Overanalyzing Jeff Skinner’s First Goal With The Sabres

Arguably the best move Jason Botterill made this past offseason was the acquisition of Jeff Skinner at the minor cost of a decent prospect and a few non first-round picks. In my opinion a steal of a trade for a no doubt top line winger that contributes at 5v5 at an elite level.

Unfortunately, through the teams first four games he had failed to score a goal. That changed Saturday night against the Coyotes in one of the first highlight reel goals of the season for the Sabres.

There’s so much that happened on this goal that I feel we should dig in and overanalyze every minute detail involved in making the goal happen.

Let’s first watch the goal from the main broadcast view.

The first thing Skinner…