1994 Stanley Cup Finals

1994 Stanley Cup Finals
Teams 1* 2 3 4 5 6 7 Games New York Rangers  2 3 5 4 3 1 3 4 Vancouver Canucks  3 1 1 2 6 4 2 3 * game decided in overtime
Location: New York (Madison Square Garden) (1,2,5,7) Vancouver (Pacific Coliseum) (3,4,6) Format: Best-of-seven Coaches: New York: Mike Keenan Vancouver: Pat Quinn Captains: New York: Mark Messier Vancouver: Trevor Linden National anthem: New York: John Amirante Vancouver: Richard Loney (3) John Reynolds (4,6) Referees: Terry Gregson (1,4,7) Bill McCreary (2,6) Andy Van Hellemond (3,5) Dates: May 31 – June 14 MVP: Brian Leetch (New York Rangers) Series-winning goal: Mark Messier (13:29, second, G7) Networks: CBC (Canada-English), SRC (Canada-French), ESPN (United States), MSG Network (New York City market) (1,2,3,6,7), MSG II (New York City market) (4,5) Announcers: (CBC) Bob Cole, Harry Neale, Dick Irvin, Jr. (ESPN) Gary Thorne, Bill Clement (MSG Network) Sam Rosen, John Davidson
< 1993 Stanley Cup Finals 1995 >

The 1994 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-seven playoff series contested between the Eastern Conference champion New York Rangers and Western Conference champion Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League. The Canucks were making the club's second Final appearance, their first coming during their Cinderella run of 1982, and the Rangers were making their tenth appearance, their first since 1979. The Rangers ended their record 54-year championship drought with a victory in game seven to claim the long-awaited Stanley Cup. It was the fourth championship in franchise history. The CBC broadcast of the deciding game seven attracted an average Canadian audience of 4.957 million viewers, making it the most watched CBC Sports program in history to that time.^[1]

Road to the Final

The Canucks entered the playoffs seeded seventh in the Western Conference, and overcame a three-games-to-one deficit against the Calgary Flames, winning the final three games in overtime with game seven ending in double overtime as Pavel Bure scored the winning goal on a breakaway to upset the Flames.^[2][3] They then upset the fourth-seeded Dallas Stars and the third-seeded Toronto Maple Leafs in five games each to capture the Western Conference title.^[4][5]

The Rangers entered the playoffs with the league's best record, then swept their New York-area rival New York Islanders and then beat the Washington Capitals in five games,^[6] before falling behind three games to two in the Eastern Conference Final against their Hudson River rivals, New Jersey Devils.^[6] They then won game six by a 4–2 score after team captain Mark Messier publicly guaranteed a victory and then scored a third-period hat trick.^[7] The Rangers then won game seven 2–1 on Stéphane Matteau's goal in double overtime, prompting the call of "Matteau, Matteau, Matteau!" by Rangers radio announcer Howie Rose.^[6][8] It was Matteau's second double overtime goal of the series.^[9]

The series

This series brought together two assistant coaches who were teammates on the other Canucks team to reach the Finals: Rangers assistant coach Colin Campbell and Canucks assistant coach Stan Smyl, who served as team captain then, as Kevin McCarthy was injured.^[10]

It was the second straight Finals that featured a former Edmonton Oilers captain trying to become the first person to capture a Stanley Cup as captain on two different teams. The previous year, Wayne Gretzky, who captained the Oilers to the first four of their five Stanley Cups in the 1980s, captained the Los Angeles Kings to the finals, which they lost to the Montreal Canadiens.^[11] Here, it was Mark Messier of the Rangers, who captained the Oilers to the last of their five, in 1990.^[12][13]

The Rangers players had a decided edge in Finals experience, with seven players from the 1990 Oilers,^[14] including Messier, Glenn Anderson, Jeff Beukeboom, Adam Graves, Kevin Lowe, Craig MacTavish, and Esa Tikkanen. One 1990 Oiler, Martin Gélinas, was playing for the Canucks. Overall, the Rangers had eleven players with previous Finals appearances, compared to the Canucks' five. In addition, three of the Rangers (Messier, Anderson, and Lowe) were each making their seventh appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals (each having made their first six with Edmonton).

With the Rangers having 112 points in the regular-season standing and the Canucks 85, the 27-point difference was the largest point differential between two teams in the Stanley Cup Finals since 1982, when there was a 41-point difference between the New York Islanders (118) and the Canucks (77).^[10][15]

Game one

The Rangers scored early and led 2–1 late in the third period before Martin Gélinas tied the game with 1:00 to play in regulation time.^[16] It was the third time in eight games that the Rangers had surrendered a last-minute tying goal.^[16] The Rangers were all over the Canucks in overtime, but goaltender Kirk McLean made 52 saves on the night. In the last minute of the first overtime, Brian Leetch hit the crossbar at one end, and the Canucks went down to score the winner at the other on an odd-man rush by Greg Adams, as the Rangers, once again, lost a series opener at home in overtime.^[6]

Game two

The Rangers evened the series with a 3–1 victory before the series shifted west.^[17]

Game three

The Canucks came storming out in front of their home fans and Pavel Bure scored on his first shift to give them the early lead. But late in the period, with the score tied 1–1, Bure hit Jay Wells in the face with his stick and cut him, leading to a major penalty and Bure's expulsion from the game. Alexei Kovalev scored a breakaway shorthanded goal to help the Rangers and this goal will be on the cover of NHL 95 .Glenn Anderson scored on the ensuing power-play and the Rangers then cruised to a 5–1 victory.

Game four

In the fourth game, the Canucks again jumped out to an early lead, this time 2–0, before Mike Richter and Brian Leetch took over the game. Richter made some key saves to keep the game within reach, including one on a penalty shot against Pavel Bure, and Leetch picked up a goal and three assists as the Rangers won 4–2 to take a commanding 3–1 series lead.

Game five

Most who entered Madison Square Garden for the fifth game thought they were going to see the Rangers win the Cup that night. New York had already set the date for a victory parade.^[14] However, the celebration plans got ahead of the work at hand. The Canucks were leading 3–0 by the third minute of the third period. Even though the Rangers scrambled to pull even by the midway point, Vancouver took the lead 29 seconds later on a goal by Dave Babych and cruised to a 6–3 win.

Game six

The Canucks fired 14 shots at Mike Richter in the first period and led 1–0 on a Jeff Brown bullet from the point. The score was 2–1 after two periods before another Brown goal gave the Canucks a 3–1 third-period lead. Late in the third, Geoff Courtnall appeared to score for the Canucks, but the play continued and the Rangers scored to temporarily make the score 3–2. But, in the ensuing video review, it was confirmed that Courtnall had indeed scored his second goal of the game to clinch the game for the Canucks and force a seventh game.

Game seven

For the second time since 1971 and the tenth time overall, the Final went to seven games. Rangers coach Mike Keenan became the first person to be a head coach in game sevens of the Stanley Cup Finals for two different teams. Keenan had coached the Philadelphia Flyers in 1987 when they lost to the Edmonton Oilers.^[18] Mike Babcock would join him in this feat in 2009 while with the Detroit Red Wings, having been with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim when they lost to the New Jersey Devils in 2003 (the home team won all seven games of the series).^[19]

The game at Madison Square Garden was an "electric affair"^[14] with the Rangers jumping to an early 2–0 lead. Canucks captain Trevor Linden, however, silenced the home crowd with a short-handed goal early in the second period. Mark Messier scored a third Ranger goal only to have Linden make it close again with a goal early in the third. After that, it was "hectic, jittery hockey." Nathan LaFayette "frightened all Manhattan wobbling a loose puck" off the post behind Mike Richter with five minutes left.^[14] In the final 37 seconds, there were three face-offs in the New York end.

Mark Messier provided two of the most memorable images of that Stanley Cup Finals that would become iconic images to the Rangers and their fans: first, jumping up and down excitedly as ticker tape fell, then, showing incredible emotion as he accepted the Stanley Cup from NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, as he became the first (and as of 2015, the only) player to captain two different teams to the Stanley Cup. For scoring the winning goal, Messier earned the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Mr. June".^[20]

Television

In Canada, the series was televised in English on the CBC and in French on SRC. In the United States, the series was broadcast on ESPN. However, ESPN was blacked out in the New York City market because of the MSG Network's local rights to the Rangers games. ESPN also sent its broadcasts to a record 120 countries, for a potential audience of 285 million.^[21] MSG Network broadcaster Al Trautwig said that the Rangers themselves contributed to those numbers in putting the first Russian names on the Stanley Cup: Alexander Karpovtsev, Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Nemchinov, and Sergei Zubov, giving a huge European audience, including those watching on the brand-new television screens across the former Soviet Union, a Stanley Cup story to remember.^[22][23]

Ratings

In the United States, game seven was the highest-rated hockey game on cable. ESPN's broadcast drew a 5.2 rating.^[24] However, in New York, the ESPN blackout meant MSG Network's broadcast drew 16.2 rating, a record for the network.^[22][24] The two networks combined yielded a 6.9 rating.^[24]

With an average Canadian audience of 4.957 million viewers, game seven was the most watched CBC Sports program until the 10.6 million viewers for the men's ice hockey gold medal game between Canada and the United States at the 2002 Winter Olympics, when Canada won its first Olympic ice hockey gold medal since the 1952 Winter Olympics.^[25] Bob Cole, who called both games,^[26] said that game seven was one of his most memorable TV games.^[26][27]

Rosters

Bolded years under Finals appearance indicates a year the player won the Stanley Cup.

New York Rangers

Goaltenders
#	Player	Catches	Acquired	Place of birth		Finals appearance
30	Glenn Healy	L	1992–93		Pickering, Ontario	first (did not play)
35	Mike Richter	L	1985		Abington, Pennsylvania	first

Defencemen
#	Player	Shoots	Acquired	Place of birth		Finals appearance
2	Brian Leetch – A	L	1986		Corpus Christi, Texas	first
4	Kevin Lowe – A	L	1992–93		Lachute, Quebec	seventh (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990)
6	Doug Lidster	R	1993–94		Kamloops, British Columbia	first
21	Sergei Zubov	R	1990		Moscow, USSR	first
23	Jeff Beukeboom	R	1991–92		Ajax, Ontario	fourth (1987, 1988, 1990)
24	Jay Wells	L	1992–93		Paris, Ontario	first
25	Alexander Karpovtsev	R	1993–94		Moscow, USSR	first

Forwards
#	Player	Position	Shoots	Acquired	Place of birth		Finals appearance
9	Adam Graves – A	LW	L	1991–92		Toronto, Ontario	second (1990)
10	Esa Tikkanen	RW	L	1993–94		Helsinki, Finland	fifth (1985, 1987, 1988, 1990)
11	Mark Messier – C	C	L	1991–92		Edmonton, Alberta	seventh (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990)
12	Ed Olczyk	C	L	1992–93		Palos Heights, Illinois	first (did not play)
13	Sergei Nemchinov	C	L	1990		Moscow, USSR	first
14	Craig MacTavish	C	L	1993–94		London, Ontario	fourth (1987, 1988, 1990)
15	Mike Hudson	C	L	1993–94		Guelph, Ontario	first
16	Brian Noonan	RW	R	1993–94		Boston, Massachusetts	second (1992)
17	Greg Gilbert	LW	L	1993–94		Mississauga, Ontario	fourth (1982, 1983, 1992)
18	Mike Hartman	LW	L	1992–93		Detroit, Michigan	first (did not play)
19	Nick Kypreos	LW	L	1993–94		Toronto, Ontario	first
26	Joe Kocur	RW	L	1990–91		Kelvington, Saskatchewan	first
27	Alexei Kovalev	RW	L	1991		Tolyatti, USSR	first
28	Steve Larmer – A	RW	L	1993–94		Peterborough, Ontario	second (1992)
32	Stephane Matteau	LW	L	1993–94		Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec	second (1992)
36	Glenn Anderson	RW/LW	L	1993–94		Vancouver, British Columbia	seventh (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990)

Vancouver Canucks

Goaltenders
#	Player	Catches	Acquired	Place of birth		Finals appearance
1	Kirk McLean	L	1987–88		Willowdale, Ontario	first
30	Mike Fountain	L	1992		North York, Ontario	first (did not play)
35	Kay Whitmore	L	1992–93		Sudbury, Ontario	first (did not play)

Defencemen
#	Player	Shoots	Acquired	Place of birth		Finals appearance
3	Bret Hedican	L	1993–94		St. Paul, Minnesota	first
4	Gerald Diduck	L	1990–91		Edmonton, Alberta	first
5	Dana Murzyn – A	L	1990–91		Calgary, Alberta	second (1989, did not play)
6	Adrien Plavsic	L	1989–90		Montreal, Quebec	first (did not play)
21	Jyrki Lumme	L	1989–90		Tampere, Finland	first
22	Jeff Brown	R	1993–94		Ottawa, Ontario	first
24	Jiri Slegr	L	1990		Jihlava, Czechoslovakia	first (did not play)
28	Brian Glynn	R	1993–94		Iserlohn, West Germany	first
44	Dave Babych	L	1991–92		Edmonton, Alberta	first

Forwards
#	Player	Position	Shoots	Acquired	Place of birth		Finals appearance
7	Cliff Ronning	C	L	1990–91		Burnaby, British Columbia	first
8	Greg Adams	LW	L	1987–88		Nelson, British Columbia	first
10	Pavel Bure	RW	L	1989		Moscow, USSR	first
14	Geoff Courtnall	LW	L	1990–91		Victoria, British Columbia	second (1988)
15	John McIntyre	C	L	1993–94		London, Ontario	first
16	Trevor Linden – C	C	R	1988		Medicine Hat, Alberta	first
17	Jimmy Carson	C	R	1993–94		Southfield, Michigan	second (did not play)
18	Shawn Antoski	LW	L	1990		Brantford, Ontario	first
19	Tim Hunter	RW	R	1992–93		Calgary, Alberta	third (1986, 1989)
20	Jose Charbonneau	RW	R	1993–94		Ferme-Neuve, Quebec	first (did not play)
23	Martin Gelinas	RW	R	1993–94		Shawinigan, Quebec	second (1990)
25	Nathan LaFayette	RW	R	1993–94		New Westminster, British Columbia	first
27	Sergio Momesso – A	LW	L	1990–91		Montreal, Quebec	first
29	Gino Odjick	LW	L	1990		Maniwaki, Quebec	first (did not play)
32	Murray Craven	C	L	1992–93		Medicine Hat, Alberta	third (1985, 1987)
33	Michael Peca	C	R	1992		Toronto, Ontario	first (did not play)

New York Rangers: 1994 Stanley Cup champions

Roster

^A – Did not play in Final.

Stanley Cup engraving

• When the New York Rangers submitted the list of names for engraving, Ed Olczyk and Mike Hartman were included, although they fell short of the official requirements of 41 regular season games, or participation in the Final. When the Stanley Cup was engraved, Olczyk and Hartman's names were omitted. (Olczyk had played 37 regular-season games and one game in the Eastern Conference Final. Hartman had played 35 regular-season games and none in the playoffs.) Both players had spent the entire season with New York, and missed extensive time due to injury. At the Rangers' protest, the NHL added Olczyk and Hartman to the Cup. The NHL no longer adds missing names after the Cup has been engraved, though since 1994 it allows teams to petition for the inclusion of players who do not officially qualify.
• Seven players who won the cup in 1994 were also with the Edmonton Oilers in 1990 when they won their fifth Cup: Mark Messier, Kevin Lowe, Glenn Anderson, Jeff Beukeboom, Adam Graves, Craig MacTavish and Esa Tikkanen. An eighth player, Greg Gilbert, also won the Stanley Cup with the New York Islanders in 1982 and 1983.
• Alexander Karpovtsev, Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Nemchinov and Sergei Zubov became the first four Russian-trained players to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup.^[23]

See also

• 1993–94 NHL season
• 1993–94 New York Rangers season
• 1993–94 Vancouver Canucks season
• 1994 Stanley Cup playoffs
• List of Stanley Cup champions
• 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot

References

Inline citations

Bibliography

• Cole, Stephen (2004). The Best of Hockey Night in Canada. Toronto: McArthur & Company. ISBN 1-55278-408-8. 
• Diamond, Dan (2000). Total Stanley Cup. NHL. ISBN 1-892129-07-8. 
• Morrison, Scott (2008). Hockey Night in Canada: My Greatest Day. Toronto: Key Porter Books. ISBN 978-1-55470-086-8. 
• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books. pp. 12, 50. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7. 

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