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The 1986–87 Edmonton Oilers season was the Oilers' eighth season in the National Hockey League, following a playoff loss to the Calgary Flames the season before, ending the Oilers' bid for a third-straight Stanley Cup.
The 1985–86 Edmonton Oilers season was the Oilers' seventh season in the NHL, and they were coming off back to back Stanley Cup Championships. Edmonton won the inaugural Presidents' Trophy, as they finished with 119 points, which was a league high and tied the franchise record which was set in the 1983–84 season. [1]
The top four teams in each division qualified for the playoffs. This was the first year that all rounds were competed in a best-of-seven series (scores in the bracket indicate the number of games won in each best-of-seven series) after the division semifinals were expanded from a best-of-five format to reduce the number of upsets.
The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton. The team is a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Oilers began as a charter member of the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972, and were known as the Alberta Oilers for their first season after their Calgary ...
1986-87 team Head coach Mike Keenan: Bowmanville, Ontario: Philadelphia Flyers: Assistant coach John Muckler: Midland, Ontario: Edmonton Oilers: Assistant coach Jean Perron: Saint-Isidore-d'Auckland, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens: Assistant coach Tom Watt: Toronto, Ontario: Vancouver Canucks
The Oilers selected Connor McDavid first overall in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. Ales Hemsky led the team in scoring points for four seasons, from 2005–06 to 2008–09. The statue of Wayne Gretzky outside Rogers Place commemorates the Oilers' Stanley Cup victories and the all-time Oiler leader for regular season goals, assists and points and playoff assists and points.
A Canadian kid who has led the Edmonton Oilers to the Stanley Cup Final, four wins away from bringing hockey’s hallowed trophy back to the birthplace of the sport for the first time since 1993 ...
The 1987 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1986–87 season, and the culmination of the 1987 Stanley Cup playoffs.It was contested between the Edmonton Oilers and the Philadelphia Flyers in a rematch of the 1985 Finals.