{"id":493359,"date":"2026-07-01T20:28:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=493359"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:28:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:28:43","slug":"frederik-andersen-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/07\/01\/frederik-andersen-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers Looking to Improve Goaltending With 2026 Stanley Cup Winning Goalie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Oilers are seeking to improve their goaltending, following a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/07\/01\/sabres-oilers-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">trade for Devon Levi earlier<\/a>. 2026 Stanley Cup-winning goaltender <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/anderfr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frederik Andersen<\/a> signs with the Oilers on a one-year contract. What does this mean for <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jarrytr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tristan Jarry<\/a> and the Oilers&#8217; goaltending tandem? Let us discuss the details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBCVb5Frmx\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 4115px; aspect-ratio: 4115\/2792;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p><span>Frederik Andersen, Denmark, Philip Larsen, Denmark during the group match between Finland and Denmark in the IIHF World Ice Hockey Championship 2018 in Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning, Denmark.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">**Breaking News ** \ud83d\udea8 \ud83d\udcf0 <br \/>Per sources, I\u2019m told Stanley Cup Champ G Andersen agreed to a 1 Yr Contract with the <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EdmontonOilers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@EdmontonOilers<\/a> . <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/HockeyX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#HockeyX<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/boQHAY3DJD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/boQHAY3DJD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Weekes (@KevinWeekes) <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KevinWeekes\/status\/2072469222693765509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Oilers Seek Better Goaltending As Frederik Andersen Signs<\/h2>\n<p>Andersen turns 37 in October, but he might still have something left in him to give. He has seen mixed results amidst five injury-riddled seasons with the Carolina Hurricanes, but had a strong Stanley Cup Playoff run in 2026, which led the Hurricanes to the Stanley Cup championship. In his career, Andersen has a 324-149-58 record, a 2.59 goals-against average, and a .913 save percentage in 552 career games spread across the Anaheim Ducks, Toronto Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2025-26 season, Andersen posted a 16-14-5 record, a 3.05 goals-against average and an .874 save percentage. He also posted a 13-2 record in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, a 1.89 goals-against average, and a .910 save percentage.<\/p>\n<h3>A Predicament for Oilers Goaltenders<\/h3>\n<p>Oilers general manager Stan Bowman stated on Wednesday that Tristan Jarry would be back with the team, but as Andersen signs in Edmonton, along with <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/levide01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devon Levi<\/a>, how would Jarry fit into that equation? Definitely, many questions still remain unanswered, from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/06\/23\/oilers-hire-mike-babcock\/\" target=\"_self\">how Mike Babcock will fare with the team<\/a>, the fallout from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/07\/01\/darnell-nurse-trade-sharks\/\" target=\"_self\">Darnell Nurse trade<\/a>, as well as the goaltending situation in Edmonton that needs to improve greatly. Will Andersen be the answer to a long-standing issue that has stopped the team from winning a Stanley Cup championship? Time will tell.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Tristan is going to be back&quot; &#8211; Bowman on Jarry<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan Rishaug (@TSNRyanRishaug) <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TSNRyanRishaug\/status\/2072430619376935381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: James Guillory-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Oilers are seeking to improve their goaltending, following a trade for Devon Levi earlier. 2026 Stanley Cup-winning goaltender Frederik Andersen signs with the Oilers on a one-year contract. What does this mean for Tristan Jarry and the Oilers&#8217; goaltending tandem? Let us discuss the details. Frederik Andersen, Denmark, Philip Larsen, Denmark during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5733,"featured_media":491407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4547,34,4548],"tags":[188,662],"class_list":["post-493359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oilers","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-frederik-andersen","tag-nhl-free-agency"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493372,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493359\/revisions\/493372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}