Jeff Skinner Is Red Hot

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Skinner is on a tear right now and single handidly keeping the Canes in playoff contention.

 

Skinner has 16 goals and 4 assists in the past 16 games. He has five multi-goal games in the last 14 games and two hat-tricks on the season.

 

This kid cannot me stopped right now.

 

The Canes beat the Capitals in OT tonight behind the great play of Skinner and Murphy.

 

Jeff Skinner: 3 goals

Manny Malhotra: 1 goal, 1 assist

Eric Staal: 2 assists

Ryan Murphy: 2 assists

Alexander Semin: 1 assist

Tuomo Ruutu: 1 assist

Drayson Bowman: 1 assist

Anton Khudobin: 41 saves

 

[Jakob]

Remember last year when everyone wanted to trade skinner for anything we could get? And how I got trolled for saying he was just having a rough patch in his season...

Skinner is going to have a huge career here. I love how the kid plays.

[Jackofalltrades]

Hat trick tonight including the winner was nice!

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Skinner added another assist against the Islanders.

[KillerKat]

Just scored again!

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Gets hit in the face with a puck... comes back and scores.

 

Has a goal and an assist tonight.

 

20 goals, 13 assists and 33 points in 32 games.

 

Skinner is in the top 10 goals in only 32 games.

[Jakob]

Dobby is hot. Skinner is hot. This team is going places if we can keep it up.

[iamcline]

Hope Skinner keeps this up, I want to eat some crow.

[lightsout]

Skinner is proving he CAN be elite. Dude is a top 6 guy and is proving it. He can be consistent, and he is proving it. The only thing holding him back is that he is made of glass. Dude needs to strengthen his neck (will help prevent concussions from the snap of getting hit) and just really, strengthen everything. No breaks. No tears. Maybe wear some better shoulder pads, if he can do it without sacrificing quickness.


The thing with Skinner, like most great hockey players, is that he needs to get into a rhythm. Once he finds his niche on the line and rips a few goals and assists, he gets confident and that makes him less tense when shooting, which leads to better hands. The guy is playing like Staal did early in his career. He reminds me a LOT of Evgeni Malkin due to his puck control and shooting ability and the way he can get the puck in dirty areas and create scoring chances off of it.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Named 1st star of the week for the second time this month.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Skinner is now up to 21 goals... he's also on a 6 game point streak.