When he hung up his boots, Justin Oliver was the club’s second all-time leading scorer.

Always a threat to score, whether cutting in from wide or through the middle, Oliver was a pugnacious, streets-won’t-forget, almost WWE villain of a player who didn’t just score goals. He scored big goals. That’s where he got the ‘Duluth Killer’ moniker.

In 2018, the season he joined the club, Oliver scored five goals in five games. But his biggest goals were in the 4-2 win against Duluth that won the Mighty Crows their first NPSL North Conference championship. A ball of coiled energy and unrepressed power, Oliver’s movement unsettled the static Duluth back line. They just couldn’t get to grips with him. So when he reeled in a long pass from Aaron Olson with a delightful first touch and fired an unstoppable shot into the far corner of the goal to put the Crows up 2-0 it wasn’t a surprise.

He scored the eventual winner just minuted into the second half, rushing onto a cutback from strike partner Nick Hutton and blasting his shot into the top of the net to make it 3-1.

A brace in the title-winning rout of a big rival is legendary.

Oliver did it twice. In a row.

In 2019, Oliver scored three goals in two meetings against Duluth — two of them in the 4-2 win at Duluth that sealed City’s second-consecutive league title. The first of those goals was a fine individual run, Oliver picking up the ball wide and accelerating away from his marker before twisting and turning through a flummoxed Donkey’s defense. His finish was true and his celebration, running off to taunt the Duluth supporters who had been riding him all game, was pure Oliver.

So was the referee walking over to quiet him down.

And so was his scoring a second goal, nearly a duplicate of his first, just to rub it all in even more.

Justin Oliver’s impact didn’t end with what he did on the field, either. With the club struggling after moving up to USL League Two, Oliver stepped into the head coaching role midway through the 2024 season and immediately had City moving in the right direction. City was playing fun soccer again, getting results and putting in the work. And by the end of the 2025 season, Oliver had the Crows back on top: Heartland Division Champions and went on a playoff run to the final eight.