The following season, the Oilers met the Islanders in the Final again, this time winning the Stanley Cup, their first of five in seven years.
Oilersi so bili mlada in močna ekipa, katere glavni aduti v napadu so bili Mark Messier, Gretzky, Glenn Anderson in Jari Kurri, v obrambi Paul Coffey, na vratarskem položaju pa Grant Fuhr.