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Ask Dubey: Breaking down the Skinner for Jarry trade, favourite career memories, and more

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What a week it’s been for the Edmonton Oilers.

They pulled the trigger on trading Stuart Skinner for Tristan Jarry, had big wins against Toronto, Pittsburgh and Boston. They’ll head back to Edmonton for games against Vegas and the Flames before Christmas.

Before we get to this weeks questions, let’s break down the big trade.

Breaking down the trade

Well, first off, obviously huge news this past week with Stuart Skinner off to Pittsburgh and Kulak as well. Tristan Jarry coming back. There’s been a lot of talk about the trade. I’m kind of in the same boat as the initial feeling of everybody was. Was it an upgrade? I don’t know.

That’s nothing against Tristan Jarry. It’s certainly not a downgrade by any means. If you want to look at the advanced stats. Tristan Jarry is an upgrade, but I think there’s a chunk of the season here that Skinner was starting to play better.

So I think more than anything, we’ve gotten to this point that something needed to happen. Now, I would have loved to see a Tristan Jarry and Stuart Skinner goalie partnership. I don’t think that was necessarily realistic with the cap space, but that’s kind of something that I more had in mind as a good option for Edmonton rather than, to me, the kind of back in the same situation that they were with Skinner, other than you have a fresh face and a fresh mind who hasn’t gone through what Skinner has gone through here and the constant talk of the trades and all that.

But you’re still in that same situation where if Jarry struggles — and this is nothing against Pickard, I love Pickard. I’ll say it over and over: he’s a great teammate, and he works hard, and he does his job as backup. But in the situation that the Oilers are in, if he’s not playing well or you can’t play him every night and Jarry starts to struggle, you’re in the exact same situation you were before the trade with Skinner, where now you’re in a situation where all the pressure’s on Jarry. You’re forced to play him because you have to, and there’s not really a solution from what they were, the situation they were in before.

So, interesting move. I guess a move had to be made. I’ll wait and see if they’re done with it. But on top of all that, we got one of the stranger situations where they played each other, almost immediately. I was trying to figure out, trying to feel what it would feel like for these two guys.

And I’ve been through my trades. When I came back to Edmonton with Nashville, it was definitely strange, but I wasn’t playing the game and it wasn’t right away. It was pretty quick, but that was weird enough coming back into the building and playing against those guys. And this is both of these players’ first trades, so they haven’t been in another organization.

And then Stuart Skinner has got to hop in there against the only guys he’s ever........

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