Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Tommy Salo comes in at No. 45 on our updated 2025 list. He was ranked No. 59 on Brownlee’s original list.

Everybody has their favourite players growing up.

Sometimes it’s because the player endears themselves to you, or sometimes, it’s because your late Aunt Jackie gets you a McFarland-era Tommy Salo when you were a kid. I’m sure you can guess which is which for this scribe.

Nevertheless, Salo had one of the biggest rises in rankings from Brownlee’s version to our 2025 version, flying up from No. 59 to No. 45. And for those six years he spent in Edmonton, he became a household name.

Notable

Salo arrived in Edmonton in March 1999 in a deal with the New York Islanders, where the Oilers sent back Mats Lindgren and an eighth-round pick that year. The Oilers had an aging goaltending duo for much of the year between 34-year-old Bob Essensa and 33-year-old Mikhail Shtalenkov, who had spent much of the year........

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