Tristan Jarry's family news adds a new wrinkle to the Oilers' goalie plans

Hannah shared the news on Instagram, marking the halfway point of the pregnancy. That math puts the arrival somewhere around mid-December.

December has already shaped Jarry's short Edmonton tenure twice over. He was acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins on December 12, 2025, then left a game against the Boston Bruins six days later with a lower-body injury.

Jarry finished last season 9-6-2 with an .858 save percentage for the Oilers, and Connor Ingram wound up appearing in 32 of Edmonton's final 46 games.

Ingram is gone, and Stan Bowman rebuilt the position around Frederik Andersen and Devon Levi instead.

Andersen's one-year deal pays $1 million in salary with roughly $1.8 million more available in performance bonuses, per ESPN.

Those bonuses are tied to games played, which turns the workload split from a coaching preference into a payroll question.

Mike Babcock coached Andersen in Toronto from 2016 through 2019, and that history feeds the assumption he opens as the starter.

By mid-December the Oilers will be roughly 30 games into the schedule, deep enough for Babcock to have settled on a pecking order and close enough to the holiday run that a short absence gets absorbed by the third goalie.

Jarry carries a $5.375 million cap hit through 2027-28 that pays identically whether he starts sixty games or twelve. He is the only Edmonton goalie whose paycheque is untouched by how the crease shakes out.

Andersen is betting on games played, and Levi is betting on a job.

Jarry can step away for a few days in December without it costing him a dollar.

That is a strange kind of security in a crease built almost entirely on incentives.

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