Corey Perry pissed at Oilers’ reaction to Stuart Skinner’s injury

The Edmonton Oilers were handled another injury blow on Wednesday night, when already without superstars Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid, they lost goalie Stuart Skinner in last night’s game against the Dallas Stars.

Skinner took an accidental knee to the head from Stars star forward Mikko Rantanen in the third period. He stayed down quite a bit before exiting the game. The contact appeared to be accidental.

While the Oilers, who were behind 4-0 when the incident took place, attempted a comeback and went on to lose 4-3, they exposed a significant issue in how they handle things on the ice this season, with veteran Corey Perry being the first to admit that he messed up. The Oilers are soft and, after Skinner was run over, it would have been the perfect opportunity to show a little anger and fact.

Edmonton was too tamed, including Perry, who was angry at himself after the contest.

“I was pissed at myself,” Perry told reporters. “I was on the ice when Rantanen hit Skinner and that’s on me, I should never let that happen… I didn’t see what happened, I saw Stu go down and everyone standing around.

“I didn’t see it until afterwards and I was pretty pissed at myself that I didn’t see it.”

The lack of response from the Oilers almost welcomed the Stars to take a shot at Calvin Pickard, who came on in relief of Skinner to finish the game. Because at this point, why not?

The netminder was almost immediately hit by Sam Steel who crashed the net on a rush and finally, it was Jake Walman who went after the Dallas’ player.

When Perry was asked if the team was doing enough to protect their goalies, he was once again very candid with reporters.

“We’ll talk about that internally,” Perry said.

Unfortunately for the Oilers, Skinner will not be travelling on Edmonton’s quick road trip to Seattle to play the Kraken tomorrow night.

As an old school player, one of the few left in the game, Perry knows he should have reacted differently. I mean, everyone does…