BLOG: Five more names added for Farewell

The countdown is on to April 6, when the Oilers host Vancouver for the team’s final game at Rexall Place. The post-game farewell ceremony will feature 100+ Oilers alumni in attendance. Each day leading up to the game, we’ll announce five Oilers alumni who are scheduled to attend. Here are today’s five.

Grant Fuhr helped the Oilers capture five Stanley Cup championships during his tenure with the orange and blue. The goaltender earned the Vezina Trophy for his 1987-88 season, in which Fuhr racked up career-best 40 wins for the Oil and a career-high four shutouts. His lengthy NHL career between the pipes brought him from Edmonton to Toronto to Buffalo to Los Angeles, St. Louis and Calgary. The Spruce Grove, AB native was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2003.

Kelly Buchberger is an Oil Country icon, having played within the Oilers organization for 13 seasons — 11 as an NHL regular — from 1986-1999. Originally taken in the ninth round, 188th overall, of the 1985 NHL Draft, Buchberger went on to play 1182 NHL regular season games and 97 playoff games, mostly with the Oilers. The forward recorded 309 points in his NHL career and was a forceful checking presence on Edmonton’s championship team in 1990. He was team captain from 1995-99 and took up a coaching career with the Oilers a few years after retiring as a player, both in the AHL and as an assistant in Edmonton from 2008-2014.

Mark Lamb joined the Oilers for the 1987-88 season after being claimed on waivers and was with the club until he was claimed by the Ottawa Senators in the 1992 expansion draft. He won a Stanley Cup with the Oilers in 1990, playing an important two-way role. He was a productive player for the Oilers in that post-season, recording 17 points in 22 games. Lamb was an assistant coach for Edmonton during the 2001-02 season.

Dean McAmmond would play close to 1000 NHL games and spent a good part of six seasons with the Oilers before being traded to the Chicago Blackhawks (1999) in a seven-player trade that landed Edmonton their future captain — Ethan Moreau. McAmmond’s role with the Oilers increased during his time there, with his best season coming during the 1997-98 campaign in which he recorded 19 goals and 50 points. McAmmond also played for Chicago, Philadelphia, Calgary, Colorado, St. Louis, Ottawa, the New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils.

Fernando Pisani was born in Edmonton and, fittingly enough, was drafted by the franchise in the eighth round, 195th overall, of the 1996 NHL Draft. The winger only ever played one season in the NHL for a team other than the Oilers. Pisani's legacy is his performance in the Oilers 2006 Stanley Cup Final run. Pisani posted a career-high 37 points during the regular season and led all Edmonton players in playoff scoring with a whopping 14 goals. Pisani’s NHL career lasted 462 games, in which he compiled 87 goals and 169 points.