Top 10 Oilers stories of 2025: #6 — Oilers nearly swapped Pickard for Ingram in November
Goaltending has been a massive story for the Edmonton Oilers in recent years, and it all came to ahead this season.
Weeks before general manager Stan Bowman pulled the trigger on a massive deal to send Stuart Skinner in a package deal to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Tristan Jarry, there was another goaltending move the Oilers considered: waiving Calvin Pickard and calling up Connor Ingram.
The report about the considered swap came from Frank Seravalli, and Dylan Nazareth broke it down for us:
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So far this season, the team’s tandem of Stuart Skinner and Calvin Pickard has gotten off to an abysmal start, both below........
