Top 100 Oilers: No. 56 – Mike Comrie
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09.01.2026
Oilersnation is reviving the Top 100 Edmonton Oilers of All Time list, a project originally created by the late Robin Brownlee in 2015. Mike Comrie comes in at No. 56 on our updated 2025-2026 list. He was ranked No. 51 on Brownlee’s original list.Is there a more complicated legacy in Edmonton Oilers history than Mike Comrie? From the hometown kid soaring and scoring out of the gates, to the ugliest of contract feuds, unfounded rumours and innuendo, to his eventual return six years later: Mike Comrie was the biggest lightning rod of controversy and discussion around any Oiler during the 2000s. He turned his back on the franchise, or it so seemed. There was searing acrimony from GM Kevin Lowe, a trade to Anaheim that could’ve given the Oilers an 18-year-old Corey Perry, and even… Hilary Duff?! We don’t know the full extent of what happened in 2003, but the hatchet was eventually buried. The parties matured enough to try again in 2009. For his play alone, Comrie ranks as the 56th greatest Oiler of all-time, but he’s one of the great sagas (the good, the bad, and the ugly) in franchise history. Notable
Mike Comrie’s junior career is fascinating and could be an article of its own. He had an electric AJHL tenure with Sherwood Park and St. Albert, where his name is still littered through their history books, played two seasons with the University of Michigan, and then went back to junior to play with the Kootenay Ice in 2000-01. Then he was signed mid-season to a rich rookie contract of the day to join the Oilers, where he made an immediate impact and it seemed like a marriage made in heaven. However, just three years later, © Oilers Nation
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