After a one-year hiatus due to the compressed 2025-26 season, the Edmonton Oilers seem primed to add a couple more names to their Hall of Fame sometime in the near future.

The unveiling of the “Ring of Honour” style Hall of Fame at Rogers Place came back in the 2022-23 season with the inaugural class of every member of the organization that has a banner, as well as Lee Fogolin and Ryan Smyth. They have since added Charlie Huddy and Doug Weight in 2023 and Craig MacTavish along with Randy Gregg in 2024.

While there are still many names that span multiple generations of Oilers hockey worthy of being honoured, below are a few of the front-runners:

“Hemmer” was one of the biggest fan favourites of the aughts and early 2010s Oilers’ teams and arguably the best forward on the 2006 Stanley Cup finalist team. The Pardubice, Czechia native was drafted with the 13th overall pick in the 2001 draft and recorded 142 goals and 477 points in 652 games during the regular season for the Oil, good for 11th most in franchise history. Almost all of which were through the meat of the Decade of Darkness. Throughout his tenure, he was often far and away the best player on the team. He led or tied for the team lead in scoring four times, despite often missing significant chunks of time due to shoulder injuries and concussions.

During the 2006 playoffs, he contributed six goals and 11 assists in 24 games. His most important moment, however, came in Game 6 of the 2006 Western Conference quarterfinals against Detroit when he scored on Manny Legace to tie the game 3-3 with under four minutes remaining and then chipped a beautiful feed from Sergei Samsonov over Legace’s shoulder to give Edmonton the lead with 1:06 remaining. The Oilers would hang on to knock off the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Red Wings on their way to the Stanley Cup final.

Often Hemsky’s centreman on those bottom-feeder teams, the 13th captain of the club and Trail, B.C. product finished with 162 goals and 447 points as an Oiler while playing in the eighth most regular-season games in team history at 796. Every non-active name ahead of him in franchise games played is in the Oilers’ Hall of Fame. Horcoff ranks 12th in franchise history in points, and although he only had one playoff run with the team, he made it count, tallying seven goals and 12 assists in 24 games in 2006, including the triple overtime winner in Game 3 against San Jose for the Oilers’ first win of the series. They would go on to win three more times, defeating the Sharks 4-2 and advancing to their first Western Conference final since 1992.

The one who often spoke an unintelligible English-Finnish hybrid, which became known as “Tikkanese,” and could irritate opponents to the point of being nicknamed “The Grate One,” was also one of the clutchest playoff performers in Edmonton Oilers history. He ranks 13th in franchise history in regular season points with 436 while only playing 522 games, but delivered when it mattered most, racking up 51 goals and 97 points in 114 Stanley Cup Playoff games, good for eighth most in team history.

He won four Cups with the Oilers and another with the Rangers, but his most clutch performance came in the 1991 Smythe Division Semi-Final. Down 3-0 to Calgary in Game 7 at the Saddledome, Tikkanen forced the Oilers back into the game by picking up two goals and an assist in regulation to push the game to overtime at 4-4. Then, just under seven minutes into the extra frame, he wheeled into the Flames zone before snapping short-side on Mike Vernon to win the series.

Acquired with Geoff Courtnall from Boston in exchange for another potential Oilers Hall of Fame goaltender in Andy Moog, Bill Ranford won two Stanley Cups as an Oiler. The first, in 1988 as Grant Fuhr’s backup and the second as the driving force behind the Oilers’ 1990 win against the Bruins. He ranks second and third in franchise regular-season and playoff wins, respectively.

Ranford collected the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1990 after going 16-6 with a .912 save percentage and a shutout over the course of that spring as Edmonton went on to win their only championship without Wayne Gretzky, sweeping his Los Angeles Kings in the Smythe Division Finals in the process.

Ranking third in both regular season games played (334) and wins (147) in team history, the goaltender from Surahammar, Sweden, was a workhorse for the team for seven seasons, starting 65 or more games four times.

While Salo does not have the hardware of some of the other players that have made the Edmonton Oilers Hall of Fame, his consistency and durability, while also guiding the team to four playoff appearances across his tenure, provide merit for his name being one that is ultimately inducted.

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