Player Profiles—Dynasty Years (1984-1990)

A team is built not only on stars, but on all the role players and character guys who are brought into the dressing room. Although the Oilers were a great team thanks to Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri and Mark Messier, it was the emergence of key checkers like Craig MacTavish and Esa Tikkanen and defencemen like Randy Gregg and Charlie Huddy that helped transform a very good team into champions.

In this section, we look at the importing supporting cast of characters who helped make Edmonton pretty much the permanent home of the Stanley Cup from 1984 to 1990. 

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