Edmonton Oilers goaltender Tristan Jarry exited Thursday night’s game against the Boston Bruins with an apparent lower-body injury, after stretching across his crease to make a save. The Oilers leaned on backup Calvin Pickard to carry them to the eventual win, while emergency backup goaltender Jason San Antonio suited up to take Edmonton’s bench. Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch had no update on Jarry’s injury after the game, other than to say that the team isn’t yet sure how serious it is, per Sportsnet’s Gene Principe.
San Antonio’s last full season of organized hockey was all the way back in 2013-14, when he played his third and final year for Bryant University’s ACHA Division-II team. He won two Rhode Island high school state championships during his four-year tenure at Mount St. Charles Academy.
Pickard made 12 saves on 12 shots in 24 minutes of action. His performance helped Edmonton hold onto a lead that they established while Jarry was in net. The spotlight performance will boost Pickard’s numbers after a measly start to the year. He had a 3-4-2 record and .851 save percentage headed into Thursday night’s game. That was the lowest save percentage of any goaltender with at least 10 starts this season. He could have a chance to really fortify his stat line, should Jarry be forced to miss multiple games.
Edmonton will certainly hope that isn’t the case, though. Jarry joined the team less than a week ago alongside winger Samuel Poulin in a trade that sent Stuart Skinner, Brett Kulak, and a second-round pick to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Jarry won both of his first two games with the Oilers – though he did allow seven goals on 58 shots (.880 Sv%). The 30-year-old, former Stanley Cup champion posted nine wins and a .909 Sv% in 14 games with the Penguins prior to the trade. He will be in line for a major role in Edmonton whenever he’s back to full health.
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“Jason San Antonio” sounds like a guy who’d appear on Bar Rescue and go out of business six weeks after the episode aired.
He sounds like Stone Cold Steve Austin’s underwhelming tag team partner.
I believe that’s Luke Warm Milk
Jarry injured? Colour me shocked.
The NHL is not looking too diligently for these emergency goalies. “Having once been a standout goalie in street hockey … “.
Let Jason San Antonio play. We all deserve it.
Want Skinner back? We’ll trade him for more picks haha
Didn’t last long huh?
That is, as the kids would say, “Big oofies.”
Trade for Lyon????? Oilers can afford Lyon if they move Jarry to LTIR right away. They also have 3 waiver eligible players on the roster if they can still waive today, I think the last day might have been yesterday for the waiver freeze though.
in the postgame, they said they’ll call up Tompkins and then wait and see on Jarry.
Canes will trade you Kochetkov for the Nuge.
Hey penguins got 2 good goalies I promise… Skinner and Silovs you can pick