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Jacob, we'll stick with you again
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What are going to be the keys to victory? What's Edmonton going to have to do to really get past the Canucks
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I'm going to say it's going to lie a lot on Stuart Skinner's shoulders
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He's been good. He's been very good. I'm not going to say by any means that his numbers have been bad in any way
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He's got a 2.59 goals against and a 9.10 save percentage. So it's absolutely serviceable numbers for a starting goaltender, especially in the playoffs
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Those are numbers that you can go by and win plenty of playoff games with
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But I think he's going to need to do slightly better than those numbers if the Oilers are
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going to win the series and not just win it, actually win it in decisive fashion
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Because I don't think they're going to be able to handle going through a war-type seven-game
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series with the Canucks if they're going to try and go on a deep playoff run
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I think if they try and do that, or if they end up doing that, they're looking at a round
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three exit-type deal. I don't think they'd be able to make it much further than that
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So if they're looking to really make a deep playoff run, they're going to have to try and win this in five, maybe even six at the absolute longest-type series
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So they're going to need a lot out of Stuart Skinner, and they're going to need him to really be the backbone of this team and really keep the puck out of the net as the offense
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just drops five, six, seven goals if they possibly can. I'm not saying that they will, but I'm saying that that's really the ideal situation for
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them if they're really going to try and push for that deep playoff run that this team really
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really needs at this point. They're going to need Skinner to just keep pucks out of the net and be that goaltender
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that they've been desperately looking for in the playoffs recently
