Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Taylor Hall comes in at No. 34 on our updated 2025 list. He was ranked No. 28 on Brownlee’s original list.

A light was cast in the midst of the Decade of Darkness once Taylor Hall was drafted first overall in 2010 by the Edmonton Oilers.

At the time, the Oilers were four years removed from a playoff appearance, when they lost the Stanley Cup Final in seven games to the Carolina Hurricanes. The 2009-10 season was especially atrocious as the team posted a 27-47-8 record slotting them as the worst team in the NHL.

This allowed the team to receive the first overall draft pick, and for a moment, hope was restored after a long playoff drought.

Notable

Hall is one of few players who has beaten Wayne Gretzky in multiple scoring records.

On March 30, 2013, Hall scored the fastest hat trick to start the game in Edmonton Oilers history against the Vancouver Canucks. His first goal came just 16 seconds into the game at even strength, the next Oilers goal was scored one minute and 49 seconds later by defenceman Ladislav Smid. Then, Hall scored again at the 2:43 mark, and capped off the hat trick a little over five minutes of play later, at 7:53.

This defeated Gretzky’s previous 12:38 record that came in the 1985-86 season. Hall’s Oilers remained up 4-0 for the second and third period, closing out the win on the back of Devan Dubnyk’s shutout, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’ two assists.

The other record of Gretzky’s that the young superstar broke was the fastest back-to-back goal record on Oct. 17, 2013. He scored two goals in the span of eight seconds, besting the previous title by just one tick. Unfortunately, the Oilers would go on to lose........

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