The Edmonton Oilers have acquired goaltender Tristan Jarry and forward Sam Poulin in a blockbuster trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Starting goaltender Stuart Skinner, defenceman Brett Kulak and a 2029 second-round pick are headed back to Pittsburgh in the trade.

“It’s not so much a comment on Stuart Skinner. It’s just really maybe time for something different here,” Oilers general manager Stan Bowman said Friday.

Jarry has a 9-3-1 record this season with a .909 save percentage and a 2.66 goals-against average.

The 30-year-old Jarry’s resurgence this season has come after he cleared waivers last January after an 8-8-4 start to the season with a .886 save percentage and a 3.31 GAA. He would later rejoin the Penguins after an AHL stint and finished the season with a 16-12-6 record with a .893 save percentage and a 3.12 GAA.

“His performance over a number of years has been very good,” Bowman said.

He’s currently playing in the third season of a five-year, $26.88 million contract and carries a cap hit of $5.38 million.

“We wanted to make sure that the person we were bringing in, we felt confident,” Bowman said. “The fact that he’s got two more years on his contract, we have our goalie for the next three playoff runs, which I think is important knowing that he is signed and it’s a number that we’re going to be able to manage well in our salary cap over the coming couple seasons.”

Poulin has appeared in two games with the Penguins this season, failing to post a point. The 24-year-old winger, who was a 2019 first-round pick, has nine goals and 20 points in 22 AHL games this season.

The Oilers goaltending struggles are well documented, with Stuart Skinner and Calvin Pickard combining for an .879 save percentage through 31 games this season. The back-to-back Stanley Cup finalists are 14-11-6 this season and currently sit in the top wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

Skinner has an 11-8-4 record this season with a .891 save percentage and a 2.83 goals-against average. He turned aside 27 of the 28 shots he faced in a 4-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday, improving to 2-1-1 with a .921 save percentage in December.

The 27-year-old has helped backstop the Oilers to two consecutive trips to the Stanley Cup Final, but the team ultimately fell short against the Florida Panthers in each of the past two seasons.

Skinner is a pending unrestricted free agent, carrying a cap hit of $2.6 million on his expiring deal. Bowman confirmed Friday that he had not held any extension talks with the goaltender.

“It always comes down to in the end, one or two moments for every goalie, not just for the Oilers’ goalies, but everyone’s measured sort of by what they remember in a playoff series,” Bowman said. “There’s a lot of things that have to get your team to that point and we think that Tristan has a very solid track record for being a good goaltender.”

Kulak, 31, has two assists in 31 games this season. He is also a pending UFA, carrying a cap hit of $2.75 million this season.

Acquired from the Montreal Canadiens at the 2022 trade deadline, Kulak has been a key piece on the Oilers blueline in each of their runs to the Stanley Cup Final the past two years.

“We certainly weren’t trying to trade Brett Kulak,” Bowman said. “But in order to make the transaction work and the money going back and forth, that had to be part of it.”

The Penguins (14-8-7) will move forward with Skinner and off-season addition Arturs Silovs in net as the team pushes to make the playoffs for the first time since 2022. Silovs has a 4-4-5 record with .900 save percentage and a 2.98 GAA this season.

Oilers also add Stastney

The Oilers also completed an additional trade to acquire defenceman Spencer Stastney from the Nashville Predators for a 2027 third-round pick.

Stastney, 25, has one goal and nine points in 30 games for the Predators this season while averaging 14:52 of ice time.

He will likely help fill Kulak’s 17:42 of ice time per game average this season for an Oilers team that also placed blueliner Jake Walman on long-term injured reserve Thursday.

“Stastney, who’s six years younger, very similar style player,” Bowman said.

‘“The thing we’ve liked about Stasney is his excellent mobility. He’s a great skater, a lot of quickness, and he’s been very effective in a penalty kill, and he’s got some offence to his game. He really hasn’t reached his true potential yet.

Oilers are getting Spencer Stastney from the Predators for a ’27 third-round draft pick

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A fifth-round pick (131st overall) by the Predators in 2018, Stastney made his NHL debut on Apr. 1, 2023.

He is in the second season of a two-year, $1.65 million contract with an AAV of $825,000.

The Woodridge, Ill., native has three goals and 18 points in 81 career NHL games with Nashville.