Tristan Jarry is turning things around with the Penguins to start the season

Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Tristan Jarry entered the season with low expectations coming off a season in which he posted a .893 save percentage and 3.12 goals against average on a floundering Penguins team.

His $5.375 million salary cap hit made him a candidate to be bought out or traded in a salary dump, but president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas opted to keep him on the roster in a tandem with Arturs Silovs, one of the team’s offseason acquisitions.

Silovs got the nod on Opening Night and posted a shutout, and Jarry has responded by playing at an excellent level. In his four starts, he’s 3-1-0 with a 2.52 GAA and .921 SV% as Pittsburgh has been one of the stories of the year by getting off to a surprising 6-2-0 start with first-year head coach Dan Muse behind the bench.

On Friday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, host Tyler Yaremchuk and co-host and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton discussed Jarry’s bounce-back start to the year and how it’s helped the team get off to a good start under Muse.

Tyler Yaremchuk: Second angle I want to touch on with the Penguins is Tristan Jarry. You and I are both big fans of MoneyPuck.com and the goals saved above expected, Jarry’s top 10 in that stat.

Carter Hutton: He is a guy that, I think he gets a bad rap. I know it hasn’t been great years, and again I think this is him walking into a team that had Matt Murray who won two Cups for them. A team that had Marc-Andre Fleury, kind of legendary goalie in that status. He’s been good. He’s played 297 games in the NHL, and he’s got a .910 save percentage throughout that run, and this year he’s been rock solid for them… Now he’s in a platoon with Arturs Silovs, which I think just works great for both of these guys.

You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here…