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Edmonton Oilers goaltender Tristan Jarry (35) faces a shot from Dallas Stars left wing Jamie Benn (14) during their game at American Airlines Center earlier this month.Jerome Miron\/Reuters<\/p>\n

After another uneven stretch in goal, the Edmonton Oilers are turning back to Tristan Jarry for a chance to steady things in net.<\/p>\n

Connor Ingram went 2-3 with 15 goals against over the last five games, and Jarry is expected to start one of two road games, either Tuesday in Utah or Thursday in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe said before [Sunday\u2019s loss to Tampa Bay] he was going to play one of these games on the road trip,\u201d Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said after Monday\u2019s practice. \u201cIt\u2019s just deciding which game it\u2019s going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jarry has one win over his last five games while allowing 22 goals, including seven in his last start, a 7-2 loss to Dallas.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy game hasn\u2019t been where I want it, so it\u2019s just working on my game throughout practice and morning skates,\u201d Jarry said. \u201cYou never want to play poorly, but it\u2019s the ups and downs of the NHL. Every single player has gone through it at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

The key, he said, is to learn from the erratic performance and be better for it.<\/p>\n

Since returning from a lower-body injury that sidelined him for nearly a month, Jarry has been unable to perform at the level the Oilers were hoping for after acquiring him in a December trade with Pittsburgh that sent Stuart Skinner the other way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough, you get injured, you kind of have to reset,\u201d said Jarry. \u201cYou\u2019re not on the ice for a couple of weeks, you\u2019re not seeing the things you normally would, you kind of lose that touch and that feeling. So it\u2019s kind of finding that again and finding it as quickly as possible and doing everything in your power to be at your best.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a tight playoff race in a weak Pacific Division, the Oilers are hoping Jarry can rediscover the form he showed in his first few games with the team.<\/p>\n

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Tampa Bay Lightning defenceman Erik Cernak (81) chases Edmonton Oilers centre Connor McDavid (97) during their game in Edmonton on Saturday.JASON FRANSON\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

\u201cHis first few games, we were very optimistic, he looked great,\u201d said Knoblauch. \u201cUnfortunately, there was the injury, and he took a step back and hasn\u2019t been able to regain his game as much as it was before.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, this break has been a reset for him. Sometime during this road trip, he has a game. Hopefully, it\u2019s a good one, and we can continue to put him back in the net.\u201d<\/p>\n

McDavid briefly at practice<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Connor McDavid raised some eyebrows when he was on the ice for only a brief period during Monday\u2019s practice. Knoblauch said his star forward was just seeing how he felt and was scheduled for a maintenance day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all good,\u201d McDavid said.<\/p>\n

The Oilers are already without Leon Draisaitl for the rest of the regular season, making their push for a playoff spot all the more difficult.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a trying year for sure,\u201d said McDavid. \u201cBut 71 games in, still in a playoff spot, still a chance to win the division. So when you look at it this way, there are a lot of positives.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oilers sit third in the Pacific Division, one point back of second-place Vegas and five behind first-place Anaheim.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoesn\u2019t matter how we got here, doesn\u2019t matter what division you play in, there\u2019s 11 games left to not only get in but win our division,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been pushing for a while, and it hasn\u2019t seemed to be working. We obviously have to figure out a different strategy to find ways to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Edmonton Oilers goaltender Tristan Jarry (35) faces a shot from Dallas Stars left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[1018,1001,1019,967,991,1020,19,990,1008,1009,1004,992,989,1014,198,146,5300,1016,1013,1007,1000,1030,993,994,1006,5,1002,1003,997,1021,998,1025,1026,4,1028,1023,1027,24,786,1024,995,1011,1012,333,1010,1022,86,1015,1017,1005,999,996,1029],"class_list":["post-519555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton-oilers","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-edmontonoilers","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-hockey","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-nhl","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-oilers","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519555","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=519555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}