The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Oilers have won the Stanley Cup on five occasions, in 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1990. The team was founded in 1972 as the Edmonton Oilers, a founding franchise of the major professional World Hockey Association (WHA). Notably, the team was renamed the Alberta Oilers when the Calgary Broncos, a fellow WHA founding franchise in Alberta, relocated to Cleveland. The team returned to the name Edmonton Oilers the following year. The Oilers joined the NHL in 1979 as one of four franchises merged from the WHA and is the only remaining WHA team in-place.
The NHL's dominant team in the 1980s, the Oilers greatest success since the dynasty era was a run to Game Seven of the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals.
The Oilers have an intense rivalry with the Calgary Flames, known as the Battle of Alberta, since the Flames' relocation from Atlanta in 1980.
