Player Discussion Jeff Skinner

[Diaspora]

Just Fine - Mary J. Blige

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

He goes full villain (hero, to 4 year olds)- Baby Shark.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[CaliSabresfan24]

Poor Jeff

 

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[Jim Bob]

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[tsujimoto74]

Just posting receipts for what we already knew: Krueger should be in prison for what he did to the Sabres.

 

[Gras]

 

[TheMistyStranger]

Skinner's season so far reminds me of Pominville in the late aughts, where he had one of the worst-looking 70 point seasons I've ever seen.

 

[SharkInABoloTie]

He's dreadful in his own zone and not much better on the rush, but with some space in the cycle? Look the f*** out

 

[newfiejesus]

I saw him score in person in December 2016.

Larsson scored for Buffalo. That game saw Disco Dan bench Eichel during a power play. I knew the timer was ticking for Bylsma after that.

Jeff will be fine. The wheels can't be falling off yet, can they? It's not like he hasn't sorted out his metabolism and not been present. Yer legs can't be stopping, same old song.

 

[rams]

Sometimes it looks like he took one too many shots of the smelling salts

 

[Steddy33]

Same player he has always been. He is not a player you win with. One of the most uncoachable players in the league. What he adds in 5v5 scoring does not outweigh all the negatives.

Get him off the PP

 

[HogtownSabresfan]

Same player he has always been. He is not a player you win with. One of the most uncoachable players in the league. What he adds in 5v5 scoring does not outweigh all the negatives.

Get him off the PP

More Okposo instead. LOL. Who you replacing him with? Bump him to 2nd unit. Sure. He also draws a lot of penalty calls on top of being great five on five

 

[Gras]

Same player he has always been. He is not a player you win with. One of the most uncoachable players in the league. What he adds in 5v5 scoring does not outweigh all the negatives.

Get him off the PP

Taking the team leader in PP goals off the PP sounds like a great idea

 

[Steddy33]

More Okposo instead. LOL. Who you replacing him with? Bump him to 2nd unit. Sure. He also draws a lot of penalty calls on top of being great five on five

He is not great 5v5. He is a great scorer 5v5. There's a difference

I agree with the injuries they don't have great replacements on PP for him. But he is a turn over machine on the PP. Obviously he isn't the biggest issue with the PP right now(coaching is worse) but the point still stands, he shouldn't be on a top PP.

 

[Beerz]

We all know Skinner has his warts but I do find the ragging on the ppg player to be mildly amusing.

Cozens is a bigger disappointment on the PP than anyone.

 

[enthusiast]

He’s not a smart player. It shouldn’t be surprising that unless the play ends with him in the prime position taking the shot they aren’t scoring on the pp

 

[HogtownSabresfan]

He is not great 5v5. He is a great scorer 5v5. There's a difference

I agree with the injuries they don't have great replacements on PP for him. But he is a turn over machine on the PP. Obviously he isn't the biggest issue with the PP right now(coaching is worse) but the point still stands, he shouldn't be on a top PP.

 

[Chainshot]

Part of the issue with the PP is that they've completely lost their low man who is also responsible for being the primary screen. They don't use that player at all. Then they sit on the point to flank pass which just leads to the three high folks handling the puck. Skinner in the middle of that as bumper is prone to overhandling the puck, even if he's been the most productive member of the unit thus far. I still think he'd be better as the low guy instead of in a position where he's going to be handling things - put him in a spot to hunt rebounds and be slippery in finding open ice just off crease instead of standing still and stickhandling.

There are a lot of issues with the PP, being the most productive player amidst the dysfunction isn't really good or bad. It just points further to the issues with the unit and Ellis' lack of adaptation to teams taking away their point-to-flank/wing one-timer options.

 

[Bendium]

Jeff Skinner is Jeff Skinner. We should be happy about that actually, because it means we are still getting out of Jeff, what we paid him for. The issue comes when people want, or expect Jeff to be something other than Jeff Skinner. Jeff is not a power forward, not a corner grinder, not a line driver. Jeff excels at getting into scoring locations, and then making good on the opportunities he gets. When he is really good he also is an instigator that draws penalties and gets the opposition off focus. He is like a bonus addon, where if you pair him with the right two linemates, he has a multiplier effect. (Eichel/Rienhart = Tage/Tuch) He is on target for 66 pts and 39 goals! The problem with the top line is not Jeff.

 

[KeepKane]

We all know Skinner has his warts but I do find the ragging on the ppg player to be mildly amusing.

Cozens is a bigger disappointment on the PP than anyone.

yep and they inflated Cozens stats by putting him on PP1 last year which caused his new contract to be 7x7