The Edmonton Oilers had a fantastic regular season ago last year, but unfortunately, in the playoffs when it mattered most, the team just couldn't get it done.
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.
