{"id":159502,"date":"2026-02-01T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159502\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:15:07","slug":"red-hot-edmonton-oilers-ahl-goalie-just-made-over-50-saves-in-single-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159502\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-hot Edmonton Oilers AHL goalie just made over 50 saves in single game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goaltending has once again become a hot topic for the Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>At the NHL level, things have taken a bit of a dive of late. Both Tristan Jarry and Connor Ingram have been struggling over the past few weeks, and there is now some doubt that trading Stuart Skinner may have been a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s early on in both Jarry and Ingram\u2019s Edmonton tenures, but any sign of faltering will not get by an Oilers fanbase who has been craving good goaltending for a few seasons now. It\u2019s certainly not where the team wants it to be with the Olympic break looming next week.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is also a bit of good news bubbling up from the AHL\u2019s Bakersfield Condors, who have a red-hot prospect goalie in Connor Ungar. The 24-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/edmonton\/oilers-hottest-ahl-goalies-ungar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stole headlines in January after a torrid start<\/a> to his AHL career, and things have only gotten better.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night\u2019s 3-2 victory against the reigning AHL champion Abbotford Canucks may have been the best he\u2019s looked yet, as Ungar made an incredible 51 saves to secure the victory.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Goodnight, Condorstown!\ud83d\ude34<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Condorstown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Condorstown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ymUhSxj60Q\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ymUhSxj60Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bakersfield Condors (@Condors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Condors\/status\/2017861816320463155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That 51-save performance set a Condors club record as the most in a single game, and it may have made Ungar impossible to ignore any longer. The former U-Sports goaltender now has an incredible 7-1-0 record and .949 SV% in his first eight AHL games.<\/p>\n<p>His running-mate, Matt Tomkins, has also been great, having posted a 4-1-2 and .947 SV% in his last seven games.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still unlikely that Ungar will get NHL starts with the Oilers, as the NHL club currently has three goalies on the roster with Jarry, Ingram, and Calvin Pickard. Still, it feels like with every stellar performance, the odds of that happening continue to rise just a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>There is anything but certainty in the Oilers crease right now, and he is currently the best-performing goalie in the entire organization.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goaltending has once again become a hot topic for the Edmonton Oilers. At the NHL level, things have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-159502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}