EDMONTON — A lone Vegas Golden Knights fan could be heard as Edmonton’s Rogers Place descended into silence Sunday.
It wasn’t quite “countless,” even if felt that way to Skinner and some Oilers fans, but he was hooked four times in his 12 playoff starts.
Campbell had a disappointing debut season for the Oilers with a pedestrian .888 save percentage, but he was strong in every relief performance.Article content The Oilers’ fan base certainly wanted Skinner to succeed. He’s an Edmonton kid who was going to be, at best, the backup, but ascended to starter.Skinner was nominated for the Calder Trophy awarded to the NHL’s top rookie.
“I thought I did a great job on bouncing back in every game, and then tonight just obviously wasn’t my night.”“I think we’ve beat this up the last two days in terms of the questions,” Woodcroft said. “In the end, we win as a team and we don’t win as a team.”He cleared the puck along the boards into the path of two Vegas forecheckers. The puck ended up in the net behind him.The first came on a loose puck Skinner couldn’t quite track.
“I thought it was going to go into the netting. I feel that’s kind of how it normally goes. I was looking up to kind of make sure, and it bounced right on the goal line.”Off-season questions about the Oilers will include if playoff pressure was too much for the rookie goalie.Despite getting the hook in Game 5, Skinner said he felt good going into Sunday.
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