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Top 100 Oilers: No. 84 — Jarret Stoll

Originally posted on Oilersnation | By Zach Laing | Last updated Sep 7, 2025 10:18 AM ET

Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Jarret Stoll comes in at No. 84 on our updated 2025 list. He was ranked No.69 on Brownlee’s original list.

Jarret Stoll was exactly the type of player the Edmonton Oilers should’ve kept around in the post-2006 Cup Run years. Instead, he, a pending RFA, and another solid, younger defenceman in Matt Greene, would get shipped off to Los Angeles for Lubomir Visnovsky.

There, Oilers fans got to watch them play important roles in two Stanley Cup wins.

Via The Nation Network

Notable

Stoll became an Oiler thanks to the Calgary Flames and Toronto Maple Leafs bungling a trade. The centre was selected by Calgary 46th overall in 2000, but never agreed to a contract with them, setting the stage for a trade east ahead of a June 1st, 2002 deadline. The Leafs bungled the sending of a fax, nullifying the trade and allowing Stoll to re-enter that year’s draft.

Edmonton would select him 36th overall and he would arrive in Edmonton full-time in 2003. He put up big numbers in his second year scoring 22 goals and 68 points in 82 games, but he was more well-known as for his strong two-way play and penalty kill ability.

He gained experience in the 2006-06 cup run, turning into a 35+ point player in Edmonton, but never reached the same offensive heights.

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The Story

In Los Angeles he would settle into a middle-six role well, put up between 41 and 47 points in each of his first three years there, playing less minutes as the years went on. His final season in the NHL, 2015-16, saw him split time between the New York Rangers and Minnesota Wild.

Edmonton Journal. June 20, 2008

What Brownlee said

In an era when many people get a good chunk of their information from media outlets that seem as interested in celebrity as in actual news, Jarret Stoll has probably been as well-known these last few years for all the hot women’s he’s dated and for getting arrested for drug possession as he has for playing hockey.

That is what it is, as the saying goes, but when I take a look at Stoll’s time with the Edmonton Oilers, a tenure than spanned 286 games over parts of five seasons, I see a young, versatile role player who was traded away by the Oilers just as he was entering his prime seasons as an NHL centre – the kind of player this team as too often been without since.