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The Edmonton Oilers were founded in 1972 and play in the Western Conference's Northwest Division in the National Hockey League.

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Starting as the Alberta Oilers, the team changed their name the following year to the Edmonton Oilers and kept it ever since. The team plays in Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and their colors are midnight blue, copper, red, white and silver. The team's archrivals are the Calgary Flames. They have won five Stanley Cups and seven Conference Championships. They also hold five Division Championship titles.

They were a founding member of the World Hockey Association, and scored one of the greatest hockey trades in history when they got Wayne Gretzky as an underage player, as well as Eddie Mio and Peter Driscoll as goaltender and forward, respectively for a small amount of money.

The Oilers joined the NHL the next year in 1979-80, along with the Hartford Whalers, the Jets and the Quebec Nordiques. They dominated the NHL through the mid-to-late 1980s. They were one of the best teams in hockey history, and were recently named one of the top five sports teams from the past 120 years by a Sporting News poll.

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The Oilers will look back on the 2006-07 season as the one that got away. Their thrilling end of season contest with the Calgary Flames was a give and take affair, with the Oilers' hearts broke at the end of the battle. There were other factors involved in the outcome overall of this titanic affair, such as the fortunes of Flames rivals for the season, the Colorado Avalanche. Nashville's 4-2 victory over Colorado on the Saturday destroyed the hopes of the Avalanche, and Calgary marched into the postseason irrespective of their defeat at the hands of Edmonton. Patrick Thoresen's tiebreaking goal in the third period had given the Oilers a 3-2 win over the Calgary Flames on the Saturday, but the Flames overall season performance allowed them to clinch the final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

The Oilers had been on a team-record goalless streak which was finally broken when Ales Hemsky scored on the power play at 14:56. Edmonton had gone 207 minutes and 44 seconds without a goal at that point, not having scored since Raffi Torres' early goal the previous Sunday. Less than five minutes later they scored another, Ladislav Smid tied it 2-2 at 19:50 of the second, with a slap shot from the blue line that deflected past goalie Miikka Kiprusoff.

Thoresen scored the heroic goal, the game-winner at 11:16, amking it 3-2 to the Edmonton Oilers, but the season had run out of steam for the Oilers, and it was off to hunt down hockey tickets to Oilers games for next time around for rabid Edmonton fans. They may have not have matched the previous season's playoff making performance, but they at least managed a courageous fight back from 2-0 in this last act of 2006-07. When the Oilers fans once more take to their seats in their Rexall Place arena next season, they will reach those higher decibels once again, and glow with pride at what is considered the finest playing surface in the NHL. Basically, it is time to head out and find your Edmonton Oilers tickets for next season.