The full court press is on, and the Edmonton Oilers might be forced to make a move to address their goaltending situation.

The team ranks dead last in team save percentage this season, with Stuart Skinner and Calvin Pickard combining for an abysmal .860 mark through the first 25 games of the Oilers’ season.

Neither has been good enough this year, and rumours began to swirl on Tuesday about St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington being a potential option. It’s hard to say whether or not Binnington would be an upgrade, given his own rough start to the season, but another netminder who’s had a better start popped up as a potential option on Wednesday: the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Tristan Jarry.

Jarry, as noted by ESPN’s Kevin Weekes, has roots in Edmonton having played his major junior career with the WHL’s Oil Kings. The 30-year-old Surrey, B.C. native was part of the powerhouse 2014 Memorial Cup winning team, and has spent his whole 10 year NHL career with the Penguins, who drafted him in the second round of the 2013 draft.

While Jarry had a rough 2024-25 season, posting a 16-12-6 record, .892 save percentage and a 3.12 goals against average, he’s rebounded well this year, posting a 5-2 record, a .911 save percentage and a 2.60 goals against average on the surprisingly strong Penguins.

He has two years remaining on a deal paying him $5.375-million per year, and has a 12-team no-trade list.

Jarry has seemingly lost the crease this season to rookie Arturs Silovs, who the Penguins acquired over the summer, while they have another young netminder, Sergei Murashov, who is starting to emerge as an option for the team, too.

The Penguins have roughly $12-million in cap space, according to PuckPedia, and if the two teams were to pull off a trade surrounding Jarry for Skinner — as is rumoured to be the base of a Binnington trade — and Pittsburgh were to retain 50 percent of Jarry’s contract, the Oilers would gain roughly $88,000 in cap space.

It’s unknown if Pittsburgh would even be interested in taking on Skinner, who is a pending unrestricted free agent at the end of this season, making $2.6-million.

Nonetheless, things appear to be heating up in the rumour mill.

Zach Laing is Oilersnation’s associate editor, senior columnist, and The Nation Network’s news director. He also makes up one-half of the Daily Faceoff DFS Hockey Report. He can be followed on X at @zjlaing, or reached by email at zach.laing@bettercollective.com.