed to be a top defensive team. And, I don't recall any of the Oilers goals being of the lucky variety. So, who was the better goalie last night? It's not necessarily the guy who got the W.
If Skinner is getting pulled for his effort, I assume you also think that the Kings should be putting Rittach in net for Game 2 as well.
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I'm not interested in having a pissing contest - I really don't want or need to be "right" about any of this stuff. I just want the Oilers to win. That's it.
That said, to my eye and by the numbers, Skinner is simply not the guy in my opinion. Yes we got to game 7 of the finals last year, but Bouchard and McDavid set all time records on the way there. Don't imagine Skinner got much consideration for the Conn Smythe.
2 years ago he got pulled what, 4 times? Once against the Kings and then amazingly 3 times against Vegas! And then again last year once against the Canucks. He probably should have been pulled after the 2nd last night
I concede I've never played goalie and am by no means an expert - but what I see is a guy who is always overplays and ends up out of position, maybe the slowest guy I have ever seen going east-west, and I think maybe the one that frustrates me the most, for some reason he never seals the post.
We could win the Cup with him in net, but that's because we have one of the NHL's all time best up front. We win in spite of him.
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