{"id":555447,"date":"2026-04-18T18:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555447\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:54:50","slug":"its-official-penguins-pick-skinner-as-game-1-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555447\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official, Penguins Pick Skinner as Game 1 Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/stuart-skinner\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4800\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Skinner<\/a> has not lost an intra-conference playoff series in more than two years. For the last two seasons, Skinner and the Edmonton Oilers made a run to the Stanley Cup Final, only to lose to the Florida Panthers. <\/p>\n<p>Skinner will not have to face Florida this year, but he will start Game 1 for the Pittsburgh Penguins against the Philadelphia Flyers at PPG Paints Arena Saturday. Arturs Silovs will be the backup, at least for Game 1. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSkinner will be starting,\u201d said Muse. \u201cAs I said (Friday), we have the benefit of two guys that have played great for us all year, and so we went through our process, and Skinner\u2019s starting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ESPN coverage will shove the opening puck drop back to 8:25 p.m., and Muse will put Skinner in net, though Muse was less than forthcoming about the decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaid it all year, take things a game at a time. You know, I\u2019m not going to go anywhere past Game 1 on anything,\u201d Muse said. \u201cAnd so that\u2019s not just in regard to that question, that\u2019s into everything. We are focused solely on Game One. That has been our focus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins acquired Skinner from the Edmonton Oilers with defenseman Brett Kulak on Dec. 12 in exchange for goalie Tristan Jarry. With the Penguins, Skinner posted a 12-9-5 record with an .885 save percentage, though his last couple of games behind the Penguins\u2019 makeshift lineup lowered his numbers.<\/p>\n<p>In his 27 starts, he posted 15 quality starts, according to Hockey Reference.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/stuart-skinner\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">stuart skinner<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Categorized:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/penguins-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuart Skinner has not lost an intra-conference playoff series in more than two years. For the last two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24,100,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-555447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-edmonton","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers","10":"tag-edmontonoilers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-oilers","14":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","15":"tag-stuart-skinner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116427232944790252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}