2010 Stanley Cup Finals The 2010 Stanley Cup Final was the championship series of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) season . As the culmination of the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs , the Eastern Conference champion Philadelphia Flyers faced the Western Conference champion Chicago Blackhawks . The Blackhawks had home ice advantage in the Stanley Cup Finals , by virtue of their better regular season record - 112 points to the Flyers ' 88 . The series started on May 29 , and finished on June 9 , with the Blackhawks defeating the Flyers 4 games to 2 to win the Stanley Cup . This was the first Stanley Cup championship for Chicago since , which had been the longest active Cup drought ; the Toronto Maple Leafs ' 43 year title drought now stands as the longest active streak in the NHL . In addition , the Blackhawks become the fourth major Chicago sports team to win a championship since 1985 , joining the 1985 Chicago Bears , the Chicago Bulls dynasty of the 1990s , and the 2005 Chicago White Sox . Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the playoffs . With teammates Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook , he won the Olympic Gold medal with Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics , adding the three to the list of Ken Morrow ( ) , Steve Yzerman , and Brendan Shanahan ( both ) as the only players to accomplish this double . Having played for Team USA at the Olympics , Patrick Kane joined Chris Chelios and Brett Hull ( both 2002 ) as having won both the Olympic Silver medal and Stanley Cup in the same year . Marian Hossa became the first player in NHL history to play in three consecutive Stanley Cup Finals with three different teams . Jonathan Toews also became the twenty - fourth player and the seventh Canadian player to become a member of the Triple Gold Club having won an Olympic Gold Medal , an IIHF World Championship Gold Medal and the Stanley Cup . Path to the Final . Chicago Blackhawks . The Chicago Blackhawks finished the regular season as the Central Division champions with 112 points . This is the fourteenth division title in franchise history for the Chicago Blackhawks but the first since when it was called the Norris Division . As the second seed in the Western Conference playoffs , the Blackhawks defeated the seventh seed Nashville Predators and the third Vancouver Canucks , each in six games , and then swept the first seed San Jose Sharks in the Western Conference Final . This was Chicago ' s eleventh Stanley Cup Final appearance and first since . They won the Stanley Cup for the first time since , which was currently the longest active Stanley Cup drought , this distinction now falls to the Toronto Maple Leafs . They were also the first Original Six team other than the Detroit Red Wings to reach a Stanley Cup Final since the New York Rangers in their championship season of 1994 . Marian Hossa is the first player in NHL history to appear in three straight Stanley Cup Finals with three different teams , having previously made the Final with the Pittsburgh Penguins in and with the Detroit Red Wings in . Also , along with Hossa , the other half of Chicago ' s preseason acquisition from Detroit , Tomas Kopecky , was also playing in his third straight Stanley Cup Final . Philadelphia Flyers . The Philadelphia Flyers earned the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs after finishing the regular season with 88 points , and winning the tiebreaker over the Montreal Canadiens for most wins ( 41 to 39 ) . The Flyers , although the seventh seed from the Eastern Conference , were the very last team to qualify for the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs . On the final day of the regular season they met the New York Rangers in a winner - take - all match - up for the final playoff spot . Philadelphia beat the Rangers 2 – 1 in a historic shootout , the first do or die shootout for a playoff spot in NHL history . In the first round of the playoffs , the Flyers upset the second seed New Jersey Devils in five games . In the second round , against the sixth - seeded Boston Bruins , Philadelphia became the third NHL team to win a seven game series after being down three games to none ( the others being the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs and the 1975 New York Islanders ) . In the Eastern Conference Final , the Flyers eliminated the Canadiens in five games . This was Philadelphia ' s eighth Stanley Cup Final appearance and first since . They were also the first team to reach a Final with less than 90 points in the regular season since the Vancouver Canucks in 1994 , when they had 85 . The Flyers attempted to win the Stanley Cup for the first time since winning back - to - back Stanley Cups in and . The series . Game one . The Chicago Blackhawks won game one by a score of 6 – 5 on the strength of two goals by Troy Brouwer . Throughout the game , the two teams traded goals with neither team having a lead greater than one . The Flyers opened the scoring at 6 : 38 of the first period on a goal by Ville Leino that deflected off the face of Niklas Hjalmarsson . The Blackhawks responded with two quick goals , one of which was shorthanded , to take the lead . The lead would not last long , however , as the Flyers would counter with two goals of their own to re - take the lead 3 – 2 after the first period . Patrick Sharp scored 1 : 11 into the second period to tie the game once again . Both teams would trade goals once again and tie the game at five after the second period . Michael Leighton was replaced by Brian Boucher after allowing the fifth Chicago goal . In the third period , Tomas Kopecky scored what would eventually prove to be the game winner at 8 : 25 . Antti Niemi finished the game with 27 saves on 32 shots while Leighton saved 15 out of 20 shots . Boucher stopped 11 of 12 shots faced in relief of Leighton . Game two . The Blackhawks took game two of the best - of - seven series by a score of 2 – 1 , thus giving them a 2 – 0 series lead heading into games three and four in Philadelphia . In contrast to game one , game two was a low scoring affair with much tighter defense displayed by both teams . Neither team would score in the opening frame as the game entered the first intermission tied 0 – 0 . It was not until late in the second period that Chicago managed to get the ice breaker with a goal from Marian Hossa . The Blackhawks quickly added another goal just 28 seconds later on a wrist shot by Ben Eager . The Flyers would eventually reply in the third period on a power play goal by Simon Gagne but it would not be enough . Both goaltenders were much stronger as Antti Niemi stopped 32 of 33 shots for the Blackhawks while Michael Leighton rebounded with 24 stops on 26 shots . Game three . The Flyers won game three in overtime , 4 – 3 , to pull within 2 – 1 in the series . Danny Briere opened the scoring for Philadelphia with a power play goal at 14 : 58 of the first period . Duncan Keith tied the game at 1 – 1 early in the second period , and both teams added another goal to leave the score at 2 – 2 entering the third period . Patrick Kane scored with 17 : 10 remaining in the game to give the Blackhawks their first lead , but Ville Leino responded with the tying goal 20 seconds later . In overtime , shortly after a review determined that a shot by Gagne was not a goal , Claude Giroux scored the game - winner at 5 : 59 of the extra period . Game four . The Flyers evened the series at two games apiece by winning game four , 5 – 3 . The Flyers took the lead 4 : 35 into the game on a Mike Richards power play goal . Matt Carle extended their lead to 2 – 0 at 14 : 48 of the first period . Sharp cut Philadephia ' s lead in half with 1 : 28 left in the period , but Giroux restored the Flyers ' two - goal advantage 51 seconds later . Following a scoreless second period , Leino gave Philadelphia a three - goal lead 6 : 43 into the third period . Dave Bolland ( on a power play ) and Brian Campbell scored later in the third to leave Chicago trailing 4 – 3 with 4 : 10 remaining . However , Jeff Carter scored an empty - net goal with 25 seconds left to clinch the Flyers ' victory . Game five . The Blackhawks took a 3 – 2 lead in the series with a 7 – 4 victory in game five . At 12 : 17 of the first period , Brent Seabrook scored on a power play to give Chicago the lead . Within the next six minutes , the Blackhawks tripled their advantage , adding goals by Bolland and Kris Versteeg to make the score 3 – 0 . At the start of the second period , the Flyers again took Leighton out of the game , replacing him with Boucher . Four goals were scored in the second period — two by each team — and the Blackhawks entered the third period with a 5 – 2 lead . James van Riemsdyk pulled Philadelphia within two goals at 6 : 36 of the third . Sharp made the score 6 – 3 with 3 : 52 remaining , but Gagne answered for the Flyers 1 : 16 later . Thirty - one seconds after Gagne ' s goal , Dustin Byfuglien tallied an empty - net goal — his second goal of the game — which concluded the scoring . Game six . Game six required overtime , as the score was tied 3 – 3 at the end of the third period . Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks scored the series - winning goal at 4 : 06 into the overtime period , a shot in which the puck crossed the goal line and then got stuck underneath the padding in the back of the net . Everybody including most of the players and all the officials initially lost sight of where it went . Only Kane started to celebrate immediately , and was soon followed by the rest of the Blackhawks . It was only after a video review was the goal officially awarded . Jonathan Toews won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP , and was the first Blackhawk to hoist the first Cup to be won in overtime since . This was the first Stanley Cup win for Chicago in 49 years . The win also vaulted Toews into the Triple Gold Club , having won the Olympic Gold medal in Vancouver earlier in 2010 and an IIHF World Championship Gold medal in 2007 . Toews and defencemen Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook also became the fourth , fifth , and sixth players to win Olympic Gold and the Stanley Cup in the same year . With Chicago ' s Cup win , the Toronto Maple Leafs are now the only Original Six team to not win the Stanley Cup or play in the Finals since the 1967 expansion ; their most recent finals appearance came in their championship season of that year . Television . In Canada , the series was televised in English on CBC and in French on the cable network RDS . In the United States , NBC broadcast games one , two , five , and six ( which were all won by the Blackhawks ) ; while Versus televised games three and four ( which were both won by the Flyers ) . In Europe , Viasat Sport broadcast the televised finals in Sweden , Finland , Norway , Denmark , and the Baltic States ( Latvia , Lithuania , and Estonia ) , through five regional divisions of Viasat Sport . Its sister channel Viasat Sport East broadcast in the Russian language to the European and Eurasian countries of Russia , Belarus , Georgia , Moldova , Kazakhstan , Ukraine , Armenia , Kyrgyzstan , and Uzbekistan . Ratings . Game 1 produced the best overnight rating in the United States for a Game 1 since 1999 . The 2 . 8 overnight rating and 6 share was a 12 - percent increase from the first game of the 2009 Final between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings . Meanwhile , in Canada , Game 1 was viewed by people on CBC . Game 2 of the series , on Memorial Day , earned a 4 . 1 rating . The number of viewers increased as the game averaged approximately viewers with a peak of at Eastern Time Zone . According to NBC , this is the highest Game 2 since at least because data prior to then is unavailable . Game 2 also saw a 21 - percent increase over 2009 ' s second game . In local markets game two drew a 25 . 1 rating and 39 share in Chicago along with a 18 . 5 rating and 28 share in Philadelphia . Game 3 returned to cable on Versus where it received a 2 . 0 rating and viewers . The broadcast peaked at viewers at ET . It ranked as the highest rated and most viewed program in the history of Versus . It also ranked as the highest rated and most viewed Stanley Cup Final game on cable television since . Game 4 saw a decline of 9 % from the 2009 Final between the Penguins and the Red Wings as just viewers tuned in to the game . With the series returning to broadcast television on NBC , the ratings trend rebounded and improved over the 2009 Final ratings trend . Game 5 ' s prime time portion of the broadcast received a 3 . 3 final rating and averaged viewers , an increase of 38 % in the ratings and 32 % in viewers over the 2009 Final . Locally , the Chicago market received a 26 . 0 rating while Philadelphia had a 19 . 7 rating . The three game average for NBC broadcasts rose to viewers , an increase of 800 , 000 compared to 2009 . This increase came despite going head to head with the 2010 NBA Finals . Game 6 was the most - watched NHL game since Game 6 in , when Gene Hart made his famous announcement of the Flyers winning that game , drawing a 4 . 7 rating and 8 share , up 38 percent vs . 3 . 4 / 6 for Game 6 in . The top two markets were Chicago , with a 32 . 8 / 50 and Philadelphia , 26 . 8 / 38 . In Canada , Game 6 was the most - watched All - American Stanley Cup Final game on the CBC , with 4 . 077 million viewers . The Final averaged 3 . 107 million viewers , up 44 percent from 2009 . Impact and aftermath . Blackhawks . An estimated two million Chicagoans attended the Blackhawks Stanley Cup parade on June 11 , eclipsing the amount of people that attended the parade for the Chicago White Sox 2005 World Series championship , as well as the rallies at Grant Park for any of the Chicago Bulls championships in the 1990s . The Blackhawks ' celebration also overshadowed the series between the White Sox and Chicago Cubs taking place around the same time . US President Barack Obama , a former US Senator from Illinois and Chicago resident , phoned Joel Quennville to congratulate his team and to invite them to the White House . Obama joked that he now had " bragging rights " over Vice President Joe Biden , a Flyers fan . Rosters . Philadelphia Flyers . Chicago Blackhawks .