A PGP Guide to: The Edmonton Oilers

A PGP Guide to: The Edmonton Oilers

The Edmonton Oilers aesthetic is blue and orange, generational superstars, ridiculous offense, Alberta chaos, Wayne Gretzky, Connor McDavid doing things that don't seem physically possible, an entire city losing its mind every spring, and the feeling that every season without a Stanley Cup is somehow wasting precious time. This is a franchise with 5 Stanley Cups, one of the greatest dynasties hockey has ever seen, arguably the greatest player in NHL history and the best player of the current generation, and one of the most recognizable rivalries in the sport. But right now,  the Oilers are living through one of the highest pressure championship windows in hockey.

The Basics

Team: Edmonton Oilers

Conference: Western Conference

Division: Pacific Division

Home Arena: Rogers Place

Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Franchise Founded: 1972 as the Alberta Oilers in the WHA

Became Edmonton Oilers: 1973

Joined the NHL: 1979

Team Colors: Royal blue, orange and white

Stanley Cups: 5

Stanley Cup Years: 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990

Stanley Cup Final Appearances: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 2006, 2024, 2025

Biggest Rivals: Calgary Flames, Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers, Anaheim Ducks

The Oilers currently play at Rogers Place, which opened in downtown Edmonton in 2016 and replaced the team's longtime home at Northlands Coliseum/Rexall Place aka the building where the 1980s dynasty happened. Rogers Place sits at the center of Edmonton's ICE District and has become especially ridiculous during playoff runs, when thousands of additional fans gather outside the arena for watch parties. 

The Origin Story

The Oilers actually started outside the NHL. In 1972, businessman Bill Hunter helped create the Alberta Oilers as a founding member of the World Hockey Association, the rival league that was attempting to compete with the NHL The team was renamed the Edmonton Oilers in 1973 and remained in the WHA until 1979. 

In November 1978, the struggling Indianapolis Racers sold a 17 year old Wayne Gretzky to Edmonton. A year later, the WHA folded and four teams — Edmonton, Winnipeg, Quebec and Hartford — entered the NHL for the 1979-80 season. The Oilers were allowed to retain Gretzky and within five years of joining the NHL, Edmonton was Stanley Cup champion. Then they basically took over the sport.

The Vibe Check

The Edmonton Oilers are hockey excess. There’s too much talent, too much pressure, too much history, a lot of offense, and too many emotions. The franchise's first great era had Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier while the current one has Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. There are franchises that would kill to have one generational player in their entire history yet Edmonton somehow keeps collecting them. The problem is that this means Oilers fans don't really get to enjoy being casually good. When you have Connor McDavid, the goal isn't to make the playoffs, it isn't to win a round, it isn’t even to have a good year, it’s to win the Stanley Cup before this era ends.

The History You Need to Know

Edmonton entered the NHL in 1979 and almost immediately became ridiculous. The core was absurd! They had Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Jari Kurri, Paul Coffey, Glenn Anderson, Grant Fuhr, Kevin Lowe, and head coach/general manager Glen Sather putting everything together. They reached their first Stanley Cup Final in 1983, where they ran into the New York Islanders. At the time, the Islanders were the dynasty having won three consecutive Stanley Cups and swept Edmonton to win a fourth, but Edmonton learned.

The exact same teams met again in the 1984 Stanley Cup Final and this time the Oilers won. They defeated the four time defending champion Islanders in 5 games and officially started a dynasty of their own, winning again in 1985, then again in 1987, then again in 1988. Four Cups in five seasons!! The 1984-85 Oilers in particular are considered one of the greatest teams ever assembled. Gretzky had 47 points in 18 playoff games, which remains the NHL record for points in a single postseason. Paul Coffey had 37 points as a defenseman. Jari Kurri scored 19 goals. This was not normal hockey… but all of that came to a change when one of the most shocking transactions in sports history happened.

On August 9, 1988, Edmonton traded Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings. The deal sent Gretzky, Marty McSorley and Mike Krushelnyski to Los Angeles in exchange for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gélinas, three first round picks and $15 million in cash.

Canadians genuinely treated this like a national crisis. Gretzky cried at the press conference, Oilers fans were furious, and nd the trade completely changed hockey in both cities. Los Angeles suddenly had the sport's biggest superstar, helping accelerate hockey's growth in nontraditional U.S. markets. Edmonton wasn’t done, though. Without Gretzky, Mark Messier became the unquestioned leader and the Oilers won another Stanley Cup in 1990, defeating Boston to capture their fifth championship in seven seasons. After that, the dynasty finally broke apart.

The next great Oilers moment came almost out of nowhere. Edmonton entered the 2006 playoffs as the eighth seed and went on one of the great underdog runs in modern hockey, upsetting Detroit, San Jose, then Anaheim, and suddenly the Oilers were back in the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 1990 to face off the Hurricanes. Unfortunately, Game 1 changed everything when starting goalie Roloson suffered a knee injury and was lost for the rest of the series. Edmonton still somehow pushed Carolina to Game 7, but the Hurricanes won, and things got so much worse for Edmonton.

From 2007 through 2016, Edmonton missed the playoffs for ten consecutive seasons. This era had a truly unbelievable amount of losing, but it also involved Edmonton repeatedly winning the draft lottery. Taylor Hall went first overall in 2010, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins went first in 2011, Nail Yakupov went first in 2012, and somehow none of that fixed everything. Then in 2015 Edmonton won the draft lottery again, but this time there was a generational prospect available named Connor McDavid, and suddenly the entire franchise changed.

The Icons

Wayne Gretzky

The Great One.

There really isn't a debate about who belongs first. Gretzky came to Edmonton at 17 during the WHA era, transitioned with the Oilers into the NHL and became the greatest offensive player hockey has ever seen. During his Edmonton years alone, he won 4 Stanley Cups, 8 Hart Trophies, 7 Art Ross Trophies, 2 Conn Smythe Trophies, and set a collection of NHL records that still look fake. He remains the NHL's all-time leader in goals, assists and points.

His number 99 is retired across the entire NHL!

Mark Messier

The Moose.

If Gretzky was the genius of the dynasty, Messier was its force. He won all 5 Edmonton Stanley Cups and became captain after Gretzky was traded. The biggest proof that the Oilers were more than just Wayne Gretzky came in 1990, when Messier was captain and Edmonton won anyway. He eventually left for New York and famously led the Rangers to their 1994 Stanley Cup, but Messier will forever be one of the defining figures of the Oilers dynasty.

Jari Kurri

Jari Kurri was Wayne Gretzky's longtime right winger and one of the best Finnish players in NHL history. He wasn't simply benefiting from Gretzky either. Kurri was an elite scorer in his own right, scoring 71 goals in 1984-85 and winning all 5 Stanley Cups with Edmonton.

Paul Coffey

Paul Coffey played defense like someone had forgotten to tell him defensemen weren't supposed to score this much. He was one of the greatest skating defensemen ever and became a huge part of Edmonton's identity. During the 1985 playoffs, Coffey recorded 37 points in 18 games. Again, a defenseman with 37 points in 18 games!!

Grant Fuhr

Grant Fuhr was the goalie behind the dynasty. Fuhr was athletic, calm under pressure and able to make the important save when Edmonton needed it. He won 4 Stanley Cups as Edmonton's primary dynasty era goalie and became the first Black player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame!

Glenn Anderson

Anderson was one of the ultimate playoff performers of the dynasty. He played fast, aggressive hockey, scored huge goals and won all 5 Cups with Edmonton. He didn't have the celebrity of Gretzky or Messier, but he was absolutely part of what made those teams terrifying.

Ryan Smyth

Captain Canada.

Ryan Smyth never won a Cup with Edmonton, but he’s still a very important Oiler. He became one of the faces of the franchise during the years after the dynasty and was beloved for his toughness, loyalty and willingness to stand directly in front of goalies while being abused by defensemen. His departure in a 2007 trade was so emotional that Smyth cried while speaking to reporters at the airport. He later returned to Edmonton and finished his NHL career as an Oiler.

Connor McDavid

We can officially put him here because this isn't premature anymore. McDavid has already become one of the greatest players in franchise history, which is insane considering who else has played here. He has won multiple scoring titles, Hart Trophies and Ted Lindsay Awards, won the 2024 Conn Smythe Trophy despite Edmonton losing the Stanley Cup Final, and carried the franchise back to consecutive Finals. The only thing missing is The Stanley Cup.

The Current Era

The modern Oilers basically begin with two draft picks – Leon Draisaitl being drafted third overall in 2014 and Connor McDavid being drafted first overall in 2015. This gave the Oilers arguably the best one-two center combination in hockey. For years, the question was whether Edmonton could build enough around them and eventually, they did. The Oilers became a regular playoff team and started pushing deeper into the postseason. They reached the Western Conference Final in 2022, but then came 2024.

Edmonton reached its first Stanley Cup Final since 2006 and faced the Florida Panthers.

Florida went up 3-0 in the series, but Edmonton somehow came all the way back and forced Game 7. They were one win away from becoming only the second team in NHL history to overcome a 3-0 deficit in the Stanley Cup Final, but Florida won Game 7. Connor McDavid still won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, becoming just the sixth player from the losing team to win it. Heartbreaking, right?

So what did they do? They tried again. The Oilers went right back to the Stanley Cup Final in 2025 against who? Florida! Again! This time the Panthers beat them in six games, winning back to back Stanley Cups at Edmonton's expense. So 2025-26 arrived with one extremely obvious objective: Go back and finally finish it. Instead, Edmonton finished second in the Pacific Division and lost to the Anaheim Ducks in six games in the first round, marking their earliest playoff elimination since 2021.

The franchise decided it was time for a change. Head coach Kris Knoblauch, who had taken Edmonton to those back to back Finals, was fired in May and replaced by Mike Babcock as its new head coach in June. By the way, this was super controversial. Babcock had not coached an NHL game since being fired by Toronto in 2019. He was hired by Columbus in 2023 but resigned before coaching a game after reports that he asked players to share personal photos from their phones; the NHLPA investigated the situation. Before Edmonton hired him in 2026, the NHL conducted another review and said there was “no current basis to restrict his employment in the League.” McDavid and Draisaitl have publicly backed the hire and described Babcock as a fit for a team trying to win immediately.

And for this team, “immediately” is the key word because Connor McDavid just gave Edmonton a deadline of two years.

The Controversies

Edmonton has made several decisions in recent years that have brought criticism well beyond what happens on the ice, particularly involving the people the organization has chosen to hire and sign.

Stan Bowman

The Oilers hired Stan Bowman as general manager and executive VP of hockey operations in July 2024, only weeks after the NHL reinstated him. Bowman had previously resigned from the Chicago Blackhawks in 2021 following an independent investigation into the organization's handling of allegations that video coach Brad Aldrich sexually assaulted prospect Kyle Beach during the 2010 playoffs. The investigation found that senior members of Chicago's hockey operations staff, including Bowman, were informed of the allegations but failed to promptly address them. The NHL later described Chicago's response as inadequate and untimely and fined the organization $2 million.

Bowman spent nearly three years away from the NHL before being reinstated in July 2024, with the league saying he had taken steps toward rehabilitation and demonstrated remorse. Edmonton hired him later that month, making the decision immediately controversial because of his role in one of the darkest scandals in modern NHL history.

Mike Babcock

In June 2026, Bowman hired Mike Babcock as Edmonton's head coach. Babcock previously attempted a comeback with Columbus in 2023 which lasted less than three months and ended before he coached a single game. The NHL Players' Association investigated after players reported feeling uncomfortable during meetings in which Babcock asked to see personal photographs from their phones, and he ultimately resigned. Columbus executives later publicly called hiring him a mistake.

Before Edmonton hired him, the NHL conducted another review of Babcock's time in Columbus and announced in June 2026 that it found no current basis to prevent him from working in the league. That cleared the way for his return, but understandably did not erase the controversy surrounding the hire.

Alex Formenton

The most recent controversy came in September 2026, when Edmonton signed Alex Formenton to a one year, $850,000 contract. Formenton was one of five former members of Canada's 2018 World Junior team charged with sexual assault in connection with an incident following a Hockey Canada event in London, Ontario. All five players were acquitted in July 2025.

However, the NHL separately investigated the incident and, even after the acquittals, said the players' conduct fell "woefully short" of the standards expected by the league. The NHL imposed additional restrictions before allowing the players to return, making them eligible to sign beginning October 15, 2025 and play beginning December 1. Formenton ultimately returned to the NHL when Edmonton signed him on September 9, 2026.

Formenton was acquitted in criminal court, but an acquittal does not erase the deeply troubling circumstances surrounding the case or the NHL's own conclusion that the players' conduct fell "woefully short" of its standards. His return to the league, and Edmonton's decision to be the team that signed him, was understandably met with serious criticism.

The Players You Need to Know

Connor McDavid

The best player in the world.

There really isn't another way to introduce him. Edmonton drafted McDavid first overall in 2015, and he has spent the last decade doing things that make NHL defensemen look like they're playing in slow motion. Speed, hands, vision, passing, scoring, basically everything in one person, and 2025-26 was ridiculous even by McDavid standards. He finished with 138 points, winning his 6th Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's scoring leader. He was also voted the league's most outstanding player by his peers for a record-tying 5th Ted Lindsay Award. 

Leon Draisaitl

The other superstar.

Calling Leon Draisaitl “the other guy” on Edmonton is hilarious because on almost every other NHL team he would unquestionably be The Guy. The Oilers drafted him third overall in 2014 and he developed into one of the best offensive players in hockey, winning the Hart Trophy and Art Ross Trophy in 2020. He's scored 50 goals multiple times and he has become one of the most dangerous playoff performers of this era.

Evan Bouchard

The offensive defenseman.

Evan Bouchard has become one of the most dangerous offensive defensemen in hockey. His shot, affectionately known as the Bouch Bomb, is terrifying, especially on Edmonton's power play, and 2025-26 was his best season yet. Bouchard recorded 95 points, earning Second-Team NHL All-Star honors and finishing among the league's elite offensive defensemen.

Zach Hyman

The net-front menace.

Zach Hyman might be one of the best examples of a player's career completely exploding after finding the perfect situation. He came to Edmonton from Toronto in 2021 and became the ideal winger for McDavid and Draisaitl. Hyman does the dirty work by going to the net, battling, and scoring ugly goals, but he scores a LOT of goals. He has become part of Edmonton's leadership core and was directly involved in the meetings with Mike Babcock before his hiring.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

The survivor.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is basically the bridge between Edmonton's dark era and the current contender. The Oilers drafted him first overall in 2011, before McDavid and Draisaitl. Nugent-Hopkins stayed through the decade of losing, the rebuilds, the coaching changes, the playoff breakthroughs and now the Cup runs. He isn't the superstar centerpiece anymore, but he's versatile, trusted, plays special teams and remains extremely important to Edmonton. There is something deeply satisfying about the idea of Nuge finally winning a Cup after everything he has witnessed there.

Mattias Ekholm

The adult in the room on defense.

Edmonton acquired Mattias Ekholm from Nashville in 2023, and the trade immediately made the defense better. He's big, steady, intelligent and gives Edmonton the defensive reliability needed to balance Bouchard's offensive game. Ekholm isn’t flashy, he doesn’t need to be, but his plus/minus speaks for itself.

Matt Savoie

The young guy everyone is watching.

Matt Savoie represents something Edmonton desperately needs – cheap young talent. The Oilers acquired the former 9th overall pick from Buffalo in 2024, and he established himself as an NHL player during 2025-26. He finished his rookie season by scoring a hat trick in Game 82! With Edmonton's stars getting expensive and the championship window tightening, players like Savoie becoming legitimate contributors matters enormously.

Frederik Andersen

The new veteran goalie.

Goaltending has been one of the biggest recurring conversations around Edmonton for years, so they basically nuked the room and tried again. In July 2026, Edmonton signed Frederik Andersen to a one year contract after he helped Carolina win the 2026 Stanley Cup.

Unfortunately, Edmonton announced in August that Andersen suffered another injury during offseason training and is expected to miss training camp, which leads us to…

Devon Levi

The goalie gamble.

Edmonton acquired Devon Levi from Buffalo. Levi was once considered one of the better young goalie prospects in hockey but struggled to establish himself permanently in Buffalo. Between Andersen and Levi, the Oilers have completely changed the look of their goalie situation because apparently this team needed another source of stress.

The Big 2026 Offseason Change

Darnell Nurse had been an Oiler since 2014. He played more than a decade for Edmonton, became part of the leadership group and lived through basically the entire McDavid era, but his eight year, $74 million contract became one of the most debated deals in hockey. On July 1, Edmonton finally moved on as they traded Nurse to the San Jose Sharks for young defenseman Shakir Mukhamadullin and prospect Zack Sharp. 

The move created cap flexibility and triggered a much larger roster rework allowing Edmonton to also sign defenseman Ryan Shea for five years at $4 million annually, sign Frederik Andersen, acquire Devon Levi, sign Mathieu Joseph, re-sign Kasperi Kapanen, and retain young defenseman Mukhamadullin. This was a busy offseason for the Oilers, so we wanted to make sure you were caught up!

The Rivalries

Calgary Flames

The Battle of Alberta.

Edmonton and Calgary are separated by about three hours on Alberta Highway 2, which means the rivalry has everything you want. Same province, same division, competing cities, generations of fans who hate each other, and actual playoff history. During the 1980s, Calgary was basically the main team trying to stop Edmonton's dynasty. The franchises met in the playoffs 5 times between 1983 and 1991, with Edmonton winning 4 of those series.

The most infamous Calgary victory came in 1986 during game 7 when Oilers defenseman Steve Smith accidentally banked the puck off goalie Grant Fuhr and into his own net. Calgary won, on Smith's birthday, because sports are cruel.

The rivalry exploded again in the McDavid/Tkachuk era, and the teams finally met in the playoffs again in 2022. Calgary won Game 1, 9-6 (no, that’s not a typo), Edmonton then won 4 straight and eliminated the Flames on a Connor McDavid overtime goal. If you’re thinking of being an Oilers fan, just know this is where most of the hatred lies.

Los Angeles Kings

This rivalry has history way beyond the recent playoffs because Los Angeles is forever tied to one of the biggest moments in hockey history – the Wayne Gretzky trade. Gretzky helped turn the Kings into a major attraction and grow the sport in CA, while Edmonton was left dealing with the loss of the greatest player in hockey.

Then, decades later, the rivalry basically got a second life through repetition. Edmonton played Los Angeles in the first round in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025... four years in a row!! To make matters worse for Kings fans, Edmonton eliminated them every single time. The first series went seven games, then six, then five. LA even went up 2-0 in 2025…and Edmonton won the next four. So between LA taking Gretzky away from them and four straight modern playoff eliminations, at some point, the trauma becomes a rivalry.

Vancouver Canucks

Another Western Canadian rivalry. Edmonton and Vancouver don't have quite the same ancient blood feud as the Battle of Alberta, but they're geographically close, share a division and have extremely online fanbases. Things got much more intense during the 2024 playoffs, when the teams met in the second round where Vancouver pushed Edmonton all the way to Game 7. The Oilers won and continued on to the Stanley Cup Final. Now Edmonton opens the 2026-27 season against Vancouver at Rogers Place, followed by another game in Vancouver two nights later, so we're starting immediately.

Florida Panthers

This rivalry did not exist five minutes ago, now I would argue it absolutely does. Florida beat Edmonton in the 2024 Stanley Cup Final, then again in the 2025 Stanley Cup Final. The same two teams meeting in consecutive Finals is already incredibly rare, it hadn't happened since Detroit and Pittsburgh in 2008 and 2009, but Florida winning both is tough. In 2024, Edmonton came back from down 3-0 only to lose Game 7. In 2025, Florida closed them out in six. At this point, if Edmonton eventually wins the Stanley Cup and has to go through Florida to do it? The storyline writes itself.

Anaheim Ducks

Anaheim eliminated Edmonton in a 7 game second-round series in 2017. For years, Oilers fans remained particularly annoyed about Game 5 of that series, when Anaheim erased a 3-0 deficit late in the third period and won in double overtime. They finally met again in 2026 after Edmonton had just gone to consecutive Stanley Cup Finals and Anaheim hadn't made the playoffs since 2018. And of course, because sports are cruel, Anaheim beat them in six games. 

The Fanbase

Edmonton is not a city that’s casually interested in hockey. The Oilers basically become the city during the playoffs. Rogers Place fills with fans, thousands of additional fans gather outside in the ICE District, orange jerseys appear everywhere, road games become giant communal watch parties, and because this is Canada, everyone has an opinion about the fourth line. During Edmonton's first season at Rogers Place, the organization's playoff watch parties became so popular that more than 100,000 fans attended road game events during the run! That was in 2017, so imagine what the city looked like during the 2024 and 2025 Finals.

Oilers fans have also experienced one of the strangest emotional arcs possible. Their franchise dominated hockey almost immediately, then they spent years being irrelevant with a decade long playoff drought, then finally, they drafted Connor McDavid, and now they're close enough to the Stanley Cup to taste it while simultaneously becoming terrified that the window won't stay open forever. Very healthy sports experience!

The Retired Numbers

The Oilers have officially retired 8 numbers.

No. 3 — Al Hamilton

The one retired number representing the WHA Oilers era.Hamilton played for Edmonton before the club entered the NHL and became the first player in franchise history to have his number retired.

No. 4 — Kevin Lowe

The first player selected by Edmonton in its first NHL Draft. Lowe scored the first NHL goal in Oilers history and won 5 Stanley Cups with the franchise.

No. 7 — Paul Coffey

One of the greatest offensive defensemen ever and a cornerstone of Edmonton's dynasty.

No. 9 — Glenn Anderson

5 time Stanley Cup champion and one of Edmonton's greatest playoff performers.

No. 11 — Mark Messier

The Moose! Five Cups, captain of the 1990 championship, and one of the greatest leaders in NHL history.

No. 17 — Jari Kurri

Wayne Gretzky's longtime winger, elite goal scorer and 5 time Stanley Cup champion.

No. 31 — Grant Fuhr

The goalie of the dynasty and one of the greatest goaltenders of his generation.

No. 99 — Wayne Gretzky

Technically Gretzky's 99 isn't simply an Oilers retired number. The entire NHL retired it in 2000, meaning nobody ever gets 99.

The Team Identity

The Edmonton Oilers have basically had two lives.

The first life was kind of like “we're going to score more goals than you and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it” with players like Gretzky, Messier, Kurri, Coffey, and Anderson defining the 1980s dynasty.

The second is…kind of the same thing! Instead, it’s names like McDavid, Draisaitl, Bouchard, Hyman, all with an elite power play, high end offense, and generational skill. The difference is that the first group finished the job five times, while this one hasn't.

Edmonton isn't rebuilding or developing towards playoff contention, this franchise is in Stanley Cup or disappointment territory. Connor McDavid's new contract makes that even clearer. He could have demanded basically any amount of money Edmonton could legally give him, instead, he signed for the exact same $12.5 million cap hit he'd already been making, for only two years. He gave them flexibility and he gave them time, but not unlimited time.

After consecutive Stanley Cup Final losses followed by a first round exit, Edmonton changed the coach, changed the goalie room, traded one of its longest tenured players and rebuilt significant pieces of the defense. There really isn't much ambiguity about what comes next… win.

Why You Should Watch Them

You should watch the Edmonton Oilers because there is genuinely no guarantee we get another player like Connor McDavid for a very long time. There’s great NHL players, there’s superstars, and then there are players who make you understand that you're watching a specific era of hockey history unfold in real time. McDavid is that, and he doesn’t do it alone.

Leon Draisaitl is one of the best players in the world, Evan Bouchard just had a 95 point season as a defenseman, Zach Hyman lives at the front of the net, and Matt Savoie represents the next wave. But, this team’s goalie situation has once again become a science experiment. Mike Babcock is returning to an NHL bench in one of the league's highest pressure jobs. Darnell Nurse is suddenly gone after more than a decade.

Calgary still hates Edmonton, LA is sick of them, Anaheim just embarrassed them, Florida has broken their hearts twice, and hanging over literally everything is the fact that Connor McDavid can become a free agent in 2028. The Oilers already know exactly what it feels like to have one of the greatest players ever and eventually watch him leave Edmonton, and nobody wants to experience anything remotely resembling that again. The 1980s Oilers became immortal because they actually won, while the McDavid Oilers have spent years getting closer and closer, and now they're running out of room for almost.