Stuart Skinner has struggled recently for the Edmonton Oilers. However he is still the same goalie who led the Oilers to game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals
Today Devan Dubnyk joined Oilersnation Everyday and spoke on what he’s seeing with Stuart Skinners current game and how he can change it.
What have you thought of Stuart Skinners recent play?
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22 Comments
Hate being right …..
He's not a starter; the fact management think he is points to where the true problem lies.
we need Dubnyk back
I'd say Stu needs to work on his lateral movement speed, and next, his rebound retention… the rest of his game is "ok"..
Everyone clamoring in the comments about "but you've been defending him all year" blah blah blah – when a dude is fully capable of doing the job, but is letting too many squeakers through, its very easy to get "too many mind" overthinking what you need to fix until you in full yips and cant tie your own skates.
What we need to do as a fan base is stand behind Stu and give him all the confidence we can. At this point, no changes can be made to who is in net – so we need to give our full support to what we have.
The media, and community around your team, telling you that you are a lost cause only fuels the yips. Sometimes, the thing a goalie needs most is to feel the confidence from the people around him. We have all seen peak Skinner. We know he can average out .900 or better. There were plenty of 2-1 games in the playoffs last year where he performed his best.
I think Duby's message here of (paraphrasing) find one or two little things in your fundamentals to focus on, instead of the 100 things you could have done better, and gain your improvements where you can reasonably gain them is the right message. Something as simple as "squeeze the pads on every save so nothing trickles through" even on the super easy ones is where you "find that 1 save".
Like in baseball where they teach you to always catch the ball with both hands – so you see the best in the world out there doing "more than they need to" to make catches.
Calm down. We’ve needed a goalie coach for years now. How many goalies do we go through before making the call for a new goalie coach?
Its not even the fact goals get past him. ITs his horrible style and movements. Last night vs Buffalo I was catching myself just staring at the TV thinking what the hell was Skinner doing! Like terrible! Flopping around, reckless, going down early on some shots and not going down on those he should. NO GLOVE HAND at all. I mean those he actually snipes a puck, not the shooter hitting the glove to be called greatness. He is just the worst moving big goalie I ever seen.
Well, to me the bottom line is Stu Skinner, at this point and time, is NOT an NHL Starting goalie. He's a backup. This whole thing falls on Holland and the signing of Jack Campbell. I never, ever liked it – I said before we even signed him DO NOT SIGN THAT GUY – he had one small run that was it. Toronto knew him better than us and they didn't want him. Skinner got thrown in the deep end too fast, and now he's struggling. I still say 1st round exit. If we play LA – LA will get their due against us.
Skinner has been Skinner since he was signed. I have been bitching about him since day one. Look at how he moves, he is not athletic. He let in the first shot 15 times last year including 4 times in the playoffs and game 7 of SCF! How many times does he let one in before the dixth shot. He handles the puck like a grenade! Need I go on? Geezus Blowman, wake up!
Dubbie for goalie coach
The man was ran out of Edmonton and was far better. Is it team defense or goalie coaching. Talbot another example. Bouch is on Zombie mode. Is he injured or checked out ? I expect to see better defense when Eckholm returns healthy.
The whole league know to shoot glove or get stu moving eay goals like the benn back hand glove
Why doesn't Oilers get a new goalie coach 🤔
Skinner would probably be an elite grade school girls ringette goalie.
He has no glove hand no lateral movement
Skinner is the second best goalie night after night. If we had a real no.1 goalie Edmonton would will the cup.
Dubnyk for goalie coach! Make it happen yesterday.
Maybe he can be our new goalie coach ?
There should be NO emotional crap. This is a pro sport . He's not good enough.
From a goalie who was demonized and chased out of Edmonton, about a goalie we’re about to chase out of Edmonton.
Let’s throw out half the forwards along with him. They’ve all underperformed, so they should shoulder part of the blame. “Oh, darn it. We hit so many goalposts “. No, you suck at shooting into open nets.
I get to thinking that the goalie coach should be changed! When Skinner is this bad, whose fault is it, Skinner or the coach for poor coaching abilities? What bothers me is that we don’t have a number one goalie, we have two backup goalies! When I see Pickard play, I think he is the better one of the two!! After Skinner sat for two games he finally played like a 1B goalie!! I had hoped Skinner got the message to get his butt in gear! He did for one game and he fell in the next one! I in no way believe that the Oilers will make the playoffs unless the so called best starts and plays like the best one!
I do believe that they will have a very early season this year!!!
Dubnyk was great when the Oilers were bad. Skinner was bad when the Oilers were great. And he seems to have brought the team down with him.