2004 Stanley Cup Finals

2004 Stanley Cup Finals
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total Tampa Bay Lightning 1 4 0 1 2* 3** 2 4 Calgary Flames 4 1 3 0 3* 2** 1 3
* indicates periods of overtime
Location(s)	Tampa (St. Pete Times Forum) (1,2,5,7) Calgary (Pengrowth Saddledome) (3,4,6)
Coaches	Tampa Bay: John Tortorella Calgary: Darryl Sutter
Captains	Tampa Bay: Dave Andreychuk Calgary: Jarome Iginla
National anthems	Tampa Bay: Brooke Hogan Calgary: Heather Liscano
Referees	Bill McCreary (1,3,5,6,7) Stephen Walkom (1,2,5,6) Kerry Fraser (3,4,7) Brad Watson (2,4)
Dates	May 25 – June 7
MVP	Brad Richards (Lightning)
Series-winning goal	Ruslan Fedotenko (14:38, second, G7)
Networks	ABC, CBC, ESPN, RDS, NASN
Announcers	(CBC) Bob Cole, Harry Neale (ESPN/ABC) Gary Thorne, Bill Clement, John Davidson

The 2004 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2003–04 season, and the 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 would soon become the first owner in sports history to win two championships in one year as 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.

Paths to the Finals

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 beat 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. This brought a Canadian team to the Finals for the first time in 10 years; Vancouver lost to the New York Rangers in the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals.^[1]

Game summaries

Game one

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 eleventh 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 two

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.

These Finals would be the last until 2013 to be tied after two games. The team with home ice in games one and two held a 2-0 edge in every Final between 2006 and 2011. In 2012, the Los Angeles Kings won the first two games at New Jersey.

Game three

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 four

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 five 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 six in Calgary but the league eventually decided to replace them.^[3][4]

Game five

The series returned to Tampa Bay tied, 2–2, for a critical game five, 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 six

Back to Calgary for game six, 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. It was however later shown in game seven by ABC television that the NHL made the correct call via a CGI video analysis of the goal in question that proved that the puck never crossed the goal line completely.^[6] The CGI company who did the analysis of the video was based out of Calgary. The game entered overtime with the Flames needing only a single goal to win the Stanley Cup. However, thirty-three seconds into the second overtime, St. Louis put in the game-winner for the Lightning to force a winner-take-all seventh game in Tampa.

Game seven

In a tense game seven, 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.

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

#	Nat	Player	Position	Hand	Age	Acquired	Place of birth	Finals appearance
17		Clark, ChrisChris Clark	RW	R	28–09128	1994	South Windsor, Connecticut	first
2		Commodore, MikeMike Commodore	D	R	24–21324	2003	Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta	second (2001)
22		Conroy, CraigCraig Conroy – A	C	R	32–27732	2001	Potsdam, New York	first
16		Donovan, SheanShean Donovan	RW	R	29–13729	2003	Timmins, Ontario	first
21		Ference, AndrewAndrew Ference	D	L	25–08225	2003	Edmonton, Alberta	first
23		Gelinas, MartinMartin Gelinas	LW	L	34–00234	2002	Shawinigan, Quebec	fourth (1990, 1994, 2002)
12		Iginla, JaromeJarome Iginla – C	RW	R	26–34226	1995	Edmonton, Alberta	first
34		Kiprusoff, MiikkaMiikka Kiprusoff	G	L	27–22527	2003	Turku, Finland	first
7		Kobasew, ChuckChuck Kobasew	RW	R	22–05122	2001	Vancouver, British Columbia	first
4		Leopold, JordanJordan Leopold	D	L	23–30923	2000	Golden Valley, Minnesota	first
10		Lowry, DaveDave Lowry	LW	L	39–11439	2000	Sudbury, Ontario	second (1996)
32		Lydman, ToniToni Lydman	D	L	26–25626	1996	Lahti, Finland	first
5		Montador, SteveSteve Montador	D	R	24–16924	2000	Vancouver, British Columbia	first
24		Nieminen, VilleVille Nieminen	LW	L	27–06227	2004	Tampere, Finland	second (2001)
26		Nilson, MarcusMarcus Nilson	LW	R	26–09726	2004	Bålsta, Sweden	first
33		Oliwa, KrzysztofKrzysztof Oliwa	LW	L	31–05631	2003	Tychy, Poland	second (2000)
28		Regehr, RobynRobyn Regehr – A	D	L	24–04924	1999	Recife, Brazil	first
19		Saprykin, OlegOleg Saprykin	LW	L	23–11623	1999	Moscow, U.S.S.R.	first
15		Simon, ChrisChris Simon	LW	L	32–12932	2004	Wawa, Ontario	third (1996, 1998)
1		Turek, RomanRoman Turek	G	R	34–07034	2001	Strakonice, Czechoslovakia	second (1999)
44		Warrener, RhettRhett Warrener	D	R	28–13228	2003	Shaunavon, Saskatchewan	third (1996, 1999)
11		Yelle, StephaneStephane Yelle	C	L	30–02930	2002	Ottawa, Ontario	third (1996, 2001)

Tampa Bay Lightning

#	Nat	Player	Position	Hand	Age	Acquired	Place of birth	Finals appearance
29		Afanasenkov, DmitryDmitry Afanasenkov	LW	R	24–02624	1998	Arkhangelsk, U.S.S.R.	first
25		Andreychuk, DaveDave Andreychuk – C	LW	R	40–25240	2001	Hamilton, Ontario	first
22		Boyle, DanDan Boyle	D	R	27–33127	2002	Ottawa, Ontario	first
8		Cibak, MartinMartin Cibak	C	L	24–02124	1998	Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia	first
7		Clymer, BenBen Clymer	RW	R	26–05726	1999	Bloomington, Minnesota	first
5		Cullimore, JassenJassen Cullimore	D	L	31-18631	1998	Simcoe, Ontario	first
11		Dingman, ChrisChris Dingman	LW	L	27–33727	2002	Edmonton, Alberta	second (2001)
17		Fedotenko, RuslanRuslan Fedotenko	LW	L	25–14925	2003	Kiev, U.S.S.R.	first
47		Grahame, JohnJohn Grahame	G	L	28–28128	2003	Denver, Colorado	first
35		Khabibulin, NikolaiNikolai Khabibulin	G	L	31–14631	2001	Sverdlovsk, U.S.S.R.	first
13		Kubina, PavelPavel Kubina	D	R	27–05327	1996	Čeladná, Czechoslovakia	first
4		Lecavalier, VincentVincent Lecavalier – A	C	L	24–04724	1998	Île Bizard, Quebec	first
37		Lukowich, BradBrad Lukowich	D	L	27–30027	2002	Cranbrook, British Columbia	third (1999, 2000)
33		Modin, FredrikFredrik Modin – A	LW	L	29–24329	1999	Sundsvall, Sweden	first
44		Pratt, NolanNolan Pratt	D	L	28-29828	2001	Fort McMurray, Alberta	second (2001)
19		Richards, BradBrad Richards	C	L	24–03624	1998	Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island	first
36		Roy, AndreAndre Roy	RW	L	29–12029	2002	Port Chester, New York	first
21		Sarich, CoryCory Sarich	D	R	25–29625	2000	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	first
26		St. Louis, MartinMartin St. Louis	RW	L	28–35528	2000	Laval, Quebec	first
61		Stillman, CoryCory Stillman	LW	L	30–17030	2003	Peterborough, Ontario	first
55		Sydor, DarrylDarryl Sydor	D	L	32–02532	2004	Edmonton, Alberta	fourth (1993, 1999, 2000)
27		Taylor, TimTim Taylor	C	L	35-12235	2001	Stratford, Ontario	second (1997)

Tampa Bay Lightning - 2004 Stanley Cup champions

Players

Stanley Cup engraving

• Darren Rumble played only five regular season games, and did not play in the playoffs. Rumble was a healthy reserve the rest of the season.
• Eric Perrin played in four regular season games and twelve playoff games (four in the conference in finals).
• Stanislav Neckar played two games in the conference finals. Stan Neckar was on the 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 these players on the Stanley Cup even though they did not qualify. Rumble for spending the whole season with Tampa Bay, and Perrin and Neckar for playing in the conference finals.
• -Ruslan Fedotenko was the first player born-trained from Ukraine to win the Stanley Cup.

ALL 52 members were included with the full first and full last names on the Presentation Stanley Cup filling the last spot on the Stanley Cup. When the engraver Louise St. Jacques went to engrave the Replica Stanley Cup there was less space available. There was more space between each winning team on the Replica Stanley Cup then on the Presenation Stanley Cup. Louise decided to keep each member name in same order on the same line on the Replica Stanley Cup, so all names were engraved with first initial and full last name. This is another way of telling the Presentation Stanley Cup from the Replica Stanley Cup.

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 seven of the Finals drew 4.862 million viewers, making it the highest-rated NHL game on the CBC since game seven of the 1994 Final, which drew 4.957 million viewers.^[7] 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.^[7]

References

• Diamond, Dan (2008). Total Stanley Cup (PDF). Dan Diamond & Associates, Inc. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 26, 2009. Retrieved March 23, 2009. 

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