Sean Gentille thinks the Pens won the Jarry trade

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All right, big hockey news today. It was right at the top of the show that we started talking about this, Donnie, because we were in the middle of Steeler stuff when limits rang the old breaking news bell. And that is Kyle Dubas has traded Tristan Jari to the Edmonton Oilers. In return, the Penguins get goalie Stuart Skinner, defenseman Brett Kulak, and a second-round pick in 2029. My God, limits will be 30 by then. What else? I'm approaching it. Did the Penguins get, or did the Oilers get, oh, Sammy Pullen, right? Yeah, Sammy Pullen and Jari go back to Edmonton. There we go. So here to talk about that, help us interpret all this, give it meaning, is the one and only Sean Gentile of The Athletic. He's been covering football since back in the days where Mulzey had hair.
Sean, how are you? Where's Kabaly this time?

What major trade did Kyle Dubas make involving Tristan Jarry?

Are we going to surprise him with my appearance like we did a couple weeks ago? I heard about this. That was a great roundtable, yeah. There's actually been two funny Gentilly-Kabali interactions as guests. Really? We had one in the afternoon.

What players did the Penguins receive in return for Jarry?

I don't know if you remember this one, Sean. You were on the video feed. It was a solo Malzi show. And this is something that it might even be a tip to any producer listening or even Austin here. Sean and Mal's here talking back and forth. Kabaly hooks up to the video. It takes Sean out of the picture, and all we see is Kabaly's gigantic mug on the screen. Honestly, I think we had the same exact thing happen before with Kabaly. His face takes up two screens. That's why. How are you, Sean? I breathe like Darth Vader. You really got to work hard to swap out my head for someone with a bigger head, but you managed it with Kabaly. He's got to be beat. Even Mulsey couldn't do that. What do you make of the trade?
It's a great trade for Pittsburgh. It's a total no-brainer. I think in a vacuum, I would maybe rather have Stu Skinner than Tristan Jari, honestly. They're really, really similar. I think you could pretty credibly just call Jari the Eastern Conference version of Stu Skinner. So I'm not 100% sold on them downgrading there just in a strip cocky dense. Second round pick's great. Brett Kulak is a defenseman who I can imagine them flipping at some point too for at least something else. You get out from under the rest of Jari's contract. It's a pretty easy slam dunk for Dubas there. And Sean, I feel like this trade means even more for the young goaltenders here. It doesn't really mean that much about Stuart Skinner who has an expiring deal.
It means more about the guys that were behind Jari. Absolutely, absolutely. This is about Misharov, and it's about Silov, and it's about getting those guys a larger portion of the net. Absolutely. We all know how volatile that tradition is. I don't think anybody knows which of the four goalies that we're talking about is going to be better for the rest of the season. Skinner, bad as he's been in the playoffs, and as bad as he was at points, earlier in the year, he's put up a 937 save percentage in his last five starts. So he's playing, he's playing pretty well. And he at least gives you an option, you know, if, if, and if they stay in the race and if they want to keep doing, you know, some kind of timeshare with the other two younger guys, I think he's completely a viable guy to, to, to mix in.
And then you factor in, Donnie, like you said, you have no financial commitment to him beyond this season. It's a total, total, total no-brainer. Wait a second here. Doesn't this just clear the track for Miroshov, whose name, by the way, I've now been heard pronounced at least 17 different ways. Doesn't this just clear the track for him to play most of the games? That's what I'm thinking, Sean, or at least what I thought. Yeah. It does, but say he's been incredible. He's leading the NHL in save percentage, and they love him, and we all know that. But if something happens, and maybe he can't handle, let's say, 42 starts down the stretch or whatever, I think Skinner's totally viable as a backup goalie on a half-decent team.

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