In an attempt to solve their goaltending woes, the Edmonton Oilers acquired Tristan Jarry from the Pittsburgh Penguins Friday while sending the much-maligned Stuart Skinner the other way. Edmonton needed to make a move in goal, but is Jarry really the answer?

But if you look back and go over what Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch has said about his team one thing stands out, that Knoblauch always understood the identity of his team, always grasped what was wrong with it, but he and the team were unable to fix things until now.

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Jarry, still wearing his Pittsburgh Penguins mask after the quick turnaround, but breaking in a new set of Oilers pads, stopped 25 of 28 shots on a night when Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl posted three-point nights and Vasily Podkolzin scored his third and fourth goals in the last five games.

Coming off another loss in the Stanley Cup Final, the Edmonton Oilers front office has been trying to figure out how to get over the hump. Edmonton has reached two straight Stanley Cup Finals, but the team has dropped both to the Florida Panthers.