1983 Stanley Cup Finals

	1	2	3	4	Total
New York Islanders	2	6	5	4	4
Edmonton Oilers	0	3	1	2	0

Location(s)

Edmonton, Alberta (Northlands Coliseum) (1,2)
Uniondale, New York (Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum) (3,4)

Coaches

New York: Al Arbour
Edmonton: Glen Sather

Captains

New York: Denis Potvin
Edmonton: Lee Fogolin

Dates

May 10 – 17

MVP

Billy Smith (New York Islanders)

Series-winning goal

Mike Bossy (G4,12:39, first)

Networks

CBC (Canada-English), SRC (Canada-French), USA Network (United States, except in New York area), WOR (New York area, Games 1 & 2), SportsChannel (New York area, Games 3 & 4)

Announcers

(CBC) Jim Robson (Games 1 and 2), Bob Cole (Games 3 and 4), Gary Dornhoefer, Mickey Redmond
(USA) Dan Kelly, Gary Green
(WOR, SC) Jiggs McDonald, Ed Westfall
(New York Islanders Radio)Barry Landers, Jean Potvin
(Edmonton Oilers Radio) Rod Phillips, Ken Brown

The 1983 Stanley Cup Finals NHL championship series was contested by the Edmonton Oilers in their first-ever Finals appearance and the defending champion New York Islanders, in their fourth, and fourth consecutive, Finals appearance. The Islanders would win the best-of-seven series four games to none, to win their fourth-straight and fourth-overall Stanley Cup. It was also the fourth straight Finals of post-1967 expansion teams, and the first involving a former World Hockey Association (WHA) team. This is also the most recent time that a defending Stanley Cup champion has won the cup four years in a row, and also the first (and, to date, only) time a North American professional sports team has won four consecutive titles in any league competition with more than twenty teams. Since 1983, no professional sports team on the continent has managed to win four straight championships and no NHL team has won more than two consecutive championships (most recently the Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and 1998).

This would be the first of eight consecutive Finals contested by a team from Alberta (of which the Oilers played in six and the Calgary Flames in two). Although it was not the first Stanley Cup Finals to be contested by an Albertan team (the 1923 and 1924 Finals had been contested by teams from Edmonton and Calgary respectively), 1983 saw the first Finals games played in Alberta.

Edmonton defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3–0, the Calgary Flames 4–1, and the Chicago Black Hawks 4–0 to advance to the Finals. In eliminating Winnipeg, Calgary, and Chicago, the Oilers had won 11 of 12 games and had outscored their opponents 74–33, averaging over six goals a game and setting 16 scoring records in these three rounds. The 1983 Finals marked sixty years since an Edmonton team had last contested the Stanley Cup. The 1923 Edmonton Eskimos WCHL team played the NHL's Ottawa Senators in the 1923 Stanley Cup Finals, held in Vancouver. Ottawa won the two-game, total-goals series.

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