Rafafouille
Registered User
I don’t understand what Krueger’s trying to achieve.
You know what kind of player Skinner is. You knew it when you signed him, and for a whole decade before that. This is a guy who plays a very specific kind of game and is very effective at it. Trying to change him now is pointless (literally).
You’re in last place. Eichel has 2 goals. Your top goal producers are Olofsson and... Reinhart. You know who scores 30-40 goals per 82 like clockwork? Jeff Skinner.
Not only is his contract a sunk cost, it’s not even hypothetically moveable unless he starts producing.
Here’s a guy who went against the grain to choose Buffalo in large part because he could fill a role next to Eichel. Eichel’s struggling. The team is losing. You need a goal scorer. Your goal scorer is paid so much he needs to break out. He’s too niche of a player to benefit from any kind of change to his pure offensive role.
All possible angles of this point to... putting Skinner and Eichel back together? Nah. Healthy scratch.
31,25,25,38,19,28,38,24,40,19
That's his G per 82 so far in his career. Seems like your clockwork is broken half the time.
Also his 40 goals season is a mirage. He had 20 goals in 27 games by the end of November. 26 by the end of 2018. 14 goals from January to April in 42 games. Pace of 27 goals and 47 points over 82 games. That's why he was taken away from eichel the following season. Because he had been bad for half his 40 goals season and kept going the same way the next season.