2004 Stanley Cup Finals
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The 2004 Stanley Cup Finals was a best-of-seven playoff series that determined the National Hockey League (NHL) champion for the 2003–04 season. As a culmination of the 2004 Stanley Cup playoffs, the Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Western Conference champion Calgary Flames in seven games and were awarded the Stanley Cup. It was Tampa's first-ever appearance in the final. For Calgary, it was the team's third appearance, and first since their championship season of 1989. Lightning owner William Davidson became the first owner in sports history to win two championships in one year. Eight days later, the other team that Davidson owned, the Detroit Pistons of the NBA won the NBA title in five games over the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Paths to the Finals
For more details on this topic, see 2004 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Tampa Bay defeated the New York Islanders 4-1, the Montreal Canadiens 4-0 and the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 to advance to the Finals.
Calgary had beaten the Western Conference's top three seeded teams, the Vancouver Canucks 4-3, the Detroit Red Wings 4-2 and the San Jose Sharks 4-2, in that order, bringing Canadian teams to the Finals after 10 years, when Vancouver lost to the New York Rangers.[1]
The series
Game 1
The first game, at St. Pete Times Forum, saw the Flames win the game, 4–1. Calgary only got 19 shots off against the Lightning defense, but more than one-fifth found the net. Martin Gelinas got Calgary on the board early, and they extended the lead to 3–0 in the second period on goals by Jarome Iginla, his 11th of the postseason, and Stephane Yelle. Chris Simon added the fourth and final Calgary goal after Tampa Bay's Martin St. Louis scored the lone Lightning goal.
Game 2
Game two saw the same final score, but this time, it was Tampa Bay winning a clutch game to tie the series, 1–1, headed to Calgary. Ruslan Fedotenko's 10th goal of the postseason got the Lightning on the board first, and Tampa Bay used three third-period goals, coming from Brad Richards, Dan Boyle, and St. Louis, respectively, to blast the game open. The lone Calgary goal was scored by Ville Nieminen.
Game 3
The series shifted to the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, where Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff and the Calgary defense completely stonewalled the Tampa Bay attack, which only took 21 shots in a 3–0 Flames victory. Simon scored the first Calgary goal in the second period, and Shean Donovan and Iginla added goals to ice the game.
Game 4
With a chance to take a commanding 3–1 series lead, Calgary was shut out by Lightning goalie Nikolai Khabibulin, who recorded his fifth shutout of the postseason, a 29-save shutout, in a 1–0 Tampa Bay victory, with the game's lone goal being scored by Brad Richards three minutes into the game on a two-man advantage.
With 4:13 left in the game, Ville Nieminen checked Vincent Lecavalier into the boards from behind, drawing a five-minute major penalty for boarding, a game misconduct penalty, and an eventual Game 5 suspension.[2] Meanwhile, fans at the Pengrowth Saddledome angrily booed referees Kerry Fraser and Brad Watson throughout most of the contest. They were originally also scheduled to work Game 6 in Calgary but the league eventually decided to replace them.[3][4]
Game 5
The series returned to Tampa Bay tied, 2–2, for a critical Game 5, and Calgary pulled off a 3–2 overtime victory to move within one win from the Stanley Cup. After Gelinas and St. Louis traded goals in the first period, Iginla scored for Calgary late in the second period. However, Fredrik Modin tied the game for the Lightning 37 seconds into the third period. The 2–2 score held until after 14:40 had gone by in overtime, when Oleg Saprykin's first goal since the first round won the game for the Flames.
Game 6
Back to Calgary for Game 6, each team scored two second-period goals, with Richards scoring two for the Lightning and Chris Clark and Marcus Nilson for the Flames. In the third period, there was a dispute over a Martin Gelinas redirect that appeared to have gone in off of his skate.[5] A review from one camera angle appeared to show the puck crossing the goal line before Khabibulin's pad dragged it out, though some (including Lightning assistant captain Tim Taylor) argue that the puck had not only been knocked several inches above the goal line (thus making there appear to be white ice between the puck and the goal line) in front of Khabibulin's pad, but that it was also "kicked" by Gelinas. The play was never reviewed. The game entered overtime with the Flames needing only a single goal to win the Stanley Cup. Thirty-three seconds into the second overtime, St. Louis put in the game-winner for the Lightning to force a winner-take-all Game 7 in Tampa Bay.
Game 7
In a tense Game 7, Fedotenko scored goals for Tampa Bay late in the first period and late in the second period for a 2–0 lead. After Conroy scored to narrow the deficit to 2–1, Calgary barraged Khabibulin after taking only seven shots in the first two periods. After the Conroy goal, Khabibulin stopped 16 Calgary shots. The series ended as Flames center Marcus Nilson missed a last-second opportunity to force overtime. Tampa Bay won the game, 2–1, and the Stanley Cup.
| May 25 | Tampa Bay Lightning | 1-4 | Calgary Flames | St. Pete Times Forum | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 3:02 – Gelinas 7 (Conroy, Ference) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 15:21 - sh – Iginla 11 18:08 – Yelle 3 |
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| (Richards, Boyle) St. Louis 6 - pp – 4:13 | Third period | 19:40 - pp – Simon 4 (Saprykin, Regehr) | ||||||
| Nikolai Khabibulin 15 saves / 19 shots | Goalie stats | Miikka Kiprusoff 23 saves / 24 shots | ||||||
| May 27 | Tampa Bay Lightning | 4-1 | Calgary Flames | St. Pete Times Forum | Recap | |||
| (Cullimore, Vincent Lecavalier) Fedotenko 10 – 7:10 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Andreychuk, St. Louis) Richards 9 – 2:51 (Richards, Modin) Boyle 2 – 4:00 (Lecavalier, Andreychuk) St. Louis 7 - pp – 5:58 |
Third period | 12:21 - pp – Nieminen 4 (Donovan, Regehr) | ||||||
| Nikolai Khabibulin 18 saves / 19 shots | Goalie stats | Miikka Kiprusoff 27 saves / 31 shots | ||||||
| May 29 | Calgary Flames | 3-0 | Tampa Bay Lightning | Pengrowth Saddledome | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Iginla, Leopold) Simon 5 - pp – 13:53 Donovan 5 – 17:09 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Regehr, Simon) Iginla 12 - pp – 18:28 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Miikka Kiprusoff 21 saves / 21 shots | Goalie stats | Nikolai Khabibulin 15 saves / 18 shots | ||||||
| May 31 | Calgary Flames | 0-1 | Tampa Bay Lightning | Pengrowth Saddledome | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 2:48 - pp – Richards 10 (Andreychuk, Boyle) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Miikka Kiprusoff 23 saves / 24 shots | Goalie stats | Nikolai Khabibulin 29 saves / 29 shots | ||||||
| June 3 | Tampa Bay Lightning | 2-3 | OT | Calgary Flames | St. Pete Times Forum | Recap | ||
| (Cibak, Dingman) St. Louis 8 – 19:26 | First period | 2:13 - pp – Gelinas 8 (Lydman, Montador) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 15:10 – Iginla 13 | ||||||
| (Richards, Andreychuk) Modin 8 - pp – 0:37 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 14:40 – Saprykin 3 (Iginla, Nilson) | ||||||
| Nikolai Khabibulin 33 saves / 36 shots | Goalie stats | Miikka Kiprusoff 26 saves / 28 shots | ||||||
| June 5 | Calgary Flames | 2-3 | 2OT | Tampa Bay Lightning | Pengrowth Saddledome | Recap | ||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Yelle, Nieminen) Clark 3 – 9:05 (Saprykin, Ference) Nilson 4 – 17:49 |
Second period | 4:17 - pp – Richards 11 (St. Louis, Fedotenko) 10:52 – Richards 12 |
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| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second overtime period | 0:33 – St. Louis 9 (Richards, Taylor) | ||||||
| Miikka Kiprusoff 24 saves / 27 shots | Goalie stats | Nikolai Khabibulin 31 saves / 33 shots | ||||||
| June 7 | Tampa Bay Lightning | 2-1 | Calgary Flames | St. Pete Times Forum | Recap | |||
| (Richards, Modin) Fedotenko 11 - pp – 13:31 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Lecavalier, Stillman) Fedotenko 12 – 14:38 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 9:21 - pp – Conroy (Leopold) | ||||||
| Nikolai Khabibulin 16 saves / 17 shots | Goalie stats | Miikka Kiprusoff 13 saves / 15 shots | ||||||
| Tampa Bay won series 4–3 | |
Aftermath
The Tampa Bay Lightning are currently the southern-most hockey team to ever win the Stanley Cup in history. Game 7 was the NHL game played for almost a year and a half, due to the lockout.
Tampa Bay Lightning - 2004 Stanley Cup champions
Roster
- 4 Vincent Lecavalier (a. capt.)
- 8 Martin Cibak
- 19 Brad Richards
- 9 Eric Perrin
- 27 Tim Taylor
- 25 Dave Andreychuk (captain)
- 7 Ben Clymer
- 11 Chris Dingman
- 17 Ruslan Fedotenko
- 26 Martin St. Louis
- 29 Dmitry Afanasenkov
- 33 Fredrik Modin (a. capt.)
- 36 Andre Roy
- 61 Cory Stillman
- 2 Stanislav Neckar†
- 5 Jassen Cullimore
- 13 Pavel Kubina
- 21 Cory Sarich
- 22 Dan Boyle
- 37 Brad Lukowich
- 38 Darren Rumble†
- 44 Nolan Pratt
- 55 Darryl Sydor
- Non-players
- William Davidson (owner), Thomas Wilson (governor), Ronald Campbell (president), Jay Feaster (vice president/general manager)
- John Tortorella (head coach), Craig Ramsay (associate coach), Jeff Reese (ass’t coach)
- Nigel Kirwan (video coach), Eric Lawson (strength-conditioning coach), Thomas Mulligan (medical trainer)
- Adam Rambo (asst medical trainer), Ray Thill (equipment manager), Dana Heinze, Jim Pickard (ass’t equipment managers)
- Mike Griebel (massage therapist), Bill Barber (director of player personnel), Jake Goertzen (head scout)
- Phil Thibodeau (director of team services), Ryan Belac (ass’t general manager), Rick Paterson (chief pro scout)
- Kari Kettunen, Glen Zanharia, Steve Barker (scouts)
- Dave Heitz, Yuri Yanchenkov (scouts), Bill Wickett, Sean Herny (vice presidents).
Stanley Cup engraving
- Darren Rumble† played only 5 regular season games, and did not play in the playoffs. Rumble was a healthy reserve the rest of the season. Stanislav Neckar† played 2 playoff games. Neckar was on Nashville Predators injury reserve list majority of the season, before joining Tampa Bay in a trade on March 9, 2004. Tampa Bay was given permission to include both players on the Stanley Cup even though they did not qualify.
Broadcasting
In the United States, this was the last Stanley Cup Final to air on the ABC/ESPN family of networks, as the 2004-05 NHL lockout suspended play for the next season. NBC and Versus (formerly OLN) would pick up the NHL for the 2005–06 season. The latter was renamed the NBC Sports Network on January 2, 2012, effectively moving to the NHL on NBC banner.
In Canada, the CBC's broadcast of Game 7 of the Finals drew 4.862 million viewers, making it the highest-rated NHL game on the CBC since Game 7 of the 1994 Final, which drew 4.957 million viewers.[6] However, those numbers include both pre-game and post-game coverage. The game itself drew 5.560 million viewers, up from 5.404 in 1994.[6]
References
- Diamond, Dan (2008). Total Stanley Cup (pdf). Dan Diamond & Associates, Inc.. Archived from the original on March 26, 2009. http://www.stanleycupplayoffs2008.com/assets/pdfs/totalstanleycup2008.pdf. Retrieved March 23, 2009.
Notes
- ^ "Flames reach Stanley Cup finals". CBC Sports. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. May 20, 2004. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2004/05/19/sharks_flames040519.html. Retrieved February 3, 2012. "Calgary is the first Canadian team to reach the Stanley Cup finals since the 1994 Vancouver Canucks...lost...to the New York Rangers."
- ^ "Richards nets record seventh winning goal". ESPN. May 31, 2004. http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/recap?gameId=240531003. Retrieved July 6, 2009.
- ^ "A faint whiff of panic: Lightning tightly wound with Flames nearing first title in 15 years". SI.com. June 4, 2004. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/stephen_cannella/06/05/cannella.preview/index.html. Retrieved July 6, 2009.
- ^ Lapointe, Joe (June 7, 2004). "The Gamesmanship Is Over: It's One Game for the Cup". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/sports/hockey-the-gamesmanship-is-over-it-s-one-game-for-the-cup.html?pagewanted=print. Retrieved July 6, 2009.
- ^ Martin Gelinas Phantom Goal, Did The Puck Go In? on YouTube
- ^ a b "Game 7 scores with Canadian viewers". The Calgary Herald: p. AA.05. June 9, 2004.
| Preceded by New Jersey Devils 2003 |
Tampa Bay Lightning 2004 Stanley Cup Champions 2004 |
Succeeded by Carolina Hurricanes 2006 |
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