Edmonton Oilers Milestones

Placed0

In a row0

Order these Edmonton Oilers franchise moments by the year they happened. Drag or tap it onto the line

Edmonton Oilers

Browse all 1898 decks More Team Milestones decks Leaderboard

Cards

Lives per run

release years and dates

Ordered by

Cards only

Card reveal

How to play the Edmonton Oilers history timeline

Every card is a moment from Oilers history with a short description underneath, and you order them by the year it happened. The timeline starts with one moment in place and its year visible. You read each new card and pick a gap before, between or after the moments already there. Land it in the right gap and the year shows. Land it in the wrong one and the card still moves to its real position, and you give up one of three lives.

Edmonton's deck has a famous dynasty at its heart, where Cup wins come so close together that you'll need the descriptions to keep them straight. Around it sit a rival-league start, a long rebuild built on top draft picks and a modern return to the Final. That run of high picks is a real trap, since several came in back-to-back seasons with little to tell them apart.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their 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