Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Dwayne Roloson comes in at No. 35 on our updated 2025 list. He was ranked No. 45 on Brownlee’s original list.

The 2005-06 Cinderella story of the Edmonton Oilers was nothing short of remarkable.

After finishing in the final seed of the Western Conference, the Oilers battled their way through four rounds of highly contested playoff hockey and went all the way to Game 7 with the Carolina Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup Final. This marked the first time that a No. 8 seed in the playoffs had made it to the final.

Their playoff success was largely in part of the exceptional work of goaltender Dwayne Roloson, who comes in at No. 35 on our Top 100 Oilers ranking.

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It was 2006, and the Edmonton Oilers were back in the playoffs after missing in 2003-04 and the 2004-05 season being cancelled due to the league-wide lockout.

Dwayne Roloson, whom the organization had acquired at the trade deadline for first- and third-round picks, was immediately thrust into a starting position, posting a 2.43 goals-against average and a .905 Sv% through his 19 games with the team.

To say that Roloson was amazing during the first three rounds of the playoffs wouldn’t be doing him justice. Over 18 games of playoff hockey, the goaltender held a 12-4-1 record. His .927 save percentage was a major step above his regular season stats, as well as his previous NHL playoff appearance with the Minnesota Wild, where he held a .905 in 11 games.

The team’s success throughout the first three rounds was largely thanks to him, as he was setting himself up to win the Conn Smythe Trophy if the Oilers were able to close it out in the final. However, disaster struck, and the Oilers’ playoff MVP was injured in Game 1 of the final. This forced the team to play through a full seven-game series without their best player, and man did they still put up a fight.

Unfortunately, the Oilers would end up losing to the Hurricanes, beginning a........

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