PITTSBURGH (AP) — Tristan Jarry is going “home” with the hope of helping the Edmonton Oilers get over the top.
The two-time defending Western Conference champions acquired Jarry from the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday in hopes of shoring up a position that has cost them during their deep playoff runs in recent years.
Jarry, a two-time All-Star with Pittsburgh in 2020 and 2022, starred for the Edmonton Oil Kings as a junior. Now he heads back to Edmonton with a chance to help the Oilers try to win their first Stanley Cup in more than 35 years.
Edmonton sent goaltender Stuart Skinner, defenseman Brett Kulak and a second-round pick in the 2029 draft to Pittsburgh in exchange for Jarry and forward Sam Poulin.
“I just felt it was time for something different,” Oilers general manager Stan Bowman said. “It’s not so much a comment on Stuart Skinner. It’s just maybe time for something different here.”
The move closes an eventful 10 years in Pittsburgh for Jarry, who was signed to a five-year contract in 2023 but struggled so badly last season that the Penguins took the unorthodox approach of demoting him to the minors multiple times.
The 30-year-old Jarry has bounced back this season under first-year Penguins coach Dan Muse. Jarry went 9-3-1 with a 2.66 goals against average and a .909 save percentage for surprising Pittsburgh.
Bowman said the team has been tracking Jarry for a while and that the metrics surrounding his play have been good for an extended period. The fact that Jarry is also signed through 2027-28 also gives the Oilers some stability. Skinner is scheduled to become a free agent next summer.
“It's a (salary) number that we’re going to be able to manage well in our salary cap over the coming seasons, so I think those factors did play a role,” Bowman said. "When you add it all up, it wasn’t just about a couple of games here or there. It was about a career sample size and the fact that he’s going to be with us for three playoff rounds.”
Even if Jarry isn't exactly a proven commodity in the postseason. He holds a career playoff record of just 2-6 with a 3.00 goals against and a .891 save percentage. His shaky play in the opening round against the New York Islanders in the 2021 playoffs played a major factor in the Penguins losing the series in six games.
Pittsburgh general manager Kyle Dubas praised Jarry for the way he responded to being sent to the minors, and allowed at times the team's play in front of him didn't put Jarry in the best position for success.
“I think Tristan is extremely talented,” Dubas said. “It'll be a great opportunity for him in Edmonton.”
The Oilers' problems in net in recent years have played an outsized role in keeping Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and company from getting over the hump and winning the Stanley Cup, especially in the final the past two years against Florida.
Skinner allowed 19 goals on 137 shots, an .861 save percentage, in the 2025 final, and Calvin Pickard was not much better at .878. Skinner also allowed a soft goal in Game 7 in 2024.
Edmonton this season had the fourth-worst team save percentage in the NHL. And while Skinner ranks 38th in the league among goalies who have appeared in nine or more games, Calvin Pickard — who remains on the roster in tandem with Jarry — is last at .851.
Jarry is expected to join the Oilers in Toronto on Saturday. Edmonton's current road swing includes a stop in Pittsburgh next Tuesday.
The Penguins were able to move on from Jarry thanks in part to a deep prospect pool in net, led by 21-year-old Sergey Murashov, who played well during a brief stint in Pittsburgh earlier this season. The Penguins also have 23-year-old Joel Blomqvist at their American Hockey League affiliate in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and 24-year-old Artur Silovs has been solid if not spectacular this year while splitting time with Jarry in Pittsburgh.
Dubas said there is no firm plan to call up Murashov or Blomqvist in the short term, but that both will have the opportunity to establish themselves as the club's top goaltender at some point in the future, perhaps as early as next season.
Skinner is 11-8-4 with a 2.83 goals against average, though his save percentage is just .891.
The 31-year-old Kulak gives the Penguins an experienced and dependable defenseman who posted career highs in goals (seven), assists (18) and points (25) last season for Edmonton. Kulak has two assists this year for the Oilers.
Poulin was Pittsburgh’s first-round pick in 2019 but has been unable to find his footing at the NHL level. Poulin has only two points in 15 games for Pittsburgh.
The move wasn’t the only one made by the Oilers on Friday. Edmonton also sent a third-round pick in the 2027 draft to Nashville for defenseman Spencer Stastney. The 25-year-old Stastney has one goal and eight assists in nine games for the Predators this season.
“He’s a great skater, a lot of quickness, and he’s been very effective in the penalty kill,” Bowman said of Stastney. “And he’s got some offense to his game as well. I think he hasn’t really reached his true potential yet.”
AP Hockey Writer Stephen Whyno contributed to this report.
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Edmonton Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner (74) keeps out the puck as Buffalo Sabres Zach Benson (6) looks on during during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Edmonton, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (Amber Bracken/The Canadian Press via AP)
A shot by Montréal Canadiens' Alexandre Texier gets by Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry (35) for a goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (Matt Freed/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to Americans on the war with new missile attacks targeting Israel and the Gulf Arab states Thursday, underlining Tehran’s insistence that it rejected Washington’s outreach for a ceasefire while maintaining its grip on the Strait of Hormuz.
Britain planned to hold a call Thursday with nearly three dozen countries about how to reopen the strait, through which 20% of all oil and natural gas traded passes in peacetime. The 35 countries, including all G7 industrialized democracies except the U.S., as well as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, signed a declaration last month demanding Iran stop blocking the strait. The call will discuss “diplomatic and political measures” that could restore shipping once the fighting is over.
Washington has insisted that Iran allow ships to freely transit the strait, but Trump this week has said it is not up to the U.S. to force it, and in his address encouraged countries that receive oil through Hormuz to “build some delayed courage” and go “take it.”
In his address, Trump said the U.S. would hit Iran “extremely hard over the next two to three weeks,” while also insisting American “core strategic objectives are nearing completion.”
Iran's military said defiantly on Thursday that its armament facilities are hidden and will never be reached by Israeli or American attacks.
“The centers you think you have targeted are insignificant,” said Lt. Col. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesman for the Iranian military’s Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Headquarters.
Just before Trump began his nearly 20-minute address on Wednesday, explosions were heard in Dubai as air defenses worked to intercept an Iranian missile barrage. Less than a half hour after the president was done, Israel said its military was working to intercept incoming missiles.
Sirens sounded in Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, immediately after the speech.
Following a joint statement in March condemning Iranian attacks on unarmed commercial vessels that called upon Iran to “cease immediately its threats, laying of mines, drone and missile attacks and other attempts to block the strait,” the 35 signatories were to hold a virtual meeting Thursday hosted by British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.
Though the oil and gas that typically transits the Strait of Hormuz primarily is sold to Asian nations, Japan and South Korea were the only two countries from the region that were joining.
“Trump’s message was that the United States can sustain its own economic and energy ecosystem, while countries dependent on regional exports will either have to buy from the United States or manage the Strait themselves,” the New York-based Soufan Center think tank wrote after the address.
“While Trump explicitly thanked U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf for their cooperation and allyship, an expedited U.S. withdrawal without securing the strait will leave many of these countries, whose economies are dependent on energy exports, in the lurch.”
No country appears willing to try and open the strait by force while the war is raging. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the group “will assess all viable diplomatic and political measures we can take to restore freedom of navigation, guarantee the safety of trapped ships and seafarers and to resume the movement of vital commodities.”
Bahrain, which now holds the presidency of the United Nations Security Council, has been working to get the world body to address the crisis as well.
Though Iran has allowed a trickle of ships through the strait, it remains largely closed. Iran has also been repeatedly attacking Gulf Arab energy infrastructure, sending oil prices skyrocketing and giving rise to broader economic problems worldwide.
Following Trump's speech, Brent crude, the international standard, rose again and was at $108 in early spot trading, up nearly 50% from Feb. 28 when Israel and the U.S. started the war with their attacks on Iran.
The rising energy prices and stock market jitters have been putting increasing domestic pressure on Trump, who used his address to offer a defense of the war while also suggesting it was close to winding down.
He acknowledged American service members who had been killed and said: “We are going to finish the job, and we’re going to finish it very fast. We’re getting very close.”
The U.S. has presented Iran with a 15-point plan for a ceasefire, but Trump didn’t say anything about the diplomatic efforts or bring up his April 6 deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face severe retaliation from the U.S.
More than 1,900 people have been killed in Iran during the war, while 19 have been reported dead in Israel. More than two dozen people have died in Gulf states and the occupied West Bank, while 13 U.S. service members have been killed.
More than 1,200 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 1 million displaced, according to authorities. Ten Israeli soldiers have also died there.
Weissert reported from Washington and Rising reported from Bangkok.
The Indian flagged LPG carrier Jag Vasant transporting liquefied petroleum gas, is seen at the Mumbai Port in Mumbai, India, after it arrived clearing the Strait of Hormuz, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
President Donald Trump walks from the Blue Room to speak about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
