1984 Stanley Cup Finals Location(s) Edmonton : (Northlands Coliseum (3, 4, 5)Uniondale : (Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (1, 2)Coaches Edmonton: Glen Sather Al Arbour Captains Edmonton: Wayne Gretzky Denis Potvin Referees Andy Van Hellemond , Dave Newell, Bryan Lewis Dates May 10 – May 19 MVP Mark Messier (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)
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 Edmonton Oilers and the defending 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 .
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Stanley Cup awarded on challenge basis 1893–1914, by prearranged inter-league competitions 1915–1926, to NHL champion since 1927
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