EDMONTON — By gawd, the Edmonton Oilers have found a goalie.

Call the kids, Martha. They’ve gotta see this too.

On the day that Connor McDavid began what could be his final contract as an Edmonton Oiler, general manager Stan Bowman finally found the pedigree of a goalie that McDavid has never had as a teammate.

Frederik Andersen, fresh off a Stanley Cup run with the Carolina Hurricanes in which he started 16 of the Hurricanes’ 19 games, signed a bonus-laden one-year deal to try to get the Oilers that elusive Stanley Cup they seek, with the end of the McDavid window possibly drawing near.

From Cam Talbot to Mike Smith to Stuart Skinner to the latest tandem of Tristan Jarry and Connor Ingram, McDavid’s 11 seasons in Edmonton have played out in front of a legion of good-but-not-great netminders. The Mikko Koskinens whom Oilers fans wanted to love, but whose work in the crease did not always love them back.

July 1 started slowly, but ramped into quite possibly the best in Oiler history — better, even, than the year they signed Zach Hyman? — The fuse was lit for Bowman........

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