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Stuart Skinner gets candid on ‘nerve-wracking’ experience of facing the Oilers for the first time

Connor McDavid scored a breakaway goal on the night against Skinner who had faced that exact move countless times in practice.

Stuart Skinner was still in his Oilers mask during his first game for the Pittsburgh Penguins | Joe Sargent/GettyImages

On Tuesday night in Pittsburgh, the Edmonton Oilers’ top forwards lined up across the ice from a face they knew all too well. Stuart Skinner was standing in the opposing crease wearing Penguins colors (and his same old goalie mask) trying to stop Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and a power play he once saw every day in practice.