This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Stuart Skinner
Edmonton Oilers Goaltender
Thirty-six wins for the club he grew up in, and a save percentage a little below his own career rate.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | EDM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5.03 | 0 | 38 | .868 |
| 2021-22 | EDM | 13 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 32 | 2.62 | 1 | 367 | .913 |
| 2022-23 | EDM | 50 | 29 | 14 | 5 | 133 | 2.75 | 1 | 1536 | .913 |
| 2023-24 | EDM | 59 | 36 | 16 | 5 | 147 | 2.62 | 2 | 1553 | .905 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 123 | 72 | 36 | 10 | 317 | 2.69 | 4 | 3494 | .909 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
59 games, 36-16-5 with a .9053 and a 2.62, facing 1,553 shots, with 2 shutouts.
His career line across 123 games is a .9093 and a 2.69, so last season was a little below his own standard rather than a collapse. The club’s goaltending came in 9.1 goals better than the chances it faced, tenth in the league, and he faced most of them.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 215 and plays deep in his crease, covering the net with size rather than movement.
It is an economical way to play and it depends on seeing the first shot. His rebound control is the weakness: the puck comes off him into the slot more often than it should, and behind a club that concedes as little as this one does, a disproportionate share of the dangerous chances he faces are the second ones. The lateral recovery is ordinary and a cross-ice pass moves him late.
The Mental Game
He does not chase the game after a bad goal, which on this roster is worth more than it sounds.
Thirty-six wins is a number that belongs mostly to the club in front of him and he has never pretended otherwise in public. The question that follows him is whether a goaltender who is average in October is still average in May, and two playoff runs have not answered it.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick in 2017, born in Edmonton, and he has played every one of his 123 National Hockey League games for Edmonton. That is a pleasant story and no help at all in a seven-game series.
He is 25 and a .9093 career save percentage is exactly league-average. On a club this good at suppressing chances, league-average is enough for 104 points and has not yet been enough for anything else.