Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Steve Smith comes in at No. 24 on our updated 2025 list. He was ranked No. 16 on Brownlee’s original list.

Above all else, Steve Smith is best known for the one thing nobody wants to be known for: scoring on your own goal.

A little over five minutes into Game 7 of the 1986 Smythe Division, Calgary Flames forward Perry Berezan dumped the puck into the Oilers zone with the score tied at two. Smith, in his rookie season and on his 23rd birthday, corralled the puck behind his net, looking to fire a stretch pass up the ice, only for it to bounce off Grant Fuhr’s skate and right into the Oilers net.

The Oilers couldn’t tie it up, and after winning back-to-back Stanley Cups, the quest for a three-peat was stalled.

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Fans blamed Smith to the nth degree for the own goal, but Wayne Gretzky never bought that narrative, later writing in his autobiography that it was a “total cop-out.” After the clock ticked down in Game 7 of the 1987 Stanley Cup final, and the Oilers reclaimed Lord Stanley’s mug on home ice,........

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