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Español1993-94 NHL SEASON
The '1993-94 NHL season' was the 77th regular season of the National Hockey League. Twenty-six teams each played 84 games. The New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup four games to three over the Vancouver Canucks. It was the Rangers' fourth championship. In addition, the final game started the 1994 Stanley Cup riots in Downtown Vancouver.
This season was the first for two expansion teams, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Florida Panthers. The Minnesota North Stars relocated to Dallas, Texas to become the Dallas Stars. It was the first franchise relocation for the NHL since the Colorado Rockies became the New Jersey Devils in 1982-83.
One major change this season drew the ire of some hockey purists: the names of the conferences were changed from Campbell and Wales to Western and Eastern respectively, and the divisions' names from Adams, Patrick, Norris and Smythe to Northeast, Atlantic, Central and Pacific respectively. New league commissioner Gary Bettman, who had previously worked in the National Basketball Association (NBA), thought the old names could be confusing to non-traditional fans and believed that a change to geographically-named divisions, as used in the NBA and most other North American professional sports, would be more easily understandable to new fans.
In addition, the playoff format was slightly altered to resemble that of the NBA; where playoffs had previously been bracketed and seeded by division, the playoffs were now broken down only by conference: the division winners were seeded one-two by order of point finish, then the top six remaining teams were seeded three through eight. However, unlike the NBA, the NHL matches the highest seeded winners against the lowest seeded winners in the second round. In order to reduce the number of long trips to and from the West Coast, whenever a Central Division team played a Pacific Division team in the playoffs, the format was 2-3-2 rather than the traditional 2-2-1-1-1, a format which lasted only for the 1993-94 season.
This was also the first season that all 4 former WHA teams missed the playoffs since joining in 1979
Regular season
Final standings
'''Note:' W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points''
Eastern Conference
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Western Conference
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'''Note:' x = clinched playoff berth, y = clinched division title, z = won Presidents' Trophy''
Scoring leaders
| Player | Team | GP | G | A | PTS |
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| Wayne Gretzky | Los Angeles | 81 | 38 | 92 | 130 |
| Sergei Fedorov | Detroit | 82 | 56 | 64 | 120 |
| Adam Oates | Boston | 77 | 32 | 80 | 112 |
| Doug Gilmour | Toronto | 83 | 27 | 84 | 111 |
| Jeremy Roenick | Chicago | 84 | 46 | 61 | 107 |
| Pavel Bure | Vancouver | 74 | 60 | 47 | 107 |
| Mark Recchi | Philadelphia | 84 | 40 | 67 | 107 |
| Brendan Shanahan | St. Louis | 81 | 52 | 50 | 102 |
| Jaromir Jagr | Pittsburgh | 80 | 32 | 67 | 99 |
| Dave Andreychuk | Toronto | 83 | 53 | 46 | 99 |
Stanley Cup Playoffs
Playoff bracket
Conference Quarterfinals
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Conference Finals
Main articles: 1994 Eastern Conference Finals (NHL)
Main articles: 1994 Western Conference Finals (NHL)
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Stanley Cup Finals
Main articles: 1994 Stanley Cup Finals
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NHL Awards
The 'NHL Awards' presentation took place on June 16, 1994.
All-Star teams
Debuts
The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1993-94 (listed with their first team, asterisk(
★ ) marks debut in playoffs):
★ Mariusz Czerkawski, Boston Bruins
★ Chris Osgood, Detroit Red Wings
★ Darren McCarty, Detroit Red Wings
★ Greg Johnson, Detroit Red Wings
★ Jason Arnott, Edmonton Oilers
★ Kirk Maltby, Edmonton Oilers
★ Rob Niedermayer, Florida Panthers
★ Chris Pronger, Hartford Whalers
★ Donald Brashear, Montreal Canadiens
★ Jason Smith, New Jersey Devils
★ Martin Brodeur, New Jersey Devils
★ Ziggy Palffy, New York Islanders
★ Mattias Norstrom, New York Rangers
★ Todd Marchant, New York Rangers
★ Alexandre Daigle, Ottawa Senators
★ Alexei Yashin, Ottawa Senators
★ Pavol Demitra, Ottawa Senators
★ Mikael Renberg, Philadelphia Flyers
★ Markus Naslund, Pittsburgh Penguins
★ Jocelyn Thibault, Quebec Nordiques
★ Ian Laperriere, St. Louis Blues
★ Chris Gratton, Tampa Bay Lightning
★ Yanic Perreault, Toronto Maple Leafs
★ Mike Peca, Vancouver Canucks
★ Jason Allison, Washington Capitals
Last games
The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1993-94 (listed with their last team):
★ Gordie Roberts, Boston Bruins
★ Dave Christian, Chicago Blackhawks
★ Michel Goulet, Chicago Blackhawks
★ Mike Foligno, Florida Panthers
★ Brian Propp, Hartford Whalers
★ Dave Taylor, Los Angeles Kings
★ Mark Hardy, Los Angeles Kings
★ Keith Acton, New York Islanders
★ Rob Ramage, Philadelphia Flyers
★ Bryan Trottier, Pittsburgh Penguins
Trivia
Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals was the most-watched game in NHL history, whether it was on ESPN in the United States, MSG Network, or on the CBC in Canada. (ESPN was blacked out in the New York City area and in the border cities).[1]
See also
★ List of Stanley Cup champions
★ 1993 NHL Entry Draft
★ 1993 NHL Expansion Draft
★ 1993 NHL Supplemental Draft
★ 45th National Hockey League All-Star Game
★ National Hockey League All-Star Game
★ NHL All-Rookie Team
★ Ice hockey at the 1994 Winter Olympics
★ 1993 in sports
★ 1994 in sports
References
★ Hockey Database
★ http://nhl.com/
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