![\"Oilers'](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/600369.webp.webp\" "\\"Oilers'")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Photo credit: Imagn Images<\/p>\n
With the NHL regular season less than 10 days away, activity around potential trades and waiver-wire transactions are heating up; Insider Elliotte Friedman believes there may be interest from the Oilers to acquire a goaltender.<\/p>\n
Possibility of goaltenders being available via trade or waivers<\/p>\n
Michael DiPietro<\/a> had a standout 2024-25 season with the Providence Bruins (Boston’s AHL affiliate), earning recognition as the AHL’s top goaltender.Yet, despite DiPietro’s strong play in the minors, the Boston Bruins’ numbers 1 and 2 goal positions are already established with Jeremy Swayman<\/a> and Joonas Korpisalo<\/a>, leaving DiPietro somewhat unprotected moving forward.<\/p>\n In 2024-25, Michael posted a 26-8-4 record, and a strong 2.05 GAA and .927 SV% in 40 games with the AHL’s Providence Bruins. Though he would not be competing for a number 1 and 2 goalie position, he could make a case as the Oilers’ 3rd-string goalie.<\/p>\n He’s on a one-way contract for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 seasons, making him potentially vulnerable to waivers if the Capitals want to avoid losing him for nothing. This makes him a possible trade, or waiver wire target for other teams.<\/p>\n The Edmonton Oilers may be considering Washington Capitals goalie Clay Stevenson as a potential trade target, according to The Hockey News.<\/p>\n While Stevenson’s 2024-25 AHL season with the Hershey Bears was not as strong as his previous year (18-8-5, 2.94 GAA, .888 SV% in 33 games), his 2023-24 campaign was impressive with a 2.06 GAA and .922 SV%, and a record of 24-10-2 in 36 games.<\/p>\n He also won a Calder Cup with the Bears in 2024. This suggests he has proven his ability at the AHL level, and could be ready for the NHL as a 3rd-string goalie.<\/p>\n Previously on Oilers Daily<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Imagn Images With the NHL regular season less than 10 days away, activity around potential trades…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[25489,3725,198,146,5300,5,1756,4,18722,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-215902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-2025-2026-nhl-season","9":"tag-clay-stevenson","10":"tag-edmonton","11":"tag-edmonton-oilers","12":"tag-edmontonoilers","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-michael-dipietro","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-waiver-wire","17":"tag-oilers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115290805633689427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}