1989 Stanley Cup Final

Paths to the Finals

Calgary defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4–3, the Los Angeles Kings 4–0 and the Chicago Blackhawks 4–1 to advance to the Final.

Montreal defeated the Hartford Whalers 4–0, the Boston Bruins 4–1 and the Philadelphia Flyers 4–2.

Game summaries

Co-captain Lanny McDonald scored the second Flames goal in game six. This turned out to be the last goal in his Hockey Hall of Fame career because he retired during the following off-season. It was also his only Stanley Cup victory. Doug Gilmour scored two goals in the third period, including the eventual game and Cup winner to cement the victory for the Flames. Al MacInnis won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, and at 31 points, became the first defenceman to lead the NHL in post-season scoring. The Calgary Flames are the only visiting team to ever win the Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens at the Montreal Forum. The only other visiting team to win the Stanley Cup at the Montreal Forum was the New York Rangers, when they defeated the Montreal Maroons in 1928.

|1-1-1 =Stephane Richer (6) – pp – 02:43 Larry Robinson (1) – 10:02 |1-1-2 =06:51 – pp – Al MacInnis (4) 08:33 – Al MacInnis (5) |1-2-1 =No scoring |1-2-2 =11:45 – Theoren Fleury (5) |1-3-1 =No scoring |1-3-2 =No scoring |goalie1-1 =Patrick Roy 32 saves / 35 shots |goalie1-2 =Mike Vernon 29 saves / 31 shots

|2-1-1 =Larry Robinson (2) – 04:18 |2-1-2 =No scoring |2-2-1 =Bobby Smith (9) – pp – 01:55 |2-2-2 =05:14 – Joe Nieuwendyk (10) 13:49 – pp – Joel Otto (5) |2-3-1 =Chris Chelios (4) – 08:01 Russ Courtnall (7) – pp – 09:35 |2-3-2 =No scoring |goalie2-1 =Patrick Roy 30 saves / 32 shots |goalie2-2 =Mike Vernon 19 saves / 23 shots

|3-1-1 =01:32 – Mike McPhee (4) |3-1-2 =Joe Mullen (12) – 17:15 |3-2-1 =No scoring |3-2-2 =Joe Mullen (13) – pp – 15:35 |3-3-1 =01:36 – Bobby Smith (10) 19:19 – Mats Naslund (4) |3-3-2 =Doug Gilmour (8) – 13:02 |3-4-1 =18:08 – Ryan Walter (3) |3-4-2 =No scoring |goalie3-1 =Patrick Roy 34 saves / 37 shots |goalie3-2 =Mike Vernon 31 saves / 35 shots

|4-1-1 =No scoring |4-1-2 =No scoring |4-2-1 =No scoring |4-2-2 =Doug Gilmour (9) – 10:59 Joe Mullen (14) – pp – 18:43 |4-3-1 =10:59 – Russ Courtnall (8) 19:33 – Claude Lemieux (3) |4-3-2 =Al MacInnis (6) – 18:22 Joe Mullen (15) – pp-en – 19:49 |goalie4-1 =Patrick Roy 31 saves / 34 shots |goalie4-2 =Mike Vernon 17 saves / 19 shots

|5-1-1 =Bobby Smith (11) – pp – 13:24 |5-1-2 =00:28 – Joel Otto (6) 08:15 – Joe Mullen (16) 19:31 – pp – Al MacInnis (7) |5-2-1 =Mike Keane (4) – 14:17 |5-2-2 =No scoring |5-3-1 =No scoring |5-3-2 =No scoring |goalie5-1 =Patrick Roy 25 saves / 28 shots |goalie5-2 =Mike Vernon 26 saves / 28 shots

|6-1-1 =No scoring |6-1-2 =Colin Patterson (3) – 18:51 |6-2-1 =01:23 – Claude Lemieux (4) |6-2-2 =Lanny McDonald (1) – 04:24 |6-3-1 =11:53 – Rick Green (1) |6-3-2 =Doug Gilmour (10) – pp – 11:02 Doug Gilmour (11) – en – 18:57 |goalie6-1 =Patrick Roy 15 saves / 18 shots |goalie6-2 =Mike Vernon 20 saves / 22 shots

Broadcasting

This was the first Cup Finals since 1984 that the CBC had the sole English-language rights to the entire series in Canada instead of having to share it with another network. This was also the first season that SportsChannel America held the national U.S. rights.

Team rosters

Years indicated in boldface under the "Finals appearance" column signify that the player won the Stanley Cup in the given year.

Calgary Flames

Montreal Canadiens

Stanley Cup engraving

The 1989 Stanley Cup was presented to Flames co-captains Lanny McDonald and Jim Peplinski, as well as alternate captain Tim Hunter by NHL President John Ziegler following the Flames 4–2 win over the Canadiens in game six.

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

1988–89 Calgary Flames centres=*17 Jiri Hrdina

• 25 Joe Nieuwendyk

• 29 Joel Otto

• 39 Doug Gilmour

• 9 Lanny McDonald (Co-Captain)

• 10 Gary Roberts

• 11 Colin Patterson

• 12 Hakan Loob

• 14 Theoren Fleury*

• 19 Tim Hunter (A)

• 22 Mark Hunter

• 24 Jim Peplinski (Co-Captain)

• 27 Brian MacLellan

• 4 Brad McCrimmon

• 5 Dana Murzyn

• 6 Ric Nattress

• 20 Gary Suter

• 34 Jamie Macoun

• 55 Rob Ramage

• 31 Rick Wamsley |non-players=

• Norman Green (Owner), Harley Hotchkiss (Owners/Governor)

• Norman Kwong (Owner), Sonia Scurfield (Owner)

• Byron Seaman (Owner), Daryl Seaman (Owner)

• Cliff Fletcher (President/General Manager), Al MacNeil (Asst. General Manager)

• Al Coates (Asst. to President), Terry Crisp (Head Coach)

• Doug Risebrough (Asst. Coach), Tom Watt (Asst. Coach)

• Glenn Hall (Goaltending Consultant), Jim Murray (Trainer)

• Al Murray (Asst. Trainer), Bob Stewart (Equipment Manager) |player-notes=

• • Played both centre and wing. |engraving-notes=

• #16 Sergei Pryakhin and #32 Ken Sabourin each played in a single playoff game, meaning that they did not qualify to have their names to be engraved on the Stanley Cup. However, both players received Stanley Cup championship rings, and Pryakhin was included in the team picture. Pryakhin was the first Russian-born and trained player to play in the NHL playoffs.

• Norman Kwong became sixth person to get his name on both the Stanley Cup and Grey Cup. 1948 with the Calgary Stampeders and 1954, 1955, 1956 with Edmonton Eskimos. (See Joe Miller, Lionel Conacher, Carl Voss, Leo Dandurand, Harold Ballard & Wayne Gretzky who won both the Grey Cup and Stanley Cup.)

• Vice Presidents Clare Rhysen and Leo Ornest's names were left off of the Stanley Cup, but both received a Stanley Cup championship ring.

Stanley Cup Final Patch

The 1989 Stanley Cup Final was the first to feature a special commemorative patch on both teams' sweaters, in honor of the championship series. Placed on each player's left shoulder, the patch employed the same design that was used from 1989 to 1994 before being tweaked for the 1995 Finals. A commemorative patch has been issued in every Stanley Cup Final since, though subsequent patches were sewn onto the sweaters'` upper right breast area (with the only exceptions being the 1994 and 2014 New York Rangers, whose diagonal wordmark necessitated the patch's placement on the top of each sweater's left shoulder).

Notes

References

References

1. "Greatest Moments in Calgary Flames Hockey History".