I simply don’t buy this approach.
Show me a great goalscorer in this league, and I’ll show you one or more great passers. True then, true now.
The great scorers finish. That’s what they do. Others miss open nets, or hit the bar, or just put it right in the goalies chest.
But very very few goalscorers can shine playing, with third liners or worse.
I’m as annoyed by Skinner as the next guy, but to think pure goalscorers should create their own offense, is foolish IMO. Ovies are few and far between, and even they need someone to set them up half the time.
You find a guy who can consistently finish, you make sure he gets set up as often as humanly possible. 40-goal scorers don’t grow on trees, but guys who miss open nets, hits posts or chestplates, do.
Sabres fans, of all people, should know this.