{"id":760194,"date":"2026-06-25T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760194\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:41:47","slug":"strong-signal-that-veteran-edmonton-oilers-goalie-will-end-up-with-ottawa-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760194\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong signal that veteran Edmonton Oilers goalie will end up with Ottawa Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Oilers Now, host Bob Stauffer said he\u2019s not sure who the back-up will be on the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> this year, but suggested last year\u2019s main starter, Connor Ingram, may end up with the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n

Said Stauffer on Tuesday: \u201cI think there\u2019s a chance that Ingram potentially ends up in Ottawa. I have a sneaking suspicion it might be Ottawa.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"goalies\"<\/a><\/p>\n

goalies<\/p>\n

My take<\/p>\n

1. Staffer, Edmonton\u2019s Master of Whispers, was careful in stating this, but I nonetheless take it as a strong signal there\u2019s both smoke and fire here. For Stauffer to drop it on his show, it\u2019s substantive.<\/p>\n

2. I\u2019m not thrilled the Oilers are moving on from Ingram and keeping around Tristan Jarry, as Ingram out-played Jarry by a wide margin with the Oilers last year. But Jarry was injured early in his time with the Oilers, he was never right after that, and he\u2019s been a OK-to-good goalie in the recent past, just as Ingram was an OK-to-good goalie last year with the Oilers.<\/p>\n

When it comes to Ingram, I put a lot of weight in the assessment of Steve Valiquette, the former NHL goalie, studio analyst for MSG New York, and leader of Clear Sight Analytics, who spoke highly of Ingram in late April, saying the goalie was good enough to take the Oilers deep into the playoffs.<\/p>\n

aliquette said that before Ingram\u2019s down 2024-25 season when he went into the NHL\u2019s Player Assistance Program for the second time in his career, that Ingram had been one of the NHL\u2019s best goalies. Ingram had a .907 save percentage two years running with Arizona.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree years ago, before he went through his stuff, he was one of the top 10 goalies in the league when he was with Arizona at the time. I think that Edmonton recognized the talent there, and what he\u2019s doing is he\u2019s not allowing the bad goal, and he\u2019s not allowing the mid-danger goal more than he should,\u201d Valiquette said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not stopping more than he should as far as the high danger, but he\u2019s actually settled at two goals better than league average coming into this playoff. So he\u2019s the 25th ranked goalie in expected goals, but you probably line that up with Antti Niemi winning a Stanley Cup (Chicago, 2010), Adin Hill winning a Stanley Cup (Vegas 2023). You can go through at least four or five examples of teams being able to win with goaltending like that, that doesn\u2019t hurt you. Again, goaltending that hurts you in the playoffs is the low danger goals. Those are the ones that sink the bench \u2014 and be better than mid-danger at an average.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Jarry has two-years left on his contract at $5.375 million per year. That\u2019s not a killer contract, especially if Jarry rebounds, but I wonder if neither goalie were signed if it would not be Jarry moving on and the Oilers making a move to bring back Ingram.<\/p>\n

3. If we are to judge Jarry based on his play with the Oilers alone, then it\u2019s clear that the Oilers need to bring in a top goalie to challenge him for the No. 1 job. But if we\u2019re to judge Jarry over his entire career, he\u2019s the type of slightly above average goalie who has led his team to Stanley Cups in the recent past.<\/p>\n

4. That leaves the question: who will be Jarry\u2019s back-up. Will Edmonton trade for \u201cdistressed asset Sebastian Cossa,\u201d as the Detroit farm system goalie is known on Oilers Now, or will they make big move, maybe bring in free agent Sergei Bobrovsky on a one-year \u201cstick-it-to-the-Panthers\u201d deal? Or will they go in another direction?<\/p>\n

Will you support the Cult of Hockey and the Edmonton Journal? $1 for six months. Let\u2019s do this!<\/a>At the Cult of Hockey<\/p>\n

\u2018The club needs to be strikingly bold\u2019: Job one for Oilers GM Stan Bowman, NHL insider says<\/a><\/p>\n

Babcock on the hotseat during introductory news conference<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018That is a plausible scenario\u2019: Darnell Nurse could be back with Edmonton Oilers next year<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Great work by Bowman\u2019: Hockey world reacts to Connor Murphy signing deal with Edmonton Oilers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Oilers Now, host Bob Stauffer said he\u2019s not sure who the back-up will be on the Edmonton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[110963,270955,201856,49,48,6681,50808,8823,23752,453,194337,448,744,6065,150189,270954,20938,1459,754],"class_list":["post-760194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-adin-hill","tag-antti-niemi","tag-bob-stauffer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago","tag-connor-ingram","tag-detroit","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-greg-southam","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-sebastian-cossa","tag-sergei-bobrovsky","tag-steve-valiquette","tag-tristan-jarry","tag-vegas","tag-washington-capitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}