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Old 12-29-2024, 06:50 PM   #8580
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Remember when the Oilers decided to sign Skinner and low-ball Holloway leading to the offer sheet for Holloway?

Holloway has 24 points in 37 games, a 53 point pace. How's Skinner doing?

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...g-time-coming/

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You could feel it coming — almost hear it — like a train in the distance, the decision to healthy scratch one of Jeff Jackson’s big free agent signings this past summer. As inevitable as Christmas or New Year's Day, Jeff Skinner’s seat in the Anaheim press box on Sunday had been waiting for him for weeks now.
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And here’s what is truly damning: If either one of the top centres in Edmonton — McDavid or Draisaitl — really wanted Skinner on their flank, it would happen eventually, if not immediately.

But they don’t, and he isn’t. And as this $3 million pick-up fails in Edmonton — while collecting his buy-out after failing in Buffalo
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