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The 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs for the National Hockey League (NHL) championship began on April 21, 2006, following the 2005–06 regular season. This was the first playoffs since 2004 due to the 2004–05 NHL lockout that cancelled the previously scheduled season.
The 2006 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2005–06 season, and the culmination of the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs.The first Stanley Cup Finals since 2004 after a lockout canceled the entirety of the 2004–05 season, it was contested between the Eastern Conference champion Carolina Hurricanes and the Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers.
The 2005–06 NHL season was the 89th season of operation (88th season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL). This season succeeded the 2004–05 season which had all of its scheduled games canceled due to a labor dispute with the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) over the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the League and its players.
2006 Stanley Cup: The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Edmonton Oilers in seven games to capture their first Stanley Cup.; In the Western Conference, it was a year of upsets, as the top four seeds in the playoffs all fell in the first round, the first time this has happened since the NHL moved to a conference playoff format in 1994.
In Game 1, Michael Peca extended his playoff goal-scoring streak to three games, and Roloson stopped 31 of 32 shots as the Oilers stunned the Anaheim crowd into silence with a 3–1 victory. Peca would extend his goal streak in Game 2, scoring an empty-netter as the Oilers again iced the Ducks in their home rink, 3–1.
Game 6: Rangers 5, Penguins 3. Game 7: Rangers 4, Penguins 3 (OT) Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Tampa Bay Lightning. Lightning win 4-3. Game 1: Maple Leafs 5, Lightning 0. Game 2: Lightning 5, Maple ...
NHL 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs Edmonton Oilers 4, Detroit Red Wings 3: The Wings were twenty minutes away from sending the series back to Detroit for a seventh game, but the Oilers score four unanswered goals capped by Ales Hemsky's game winner with 1:06 left in regulation and eliminate the Presidents' Trophy (regular season) champions.
On that Saturday, it will have been 6,189 days since the Kings lost to the San Antonio Spurs at Arco Arena on May 5, 2006, in Game 6 of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. A lot ...