{"id":825365,"date":"2026-07-26T17:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825365\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:54:19","slug":"morning-notes-jarry-fichthorn-busby-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825365\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Notes: Jarry, Fichthorn, Busby \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Edmonton Oilers have one of the league\u2019s more interesting goaltending situations to track entering the 2026-27 season, with three goalies who, in all likelihood, will occupy spots on the team\u2019s NHL roster. The team acquired Tristan Jarry<\/a> from the Pittsburgh Penguins in a trade last season, and he is under contract at a $5.375MM AAV for another two seasons. Edmonton also acquired Stanley Cup champion Frederik Andersen<\/a> on a one-year, $1MM deal this summer, and traded a 2028 third-round pick for former top prospect Devon Levi<\/a>. Levi, 24, will no longer be waivers-exempt next season.<\/p>\n

According to Alan Mitchell of The Athletic<\/a>, the early front-runner to be the team\u2019s No. 1 goalie is Jarry. The 31-year-old \u201cwas [Oilers GM Stan] Bowman\u2019s first choice to fix the position\u201d and is being paid at a significantly higher rate than the other two netminders on the roster. But while Jarry may be the early leader to win the No. 1 role, his performance with the team last season does not lend huge confidence to the idea that he\u2019ll be able to maintain a firm grip on the job. In 19 games as an Oiler, Jarry went 9-6-2 with a grisly .858 save percentage.<\/p>\n

Other notes from around the hockey world:<\/p>\n

Prospect goalie Jack Fichthorn<\/a> has secured a release from the USHL\u2019s Sioux City Musketeers and will join the QMJHL\u2019s Halifax Mooseheads for the 2026-27 season, reports Jeff Marek of Daily Faceoff. The 19-year-old American goalie is, per Marek, \u201cthe first player to get out of the USHL\u2019s new Standard Player Development Agreement.\u201d Fichthorn was the No. 1 goalie in Sioux City last season, posting an .889 save percentage in 36 games. The Sacred Heart commit was selected No. 43 overall in the 2026 QMJHL Entry Draft by Halifax.
\nFormer Arizona Coyotes prospect Dennis Busby<\/a> has signed a one-year contract extension<\/a> to continue his professional career in England after what the team called an \u201can outstanding debut campaign\u201d in the league. The 26-year-old will remain with the Manchester Storm of the EIHL, the top division of pro hockey in the United Kingdom. A 2018 fifth-round pick by the Coyotes, Busby is a right-shot defenseman who was once an alternate captain at the OHL level, with the Flint Firebirds. He played four years in the OHL and four years of USports hockey before turning pro late in the 2024-25 season, in the ECHL. After just 12 ECHL games, Busby made the decision to try his luck in Europe, and he\u2019ll now be able to remain there for an additional campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers have one of the league\u2019s more interesting goaltending situations to track entering the 2026-27 season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3275,41856,704,575,28157,85,191253],"class_list":["post-825365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-eihl","tag-ncaa","tag-nhl","tag-qmjhl","tag-sports","tag-tristan-jarry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}