2004 Stanley Cup Finals The 2004 Stanley Cup Final for the NHL championship pitted the Eastern Conference ' s top qualifier , the Tampa Bay Lightning , against the West ' s sixth place qualifier , the Calgary Flames . It was Tampa ' s first - ever appearance in the final . For Calgary , it was the team ' s third appearance , and first since the Flames won the Cup in 1989 . Tampa defeated the Flames in seven games to win their first Stanley Cup . Paths to the final . Tampa Bay defeated the New York Islanders and Montreal Canadiens in the first two rounds and defeated Philadelphia Flyers in the Conference final to advance to the final . Calgary had beaten the Western Conference ' s top three seeded teams , the Vancouver Canucks , Detroit Red Wings , and the San Jose Sharks , in that order . The Flames were the first Canadian team to make it to the Finals since the Canucks lost to the New York Rangers in 1994 . The series . Game one . The first game , at St . Pete Times Forum , saw the Flames win the game , 4 – 1 . Calgary only got 19 shots off against the Lightning defense , but more than one - fifth found the net . Martin Gelinas got Calgary on the board early , and they extended the lead to 3 – 0 in the second period on goals by Jarome Iginla , his 11th of the postseason , and Stephane Yelle . Chris Simon added the fourth and final Calgary goal after Tampa Bay ' s Martin St . Louis scored the lone Lightning goal . Game two . Game two saw the same final score , but this time , it was Tampa Bay winning a clutch game to tie the series , 1 – 1 , headed to Calgary . Ruslan Fedotenko ' s 10th goal of the postseason got the Lightning on the board first , and Tampa Bay used three third - period goals , coming from Brad Richards , Dan Boyle , and St . Louis , respectively , to blast the game open . The lone Calgary goal was scored by Ville Nieminen . Game three . The series shifted to the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary , where Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff and the Calgary defense completely stonewalled the Tampa Bay attack , which only took 21 shots in a 3 – 0 Flames victory . Simon scored the first Calgary goal in the second period , and Shean Donovan and Iginla added goals to ice the game . This was the first Stanley Cup Finals game in Canada since Game 6 of the 1994 Finals , when the Vancouver Canucks won at home against the New York Rangers . Game four . With a chance to take a commanding 3 – 1 series lead , Calgary was shut out by Lightning goalie Nikolai Khabibulin , who recorded his fifth shutout of the postseason , a 29 - save shutout , in a 1 – 0 Tampa Bay victory , with the game ' s lone goal being scored by Brad Richards three minutes into the game . Game five . The series returned to Tampa Bay tied , 2 – 2 , for a critical game five , and Calgary pulled off a 3 – 2 overtime victory to move within one win from the Stanley Cup . After Gelinas and St . Louis traded goals in the first period , Iginla scored for Calgary late in the second period . However , Fredrik Modin tied the game for the Lightning 37 seconds into the third period . The 2 – 2 score held until after 14 : 40 had gone by in overtime , when Oleg Saprykin ' s first goal since the first round won the game for the Flames . Game six . Back to Calgary for game six , each team scored two second - period goals , with Richards scoring two for the Lightning and Chris Clark and Marcus Nilson for the Flames . In the third period , there was a dispute over a Martin Gelinas shot that appeared to have gone in . A review from one unorthodox camera angle showed the puck would appear to have crossed the goal line before Khabibulin ' s pad dragged it out , though another camera did show the puck had been knocked several inches " above " the goal line in front of Khabibulin ' s pad . Although it never was reviewed , it was officially inconclusive . The game entered overtime with the Flames needing only a single goal to win the Stanley Cup . Thirty - three seconds into double overtime , St . Louis put in the game - winner for the Lightning to force a winner - take - all game seven in Tampa Bay . Game seven . In a tense game seven , Fedotenko scored goals for Tampa Bay late in the first period and late in the second period for a 2 – 0 lead . After Conroy scored to narrow the deficit to 2 – 1 , Calgary barraged Khabibulin after taking only seven shots in the first two periods . After the Conroy goal , Khabibulin stopped 16 Calgary shots . The series ended as Flames center Marcus Nilson missed a last - second opportunity to force overtime . Tampa Bay won the game , 2 – 1 , and the Stanley Cup . The Tampa Bay Lightning are currently the southern - most hockey team to ever win the Stanley Cup in history . Broadcasting . This was the last Stanley Cup Final to air on the ABC / ESPN family of networks , as the 2004 - 05 NHL lockout suspended play for the next season . NBC and Versus ( formerly OLN ) would pick up the NHL for the 2005 - 06 season .