1988-89 Edmonton Oilers Roster and Statistics

Record: 38-34-8 (84 points), Finished 3rd in NHL Smythe Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Glen Sather (38-34-8)

Goals For: 325 (4th of 21), Goals Against: 306 (11th of 21)
SRS: 0.33 (6th of 21), SOS: 0.10 (4th of 21)

Playoffs:
Lost Division Semi-Finals (4-3) to Los Angeles Kings

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +500

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

80. Apr 2, EDM (38-34) lost to CGY, 2-4

Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	GF/G	GA/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA	S	S%	SA	SV%	PDO	SO
Edmonton Oilers	80	38	34	8	84	.525	325	306	0.33	0.10	4.06	3.83	83	419	19.81	78	452	82.74	27	17	2225	14.6	2431	.874		2
League Average	80	35	35	9	80	.500	299	299					85	403	20.99	85	403	79.01	12	12	2430	12.3	2430	.877		2

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5)

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5) Table
Team	S%	SV%	PDO	CF	CA	CF%	xGF	xGA	aGF	aGA	axDiff	SCF	SCA	SCF%	HDF	HDA	HDF%	HDGF	HDC%	HDGA	HDCO%
Edmonton Oilers
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Birth	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date
23	Keith Acton	ca CA	C	30	5-8	170	L/-	9	April 15, 1958
25	Greg Adams	ca CA	LW	28	6-1	190	L/-	8	May 31, 1960
9	Glenn Anderson	ca CA	RW	28	6-1	190	L/-	8	October 2, 1960
6	Jeff Beukeboom	ca CA	D	23	6-5	230	R/-	2	March 28, 1965
32	Dave Brown	ca CA	RW	26	6-5	222	R/-	6	October 12, 1962
16	Kelly Buchberger	ca CA	LW	22	6-2	210	L/-	1	December 2, 1966
12	Jimmy Carson	us US	C	20	6-1	200	R/-	2	July 20, 1968
34	Glen Cochrane	ca CA	D	31	6-2	205	L/-	9	January 29, 1958
32	Nick Fotiu	us US	LW	36	6-2	210	L/-	12	May 25, 1952
15	Miroslav Fryčer	cs CS	RW	29	6-0	200	L/-	7	September 27, 1959
31	Grant Fuhr	ca CA	G	26	5-10	201	-/R	7	September 28, 1962
20	Martin Gélinas	ca CA	LW	18	5-11	202	L/-	R	June 5, 1970
21	Randy Gregg	ca CA	D	32	6-4	215	L/-	6	February 19, 1956
37	Doug Halward	ca CA	D	33	6-1	200	L/-	13	November 1, 1955
26	Ken Hammond	ca CA	D	25	6-1	190	L/-	4	August 22, 1963
22	Charlie Huddy	ca CA	D	29	6-0	210	L/-	8	June 2, 1959
27-37	Dave Hunter	ca CA	LW	31	5-11	195	L/-	9	January 1, 1958
33	Kim Issel	ca CA	RW	21	6-4	196	R/-	R	September 25, 1967
23	Tomas Jonsson	se SE	D	28	5-10	185	L/-	7	April 12, 1960
2	Chris Joseph	ca CA	D	19	6-3	212	R/-	1	September 10, 1969
17	Jari Kurri	fi FI	RW	28	6-0	194	R/-	8	May 18, 1960
19	Normand Lacombe	ca CA	RW	24	6-0	205	R/-	4	October 18, 1964
7	Mark Lamb	ca CA	C	24	5-9	180	L/-	3	August 3, 1964
27	Reed Larson	us US	D	32	6-0	195	R/-	12	July 30, 1956
8	John LeBlanc	ca CA	LW	25	6-1	190	L/-	2	January 21, 1964
35	François Leroux	ca CA	D	18	6-6	247	L/-	R	April 18, 1970
4	Kevin Lowe	ca CA	D	29	6-2	200	L/-	9	April 15, 1959
14	Craig MacTavish	ca CA	C	30	6-1	195	L/-	8	August 15, 1958
32	Alan May	ca CA	RW	24	6-1	200	R/-	1	January 14, 1965
24	Kevin McClelland	ca CA	C	26	6-2	205	R/-	7	July 4, 1962
11	Mark Messier (C)	ca CA	C	28	6-1	210	L/-	9	January 18, 1961
28	Craig Muni	ca CA	D	26	6-3	208	L/-	6	July 19, 1962
36	Selmar Odelein	ca CA	D	22	6-0	195	R/-	2	April 11, 1966
30	Bill Ranford	ca CA	G	22	5-11	185	-/L	3	December 14, 1966
26	Craig Redmond	ca CA	D	23	5-11	190	L/-	4	September 22, 1965
18	Craig Simpson	ca CA	LW	21	6-2	195	R/-	3	February 15, 1967
8	Doug Smith	ca CA	C	25	5-11	186	R/-	7	May 17, 1963
5	Steve Smith	gb GB	D	25	6-4	215	L/-	4	April 30, 1963
10	Esa Tikkanen	fi FI	LW	24	6-1	190	L/-	3	January 25, 1965
34	Michael Ware	ca CA	RW	21	6-5	216	R/-	R	March 22, 1967

Scoring Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Scoring Regular Season Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists					Ice Time		Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TOI	ATOI	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Jari Kurri*	28	RW	76	44	58	102	19	69	29	10	5	8	36	16	6	214	20.6			7.5	1.4	9.0
2	Jimmy Carson	20	C	80	49	51	100	3	36	30	19	0	5	35	16	0	240	20.4			7.6	1.0	8.6
3	Mark Messier*	28	C	72	33	61	94	-5	130	21	6	6	4	27	28	6	164	20.1			6.3	0.7	7.0
4	Esa Tikkanen	24	LW	67	31	47	78	10	92	17	6	8	4	28	16	3	151	20.5			5.2	1.1	6.3
5	Craig Simpson	21	LW	66	35	41	76	-3	80	18	17	0	4	27	14	0	121	28.9			5.4	0.7	6.1
6	Glenn Anderson*	28	RW	79	16	48	64	-16	93	9	7	0	3	35	11	2	212	7.5			2.7	0.5	3.2
7	Craig MacTavish	30	C	80	21	31	52	10	55	15	2	4	2	23	2	6	120	17.5			2.1	1.2	3.4
8	Charlie Huddy	29	D	76	11	33	44	0	52	4	5	2	0	17	15	1	178	6.2			2.4	3.4	5.8
9	Normand Lacombe	24	RW	64	17	11	28	2	57	15	2	0	1	11	0	0	71	23.9			0.8	0.8	1.6
10	Keith Acton	30	C	46	11	15	26	9	47	10	0	1	1	15	0	0	74	14.9			0.9	0.8	1.7
11	Kevin Lowe*	29	D	76	7	18	25	26	98	7	0	0	1	14	3	1	85	8.2			0.8	4.8	5.6
12	Steve Smith	25	D	35	3	19	22	5	97	3	0	0	0	12	5	2	47	6.4			1.1	1.8	2.9
13	Kevin McClelland	26	C	79	6	14	20	-10	161	6	0	0	0	13	1	0	43	14.0			-1.2	0.7	-0.5
14	Craig Muni	26	D	69	5	13	18	43	71	5	0	0	1	11	0	2	40	12.5			0.3	5.4	5.7
15	Randy Gregg	32	D	57	3	15	18	-9	28	2	1	0	1	9	5	1	42	7.1			0.4	2.0	2.4
16	Kelly Buchberger	22	LW	66	5	9	14	-14	234	4	1	0	1	6	3	0	57	8.8			-1.2	0.4	-0.8
17	Craig Redmond	23	D	21	3	10	13	-10	12	0	3	0	0	2	8	0	29	10.3			0.7	0.4	1.1
18	Tomas Jonsson	28	D	20	1	10	11	-12	22	0	1	0	0	2	8	0	46	2.2			0.5	0.2	0.7
19	Miroslav Fryčer	29	RW	14	5	5	10	2	18	3	2	0	0	3	2	0	33	15.2			0.5	0.2	0.8
20	Mark Lamb	24	C	20	2	8	10	4	14	1	1	0	0	8	0	0	20	10.0			0.1	0.3	0.4
21	Greg Adams	28	LW	49	4	5	9	1	82	4	0	0	1	5	0	0	49	8.2			-1.0	0.6	-0.4
22	Chris Joseph	19	D	44	4	5	9	-9	54	4	0	0	0	4	0	1	36	11.1			0.1	1.5	1.5
23	Reed Larson	32	D	10	2	7	9	1	15	1	0	1	0	5	2	0	19	10.5			0.6	0.5	1.1
24	Dave Hunter	31	LW	32	3	5	8	-5	22	3	0	0	0	5	0	0	44	6.8			-0.4	0.2	-0.2
25	Doug Halward	33	D	24	0	7	7	-3	25	0	0	0	0	6	1	0	8	0.0			0.0	0.9	0.9
26	Jeff Beukeboom	23	D	36	0	5	5	2	94	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	26	0.0			-0.4	1.7	1.3
27	Martin Gélinas	18	LW	6	1	2	3	-1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	14	7.1			0.1	0.0	0.1
28	Doug Smith	25	C	19	1	1	2	-1	9	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	15	6.7			-0.5	0.2	-0.3
29	Dave Brown	26	RW	22	0	2	2	-4	56	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	14	0.0			-0.7	0.2	-0.6
30	John LeBlanc	25	LW	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	20.0			0.1	0.0	0.1
31	Alan May	24	RW	3	1	0	1	0	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	33.3			0.0	0.0	0.1
32	Grant Fuhr*	26	G	59	0	1	1	0	6	0	0	0	0				0		3341	56:37	0.0	0.0	8.7
33	Ken Hammond	25	D	5	0	1	1	-2	8	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.0			0.0	0.1	0.1
34	Michael Ware	21	RW	2	0	1	1	1	11	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0				0.0	0.1	0.0
35	Glen Cochrane	31	D	12	0	0	0	-2	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.2	0.4	0.2
36	Nick Fotiu	36	LW	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	0.0
37	Kim Issel	21	RW	4	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.2	0.0	-0.1
38	François Leroux	18	D	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.1	0.1
39	Selmar Odelein	22	D	2	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	0.0
40	Bill Ranford	22	G	29	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0				0		1509	52:02	0.0	0.0	3.7
	Team Total			80	325	559	884	32	1911	215	83	27	38	370	156	32	2225	14.6			40.2	34.5	87.3

Goalies Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Goalies Regular Season Table
			Goalie Stats
Rk	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	QS	QS%	RBS	GA%-	GSAA	adjGAA	GPS
1	Grant Fuhr*	26	59		23	26	6	213	1710	1497	.875	3.83	1	3341				103	-6.3	3.16	8.7
2	Bill Ranford	22	29		15	8	2	88	717	629	.877	3.50	1	1509				102	-1.4	2.90	3.7
	Team Total				38	34	8	301	2427	2126	.876	3.72	2	4850				103	-7.6	3.08	12.5