1984 Stanley Cup Finals

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1984 Stanley Cup Finals
1 2 3 4 5 Total Edmonton Oilers 1 1 7 7 5 4 New York Islanders 0 6 2 2 2 1
Location(s)	Edmonton: (Northlands Coliseum (3, 4, 5) Uniondale: (Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (1, 2)
Coaches	Edmonton: Glen Sather New York: Al Arbour
Captains	Edmonton: Wayne Gretzky New York: Denis Potvin
National anthems	Edmonton: Paul Lorieau New York: Unknown
Referees	Andy Van Hellemond, Dave Newell, Bryan Lewis
Dates	May 10–19, 1984
MVP	Mark Messier (Oilers)
Series-winning goal	Ken Linseman (0:38, second, G5)
Hall of Famers	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 (2007)
Networks	Canada: (English): CBC (French): SRC United States: (National): USA Network (New York City area): SportsChannel New York (1–2), WOR (3–5)
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
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The 1984 Stanley Cup Finals 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 Cup champion New York Islanders. The upstart Oilers won 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.

In the previous year's Stanley Cup Finals, 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 1982 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 since the implementation of the 2–3–2 format the same year that a Game 5 was actually played in the same venue as Games 3 and 4 since the Islanders had swept the previous two Finals. 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. As of 2021^[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. 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.^[1]