Skinner looks like he really gets down on himself when he lets in a bad goal, so maybe Picard is an upgrade mentally?
They don't really have any other moves available to them that could potentially have a bigger impact.
Skinner hasn't actually been that bad. Picard will hopefully be worse.
Go Kings
Kirk > Picard? Not the worst of your opinions, but up there.
Kirk commanded a ship and solved problems.
Picard held committee meetings.
There's a theory in fandom that ST:TNG was aimed at the geeks who had watched the original series as kids. Now that they were grown up, they no longer wanted action-adventure fantasy; they wanted a fantasy in which they could pretend that office politics and unproductive meetings actually mattered.
In terms of entertainment value, TNG has aged very badly.
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I love stats, obviously, and the fact they are publicly available and free has been such a huge development for hockey. But, unfortunately, a small downside is the ease of misapplication when the numbers are copy-pasted rather than truly understood.
Appreciate that.
I had read (while back) that the breakdown of unblocked shots (adding your reminder) was ...
corsi - outside homeplate
scoring chance - inside homeplate but without a goalie complexity
high danger - inside homeplate on a pass, rebound or tip
I'll look for that summary again.
But answer me this ... how many times would you think a player with double the xGA60 in a game than another player didn't have a tough game defensively in comparison to the player with half the number?
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I don't think they go back to Skinner this series. I wouldn't be surprised if he has played his last game as an Oiler, he probably asks for a trade in the off season. His NHL career is in peril if he doesn't leave Edmonton. He needs to be somewhere that tries to give their goalies a chance to succeed. This team hates goaltenders that don't steal every moment of every game for them. They haven't had one of them either.
I don't think they go back to Skinner this series. I wouldn't be surprised if he has played his last game as an Oiler, he probably asks for a trade in the off season. His NHL career is in peril if he doesn't leave Edmonton. He needs to be somewhere that tries to give their goalies a chance to succeed. This team hates goaltenders that don't steal every moment of every game for them. They haven't had one of them either.
I mean Pickard has made two saves so far this series....maybe he has plenty more where those two came from?
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There's a theory in fandom that ST:TNG was aimed at the geeks who had watched the original series as kids. Now that they were grown up, they no longer wanted action-adventure fantasy; they wanted a fantasy in which they could pretend that office politics and unproductive meetings actually mattered.
In terms of entertainment value, TNG has aged very badly.
must show all Flames games nationally when they play on Saturdays, Mondays, and Wednesdays !!!
