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The Oilers may have just addressed the one position that quietly sank their season.
According to Top Tier Hockey, Edmonton has acquired goaltender Sebastian Cossa, with the deal finalized and an announcement expected within the next 24 hours.
Fair warning first. This comes from a smaller account, and nothing is official until the team confirms it. Treat it as pending, not done.
But the fit makes too much sense to ignore. If there’s one thing Edmonton needed to fix this summer, it was the crease.
Because the goaltending all year was a problem nobody on this roster solved.
The report is short and confident, framing the deal as complete and the paperwork as the only thing left.
Look at the numbers and the motivation jumps off the page. Tristan Jarry carried a $5.375 million cap hit and posted an .882 save percentage across 33 games.
For that money, on a Stanley Cup hopeful, that’s the kind of season that forces a front office to act.
Connor Ingram was the steadier option, a .898 mark in 32 appearances on a $1.95 million deal. Useful, but not the answer for a team chasing Connor McDavid‘s window.
Calvin Pickard rounded out the group at .870 over 16 games. Add it all up, and Edmonton rolled three goalies and trusted none of them in the spring.
What role Cossa plays right away is the open question, and an honest one. I won’t pretend to know his timeline. The point is the direction.
Edmonton is finally treating goaltending like the priority it should have been months ago. You don’t waste a McDavid prime hoping a crease fixes itself.
It’s like patching the roof after the storm already flooded the house. Late is better than never, but the damage from the first-round exit is already done.
Stan Bowman has a coaching search to settle, a Nurse situation to manage, and now a crease to rebuild. Busy summer in Edmonton.
If the Cossa deal is real, it’s a start. Whether it’s the fix or just the first move is what the next few weeks decide.
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