1999 Stanley Cup playoffs
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | April 21–June 19, 1999 |
| Teams | 16 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Dallas Stars |
| Runner-up | Buffalo Sabres |
| Semifinalists | |
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The 1999 Stanley Cup playoffs, the championship of the National Hockey League (NHL), began on April 21, 1999, following the 1998–99 NHL season. The sixteen teams that qualified, eight from each conference, played best-of-seven series for conference quarter-finals, semi-finals and championships, and then the conference champions played a best-of-seven series for the Stanley Cup. This was the last time all four WHA teams and teams with losing records (San Jose and Edmonton the 7th and 8th seeds in the Western Conference, respectively) made the playoffs. This is the most recent time that all of the California teams (Anaheim, Los Angeles, and San Jose) failed to make it to the second round of the playoffs.
Despite his team being eliminated Colorado Avalanche forward Peter Forsberg's postseason scoring totals with 24 points in 19 games, were not surpassed for the rest of the 1999 playoffs. This made him the first player to lead all playoff scorers despite not making the Stanley Cup Finals since the 1986 playoffs where Doug Gilmour and Bernie Federko each tallied 21 points in 19 postseason games for St. Louis who was also eliminated in the conference finals.
The playoffs ended on June 19, 1999, with the Dallas Stars defeating the Buffalo Sabres to win their first Stanley Cup championship in their history. Brett Hull scored the controversial overtime goal in game six for Dallas, while Joe Nieuwendyk was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the playoffs.
The following teams qualified for the playoffs:
This was the third playoff series between these two teams, with Boston winning both previous series. They last met in the 1991 Division Semifinals where Boston defeated the Hartford Whalers in six games. This was the first playoff series for the Whalers/Hurricanes franchise since moving to Carolina in 1997.
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