1985 Stanley Cup Final
1 2 3 4 5 Total Edmonton Oilers 1 3 4 5 8 4 Philadelphia Flyers 4 1 3 3 3 1
Location(s)	Edmonton:Northlands Coliseum (3, 4, 5) Philadelphia:Spectrum (1, 2)
Coaches	Edmonton:Glen Sather Philadelphia:Mike Keenan
Captains	Edmonton:Wayne Gretzky Philadelphia:Dave Poulin
National anthems	Edmonton:Paul Lorieau Philadelphia:Kate Smith
Referees	Andy Van Hellemond (1) Kerry Fraser (2, 4) Bryan Lewis (3, 5)
Dates	May 21–30, 1985
MVP	Wayne Gretzky (Oilers)
Series-winning goal	Paul Coffey(17:57, first, G5)
Hall of Famers	Oilers: Glenn Anderson (2008) Paul Coffey (2004) Grant Fuhr (2003) Wayne Gretzky (1999) Jari Kurri (2001) Kevin Lowe (2020) Mark Messier (2007) Flyers: Mark Howe (2011) Coaches: Glen Sather (1997) Officials: Andy Van Hellemond (1999)
Networks	Canada: (English):CBC (1–2),CTV (3–5) (French):SRC United States: (National):USA Network (Philadelphia area):PRISM (1–2),WTAF (3–5)
Announcers	(CBC)Bob Cole,John Davidson andGary Dornhoefer (CTV)Dan Kelly,Ron Reusch andBrad Park (SRC)Rene Lecavalier andGilles Tremblay (USA Network) Dan Kelly (In Philadelphia),Al Albert (In Edmonton), andGary Green (PRISM/WTAF)Gene Hart andBobby Taylor
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The1985 Stanley Cup Final was thechampionship series of theNational Hockey League's (NHL)1984–85 season, and the culmination of the1985 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between thedefending championEdmonton Oilers (in their third straight Finals appearance) and thePhiladelphia Flyers. The Oilers defeated the Flyers in five games to repeat asStanley Cup champions. It was also the sixth straight Finals contested between teams that joined the NHL in1967 or later.

Until2022, this was also the last time that a team, defending champion, or runner-up appeared in the Finals for the third straight season. This was the fourth of nine consecutive Finales contested by a team fromWestern Canada, third of eight contested by a team fromAlberta (the Oilers appeared in six, theCalgary Flames in1986 and1989, and theVancouver Canucks in1982), and the second of five consecutive Finals to end with the Cup presentation on Alberta ice (the Oilers won four of those times, theMontreal Canadiens once). Game five of this series was played on May 30, which at the time was the latest finishing date for an NHL season. The record was brokentwo years later.

Edmonton defeated theLos Angeles Kings 3–0, theWinnipeg Jets 4–0, and theChicago Black Hawks 4–2 to advance to the finals.

Philadelphia defeated theNew York Rangers 3–0, theNew York Islanders 4–1, and theQuebec Nordiques 4–2 to make it to the finals.

This was the first Stanley Cup Final where games were scheduled for June. Had the series reached game six, it would have been played Sunday, June 2, with game seven on Tuesday, June 4. The NHL season would not extend into an actual June game until1992, due to aplayers strike.

This was the second and last Stanley Cup Final to use the 2–3–2 format, long favored byMajor League Baseball for itsWorld Series and used from 1985 through 2013 for theNBA Finals. Since Edmonton went 6–0 at home during the 1984 and 1985 Finals, it was able to clinch in game five on home ice each time.

Wayne Gretzky scored seven goals in the five games, tying the record set byJean Béliveau of the Canadiens in1956 andMike Bossy of the Islanders in1982.Grant Fuhr stopped two penalty shots.Jari Kurri scored 19 goals through the entire playoffs, tying the single-year record set byReggie Leach of the Flyers in1976.

This was the last Stanley Cup Final in which either starting goalie wore the old-style fiberglassmask. Both Fuhr and the Flyers'Pelle Lindbergh wore the face-hugging mask, which was introduced in 1959 byJacques Plante. The backups, Edmonton'sAndy Moog and Philadelphia'sBob Froese, wore the helmet-and-cage combination, similar to the oneBilly Smith wore in leading theNew York Islanders to four consecutive Cups from 1980 to 1983.The next year, theCalgary Flames'Mike Vernon sported a helmet-and-cage combo, andMontreal Canadiens rookiePatrick Roy wore a modern full fiberglass cage, the second goalie to sport that style in a Finals series afterGilles Meloche with theMinnesota North Stars in1981. Fuhr switched to a full fiberglass cagethe next season.

This was the first Stanley Cup Final in which theNHL official (referee or linesman) wore a helmet (Andy Van Hellemond). This occurred during Game 1.

The Flyers posted a 4–1 victory to open the series. Edmonton coachGlen Sather was reportedly so disappointed with his team's performance that he burned the game videotapes after watching them.

Wayne Gretzky's first goal of the series late in the second period snapped a 1–1 tie, andDave Hunter added an insurance empty-netter and the Oilers drew even in the series with a 3–1 win.

Gretzky almost single-handedly won Edmonton the game. He scored twice within the first 90 seconds of the game, and finished off a hat trick by the end of the first period. Although the Oilers put only six shots on net over the final 40 minutes, it was enough to escape with a 4–3 win and 2–1 series lead.

Unbowed, the Flyers leapt out to a 3–1 lead midway through the first period thanks to goals at even strength, on the power play and shorthanded. However, the Oilers roared back with four consecutive goals, including two from Gretzky, to win 5–3 and take a commanding series lead.

Against backup goaltenderBob Froese, substituting for starterPelle Lindbergh (who had been playing progressively less well over the course of the Finals), the Oilers blitzed the Flyers with a four-goal first period and sailed to a convincing 8–3 win. Gretzky and Kurri posted a goal and three assists each, whilePaul Coffey andMark Messier scored two goals apiece. Edmonton won its second consecutiveStanley Cup while the Flyers, at the time the youngest team in professional sports, took the lessons from their loss into the clubs' next Stanley Cup Final; they lost again to the Oilers in1987, albeit in seven games. Wayne Gretzky won theConn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, scoring a record 47 points this playoff year.

In Canada, this was the first of two consecutive years that the English-language rights of the Cup Finals were shared betweenCBC andCTV. CBC televised games one and two nationally while games 3–5 were televised in Edmonton only. CTV televised games 3–5 nationally while games were blacked out in Edmonton. Had the series gone to a Game 7, then both CBC and CTV would have simultaneously televised it while using their own production facilities and crews.Dan Kelly,Ron Reusch, andBrad Park called the games on CTV.

In the United States, this was the fifth and final season that the Cup Finals aired nationally on theUSA Network. Under the U.S. TV contracts that would take effect beginning next season,ESPN would take over as the NHL's American television partner. The USA Network would not air NHL games again until 2015 when it became an occasional overflow channel forNBC Sports' national coverage of the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The USA Network's national coverage of the 1985 Cup Finals was blacked out in the Philadelphia area due to the local rights to Flyers games in that TV market.PRISM aired games one and two whileWTXF aired games three, four, and five.

#	Nat	Player	Position	Hand	Age	Acquired	Place of birth	Finals appearance
9		Glenn Anderson	RW	L	24	1979	Vancouver, British Columbia	third(1983,1984)
20		Billy Carroll	C	L	26	1984–85	Toronto, Ontario	fifth(1981,1982,1983,1984)
7		Paul Coffey	D	L	23	1980	Weston, Ontario	third(1983,1984)
2		Lee Fogolin	D	R	30	1979–80	Chicago, Illinois	third(1983,1984)
31		Grant Fuhr	G	R	22	1981	Spruce Grove, Alberta	third(1983,1984)
21		Randy Gregg	D	L	29	1981–82	Edmonton, Alberta	third(1983,1984)
99		Wayne Gretzky –C	C	L	24	1979–80	Brantford, Ontario	third(1983,1984)
22		Charlie Huddy	D	L	25	1980–81	Oshawa, Ontario	third(1983,1984)
16		Pat Hughes	RW	R	30	1980–81	Calgary, Alberta	fourth(1979,1983,1984)
12		Dave Hunter	LW	L	27	1979–80	Petrolia, Ontario	third(1983,1984)
29		Don Jackson	D	L	28	1981–82	Minneapolis, Minnesota	third(1983,1984)
26		Mike Krushelnyski	C	L	25	1984–85	Montreal, Quebec	first
17		Jari Kurri	RW	R	25	1980	Helsinki, Finland	third(1983,1984)
19		Willy Lindstrom	RW	L	34	1982–83	Grums, Sweden	third(1983,1984)
4		Kevin Lowe	D	L	26	1979	Lachute, Quebec	third(1983,1984)
8		Dave Lumley	RW	R	30	1979–80	Toronto, Ontario	third(1983,1984)
24		Kevin McClelland	C	R	22	1983–84	Oshawa, Ontario	second(1984)
28		Larry Melnyk	D	L	25	1983–84	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	second(1984)
11		Mark Messier	C	L	24	1979	Edmonton, Alberta	third(1983,1984)
35		Andy Moog	G	L	25	1980	Penticton, British Columbia	third(1983,1984)
18		Mark Napier	RW	L	28	1984–85	North York, Ontario	second(1979)
10		Jaroslav Pouzar	LW	L	33	1982	Cakov, Czechoslovakia	third(1983,1984)
27		Dave Semenko	LW	L	27	1979–80	Winnipeg, Manitoba	third(1983,1984)
14		Esa Tikkanen	LW	L	20	1983	Helsinki, Finland	first

#	Nat	Player	Position	Hand	Age	Acquired	Place of birth	Finals appearance
19		Ray Allison	RW	R	26	1981–82	Cranbrook, British Columbia	first
42		Todd Bergen	C	L	21	1982	Prince Albert, Saskatchewan	first
21		Dave Brown	RW	R	22	1982	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	first
18		Lindsay Carson	LW	L	24	1979	Oxbow, Saskatchewan	first
32		Murray Craven	LW	L	20	1984–85	Medicine Hat, Alberta	first
3		Doug Crossman	D	L	24	1983–84	Peterborough, Ontario	first
9		Miroslav Dvorak	D	L	33	1982	Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czechosloavkia	first
27		Thomas Eriksson	D	L	25	1979	Stockholm, Sweden	first
35		Bob Froese	G	L	26	1981–82	St. Catharines, Ontario	first
11		Len Hachborn	C	L	23	1981	Brantford, Ontario	first
17		Ed Hospodar	D	L	26	1984–85	Bowling Green, Ohio	first
2		Mark Howe	D	L	30	1982–83	Detroit, Michigan	first
12		Tim Kerr	RW	R	25	1980–81	Windsor, Ontario	first
27		Pelle Lindbergh	G	L	26	1979	Stockholm, Sweden	first
8		Brad Marsh	D	L	27	1981–82	London, Ontario	first
10		Brad McCrimmon	D	L	26	1982–83	Dodsland, Saskatchewan	first(did not play)
28		Joe Paterson	LW	L	24	1984–85	Toronto, Ontario	first
20		Dave Poulin –C	C	L	26	1982–83	Timmins, Ontario	first
26		Brian Propp	LW	L	26	1979	Lanigan, Saskatchewan	second(1980)
23		Ilkka Sinisalo	RW	L	26	1981–82	Valkeakoski, Finland	first
24		Derrick Smith	LW	L	20	1983	Scarborough, Ontario	first
15		Rich Sutter	LW	R	21	1983–84	Viking, Alberta	first
14		Ron Sutter	C	R	21	1982	Viking, Alberta	first
22		Rick Tocchet	RW	R	21	1983	Scarborough, Ontario	first
25		Peter Zezel	C	L	20	1983	Scarborough, Ontario	first

The 1985 Stanley Cup was presented to Oilers captain Wayne Gretzky byNHL PresidentJohn Ziegler following the Oilers 8–3 win over the Flyers in game five.

The following Oilers players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup

1984–85 Edmonton Oilers

• * Played both centre and wing.

Garnet "Ace" Bailey, Ed Chadwick, Lorne Davis, Matti Valsanen (Scouts), Gordon Cameron (Team Physician) received rings with Edmonton in 1984. Their names however, were left off the Stanley Cup in 1984, but included in 1985.

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