Stanley Cup Final 2025: Why Oilers Are Right to Stick with Goaltender Stuart Skinner Despite Game 3 Massacre

Skinner's late-series track record has him back in Edmonton Oilers net

Stuart Skinner will be between the pipes for the Oilers against the Florida Panthers in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Stanley Cup Final 2025: Why Oilers are right to stick with goaltender Stuart Skinner despite Game 3 massacre

Skinner has already shown he can bounce back from bad stretches

“Never over till it’s over”

Game 3 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Finals was one to forget for Stuart Skinner and the Edmonton Oilers.

Oilers sticking with Skinner in net for Game 4

Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner will start Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final after being pulled from the previous game.

Stuart Skinner pulled by Oilers for second game in a row

The Stanley Cup Final has not been kind to Stuart Skinner. Skinner was pulled by the Edmonton Oilers and replaced by Calvin Pickard following a bad first period in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla., on Thursday night. Skinner had allowed three goals on 17 shots in the first period, which led Edmonton to swap him for Pickard. Pickard played the second period and stopped all 10 shots he faced, while the Oilers …