Despite a two point performance from Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl’s 400th career NHL goal, and 3 points from Nuuuuugggeeeeee, the Edmonton Oilers fall by a score of 4-3 in the shootout to the Calgary Flames. Stuart Skinner’s start to the 2025-26 season is off to a sub-optimal start… Austin Hockey breaks it all down in tonight Fan Reaction! #oilers #edmontonoilers #nhl
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29 Comments
pickard would not have made that mistake lol
Oilers definitely need a goalie. Trade Kuemper for Skinner.
nah shootout is coaches fault for continuing to put nuge and mcdavid out there, you have so many more options use an unexpected one
nasty sloppy skinner… nothing changed… final June stanley cup finals…. still nightmare !!!! brutal… HE has to go!!!!! it is so clear and apparent…. there is no more chances…. he is completely brutal bad … slow ; he even admits his sloppy bad play. we have 79 regular games ahead… NO MORE NO MORE ; get rid skinner now
I really wanted Skinner to succeed but you can see it in the way he talks and carries himself. You won't ever see accountability and I its clear he's just not that good (maybe has backup potential). When you hear your starting goalie say "There's more to life than hockey" he's clearly not fully checked in, the winners mentality isn't there.
The team plays nervous around him like we the fans are at the edge of our seats clenching our teeth and eyes when the opposing team takes shots at him. You will see on a lot of nights the goalie on the opposite side of Skinner playing lights out. We're outshooting them, shots from all ranges, low danger, high danger and Skinner lets in a muffin to kill any momentum the teams built.
This team needs a #1 goalie that can bail out the team as every other team seems to have. You can see this in Pickard, he makes some wild saves and momentum is on our side. Enough with the experiment, our cup window shrinks with each passing day, McJesus left money on the table for this…
Shootouts are so weird because like purely as a viewer, I love them, its tense, its quick and its your goalie 1 on 1 vs the chosen warriors, winner takes all, like some gladiator battle stuff… but they arent a good way to decide the winners and they dont tell you much about what team is good or bad or who "should of won" so I dont like them being the final thing.. just idk what the solution is due to TV timing restrictions… and the answer is never ties, ties sound ok until you actually have them happen and feel like you just wasted 3 hours of your life
Oilers trade skinner at trade deadline. Win Cup. You heard it here first.
Quit the experiment putting Frederic on top line. Too slow and not cerebral enough to play with Connor and Leon. Use Savoie or Tomasek. Savoie has the speed, skill and HIQ to keep up! They say Frederic plays better at centre, so give him his own line running the 3rd . maybe with Kapanen and Tomasek.
I love Skinner as a person, but his goal tending causes me great anxiety.
First Flames goal was puck luck, second should have been high stick, third was just classic Stu. God it sucks that Leons beautiful shootout goal will be overshadowed by Stu's incompetent goaltending again. Genuinely ruined my night after that. Edit: also thank you for the membership last night 🙌
Die defence ist genauso scheisse wie letztes Jahr und nicht nur skinner – keine ahnung was nurse da die ganze zeit macht 🙁
I dunno if it's overreacting man. This just feels like forshadowing of what's to come. I used to blame Schwartz (who definitely isn't innocent) but nothing I've seen during the preseason and this game has shown any change in Skinner. He's a great guy and I like him but let's just face it – he isn't NHL starter caliber. I feel sorry for they guy. I think his confidence is completely shattered and that's hard to come back from
.864 It took a single game for everyone to remember why we lost the cup last year. One.
The only improvement I saw last night, was that Skinner waited for the boys to score 3, before opening the floodgates.
Last year, they would have opened the game going down 4-0, before clawing their way back to lose a close one.
I was done with Stu a month into the season last year. I'm not even going to entertain the notion of this guy being NHL quality anymore.
I would IMMEDIATELY trade Skinner, Kulak, Janmark, and a 1st rnd pick in 2026 to Buffalo for Luukkonen (G) and Samuelsson (LD). I know Luukkonen is injured right now, but it doesn't matter – he is a young starter, and his name isn't Stuart Skinner, so i make that trade. This also clears up cash for a possible deadline addition, and clears a roster spot so Roslovic can get into the lineup. Pickard and Tomkins can handle the crease for a week or two, until Luukkonen is ready to go. Next season, your goalies can be Luukkonen and Ingram. Oh, and for those worried about losing Kulak, just run Ekholm-Bouchard, Nurse-Regula, Walman-Emberson, with Stecher and Samuelsson waiting in the pressbox.
The Stubouche' 3rd goal was another highlight reel goal for Skinners illustrious legacy.
Feels like a huge blowout defeat after having it sewn up early. Skinner is poor but Bouchard always has a mistake in him. High stick for the second goal for sure. Defensively we are still poor. Can't defend a lead as usual.
I'm also beginning to hate Skinner, HE'S the reason they lost. He also had a big hand in losing the SCF last year. Management are stupid, they think loser Skinner is going to get better. But like nurse, he's as good as he'll ever get, which is terrible. Glad I only watched the highlights, can't devote 2 1/2 hrs to see this club leaving points on the table because their useless goalie can't stop sweet F A. 😡
Bro… if pickard was in net we would have won… Austin, do u agree?
Its only a matter of time
We used up our quota of fluke goals against and it's only the first game!
Mangiapane getting his first goal as an oiler and tomasek getting his first point both in the first game is such a good sign
That opening facial expression has the same energy as car-seat girl lol.
Look, if the other two don’t happen (not Stu’s fault) I would’ve let the third one slide. Simple breakdown in communication/brainfart from Stu. BUT, since it was the tying goal, it’s much worse. That simply cannot happen.
Flames fan here…. It was high sticking
Skinner sucks
Who, pray tell, are you replacing Skinner with? There is literally no goalie out there to replace him. The best we can hope for right now, is Ingram gets in game shape, physically and mentally and comes in and takes Skinner's job.
Not an oilers fan but Stu is just a slightly better version that Mike Smith, & that’s not saying a whole lot. If anything, Picks is better and should’ve been the starter since the last 2 seasons, he would’ve put up a better chance against the panthers
The Edmonton Oilers will NEVER NEVER NEVER win the Stanley Cup with Stuart Skinner as the Goalie. I'm sorry but for this Goalie to go to the Stanley Cup Finals TWO Times…and makes a rookie mistake like this?? No… that can't happen. @ConnorMcDavid please read this !!!
Don’t like the hate for Stu. He’s gonna prove a lot of people wrong this year
OILERS WILL NEVER EVER WIN A STANLEY CUP WITH SKINNER. HE IS SIMPLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH. STOP THIS INSANITY.