Oilers GM Stan Bowman needs to take another big swing this season
Tristan Jarry’s first game in an Edmonton Oilers jersey was a solid yet unspectacular. He made some great stops, perhaps none better than his breakaway save on Maple Leafs forward John Tavares, but a garbage-time goal by Toronto pushed his save percentage below .900 on the night.Still, he gave the team a chance to win, and I think every Oilers fan would call it a positive night. No one is judging this trade based on the results of one game, though. Stan Bowman’s decision to bring in Jarry, and pay a hefty price to do so, is one that will go down as a defining moment of the Connor McDavid era, no matter which way it ends up going.The timing of the trade was peculiar, considering that Stuart Skinner had actually found his game over the last couple of weeks. The price the Oilers had to pay was puzzling to me as well, but what’s........