Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Mike Krushelnyski comes in at No. 40 on our updated 2025 list. He was number 23 on Brownlee’s original list. 

For being on the Edmonton Oilers for just four seasons, winning three Stanley Cups is a darn good and efficient tenure. 

That player is Mike Krushelnyski, a smart and effective player who exploded offensively playing on Wayne Gretzky’s wing in 1984-85, and most famously went with the Great One in the Sale of the Century trade to Los Angeles. 

He played 290 regular-season games with the Edmonton Oilers and then 68 more in the postseason. 

“These guys had experienced it, and that first year, I had to learn it,” said Krushelnyski, at an Oilers team event celebrating the NHL Centennial’s Greatest Team with the 1984-85 Oilers. 

Krushelnyski learned how to win quickly, and has three rings to show it. 

Notable 

From Montreal, Mike Krushelnyski was drafted in the sixth round, 120th overall, in the 1979 draft by the Boston Bruins. 

After a great start to his professional career, he made the jump from the AHL to the NHL with the Boston Bruins in the 1981-82 season. He produced 65 points in his first full-time season, playing alongside veterans........

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