It has been an NHL record long winning streak for over 30 years. I figured with the Oilers on the cusp of potentially passing the streak it was a good time to look back at the streak that could be broken.
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Nobody wants to admit how much worse the players were on average in the 90s. But everyone wants to go on and on about Gretzky and Lemieux stats. The Edmonton win streak in today’s NHL is far more impressive.
I'm not sure if I missed it but at which point did they beat the current record?
You can see they were often behind in these games. They were so dominate, they could sleep walk through 2 periods and then just flip a switch, turn it on for the win. This style of play would come back to haunt them against the Islanders in the playoffs. They flipped the switch on much to late in that series and Barrasso gives up a softy in OT, ending what might have been a great dynasty.
The goalscorers and goaltenders of all opposing teams
Boston (March 9)
Goals: Oates, Shaw
Blue 27-30
Los Angeles (March 11)
Goals: Robitaille, Gretzky, Zhitnik
Stauber 31-35
@ NY Islanders (March 14)
Goals: Volek, Mullen
Healy 31-34
Washington (March 18)
Goals: Hatcher, Cavallini, May, Iafrate, Krygier
Beaupre 16-21, Hrivnak 10-12
Philadelphia (March 20)
Goals: Beranek, Lindros, Brind'Amour
Soderstrom 20-27, Roussel 14-16
@ Edmonton (March 21)
Goals: Podein, Gelinas, Klima, McDougall
Tugnutt 36-41 (final Pittsburgh goal on empty net)
San Jose (March 23)
Goals: Evason, Ahola
Irbe 33-40
New Jersey (March 25)
Goals: MacLean, Zelepukin, Richer
Terreri 28-32
@ Boston (March 27)
Goals: Juneau, Poulin, Murphy
Moog 22-27
@ Washington (March 28)
Goal: Elynuik
Tabaracci 31-34 (final Pittsburgh goal on empty net)
Ottawa (March 30)
Goals: Boschman, Shaw, Archibald, Hull
Sidorkiewicz 32-38
Hartford (April 1)
Goals: Cassels, Yake
Gosselin 14-19, Pietrangelo 18-23
@ Quebec (April 3)
Goals: Kamensky, Young (2)
Hextall 25-30
@ New Jersey (April 4)
Goals: Zelepukin, MacLean
Terreri 25-29 (final Pittsburgh goal on empty net)
Montreal (April 7)
Goals: Dionne, Damphousse, Muller
Roy 38-42
@ NY Rangers (April 9)
Goals: Graves, McIntyre, Amonte, Kovalev
Hirsch 20-25, Richter 10-15
NY Rangers (April 10)
Goals: Tikkanen, Amonte
Richter 35-39
Didn't the Oilers have a shootout win during this streak? If so, that'd be a tie in the early '90s. Just seems noteworthy to consider, if they do tie and/or "beat" the current record.
Don't mean a damn thing if they don't go all the way
Greatest team to not win the cup.
The team that made me a hockey fan as a kid in the panhandle of Florida. Super Mario will always be the GOAT in my book. Ulf is my favorite player of all time. Now I can't stand the Pens but I'll always remember my first!
Probably hockey’s biggest what if? What if Mario stayed healthy & had the longevity of Gretzky. What would the numbers look like; who was better. I’m from Pittsburgh & everyone here says Mario but it’s hard to argue against Gretzky’s numbers.
I like this video a lot.
Vegas 5 Edmonton 1 today
They cost me $50 by winning the '92 Cup and I still haven't forgiven them
Jagr – still playing… amazing.
Don't be ridiculous. The Penguins turned their back on Bowman and got their ass kicked.
Glory Days. What a team. This streak had them believing they would cruise to the Final. Spot on Hockey Guy.
Look, I get that the Edmonton streak is impressive right now, but to me it has to come with a little bit of an asterisk. I just don’t see how a shootout win is a pure win. There were no shootouts when the Penguins had the streak and there are people that think winning streaks like this are far more impressive today but I don’t understand that.
It seems like we’ve seen winning streaks in this era come close to be 18 than we did back then. I mean even the Columbus blue jackets had like 16 a few years ago. Heck just this year did we have like 5 teams or something like that I have like eight game win streaks or something? I mean you think of the dynasty teams that Montreal had, the oilers & the Islanders in the 80’s and then those teams for the Penguins in the early 90s mid 90s. I just don’t see how the Oilers current streak is as impressive today especially again with that shootout win that just put a little bit of a damper on it for me.
92-93 penguins & 85-86 Oilers greatest teams not to win the cup
I believe the away game against the Rangers, MSG gave him a standing O. He would later get a standing O at the then Corestates Center in Philadelphia in 97. Not a ton of away players that got that treatment in those places
Now for a historic 17 game losing streak for the oil spills
Funny story. The only 2 overtime wins in the Penguins' streak was against the Habs and the Kings. The Oilers had 3 non-regulation wins in this streak, Habs, Kings and Detroit.
Hockey is like that, You can't assume anything, Look at the 2012 canucks who wont he presidents trophy and then got knocked out by the 8th seed kings.
You can't assume anything.
The late 80s-90s Pens were such a stacked team of talent: Lemieux, Jagr, Francis, Kevin Stevens, later Tocchet, Paul Coffey, Larry Murphy, the 2 Samuelsons, Mullen….etc. Sick.
Oilers werent meant to steal the Penguin's glory.
The Record still stands!
I think they actually tied their last Game 6 -6 to New Jersey – Did not have shoot outs and 3 on 3 then ..
As a Thrashers fan I remember McEachern haha.
I had been in the Nassau Coliseum the night the Islanders set the record with their 15th straight win vs. Colorado, so when the potential record breaking 16th game happened to be at MSG, at the last minute I called my brother and asked him if he wanted to see the record broken again. We managed to get tickets (not hard, the Rangers were playing out the string and missed the playoffs). The MSG fans DID give Lemieux a standing ovation when he scored his 5th goal, at least the fans who were left, which was about half of them. A much different, and less tense, game from the Islanders record setter when they had to score in the last minute to win the game and avoid a tie in the last season there was no OT.
I am a lifelong Red Wings fan, but I would support an argument that the 92-93 Pens were the best team to not win the Stanley Cup. Respected the hell out of those 1990s Pittsburgh teams.
I'm sure there is a stat for how many teams won/didn't win the cup with a 10+ win streak during the regular season.
The Oil gave it a good shot….then the AS Break happened…..it killed the momentum. Nonetheless, they shattered the previous Oilers of 9
If the Penguins wins don't count in today's NHL, neither do the Oilers 2 OT wins and 1 Shootout win as they were 5v5 instead of 3v3, and nonexistent respectively.
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Edmonton couldn't tie the 17 straight the Penguins record in 1992-93