With the Edmonton Oilers sitting with a 13-9 record in the NHL’s Western Conference, Kait Flynn, arguably the team’s most well-known fan, has kept a relatively low profile so far this season.
Flynn became known as the “Oilers Girl” during last year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs when she flashed her breasts during the final moments of Game 5 of the Conference Finals against the Dallas Stars.
As the Oilers made their way to the NHL Finals, Flynn managed to keep her sudden fame going with appearances on the popular Spittin’ Chiclets podcast and a gig modelling for Playboy.
“So you know what? At the end of the day, I got drunk and whipped my t*** out at an Oilers game, and they went viral? F*** you if you don’t like it. Woo! Go Oilers!” she said.
Flynn added to her viral fame by posting her Game 7 Stanley Cup Finals prediction from the shower. “Without a doubt … McJesus (Connor McDavid) is going to lead the Oilers to victory and the Cup is coming back to Edmonton,” she said.
The Oilers lost in heartbreaking fashion 2-1 to the Florida Panthers, but that didn’t stop her from keeping fans interested in her every move.
When the season ended, Flynn took to her Instagram Stories to share a slideshow of inspiring messages, including a snap from a mock reel in which NHL commissioner Gary Bettman awarded her the Conn Smythe trophy.
“For the first time in NHL history, we are giving the award to a fan,” an AI-generated clip of Bettman said. “The winner of the 2024 Conn Smythe trophy is Kait Flynn, otherwise known as ‘Oilers Girl.’ When the Oilers were down three to nothing in the Stanley Cup finals, she whipped out her jugs and sent this Edmonton team into a frenzy. Please, everyone, join me in congratulating Oilers Girl!”
Flynn told Barstool Sports that she had guzzled about eight Truly hard seltzers and a bunch of Cheezies before deciding to show off her assets.
“It wasn’t planned or anything … and yeah, it just kind of happened,” she said.
She also took to her own Instagram to fire back at critics who took issue with her brazen moment.
“I thought long and hard what I wanted to say to everybody. … I just wanted to say, you could be the most perfect, Godly f***ing person in the world. You could save kittens from the river if they were drowning. Someone’s still going to hate you,” Flynn said.
During an appearance on Bachelorette alum Kaitlyn Bristowe’s Off the Vine podcast this past summer, Flynn said that she called her mother to see if she could “debrief dad that my t*** are on the internet” as she achieved overnight fame.
“Mom said, ‘They’re just t***. We’ll deal with it. They’ll go away. It can’t be that bad.’ And then it was like in the New York Post the next day … It was actually in the printed copy of the New York Post,” she said.
Reflecting on the moment she decided to flash the camera, Flynn told Bristowe that she got caught up in the moment because “everybody was going psycho” in the arena around her.
“I’ve flashed a million times, if we’re being honest,” she told Bristowe. “It’s just something I do … I didn’t think twice about it.”
Flynn said she was surprised that her moment had gone viral on social media. “Someone just recorded it and put it on X or Twitter, which I didn’t even know was a thing anymore. I thought it like went away years ago,” she told Bristowe. “So I had to redownloaded it to find my own t*** on the internet.”
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On the Off the Vine podcast, Flynn said she was happy to earn a little extra dough, but called her notoriety “overwhelming.”
“I mean, like, I’m happy with the way things are going in my bank account,” Flynn said. “But, like, the attention and all that’s been overwhelming to the max. It’s not ever who I am. Like, I never really had like really a social media presence.”
Flynn has yet to make a notable appearance at Edmonton’s Rogers Place this season, but she’s enjoying the spoils from her night out this spring.
“I definitely made more money than I ever imagined was going to come from something like this,” Flynn said during an appearance on the On the Throne podcast in September.
In a recent Q&A with Playboy, Flynn revealed what she has done with some of the money and how her newfound fame has done little to change her outlook on life.
“I’ve never had just f*** you money,” Flynn said of her deal with the adult magazine. “I’ve not been dumb with the money, I’m not out partying like a rock star or anything. I bought a pickup (with the) cash.”
Flynn, who the mag called the Oilers’ “good luck charm,” said that she’s “still living the exact same life that I was living … just a little more lavishly, I guess.”
But she said that after becoming an overnight sensation she has “a way lower tolerance for bulls***.”
“I’m like you don’t like me? F*** you then. There’s mean girls in everybody’s life, but now they comment publicly on my Instagram and stuff. I had this girl comment the other day who I didn’t even know was still alive. She wrote ‘Photoshop does great for your eye bags and the big rig on your face.’ Her profile pictures are (her with) two big black eye bags. It’s a little kettle calling the pot black, ain’t it girl?
Flynn also revealed why she opted to ink a deal with Playboy instead of launching her own OnlyFans page.
“I feel like OnlyFans has a stigma on it that’s dirty. You have to actually be selected to be on Playboy so you’re not like forcing yourself in, you have to be picked, right? Playboy is more body positive as well, and respectful,” she said.