Post-Game Talk: OT Heartbreaker

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Meh, Skinner gave 1 stinker. But what was more disappointing to me was he let in pretty much every good scoring chance they had. I dunno.. I was just wincing every shot L.A took after that fourth one. Edmonton carried the play and the chances i felt. I think skinner flat out lost this one.

Yeah I agree
He looked super shaky too. Falling over on that one chance, the Doughty goal. Just looked uncomfortable in there

 

[McFlyingV]

It's because the people on this board think the good teams play nothing but good 100% of the time and it isn't superior goaltending bailing em out or making big saves here and there.

Couldn't agree anymore. Did you watch the TB FLA game yesterday? Both goalies just stood on their head over and over again bailing out defensive mistakes. Every defensive mistake ends up in our net. Its f***ing sad.

 

[Oilhawks]

There was a point in the 3rd when it was 4-4 and I thought that the Kings looked more composed. More methodical with thier game.
Oilers looked a little scattered to me. They didnt look like a SC contender at all.

Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I think the bolded is the rub of it

We should be happy that they made the playoffs and enjoy the ride. The team as is still far too inconsistent to be a serious contender

Hopefully some weakspots excised by the new GM

 

[Drivesaitl]

Recall efforts are tough. In Calgary we know this from experience..

Calgary disappoints me a lot.

 

[nabob]

All skinner has to do is be average. And he’s already failing. Should have been pulled early because he wasn’t any better the rest of the game. He didn’t make one save to keep his team in it. Zero. Completely let his team down tonight. When he fails again next game in LA I hope knobblauch has the stones to start Pikard else this will be woodcroft all over again.

If he lets in two quick ones next game he better have a very short leash. Can’t afford to throw away games because of it

 

[scotchtapejr]

Team battled back twice to save his ass and he's never there for him. Hold him down and shave his mustache off until he earns it back.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Couldn't agree anymore. Did you watch the TB FLA game yesterday? Both goalies just stood on their head over and over again bailing out defensive mistakes. Every defensive mistake ends up in our net. Its f***ing sad.

It’s almost as if both of those teams are much better than we are.

 

[nexttothemoon]

The Oilers 2nd best defensive dman (after Ekholm) is once again eating popcorn in the pressbox instead of being a positive factor on the ice for the Oilers.


Get Stecher in there... at least give this team a chance at having as good of a defensive roster as possible because the D needs some improvement as well.

You score 11 goals... you should win those 2 games.

I think there's a very good chance Stecher can make a difference out there defensively.

 

[oXo Cube]

Couldn't agree anymore. Did you watch the TB FLA game yesterday? Both goalies just stood on their head over and over again bailing out defensive mistakes. Every defensive mistake ends up in our net. Its f***ing sad.

People seriously underestimate how good of a defensive team the Oilers actually are because their HDSV% is so bad.

Edmonton's skaters are a top 5 defensive team and a top 2 offensive team in the NHL. Every game they lose looks like this one did tonight.

 

[TheNumber4]

Honestly hated the way Game 1 ended with that Nurse boot and the Ceci toss to center ice. Skinners confidence took a hit right there and then after a solid game. He cares about his save percentage and didn’t get the results he deserved. And it transferred to Game 1. Combine that with shit D and some bad bounces and were looking at 3 goals against. Goal 4 shouldn’t happen, that one is on Skinner after having his confidence beaten down some more. And Kopi being wide open in OT is hard to blame anyone cause Byfield made the play, but it’d be nice with either a save there or Nurse disrupting Kopi more.

 

[Lay Z Boy GM]

All skinner has to do is be average. And he’s already failing. Should have been pulled early because he wasn’t any better the rest of the game. He didn’t make one save to keep his team in it. Zero. Completely let his team down tonight. When he fails again next game in LA I hope knobblauch has the stones to start Pikard else this will be woodcroft all over again.

Maybe it’s ol dusty picking goalies still. He’s Skinner to the end

 

[OfCorsiDid]

This is the problem, he doesn't take any responsibility for his play and that's probably part of the reason he doesn't get any better. No accountability ffs. What a horrible post game interview by him.

I mean goaltender post game interviews should be taken with a massive grain of salt.

Goaltending is as much about confidence as it is about being technically sound. If being confident to a fault is his thing then whatever. But I don’t really want my starting goalie licking his wounds and feeling sorry for himself after game 2. There’s plenty of time for that shit if you get eliminated.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I mean I’m gonna tell you this right now, Pickard will not swoop in and save us.

The way this team is built, your only option is Skinner. That’s not even bias that’s just a fact. Pickard is a AHL-calibre goalie that’s had an excellent season. Skinner is a highly inconsistent NHL goalie that can switch from Vezina candidate to ECHL reject at the drop of the hat.

Pickard is every bit as inconsistent as Skinner but doesn’t have his upside. It’s really as simple as that.

OK thanks for weighing in Woody. Hows the Taco stand doing?

 

[sepHF]

Also hey Nurse/Ceci is still a pairing. They’re awesome, keep playing them together.

I don’t even really blame them

Ceci did the right thing pressuring Byfield and Nurse was trying to be first man back to get the icing call

That was just an absurd play by Byfield

 

[MoontoScott]

There was a point in the 3rd when it was 4-4 and I thought that the Kings looked more composed. More methodical with thier game.
Oilers looked a little scattered to me. They didnt look like a SC contender at all.

They are a veteran club and don't get rattled. Credit where credit is due.

 

[oilers4life5]

Nuge is invisible. I don’t get the love for him.

 

[guymez]

There are 2 major issues tonight, regardless of us coming back, the 3-1 goal was atrocious, getting scored on after scoring a big goal has been in this teams DNA for over a decade. They can’t seem to kick that and it hurt them tonight.

The 4-3 goal is really the only goal I didn’t like from skinner, that’s a back breaker.

They just weren’t polished enough tonight.

I agree with this.
Skinner wasnt the whole problem in this game. The Kings deserved this win. Their big time players out preformed the Oilers big time players. That might have been one of the worst games from McDrai I have seen in some time. The Kings absolutely neutralized McDavid. He was basically a non factor. Constantly trying to beat 4 or 5 Kings players one on one. Played right into their hands.
RNH was invisable. Hymen was the best top line player in this game for the Oilers.
If not for Holloway the Kings win this game fairly easily.

The Oilers had a lot of zone time in the Kings end but ultimately didnt accomplish much.
The Kings kept them to the outside.

 

[Moregoalspls]

I'm sad my buddy got to go see this emotional roller coaster live and end like this :/

 

[TheSecondSeason]

Can't believe just 1 year removed from Vegas, we trot this guy as a starting playoff goaltender while Boston still has 2 all-stars. What exactly did Holland do in the offseason ? There is nothing wrong with our forward core. Do not put Brown in over Holloway. I would like to see one of Nurse or Ceci get press boxed for Broberg. These guys are not it.

 

[McDrai]

Moneypuck agrees. We win a game like this 7 times out of 10 times. Honestly, if McDrai show up and our goaltending can just be .900, none of our games against LA should be even close in my opinion.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

People seriously underestimate how good of a defensive team the Oilers actually are because their HDSV% is so bad.

Edmonton's skaters are a top 5 defensive team and a top 2 offensive team in the NHL. Every game they lose looks like this one did tonight.

They had more breakaways than we did, just saying.

 

[McIce Whole]

Skinner f***ing sucks. This team will have a hard team winning with him as our starter. He cannot make a f***ing save when it matters

 

[OfCorsiDid]

OK thanks for weighing in Woody. Hows the Taco stand doing?

I don’t presume to know whatever that means.

Even if it’s supposedly tongue in cheek.

 

[guymez]

They are a veteran club and don't get rattled. Credit where credit is due.

100%
Their big guns were very good.
I was surprised to see the Oilers big guns look so ineffective. They pounded McDavid every chance they got.

 

[Jarvi]

Skinner's going to start the next game unless he's injured. Get all of the whining out of your system now.

We could probably bribe Doughty with some play-doh to go full Tonya Harding on him