{"id":59260,"date":"2025-12-12T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59260\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:11:07","slug":"penguins-acquire-stuart-skinner-from-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59260\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Acquire Stuart Skinner From Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired goalie Stuart Skinner from the Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton has been searching for goaltending help, and on Friday that the Penguins traded Tristan Jarry to the Oilers. The Penguins <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/penguins\/status\/1999499516089893186\" rel=\"nofollow\">confirmed the move<\/a>, as Pittsburgh acquired Skinner, Brett Kulak, and a 2029 second-round pick for Jarry and Samuel Poulin.<\/p>\n<p>Jarry has spent his entire career with the Penguins since being selected 44th overall in the 2013 NHL Draft. He\u2019s in the third year of his five-year, $26.875 million deal. This season, Jarry is 9-3-1 with a 2.66 GAA and a .909 SV%.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins, meanwhile, get Skinner, who\u2019s three years younger than Jarry. Skinner is in the final year of his three-year, $7.8 million deal and will be a free agent at the end of the deal. The 27-year-old is 11-8-4 with a 2.83 GAA and a .891 SV%.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Skinner, Pittsburgh also reportedly acquired Kulak, who can fill a role on defense. Kulak is 31 and is in the final year of his four-year, $11 million deal. The veteran defenseman has skated in 31 games, recording just two assists this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins will return to the ice on Saturday at home against the San Jose Sharks after a 4-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>More Penguins: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2025\/12\/11\/penguins-crack-top-10-on-nhl-power-rankings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins Crack Top 10 On NHL Power Rankings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired goalie Stuart Skinner from the Edmonton Oilers. Edmonton has been searching for goaltending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,7053],"class_list":["post-59260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-tristan-jarry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}