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December 10, 2011

Kelly Buchberger: Bang For Their Buck

"Take 'em wide, Bucky!"

The Edmonton Oilers have had a lot of great players over the years. Wayne Gretzky. Mark Messier. Paul Coffey. Jari Kurri. Grant Fuhr. Kevin Lowe. Glenn Anderson. Ryan Smyth. I could go on.

Through sheer determination and hard work, Kelly Buchberger achieved immortalizing fame in the city of champions, far eclipsing his athletic ability and his tenure with the less than great times in the later 1990s .

Yet he is very much an Oilers legend and a fan favorite. No one, not the Oilers and most certainly not Buchberger himself, could have ever imagined that when he walked into the Northlands Coliseum for the first time.

Read the full Kelly Buchberger biography.

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