Insider Reveals Oilers tried to Acquire Star Goaltender this Off-Season

Perhaps the biggest reason for this was their struggles in net down the stretch, as Stuart Skinner, who had a breakout campaign just couldn't keep up all of that regular season momentum.

In 12 games, Skinner was 5-6-0 with a 3.86 GAA and a dreadful .883 save percentage, and unsurprisingly, this led to the team searching the trade market at the position this past summer.

According to a report, the Oilers were aggressive this past summer in attempting to acquire Jeremy Swayman from Boston, but it appears as though they just didn't have the assets to make a deal work.

In five games to start this season, Swayman is a perfect 5-0-0 with a .954 save percentage and a 1.38 GAA, and while he may not have had that much success behind the Oilers blue line, it would have been a deal that made this team a genuine threat to the Stanley Cup.

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