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 Jay
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Registered: January 2007
Location: Edmonton
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 22 April 2025 10:16 |
| Jay wrote on Tue, 22 April 2025 10:08 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 22 April 2025 09:09 |
They can't panic after game 1. Starting the backup in the playoffs is a last chance desperation play that leaves no plan c if it fails. Down 0-2 (or even 1-2) makes a lot more sense.
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I don't get this. Why is Skinner the undisputed unquestionable starter? Based on what? If he is bad (and he always is in the playoffs) then play the guy who gives you a better chance to win. Who are we talking about here? He's that fragile that the only reason to ever not start him is if he's so unmistakably awful that there's no other option? We've seen this movie before. If pickard plays and he is as bad or worse than what you can expect from Skinner (doubtful but sure it could happen) then go back to Skinner at home. This is Stu Skinner we are talking about not prime brodeur. He can take a night off when he isn't good.
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He's the unquestioned starter because he flat out beat Campbell for the job and the other competitors are Pickard and Rodrique. There are simply no other options. Personally, I wouldn't have trusted either with McDavid's age 28 season, but here we are. Pickard is the only other card to play, so the coach better play it at the right time.
Looking back with hindsight a Bruins alternating game split might have been a better choice for this season.
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Do you recall round 1 2023? Did he outplay Campbell? They kept playing 74 and it almost cost them the series. And he was unbelievably probably worse in the next round. Meanwhile the guy who gave them the better chance to win sat on the bench because god forbid skinner not be given every conceivable opportunity.
And they have been basically alternating the last 6 weeks or so - due to injury yes but playing pickard at this point isn't some crazy reach. The team is comfortable with him and IMO he gives them a better chance to win than 74.
Anyway pickard is going to play at some point. Just a question of how deep of a hole do they dig before they do it.
If you think an alternating split would have been better than what are we talking about? He's the number 1 because it gets repeated a bunch?
[Updated on: Tue, 22 April 2025 10:31]
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