Oilers: Goalie Skinner raises level of play as NHL team wins 5 of last 6 [Video]

Stuart Skinner has been looking like June’s version recently.

You know, the goalie who stood tall in goal for the Edmonton Oilers for the latter half of the Stanley Cup playoffs last season.

Like his National Hockey League team, Skinner sputtered to start the current campaign, and the statistics show that: a 9-7-2 in 18 starts to go with a 2.92 goals-against average and an .892 save percentage. By comparison, he sported a 2.13 GAA and a .915 save percentage over the final two rounds of the 2024 post-season.

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Over the last two-and-a-half weeks, both Skinner and the Oilers (15-10-2) have been on a bit of a heater, losing just once in a 1-0 chess match to the Golden Knights in Las Vegas on Wednesday, over their last six games.

After Saturday’s 4-2 winover the visiting St. Louis Blues, Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch credited Skinner for keeping his team in …