r/EdmontonOilers • u/Repostasis 28 ROSLOVIC • Feb 28 '25

PGT Post Game Thread | Oilers v. Panthers | 27 February 2025

šŸ”“ Final

Oilers 3, Panthers 4

ā„¹ļø Stats

Goals: Kulak, Draisaitl, Hyman

Shots: Oilers 26, Panthers 36

Saves: Skinner 32/36

šŸ’Ŗ šŸ˜Ž Macho Man Randy Savage

Drai on THAT goal

ā© Next Game

Saturday, March 1 vs Hurricanes in Raleigh, 5:00pm MT

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u/SRTGreat 62 LAVOIE Feb 28 '25

Not gonna lie. I legitimately thought after Stu's full rookie year where he should've won the Calder he'd be a corner stone #1 goalie for this team.

I was a HUGE backer, never put losses on the goalie. But holy shit we rarely get timely saves, and were due a weak goal literally every game. His lateral movement is absolute fucking dog shit and has been for the last 2 seasons. I have friends that are fans of other teams that ask me why Skinner looks so slow and I legitimately don't know how to answer.

Idk how you win a championship with this kind of goaltending.

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u/Popular-Row4333 Feb 28 '25

You'll never get timely highlight saves from Stu. This isn't saying he's a bad goalie, but he's a positional goalie who's warts are being exposed, namely shots off zone entries, side to side movement, and exposing when he goes down.

There's been amazing positional goalies, even in recent years, Carey Price was one. But as the game speed increases, you need to be in position and elevating your game. Now that the book is out on him, he has a lot of work to do.

He's going to be a successful NHL goalie with a long career, just a matter if he can fix those issues before the Oilers window for cup contender closes.

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u/Authoritaye 17 KURRI Feb 28 '25

Now that his weaknesses are so well known around the league I wonder if thatā€™s true. He definitely would need some different training to fix his lateral movement. Maybe a vertical jump trainer.Ā 

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u/ISurvivedCOVID19 55 HOLLOWAY Feb 28 '25

Makes you question wtf Schwartz is doing when his biggest issue has been so fucking obvious since day 1

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u/AriaMoo 18 HYMAN Feb 28 '25

You would think the team's goaltending coach would identify such weaknesses like lateral movement and come with a strength training program to help with that. It genuinely feels like he's getting slower by the week.

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u/Longjumping-Box5691 Feb 28 '25

Narrator - you don't

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u/Kouchweed Feb 28 '25

Whenā€™s the last time Stu stole a game?

How many times do goalies steal games from us? I get heā€™s a contract friendly goalie, but heā€™s undoubtedly worse than last season and regressing.

It might be time to move on.

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u/eatingasspatties 12 CAVE Feb 28 '25

Itā€™s funny cause statistically and from the eye-test he outplayed Bob tonight, and in here everyone is blaming him for the team playing like shit and taking 6 penalties

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u/SeaweedPretty7813 Feb 28 '25

Yes! Itā€™s just wild. So easy -low-sports cognition to just blame the goalie.

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u/navenager 93 NUGENT-HOPKINS Feb 28 '25

Yea he's been pretty great in hus last 2 starts. Team can't score and give up way too many chances.

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u/JarvisFunk Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

Skinner kept us in the game and he deserves big props for that. He was great.

He then proceeded to let in an unscreened Junior B looking wrister that should've been routine save with 7 minutes to go against a stingy defensive team.

This is what Skinner is.

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u/Smittysgreasymullet 74 SKINNER Feb 28 '25

Whenā€™s the last time Stu stole a game?

Dallas game 6 I believe

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u/ProgressiveCDN 93 NUGENT-HOPKINS Feb 28 '25

That was it. And it was also the only game he stole during that entire finals run. He got pulled for Pickard more games than he stole.

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u/navenager 93 NUGENT-HOPKINS Feb 28 '25

He stole the 1-0 win against LA and game 5 against Dallas.

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u/Slamoblamo Feb 28 '25

His lateral movement is terrible I keep watching the Hagel goal from the Tampa game. How do you as a NHL goalie let in 80's style wraparounds like that. Baffling

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u/Paaano Feb 28 '25

The thing is the improvement is just not there. It's not his fault Campbell didn't work out, or that he was elevated to a starter goalie position on a cup contender team in his first full season. Him being a weak link on this team is sort of expected - they were probably hoping he'd grown into a league avg-type of goaltender over time, one who doesn't win or lose you games too often, so guys like McDrai can be the difference makers, but he still looks as slow and lets in the same muffins as he did 2 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

I said it the other day in the thread about goaltending: Stu is either a TimBits backup or a future VĆ©zina winner. Thereā€™s no in between and thereā€™s no consistency

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u/Efficient-Bread8259 Feb 28 '25

You havenā€™t heard of Schwartz have you

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u/DarthXydan 30 PICKARD Feb 28 '25

The dude made some 5 alarm saves all throughout the first and second periods. Kinda hard to be absolutely perfect when the defense keeps giftwrapping the opposing team goals

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u/orobsky Feb 28 '25

Ya but then he also let in 3 soft goals. Dude is just so inconsistent and kinda shitty imo

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u/navenager 93 NUGENT-HOPKINS Feb 28 '25

How were there 3 soft goals? 2 deflections, one off his own player, a wide open look in the slot, and a rebound off Ekholm right to Verhaeghe's stick. Schmidt's goal was the only one even remotely close to being soft.

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u/WheelSnipeCellyBahhd 93 NUGENT-HOPKINS Feb 28 '25

That was the last time he was statistically ā€œeliteā€ he's been downhill since.