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1984 Stanley Cup Final

1984 ice hockey championship series

Field	Value
year	1984
image	1984 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.png
image_size	280px
team1	[Edmonton Oilers](1983-84-edmonton-oilers-season)
team1_short	Edmonton
team1_captain	Wayne Gretzky
team1_national_anthem	Paul Lorieau
team1_coach	Glen Sather
team2	[New York Islanders](1983-84-new-york-islanders-season)
team2_short	New York
team2_coach	Al Arbour
team2_captain	Denis Potvin
team2_national_anthem	Unknown
referees	Andy Van Hellemond, Dave Newell, Bryan Lewis
series_winner	Ken Linseman (0:38, second)
hofers	Oilers:
Glenn Anderson (2008)
Paul Coffey (2004)
Grant Fuhr (2003)
Wayne Gretzky (1999)
Jari Kurri (2001)
Kevin Lowe (2020)
Mark Messier (2007)
Islanders:
Mike Bossy (1991)
Clark Gillies (2002)
Pat LaFontaine (2003)
Denis Potvin (1991)
Billy Smith (1993)
Bryan Trottier (1997)
Coaches:
Al Arbour (1996)
Glen Sather (1997)
Officials:
Andy Van Hellemond (1999)
dates	May 10–19, 1984
location1	Edmonton: (Northlands Coliseum (3, 4, 5)
location2	Uniondale: (Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (1, 2)
mvp	Mark Messier (Oilers)
networks	Canada:
(English): CBC
(French): SRC
United States:
(National): USA Network
(New York City area): SportsChannel New York (1–2), WOR (3–5)
net_announcers	(CBC) Bob Cole, Dick Irvin Jr., Mickey Redmond (1–2), and Gary Dornhoefer (3–5)
(SRC) Rene Lecavalier and Gilles Tremblay
(USA Network) Dan Kelly and Gary Green
(SCNY/WOR) Jiggs McDonald and Ed Westfall
team1_1	1
team1_2	1
team1_3	7
team1_4	7
team1_5	5
team1_tot	4
team2_1	0
team2_2	6
team2_3	2
team2_4	2
team2_5	2
team2_tot	1

Glenn Anderson (2008) Paul Coffey (2004) Grant Fuhr (2003) Wayne Gretzky (1999) Jari Kurri (2001) Kevin Lowe (2020) Mark Messier (2007) Islanders: Mike Bossy (1991) Clark Gillies (2002) Pat LaFontaine (2003) Denis Potvin (1991) Billy Smith (1993) Bryan Trottier (1997) Coaches: Al Arbour (1996) Glen Sather (1997) Officials: Andy Van Hellemond (1999) (English): CBC (French): SRC United States: (National): USA Network (New York City area): SportsChannel New York (1–2), WOR (3–5) (SRC) Rene Lecavalier and Gilles Tremblay (USA Network) Dan Kelly and Gary Green (SCNY/WOR) Jiggs McDonald and Ed Westfall The 1984 Stanley Cup Final was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1983–84 season, and the culmination of the 1984 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the defending Campbell Conference champion Edmonton Oilers and the defending Wales Conference and four-time defending Stanley Cup champion New York Islanders. The upstart Oilers defeated the four-time defending champion Islanders to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history, 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 .

In the previous year's Stanley Cup Final, the Islanders had swept the Oilers in four straight games. The teams met again in 1984, with the Islanders seeking their fifth consecutive Stanley Cup championship. While both teams had improved on their regular season records from the previous season, Edmonton had progressed more and finished with the best record in the NHL for the first time in their short history. However, it was New York who received home-ice advantage, as they had in since the rules in place since 1982 dictated that home-ice advantage went to the conference that won the coin toss and in 1984 because the Wales Conference had more points in head-to-head play against the Campbell Conference. It was also the first time that the Finals was played under a 2–3–2 format. This was the third time during the era that the team with the worse record received a home-ice advantage, the other two being the 1968 and 1970. Home-ice advantage reverted to the team with the better record for the following Finals, and the Finals reverted to the former 2–2–1–1–1 format in the Finals after that.

This was the fifth straight Finals of teams that joined the NHL in 1967 or later. , the Islanders' four consecutive Cup wins (, , , 1983) and their appearance in the 1984 Cup Finals is an NHL record of 19 consecutive playoff series wins that currently stands unbroken. The 1984 Finals was the third of nine consecutive Finals contested by a team from Western Canada, second of eight contested by a team from Alberta (the Oilers appeared in six, the Calgary Flames in two, the Vancouver Canucks in one), and the first of five consecutive Finals to end with the Cup presentation on Alberta ice (the Oilers won four times at home, the Montreal Canadiens once in Calgary).

The Oilers became the fastest Canadian-based expansion team to win a major sports title by winning a title in only their fifth NHL season. The feat was eclipsed in 2016 by the Ottawa Redblacks, who won the Grey Cup in their third CFL season.

To date, this is the last time the Islanders have appeared in the Stanley Cup Final, and they currently hold the second longest Finals appearance drought in the league at 40 years, the longest of any American-based team. The only team with a longer Finals appearance drought are the Toronto Maple Leafs, who last made the Finals in 1967.

Paths to the Finals

Edmonton defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3–0, the Calgary Flames 4–3 and the Minnesota North Stars 4–0 to reach the Finals.

New York defeated the New York Rangers 3–2, the Washington Capitals 4–1, and the Montreal Canadiens 4–2 to reach the Finals.

Game summaries

NOTE: In 1981, the NHL realigned it conferences and divisions according to geographical regions. Along with this, it was decided to play the Stanley Cup Final in a 2-3-2 format, with home ice advantage being awarded to the division with the better aggregate record in interdivisional games. This format would be used until 1985, after which the Final would go back to a 2-2-1-1-1 format, with home ice going to the team with the better regular season record.

Grant Fuhr shut out the Islanders in the first game, on Long Island, with Kevin McClelland scoring the game's only goal, but the Islanders won game two 6–1. The series then shifted to Edmonton for three games. In game three, the Islanders had a 2–1 lead in the second period, but Mark Messier scored on an individual effort to tie the game. They proceeded to beat the Islanders 7–2. The Oilers, however, lost Fuhr for games four and five after the Islanders' Pat LaFontaine crashed into Fuhr on the forecheck during game three, and Fuhr was slow to get up. Andy Moog started games four and five. The Oilers won game four by the same score, with Wayne Gretzky scoring his first goal of the Finals. The Oilers then won game five by the score of 5–2 thanks to Gretzky's two first-period goals, and two Duane Sutter penalties. They became the first former WHA team, and the first team from Edmonton, to win the Stanley Cup. Mark Messier was awarded with the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.

|2-1-1 =Randy Gregg (3) - 15:06 |2-1-2 =00:53 - Bryan Trottier (7) 05:48 - pp - Greg Gilbert (5) 18:31 - Clark Gillies (8) |2-2-1 =No scoring |2-2-2 =04:52 - Bryan Trottier (8) 16:48 - pp - Clark Gillies (9) |2-3-1 =No scoring |2-3-2 =17:04 - pp - Clark Gillies (10) |goalie2-1 =Grant Fuhr 20 saves / 26 shots |goalie2-2 =Billy Smith 22 saves / 23 shots

|3-1-1 =13:49 - Kevin Lowe (3) |3-1-2 =Clark Gillies (11) - 01:32 |3-2-1 =08:38 - Mark Messier (6) 19:12 - Glenn Anderson (6) 19:29 - Paul Coffey (7) |3-2-2 =Clark Gillies (12) - pp - 02:54 |3-3-1 =05:32 - Mark Messier (7) 05:52 - Kevin McClelland (4) 09:41 - Dave Semenko (5) |3-3-2 =No scoring |goalie3-1 =Grant Fuhr 22 saves / 24 shots, Andy Moog 1 save / 1 shot |goalie3-2 =Billy Smith 25 saves / 31 shots, Roland Melanson 8 saves / 9 shots

|4-1-1 =01:53 - Wayne Gretzky (10) 03:22 - Willy Lindstrom (4) 17:54 - Mark Messier (8) |4-1-2 =Brent Sutter (4) - 14:03 |4-2-1 =05:21 - pp - Willy Lindstrom (5) 06:58 - Pat Conacher (1) 10:52 - Paul Coffey (8) |4-2-2 =Patrick Flatley (9) - 19:44 |4-3-1 =14:01 - Wayne Gretzky (11) |4-3-2 =No scoring |goalie4-1 =Andy Moog 19 saves / 21 shots |goalie4-2 =Billy Smith 31 saves / 38 shots

|5-1-1 =12:08 - Wayne Gretzky (12) 17:26 - Wayne Gretzky (13) |5-1-2 =No scoring |5-2-1 =00:38 - pp - Ken Linseman (10) 04:59 - pp - Jari Kurri (14) |5-2-2 =No scoring |5-3-1 =19:47 - en - Dave Lumley (2) |5-3-2 =Pat LaFontaine (2) - 00:13 Pat LaFontaine (3) - 00:35 |goalie5-1 =Andy Moog 23 saves / 25 shots |goalie5-2 =Roland Melanson 12 saves / 14 shots, Billy Smith 7 saves / 9 shots

Broadcasting

The series aired on CBC in Canada and on the USA Network in the United States. CBC's broadcast team consisted of Bob Cole, Dick Irvin Jr., and Gary Dornhoefer. USA's national coverage was blacked out in the New York area due to the local rights to Islanders games in that TV market, with SportsChannel New York airing games one and two, and WOR televising the other three games.

Team rosters

Edmonton Oilers

#	Nat	Player	Position	Hand	Age	Acquired	Place of birth
9	CAN	RW	L	23	[1979](1979-nhl-entry-draft)	Vancouver, British Columbia	second ()
USA	D	R	29		Caracas, Venezuela	fifth (**, , , **, did not play)--
15	CAN	C	L	25		Edmonton, Alberta	first
7	CAN	D	L	22	[1980](1980-nhl-entry-draft)	Weston, Ontario	second ()
2	USA	D	R	29		Chicago, Illinois	second ()
31	CAN	G	R	21	[1981](1981-nhl-entry-draft)	Spruce Grove, Alberta	second ()
21	CAN	D	L	28		Edmonton, Alberta	second ()
99	CAN	C	L	23		Brantford, Ontario	second ()
22	CAN	D	L	24		Oshawa, Ontario	second ()
16	CAN	RW	R	29		Calgary, Alberta	third (****, )
12	CAN	LW	L	26		Petrolia, Ontario	second ()
29	USA	D	L	27		Minneapolis, Minnesota	second ()
17	FIN	RW	R	24	[1980](1980-nhl-entry-draft)	Helsinki, Finland	second ()
19	SWE	RW	L	33		Grums, Sweden	second ()
13	CAN	C	L	25		Kingston, Ontario	third (, )
4	CAN	D	L	25	[1979](1979-nhl-entry-draft)	Lachute, Quebec	second ()
20	CAN	RW	R	29		Toronto, Ontario	second ()
24	CAN	C	R	21		Oshawa, Ontario	first
CAN	D	L	24		Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	first (did not play)--
11	CAN	C	L	23	[1979](1979-nhl-entry-draft)	Edmonton, Alberta	second ()
35	CAN	G	L	24	[1980](1980-nhl-entry-draft)	Penticton, British Columbia	second ()
10	TCH	LW	L	32	[1982](1982-nhl-entry-draft)	Cakov, Czechoslovakia	second ()
27	CAN	LW	L	26		Winnipeg, Manitoba	second ()
FIN	LW	L	22	[1982](1982-nhl-entry-draft)	Jyvaskyla, Finland	first (did not play)
33	CAN	G	L	21		Trail, British Columbia	first (did not play)--

New York Islanders

#	Nat	Player	Position	Hand	Age	Acquired	Place of birth
22	CAN	RW	R	27	[1977](1977-nhl-entry-draft)	Montreal, Quebec	fifth (**, , , **)
14	CAN	LW	L	29		Kindersley, Saskatchewan	fifth (**, , , **, did not play)
4	CAN	D	L	21	[1981](1981-nhl-entry-draft)	Sydney, Nova Scotia	second (****)
25	CAN	C	L	25	[1979](1979-nhl-entry-draft)	Toronto, Ontario	fourth (**, , **)
2	CAN	D	R	21	[1981](1981-nhl-entry-draft)	Toronto, Ontario	first
8	CAN	RW	R	20	[1982](1982-nhl-entry-draft)	Toronto, Ontario	first
17	CAN	LW	L	22	[1980](1980-nhl-entry-draft)	Mississauga, Ontario	third (**, **)
9	CAN	LW	L	30	[1974](1974-nhl-entry-draft)	Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan	fifth (**, , , **)
91	CAN	C	L	34		Winnipeg, Manitoba	fifth (**, , , **)
20	SWE	LW	L	26		Akers styckebruk, Sweden	second (****)
3	SWE	D	R	24	[1979](1979-nhl-entry-draft)	Falun, Sweden	third (**, **)
28	SWE	RW	L	31		Ludvika, Sweden	fifth (**, , , **)
16	USA	C	R	19	[1983](1983-nhl-entry-draft)	St. Louis, Missouri	first
24	CAN	D	L	31		Brandon, Manitoba	fifth (**, , , **, did not play)
26	USA	D	L	30	[1974](1974-nhl-entry-draft)	Saint Paul, Minnesota	fifth (**, , , **)
1	CAN	G	L	23	[1979](1979-nhl-entry-draft)	Shediac, New Brunswick	fourth (**, , **)
11	CAN	C	L	32		Sarnia, Ontario	fifth (**, , , **, did not play)
6	USA	D	R	27	[1976](1976-nhl-entry-draft)	Flint, Michigan	fifth (**, , , **)
23	SWE	RW	R	31	[1972](1972-nhl-entry-draft)	Stockholm, Sweden	fifth (**, , , **)
7	SWE	D	L	29	[1974](1974-nhl-entry-draft)	Bjurholm, Sweden	fifth (**, , , **)
5	CAN	D	L	30	[1973](1973-nhl-entry-draft)	Vanier, Ontario	fifth (**, , , **)
31	CAN	G	L	33		Perth, Ontario	fifth (**, , , **)
21	CAN	C	R	21	[1980](1980-nhl-entry-draft)	Viking, Alberta	third (**, **)
12	CAN	RW	R	24	[1979](1979-nhl-entry-draft)	Viking, Alberta	fifth (**, , , **)
27	CAN	LW	L	27	[1977](1977-nhl-entry-draft)	Hamilton, Ontario	fifth (**, , , **)
19	CAN	C	L	27	[1974](1974-nhl-entry-draft)	Val Marie, Saskatchewan	fifth (**, , , **)

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1984 Stanley Cup was presented to Oilers captain Wayne Gretzky by NHL President John Ziegler following the Oilers 5–2 win over the Islanders in game five.

The following Oilers players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup:

1983–84 Edmonton Oilers centres=11 Mark Messier

13 Ken Linseman
15 Pat Conacher*
24 Kevin McClelland
99 Wayne Gretzky (Captain)
10 Jaroslav Pouzar
12 Dave Hunter
16 Pat Hughes
17 Jari Kurri
19 Willy Lindstrom
20 Dave Lumley
27 Dave Semenko
4 Kevin Lowe
7 Paul Coffey
21 Randy Gregg
22 Charlie Huddy
29 Don Jackson
31 Grant Fuhr
35 Andy Moog |player-notes=
- Played both centre and wing. |non-players=
Peter Pocklington (Owner), Glen Sather (President/General Manager/Head Coach), Bruce MacGregor (Asst General Manager)
John Muckler (Asst. Coach), Edward Ted Green (Asst. Coach), Barry Fraser (Director of Player Personnel/Chief Scout)
Peter Millar (Athletic Therapist), Barrie Stafford (Trainer), Lyle Kulchisky (Asst Trainer)

Non-team personnel

Crossed out name of Basil Pocklington (Peter Pocklington's father)}}

Engraving notes

#17 Jari Kurri (RW) was the first Finnish born-trained player to win the Stanley Cup.
#31 Grant Fuhr (G) was the first black player to win the Stanley Cup.
#10 Jaroslav Pouzar (LW) was the first Czechoslovakia born-trained player to win the Stanley Cup.
Basil Pocklington, father of Oilers owner Peter Pocklington, was initially engraved on the Stanley Cup. He was not directly associated with the team. The NHL subsequently marked out Basil's name on the trophy with X's. A new ring for the Cup was created in 1993, with winners from 1979 to 1991, Basil Pocklington's name was not on it. When the Cup returned to the Hockey Hall of Fame, the abandoned ring had been damaged and could not be put back on the Stanley Cup. The Hockey Hall of Fame had Basil Pocklington's name put on the newly created Stanley Cup ring, then XXX'd out his name again. His was now listed beside his son Peter Pocklington, Owner. On the original rings, he was listed on a line between Peter Pocklington and Glen Sather. Basil's name was not added to the replica Stanley Cup also created in 1993. This is the main way people can tell the Presentation Stanley Cup and Replica Stanley Cup. See 2004 Stanley Cup Final for the other way to tell the cups apart. Basil Pocklington was the only name that was XXX'd out until November 2021, when the Hall of Fame struck the name of 2009–10 Chicago Blackhawks video coach Brad Aldrich due to sexual assault allegations during that season.
On the new ring, EDMONTON was misspelt "DDMONTON". An "E" was stamped twice over the first "D" to correct the mistake.

Player notes

Each team was required to play 20 players out of a 24-man roster. The Oilers engraved 21 players' names on the Cup, leaving off four players who were dressed in the playoffs. All four players left off the Stanley Cup were awarded a Stanley Cup ring, and are included in the team picture.
- #33 Mike Zanier (G) – was dressed for two games in the final. He qualified to be engraved on the Stanley Cup. Edmonton did not include his name because he had not played in the NHL. The only NHL season for Zanier was three games in 1985 with Oilers.
- #6 Rick Chartraw (D) – played four games for NY Rangers, 24 for Edmonton, and one playoff game, spending half of the regular season playing in the minors. (He is on the Stanley Cup with Montreal 1976-77-78-79.)
- #28 Larry Melnyk (D) – played six playoff games (4 in the Conference Finals), but spent the regular season playing in the minors.
- #25 Raimo Summanen – (LW) played two games in the regular season and five playoff games. He spent most of the regular season playing in Europe.

References

;Inline citations

;Bibliography

Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50.

before = New York Islanders 1983 | after = Edmonton Oilers 1985 | title = Edmonton Oilers Stanley Cup champions | years = 1984|

References

(September 23, 1983). "Playoff format changes made". The Ottawa Citizen.
Ralph, Dan. (November 27, 2016). "Ottawa Redblacks win upset victory at Grey Cup".
"Mark Messier 1 on 2 vs. Islanders".
(2021-11-03). "Hall of Fame covers Brad Aldrich's name on Stanley Cup".

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