How Edmonton Oilers Milestones is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

25 of the 25 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

Joined the WHA Began play as a founding club in the rival major league
Renamed the Edmonton Oilers Dropped the provincial name after the first season
Signed teenage Wayne Gretzky The 17-year-old joined the club before the leagues merged
Absorbed into the NHL Entered the senior league in the merger of the two leagues
Drafted Messier, Anderson, and Coffey Three future Hall of Famers taken in one draft class
Drafted Grant Fuhr The goaltender was chosen in the first round
Gretzky scored 92 goals The single-season goal record set in one campaign
Reached first Stanley Cup Final Swept away by the defending champions from Long Island
Won first Stanley Cup Beat the Islanders to launch a dynasty
Won second straight Stanley Cup Repeated as champions over the Philadelphia Flyers
Won third Stanley Cup Reclaimed the title from the Flyers after a one-year gap
Won fourth Cup, then traded Gretzky Swept Boston, then shipped the captain to Los Angeles that August
Won fifth Stanley Cup Messier led the way to a title without Gretzky
Drafted Jason Arnott The center was taken in the first round
Upset Dallas in the first round Curtis Joseph starred in a seven-game series win
Lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final Fell to Carolina in a seven-game series
Drafted Taylor Hall first overall Took the top pick after finishing last
Drafted Ryan Nugent-Hopkins first overall Another number one selection in the rebuild
Drafted Nail Yakupov first overall A third straight top pick for the franchise
Drafted Connor McDavid first overall Won the lottery for the generational center
Opened Rogers Place Moved into a new downtown arena
Won a playoff round over San Jose First series win in a decade behind McDavid
Reached the Western Conference Final Eliminated by the eventual champions from Colorado
Reached the Stanley Cup Final Rallied from three games down before losing Game 7 to Florida
Returned to the Stanley Cup Final Lost a rematch with the Florida Panthers