Episode Details

Nick Zararis delivers his full goaltending evaluation of the 2025-26 Edmonton Oilers, breaking down every starter, every failed gamble, and what Stan Bowman must do this offseason to fix the position that cost them the season.

Topics Covered:

• Stuart Skinner — 11-8-4, .891 save percentage, benched two straight playoffs. Is he done in Edmonton? And where does he land as a pending UFA?
• Tristan Jarry — 9-6-2, .857 save percentage, outplayed by a waiver-wire pickup. Two years and $5.375M remaining. How do the Oilers move him?
• Connor Ingram — The unlikely best Oiler goalie in 2025-26 with a .899 save percentage and 10.3 goals saved above expected. Is he the answer?
• Calvin Pickard — Likely at the end of the road as an NHL-caliber option
• The Jarry trade autopsy — Why trading a goalie with term for a goalie with term was a massive miscalculation by Stan Bowman
• Free agency targets — Sergei Bobrovsky, Frederik Andersen, Cam Talbot, and the case for each
• Trade candidates — Filip Gustavsson and Jesper Wallstedt from the Minnesota Wild, Devin Levi from the Buffalo Sabres, Jacob Fowler from the Montreal Canadiens
• The goalie market explained — Franchise tier (Igor Shesterkin, Connor Hellebuyck, Andrei Vasilevsky, Juuse Saros, Ilya Sorokin) vs. what the Oilers can actually afford
• $16.48M in cap space — What the Oilers can realistically do and why moving Jarry is the key to unlocking the offseason

06:36 Path to becoming an NHL goalie

09:53 Introducing sponsor: Quo for business communication

13:38 Discussing team goaltending volatility

16:04 Skinner's performance and challenges

19:58 Evaluating Oilers' Stanley Cup chances

22:22 Evaluating Oilers' playoff performance

25:19 Discussing goalie expectations and comparisons

29:57 Oilers' goalie concerns for future

32:01 Podcast and YouTube recommendations

The Oilers' bottom-six goal share without Connor McDavid or Leon Draisaitl collapsed to under 40% this year. No goalie in that situation was going to cover for it — but .857 save percentage made a bad situation catastrophic.

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