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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | May 6–June 24, 1995 |
| Teams | 16 |
| Defending champions | New York Rangers |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | New Jersey Devils |
| Runner-up | Detroit Red Wings |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Scoring leader(s) | Sergei Fedorov (Red Wings) (24 points) |
| MVP | Claude Lemieux (Devils) |
The 1995 Stanley Cup playoffs, the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League was played between May 6 and June 24, 1995. The 1994–95 NHL regular season was shortened to 48 games, and the playoffs pushed to a later date, due to a lockout. The sixteen teams that qualified, eight from each conference, played best-of-seven series for the conference quarterfinals, semifinals and championships, and then the conference champions played a best-of-seven series for the Stanley Cup. In the Finals, the New Jersey Devils swept the favored Detroit Red Wings in four games to win their first championship.
This was the only time Patrick Roy missed the playoffs in his career. His team, the Montreal Canadiens, missed the playoffs for the first time since 1970. The Canadiens and the Ottawa Senators missed the playoffs this year. Montreal and Ottawa did not miss the playoffs in the same year again until 2016, when all Canadian teams missed the playoffs. The Quebec Nordiques played their last playoff series during this time. They would move to Denver, Colorado during the summer. For the first time since 1980, no league semifinal/conference final games were played in Canada.
Playoff seeds
The following teams qualified for the playoffs:[1]
Eastern Conference
- Quebec Nordiques, Northeast Division champions, Eastern Conference regular season champions – 65 points
- Philadelphia Flyers, Atlantic Division champions – 60 points
- Pittsburgh Penguins – 61 points
- Boston Bruins – 57 points
- New Jersey Devils – 52 points (22 wins, 7 points head-to-head vs. Washington)
- Washington Capitals – 52 points (22 wins, 1 point head-to-head vs. New Jersey)
- Buffalo Sabres – 51 points
- New York Rangers – 47 points
Western Conference
- Detroit Red Wings, Central Division champions, Western Conference regular season champions, Presidents' Trophy winners – 70 points
- Calgary Flames, Pacific Division champions – 55 points
- St. Louis Blues – 61 points
- Chicago Blackhawks – 53 points
- Toronto Maple Leafs – 50 points
- Vancouver Canucks – 48 points
- San Jose Sharks – 42 points (19 wins)
- Dallas Stars – 42 points (17 wins)
Playoff bracket
| Conference quarterfinals | Conference semifinals | Conference finals | Stanley Cup Finals | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Quebec | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | NY Rangers | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Philadelphia | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | NY Rangers | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Philadelphia | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Buffalo | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Philadelphia | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Eastern Conference | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | New Jersey | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Pittsburgh | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Washington | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Pittsburgh | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | New Jersey | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Boston | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | New Jersey | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| E5 | New Jersey | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| W1 | Detroit | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Detroit | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Dallas | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Detroit | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | San Jose | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Calgary | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | San Jose | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Detroit | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Western Conference | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Chicago | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | St. Louis | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Vancouver | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Chicago | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Vancouver | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Chicago | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Toronto | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
Conference quarterfinals
Eastern Conference quarterfinals
(1) Quebec Nordiques vs. (8) New York Rangers
This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. This was the final playoff series played by the Quebec Nordiques, as they relocated to Denver, Colorado to become the Colorado Avalanche the next season. The defending Stanley Cup champion Rangers upset the Nordiques in 6 games, becoming the second eighth-seeded team in NHL history to knock off a number one seed.
Game 5 was the final NHL game played at the Quebec Coliseum.
| May 6 | New York Rangers | 4–5 | Quebec Nordiques | Quebec Coliseum | Recap | |||
| Adam Graves (1) – pp – 04:34 | First period | 17:03 – sh – Scott Young (1) 19:41 – pp – Joe Sakic (1) | ||||||
| Adam Graves (2) – pp – 05:08 Alexander Karpovtsev (1) – 09:27 Alex Kovalev (1) – 18:51 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 09:44 – Joe Sakic (2) 14:07 – Bob Bassen (1) 19:22 – Joe Sakic (3) | ||||||
| Mike Richter 28 saves / 33 shots | Goalie stats | Stephane Fiset 28 saves / 32 shots | ||||||
| May 8 | New York Rangers | 8–3 | Quebec Nordiques | Quebec Coliseum | Recap | |||
| Steve Larmer (1) – sh – 12:48 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Adam Graves (3) – 05:37 Sergei Nemchinov (1) – 06:10 Mark Messier (1) – pp – 12:41 |
Second period | Bob Bassen (2) – 02:38 Janne Laukkanen (1) - 13:37 | ||||||
| Sergei Zubov (1) – 05:35 Petr Nedved (1) – pp – 08:33 Sergei Nemchinov (2) – 11:09 Petr Nedved (2) – 18:31 |
Third period | 16:10 – Valeri Kamensky (1) | ||||||
| Glenn Healy 19 saves / 22 shots | Goalie stats | Stephane Fiset 21 saves / 28 shots Garth Snow 2 saves / 3 shots | ||||||
| May 10 | Quebec Nordiques | 3–4 | New York Rangers | Madison Square Garden | Recap | |||
| Scott Young (2) – 01:54 | First period | 08:50 – Adam Graves (4) 10:58 – Sergei Zubov (2) | ||||||
| Peter Forsberg (1) – 17:14 | Second period | 14:19 – Sergei Nemchinov (3) | ||||||
| Owen Nolan (1) – 08:00 | Third period | 12:42 – Brian Leetch (1) | ||||||
| Stephane Fiset 28 saves / 32 shots | Goalie stats | Glenn Healy 17 saves / 20 shots | ||||||
| May 12 | Quebec Nordiques | 2–3 | OT | New York Rangers | Madison Square Garden | Recap | ||
| Craig Wolanin (1) – 03:50 Owen Nolan (2) – 09:40 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 04:28 – Brian Leetch (2) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 02:03 – Alex Kovalev (2) | ||||||
| No scoring | First overtime period | 08:09 – Steve Larmer (2) | ||||||
| Jocelyn Thibault 31 saves / 34 shots | Goalie stats | Mike Richter 21 saves / 21 shots Glenn Healy 8 saves / 10 shots | ||||||
| May 14 | New York Rangers | 2–4 | Quebec Nordiques | Quebec Coliseum | Recap | |||
| Mark Messier (2) – pp – 06:51 Pat Verbeek (1) – pp – 17:34 |
First period | 04:53 – Mike Ricci (1) 11:09 – Wendel Clark (1) 11:40 – Chris Simon (1) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 19:27 – Scott Young (3) | ||||||
| Mike Richter 25 saves / 28 shots | Goalie stats | Jocelyn Thibault 24 saves / 26 shots | ||||||
| May 16 | Quebec Nordiques | 2–4 | New York Rangers | Madison Square Garden | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 02:11 – pp – Pat Verbeek (2) 08:26 – Alex Kovalev (3) 19:57 – Sergei Nemchinov (4) | ||||||
| Joe Sakic (4) – sh – 15:56 | Second period | 10:18 – Alex Kovalev (4) | ||||||
| Peter Forsberg (2) – pp – 05:34 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Stephane Fiset 22 saves / 23 shots Jocelyn Thibault 13 saves / 16 shots |
Goalie stats | Mike Richter 26 saves / 28 shots | ||||||
| New York won series 4–2 | |
(2) Philadelphia Flyers vs. (7) Buffalo Sabres
This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams; with Philadelphia winning both previous series. They last met in the 1978 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals, which Philadelphia won in five games. Game four was the last playoff game at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium.