2004 Stanley Cup Playoff Page

The Tampa Bay Lightning proved one goal better than the Calgary Flames, bringing the Stanley Cup to Florida for the first time ever. Here are the scores and recaps from all seven games of the 2004 Stanley Cup Final.

Why waste a lot of time analyzing stats, imagining trends and comparing depth charts? The following predictions on the opening round of Stanley Cup 2006 are based on the soundest of principles: No research, no secong guessing, and gut instinct rules.

The Calgary Flames and Tampa Bay Lightning both want the puck. But who plays better without it? That could determine the 2004 Stanley Cup champion.

May 24/04 - On the eve of the Stanley Cup Final, the hockey world is ganging up on the Tampa Bay Lightning. Reporters and columnists like the team well enough; it's the thought of the Stanley Cup bobbing in the Gulf of Mexico that has them breaking out in hives.

Results of every game, plus the complete schedule for each series.

Trends on and off the ice suggest the NHL might be in for a major overhaul after the 2004 Stanley Cup is handed out. For fans, the biggest changes could be in the look, sound and feel of an NHL game.

With so many weekend afternoon games scheduled during the 2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Canadian fans are deprived of their traditional Saturday night hockey fix.

Philadelphia is the oldest and most expensive team left standing. It's a different story in San Jose, Calgary and Tampa Bay, where the young, cheap and inexperienced are ascendant. We preview the two matchups.

Here's the full schedule of games for each second round series, with scores entered as the games are played, and an analysis of every game.

It will be fast and furious in Montreal and Tampa, long and brutal in Philadelphia and Toronto. And in the Western Conference, two upstarts are looking to derail two of the NHL's super powers.

Updated daily, here are the scores and complete schedules for each series in the opening playoff round, with network television listings included.

Six Eastern Conference teams finished with at least 100 points this season. They all think they have a decent shot at the Stanley Cup, but at least two of them won't even make it past the opening round. Here's our preview of each Eastern Conference series in round one of the 2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Coming up: The Western Conference preview.

March 25/04 - Think your favorite team has a decent shot at winning this year's Stanley Cup? Think again. There are solid reasons not to like any of the current contenders. We go through the list, pointing out how and why each team will implode.