As Jason Gregor noted, most netminders don’t like it, more teams have tried it recently, and the Oilers will experiment with it, at least to start the season.

For some, three goalies can seem like one too many, but did you know the Oilers have used five or more in a season six times in franchise history? Let’s take a look at which seasons and the reasons why.

Netminder Eddie Mio played the most for the Oilers after the WHA merger in 1979-80, posting a 9-13-5 record, with a 4.22 goals-against average (GAA) and a .868 save percentage (SV%).

Jim Corsi, who signed with the Oilers as a free agent prior to the start of the season, played the second-most games in net for the Oilers that season, compiling an 8-14-3 record with a 3.66 GAA and a .874 SV%.

At 38 years old, Dave Dryden was the veteran netminder for the Oilers that season, having played the previous four years with the club in the WHA. He played in 14 games, posting a 2-7-3 record, which was his final season playing professional hockey.

That said, while Mio and Corsi handled most of the workload, Ron Low quietly had the best numbers of any Oilers goalie that season, posting an 8-2-1 record, along with a 3.42 GAA and a .897 SV%.

Career minor-leaguer Don Cutts also saw action in net for the Oilers that season, playing six games for his hometown team, while Bob Dupuis, who was signed as a free agent in March of that season as an emergency backup, played in one game.

Edmonton posted a 28-39-13 record, finishing fourth in the Smythe Division.

It was another spin on the goaltending carousel for the Oilers in 1980-81.

Mio was once again the number one option in net, posting a 16-15-9 record, a .867 SV%, and improving to a 3.90 GAA.

The young netminder Low was given more responsibility between the pipes after posting good numbers in his first campaign in Oil Country. He played the second-most games (24), but had a losing record of 5-13-3, with a 4.44 GAA and a .856 SV%.

The Oilers brought in veteran Gary Edwards, who had 10 previous NHL seasons under his belt before joining the club. He compiled a 5-3-4 record, with a 3.62 GAA and a .865 SV%.

That said, Andy Moog, who was drafted by the Oilers 132nd overall in the 1980 NHL Draft, made his rookie debut that season. He finished with a 3-3 record, posting a 3.82 GAA and a .882 SV%, showing a lot of promise in net in a small sample size.

And the fifth and final goaltender the Oilers turned to that season was Pete LoPresti, a former starter for the Minnesota North Stars, who suited up in two games for the Oilers during that year.

The Oilers finished the 1980-81 season with a 29-35-16 record, finishing fourth in the NHL’s Smythe Division.

The 1984-85 Oilers were a completely different story compared to the club’s early years.

After years of searching for stability in net, the Oilers finally found it with Grant Fuhr and Andy Moog, forming one of the NHL’s best goaltending tandems.

It was Fuhr’s fifth season with the Oilers, and he finished with a 26-8-7 record, a 3.87 GAA, and an .884 SV%. Moog went 22-9-3 with a 3.30 GAA and an .895 SV%, his highest SV% during his Oilers tenure.

And with the Oilers clinching a playoff berth down the stretch, head coach Glen Sather wanted to give his two workhorses, Fuhr and Moog, a rest before the playoffs.

Mike Zanier, who signed as a free agent before the season started, posted a 1-1-1 record in three games that March.

The Oilers’ 42nd overall pick from the 1984 NHL Draft, Daryl Reaugh, was a 19-year-old rookie and the fourth netminder to suit up for the club that season, losing in his only game.

Marco Baron, who had played 85 NHL regular-season games, mainly with the Boston Bruins, before signing with the Oilers, was the fifth goalie to play for the club that season. He allowed two goals in a loss to the Los Angeles Kings.

Overall, the biggest difference from the last time the Oilers ran five goalies in net was that they became Stanley Cup champions for the second time in 1984-85.

Fuhr had an emergency appendectomy in September 1989, forcing him to miss the first two months of the NHL season. Because of that, he was limited to just 21 games, posting a 9-7-3 record, a 3.89 GAA, and a .868 SV%.

In response, the Oilers leaned heavily on netminder Bill Ranford, who was acquired in a trade with the Bruins in 1988.

In 56 games, Ranford posted a 24-16-9 record, a 3.19 GAA, and an .887 SV%. He was spectacular in the playoffs, going 16-6 with a 2.53 GAA, and became the first Oilers netminder to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, as Edmonton won their fifth Cup.

Nevertheless, three other goalies suited up for the Oilers that season. Pokey Reddick posted a 5-4-2 record in 11 games, with a 3.08 GAA, and Randy Exelby played his only game ever with the Oilers in a 6-3 loss to the Penguins.

Mike Greenlay was the fifth goaltender to suit up for the Oilers during the 1989-90 season, appearing in two games, neither of which was a start. One of those appearances came in a 10-4 loss to the Calgary Flames, where he surrendered four goals.

After going 24 years without using five or more goalies in a season, the Oilers had a revolving door in the crease, making several trades involving netminders throughout the 2013-14 season.

Devan Dubnyk entered the season as Edmonton’s No. 1 goalie after taking over the starting role the previous year, but had a tough start to the campaign. He played in 32 games, going 11-17-2 with a 3.36 GAA and a .894 SV%. As a result of his struggles, the Oilers traded Dubnyk to the Nashville Predators on Jan. 15, 2014.

On the same day, the Oilers acquired Ben Scrivens from the Los Angeles Kings for a third-round draft pick. He went 9-11 that season, posting a 3.01 GAA and .916 SV%. The one shutout he earned came on January 29, 2014, when he made 59 saves in a 3-0 shutout victory over the Chicago Blackhawks, setting an Oilers franchise record for most saves in a shutout.

Edmonton also brought in netminder Ilya Bryzgalov that season, who had been bought out by the Philadelphia Flyers, signing him to a one-year deal worth a $1.75 million AAV. He posted a 5-8-5 record with the Oilers, along with a 3.01 GAA and a .908 SV%, before being traded to the Minnesota Wild in March of that season in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick.

Then, after the Bryzgalov trade, the Oilers traded for Viktor Fasth in exchange for third and fifth-round picks. He posted a 3-2-1 record late in the season, with a 2.73 GAA and a .914 SV%.

The other netminders used that season were Jason LaBarbera and Richard Bachman.

The Oilers signed LaBarbera to be the backup netminder, and he posted a 1-3-0 record, with a 3.28 GAA and an .870 SV%.

The fifth and final netminder the Oilers used in 2013-14 was Bachman, who signed a one-year deal and competed for the backup spot with LaBarbera. He posted a respectable .916 SV% in three games, despite going 0-2-1.

In a season filled with goalie trades, Edmonton finished seventh in the Pacific Division with a 29-44-9 record and missed the playoffs.

The last time the Oilers used five or more goaltenders in a season was during the 2014-15 campaign.

Edmonton signed Scrivens to a two-year deal worth a $2.3 million AAV, leaning on him to be the starter after he showed flashes of stability the previous season, but Scrivens couldn’t reach that next level.

Scrivens played in 57 games and compiled a 15-26-11 record, a 3.16 GAA, and a .890 SV%, while Fasth, whom the Oilers hoped could push for starts, also posted a losing record, going 6-15-3 with a 3.41 GAA and an .888 SV%.

Bachman played the bulk of his minutes in the AHL with the Oklahoma City Barons, but still posted the best numbers among the Oilers’ netminders that season, going 3-2-0 with a 2.84 GAA and a .911 SV%.

Laurent Brossoit made his NHL debut late in the season, stopping 49 of 52 shots in a 3-1 loss to the San Jose Sharks. The fifth and final goalie to play that season was former Oilers fifth-round draft pick Tyler Bunz, who played in his one and only NHL game, giving up three goals in an 8-2 loss to the Los Angeles Kings.

The Oilers finished sixth in the Pacific Division, missing the playoffs for the ninth consecutive season.

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