TORONTO — Was it inevitable that Tristan Jarry would play in Edmonton again?

Like, who plays junior in a town, gets drafted by an American team 3,400 km away, but buys a home just outside Edmonton anyhow?

Jarry could have set his family up anywhere he wanted, but he picked an acreage near Edmonton to call home every summer — and now in winter too.

“Just my time playing there with Oil Kings, I enjoyed it so much,” Jarry said Saturday morning, a few hours before his first start of the Edmonton Oilers ‘Tristan Jarry era’. “I have a lot of friends there, and I kind of grew up there a little bit. So when I had the opportunity to buy a home, that was where I decided to set roots.”

Jarry’s wife is from Detroit, and together they have an eight-month-old son.

Now, after a decade spent in Pitts

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