The fact is that Edmonton hasn’t had a farm team this good in the regular season since the 1981-82 Wichita Wind. That Wichita team featured three people who would go on to be big names in the NHL, d-man Charlie Huddy, goalie Andy Moog and coach John Muckler. After that Wichita team, though, the Oilers farm system was far more mediocre than good for decades to come. The entire time the farm team was in the Maritimes, 1982-96, they only cracked the 40-win barrier once, 41 wins in 1990-91 on a team led by Shaun Van Allen, Norm MacIver, Shjon Poidein and Greg Hawgood. The farm team continued to struggle after it moved to Hamilton in 1996-97, and the only winning years for the Edmonton system came when it shared a farm team with other squads, Montreal in Hamilton 2001-03, and with Pittsburgh in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 2006-07.

Source: National Post March 30, 2019 07:22 UTC