Sweet Jesus, Skinner....

I want to take the Oil tonight to not go 0 - 4 but:

Skinner has struggled early in the season, mirroring the Oilers' ability to score only three goals through three games (0-3-0). The 25-year-old Skinner has allowed eight goals on 41 shots (.805 SV%) through two games this season but is hopeful to return closer to his 2.69 GAA and .909 SV% accumulated over his 123-game career before the start of the 2024-25 campaign. The winless Oilers enter action on Tuesday as -190 home favorites against the Philadelphia Flyers.

Yep and Oilers ml has dropped from -225 to -210. 

WTF is wrong with the Oilers???

-225 to -210 wasn't saying much.  To bet that on a crap team is absurd.  I had Philly +1.5 and the over 6.5.  Sweep that game for me!

@tvigilante2020

 Finals failure hangover.

@sandique

There's finals hangover, and then there's whatever the fuck this is that is plaguing the Oilers.

didn't feel like creating a new thread

Skinner, if this toilet cleaner keeps starting for the oilers, how is the over not the automatic play? OIlers have a great offence

and a AA goalie in net.

I would totally not be star struck if i saw this sac on the street, or even ring my home door bell . You know the media is too panzy to criticize. I've seen some of the post game interviews, soft really ass questions. Why are they not asking skinner what he's doing in the nhl still? I have not watched any games this season where pickard has started, but if he's the back up to this putz then i can only imagine.

All OIlers need is just a avg goalie and they would already have won a stanley cup.

I think any game skinner is in net is a auto OVER. Guy should be the teams skate sharpener or intermission snack server, whichever. He's definitely sleeping with someone in management , maybe the owner maybe the coach i dont know, but something is happening there

Looking foreward to Wednesdays games.

They had an average goalie last year and failed to hoist the Cup. 

Oilers management needs an a wake up call wow! How do you waste two of the best players careers without getting them a goalie that can make a save or two when needed. If they go out in the first round the only move they make this summer is getting a goalie. They could have did something at the deadline but they didn’t and now it will cost them again. 

that's it

keep playing him

giving up 5 goals / playoff game isn't too shabby

Pickard will play rest of series unless Oilers ars stupid. Maybe that will change something but he's not great either.

Did everyone see the coverage of dick foreskinerr sulking on the bench and then the BEST coverage ever was seeing Connor and Leon shaking their heads and wondering why management stayed with this clown. 
its a tragedy. He’s a backup goalie at best.

kings in 5

i was on the over kings tt and the over 6.5

What a great thread. Post 7 is epic and spot on 

Nothing is wrong with oilers. This is who they are. The kings are better and they are focused and they are solid this year. Cup contenders 

It is crazy though how the oilers have kept skinner this long. Its like they are playing a cup prevent type strategy. You cant win a cup with this bad of a goalie. Its impossible 

The Oilers have had the same goalie coach for 10 years and they have always had goaltending issues. Skinner is not a true number one. This team needs to get a number one tender in the summer. He just doesn’t make the save or two when you need them. 

No time to research this but if its true it explains a lot. Time is long overdue for new goalie coach.

Haven´t seen the games, but when this goalie and even no.2 are that bad, I really wonder, how they could reach the playoffs.

One of the answers might be, they have good offense and shot a lot of goals in regular season and this all might be true.

But when they shot lots of goals what kind of idiots have been goalies on oppositions side ? 

So, there seems to be a big big goaltender problem all around the nhl, except all the other playoff contenders not named Oilers

No one talked about Oilers defense. To get the goaltender beaten, there must be an offensive player to pass and/or shoot and a underqualified defense man that let him do just that

No one talks about Kings goalkeeper who was beaten 5 times in game one. Why? Are all the shots from Edmonton miracle Houdini-bangers not catchable ?

Oilers keeper might be bad, I don´t know and I don´t care. But Defense and wise coaching to support the weakest part of the team is a thing that might help.

So lots of work to do for the Oilers and if they fail to get this done rapidly......better luck next year

greets and good luck on your bets  

So, game 3 tonight, good news for oilers fans is that stuey didn't play the entire 3rd period of game 2, so he should be fresh if he indeed gets the nod tonight.

Now lets look deep, so in this previous game 2, this idiotic, woody looking character known as coach knoblauch, finally decided to throw in pickard

in the 3rd period, once the team was already fully  getting their rear ends handed to them on a shiny silver platter.

To save at least some face, this glorified toilet scrubber of a so called 'goalie' skinner, could have at the very least publicy voiced his displeasure

in his own futility as a netminder. Still, as i've continue to watch the media in the aftermath of this ass whooping, a lot of the dumb talking heads continue to have this frauds back. I dont get it. 

Literally every playoff game so far has had goalies on both sides making amazing saves..it's almost like a game of trying to see if mcdavid can actually win a stanley cup with a zamboni driver in net.

I think this oilers bunch is a gloified beer league team with the additions of mcd and draisadl. That stanley cup run they put together last year was a MASSIVE  anomoly!

Yea i'm upset too cuz i had oilers futures and i'm watching them slowly turn into dust.

I'm just gonna continue to hammer away at McDavid to win a stanely cup until it looks fully out of reach for him... Thought this was the year.

No joke thoough, when i saw the clip of charles barkely having edmonton winnign it all this year i just knew it wasn't happening!

So what are addicts prognostications? LA wins game 3 cuz they treat it like a dire game, no dicking around. Finally oilers win a meaningless game 4 on sunday and the gentlemans sweet has been completed in Los Angeles.

Also not happy with all the ramblings from lot of ppl on the panthers being washed up this year which held me back on EC futures, though its important to ultimately just trust your own instincts.

Whatever.

We'll see if i'm right about tonight. Predictiing LA wins game 3 4-2.  Oilers lose the game, but keep their opponent under 5 for a change which in istelf which feel like a major win for them.  Then you'll hear the players, down 3-0 at this point, talking about how they 'need to be better' and 'no time to panic' bologne, seemingly unaware that the series is already out of reach.

Hope i'm wrong but i dont think it will be, as if it even matters.  

I just hope i never see this human pilon of a 'goalie' skinner ever again.  Clown needs to take his money and scatter off deep into the oblivion as if he just successfully committed a bank heist. This series and version of this oilers team needs to be over with. Man, i'm just ready to move on

Oil is in some slick crud in  this playoffs.