1984 - 85 NHL season The 1984 - 85 NHL season was the 68th season of the National Hockey League . Twenty - one teams each played 80 games . The Edmonton Oilers won their second straight Stanley Cup by beating the Philadelphia Flyers four games to one in the final series . This was the first year since they began broadcasting that CBC was not the lone network broadcaster in Canada . While Molson continued to present Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday nights , rival brewery Carling O ' Keefe began airing Friday night games on CTV . The two networks split the playoffs and finals . Regular season . The Philadelphia Flyers had the best record in the NHL , a mere four points ahead of second place Edmonton Oilers . Oilers ' star Wayne Gretzky once again won the Art Ross Trophy by reaching the 200 plateau for the third time in four years . He also set a new record for assists in a season with 135 and won his sixth straight Hart Trophy . Mario Lemieux made his NHL debut by scoring 100 points and winning the Calder Trophy for rookie of the year . This season marked the true end for the 1960s in the NHL , as the last 2 players from that era , Butch Goring and Brad Park , retired after the playoffs . Goring was the last active , playing his last playoff game 3 days after Park ' s last game . Final standings . " Note : W = Wins , L = Losses , T = Ties , GF = Goals For , GA = Goals Against , Pts = Points , PIM = Penalties in minutes . Teams qualifying for the playoffs shown in bold . " Scoring leaders . " Note : GP = Games played ; G = Goals ; A = Assists ; Pts = Points " The Philadelphia Flyers ended the New York Islanders ' string of five straight seasons in the Stanley Cup Finals by dispatching the club four games to one . Flyers goaltender Pelle Lindbergh registered a pair of shutouts , one in Game 1 , and the other in the clinching Game 5 , by a 1 - 0 score . The Quebec Nordiques and Montreal Canadiens battled in a seven - game series . Bitter rivals from the province of Quebec , the Nords shocked the Habs in 1982 , only to see a fourth - place Montreal club upset Quebec the year before . In the deciding Game 7 at the Montreal Forum , Peter Stastny scored the game and series winning goal , giving Quebec an improbable 3 - 2 overtime win and berth in the Wales Conference Finals . The Chicago Blackhawks simply outscored the Minnesota North Stars in an offensive - minded six - game series that featured 61 total goals . Defending Cup champion Edmonton was too much for the Winnipeg Jets , sweeping them in four straight games and doubling their goal total . Although the Flyers held the best record in the NHL with 53 wins and 113 points , the Adams Division held a better record against the Patrick Division , so the Wales finals began in Quebec City . Philly and Quebec split the first four games , then the Flyers edged the Nordiques , 2 - 1 , in Game 5 . Game 6 in Philadelphia was a tour - de - force for the Flyers , outshooting Quebec 36 - 15 , and winning 3 - 0 . Flyers captain Dave Poulin ' s two - man disadvantage shorthanded goal early in the second period was the deciding factor in the contest . The team returned to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1980 . Unfortunately , the win came at a high cost , as both 54 - goal forward Tim Kerr and defenseman Brad McCrimmon would be lost for the remainder of the playoffs with injuries . The Oilers steamrolled the Blackhawks in a six - game series which broke all sorts of records for total offense . Edmonton won the first two games at home by 11 - 2 and 7 - 3 scores , only to see Chicago strike back at home with 5 - 2 and 8 - 6 victories . However , Edmonton rebounded to blast the Hawks in the final two games , 10 - 5 and 8 - 2 to earn their third trip to the Cup Finals in as many years . Edmonton set all - time playoff marks with most goals in one series , most goals in a six - game series , and both clubs set records with most total goals in a semifinal series and most total goals in one six - game series . Stanley Cup playoffs . Edmonton would lose the first game to the Flyers but would then take the next four to win their second straight Stanley Cup . Finals . Edmonton Oilers vs . Philadelphia Flyers " Edmonton Oilers win series 4 - 1 . " Debuts . The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1984 - 85 ( listed with their first team , asterisk ( * ) marks debut in playoffs ) : Last games . The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1984 - 85 ( listed with their last team ) :