Thursday was one of those days when the Oilers didn't have their best stuff, could have won but didn't and at least came away with a point.
Oilers veteran Jeff Skinner has struggled to find his place on the Edmonton Oilers this season, and recently opened up on fitting into the team. Skinner has been healthy scratched and benched multiple times this season,
The Edmonton Oilers don't often have many players in said dog house, but it does happen. Especially this year and especially with Jeff Skinner. Skinner was brought in with aspirations of top-six deployment in light of no positions available on the Oilers' top powerplay unit.
Skinner scored a goal on three shots in Thursday's 3-2 shootout loss to the Red Wings.
He also endured a few rocky seasons with the Sabres that ended in him being bought out. In his first year with the Edmonton Oilers, he’s gone from a high-profile free-agent signee to someone struggling to get into the lineup.
The Red Wings started the first game of their four game road trip in Edmonton, facing a returning Stuart Skinner and Connor McDavid in his second game back from suspension.
Lucas Raymond and Dylan Larkin scored in a shootout to complete a comeback from a two-goal deficit and give the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 win over the host Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.
It has not been the type of season that the Edmonton Oilers had envisioned for free-agent signing Jeff Skinner.
Dylan Larkin tied it in the second period and scored in a shootout to help the Detroit Red Wings beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Thursday night. Lucas Raymond also scored for the Red Wings in the tiebreaker,
How far down the Oilers' pecking order has Skinner dropped? He played 13:34 in Thursday's 6-2 win over Vancouver − and that was his biggest ice time total since Dec. 3.
The Edmonton Oilers are finding themselves in a bind with forward Jeff Skinner, taking up $3M of cap space yet not being used in the lineup at all. The last three games in a row, the Oilers have scratched the 32-year-old veteran of over 1,000 games. A trade seems like the only path forward for Skinner.
Bought out by the Buffalo Sabres in the offseason, forward Jeff Skinner jumped at the opportunity to join the Edmonton Oilers when the Stanley Cup finalists came calling. Seven months later ...