NHL Playing Career
Lowe played 13 full seasons in his first stint with the Oilers, winning 5 Stanley Cups. He was team captain for the 1991–92 season.
The Oilers traded him to the New York Rangers, in December 1992 (Lowe was a restricted free-agent). There he helped other ex-Oilers Glenn Anderson, Jeff Beukeboom, Adam Graves, Craig MacTavish, Mark Messier, and Esa Tikkanen to win another Stanley Cup, bringing his personal total to 6. As Stephen Cole said in The Best of Hockey Night in Canada, the Rangers winning the Stanley Cup in 1994 was a win for "New York's Oilers," as the team consisted of members of the great Edmonton team of the 1980s. In fact, it was the last hurrah for the great Oilers dynasty of the 1980s, according to Cole.
In 1996, he re-joined the Oilers as a free agent, and played another full season. He started the 1997–98 season with the Oilers as well, but only played 7 games due to illness – an inner-ear virus that affected his balance, thus ending his playing career.
In total, Lowe played in 1254 career regular season games, scoring 84–347–431 with 1498 penalty minutes. He added another 214 playoff games, scoring 10–48–58 and earning 192 penalty minutes.
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