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Top 10 Oilers stories of 2025: #6 — Oilers nearly swapped Pickard for Ingram in November

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08.01.2026
Welcome to Oilersnation’s top 10 stories of the year, where we count down the most-read stories you, the reader, clicked on in 2025.

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:

What will it take to see a shakeup between the pipes for the Edmonton Oilers?

So far this season, the team’s tandem of

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