1984 Stanley Cup Finals
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| Location(s) |
Edmonton (Northlands Coliseum) (3,4,5) Uniondale, New York (Nassau Coliseum) (1,2) |
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| Coaches | Edmonton: Glen Sather New York: Al Arbour |
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| Captains | Edmonton: Wayne Gretzky New York: Denis Potvin |
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| Referees | Andy Van Hellemond, Dave Newell, Bryan Lewis | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Dates | May 10 to May 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Mark Messier (Edmonton Oilers) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Series-winning goal | Ken Linseman (0:38, second, G5) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Networks | CBC (Canada-English), USA Network (United States, except in New York Area), SportsChannel (New York Area, Games 1 and 2), WOR (New York Area, Games 3,4, and 5) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers |
Bob Cole, Mickey Redmond (Games 1 and 2), Gary Dornhoefer (Games 3-5), and Dick Irvin (CBC) Dan Kelly and Gary Green (USA Network) Jiggs McDonald and Ed Westfall (Sportschannel and WOR) |
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The 1984 Stanley Cup Final was held between the Edmonton Oilers and the then-defending champion New York Islanders. The Islanders had swept the Oilers in four straight games to win the 1983 Cup. In 1984, the Islanders were seeking their fifth consecutive Stanley Cup championship, but the upstart Oilers would win the best-of-seven series four games to one to win their first Stanley Cup, becoming the third post-1967 expansion team and first former World Hockey Association team to win the Cup, and also the first team based west of Chicago to win the Cup since the WCHL's Victoria Cougars became the last non-NHL team to win it in 1925. It was also the fifth straight Finals of teams that joined the NHL in 1967 or later and a rematch of the 1983 Finals—a Stanley Cup Finals rematch would not happen again until the 2009 Finals. As of 2017[update], the Islanders' four consecutive Cup wins (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983) and their appearance in the 1984 Cup Finals is an NHL record of 19 consecutive playoff series wins that currently stands unbroken. This would be the second of eight consecutive Finals contested by a team from Alberta (the Oilers appeared in six, the Calgary Flames in two), and the first of five consecutive Finals to end with the Cup presentation on Alberta ice (the Oilers won four times, the Montreal Canadiens one).
The Oilers became the fastest-ever Canadian-based expansion team to win a major sports title by winning a title in only their fifth NHL season. The feat would be eclipsed in 2016 by the Ottawa Redblacks, who won the Grey Cup in their third CFL season.
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