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| season_champ_name= [[Presidents' Trophy]]
| season_champs = [[Detroit Red Wings]]
| MVP = [[Eric Lindros]]
| MVP_link = Hart Memorial Trophy
| top_scorer = [[Jaromír Jágr|Jaromir Jagr]]
| top_scorer_link =Art Ross Trophy
| playoffs = Playoffs
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| finals_champ = [[New Jersey Devils]]
| finals_runner-up = [[Detroit Red Wings]]
| playoffs_MVP = [[Claude Lemieux]]
| playoffs_MVP_link= Conn Smythe Trophy
| nextseason_year = [[1995–96 NHL season|1995–96]]
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|no_of_teams=26
| TV = [[Hockey Night in Canada|CBC]], [[TSN Hockey|TSN]], [[La Soirée du hockey|SRC]]
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The '''1994–95 NHL season''' was the [[List of NHL seasons|78th]] [[regular season]] of the [[National Hockey League]]. The
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==League business==
===Entry draft===
The [[1994 NHL Entry Draft]] was held on June 28–29, 1994, at the [[Hartford Civic Center]] in [[Hartford, Connecticut]]. [[Ed Jovanovski]] was selected first overall by the [[Florida Panthers]].
===Lockout===
{{main|1994–95 NHL lockout}}
On October 1, 1994, the NHL initiated a [[lockout (industry)|lockout]] of the [[National Hockey League Players' Association]] (NHLPA). The players had begun [[training camp]]s a few weeks earlier as if to start the season. However, as these camps came to a close, labour negotiations remained unresolved.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-often-forgotten-1994-nhl-lockout/|title=The Often Forgotten 1994 NHL Lockout|first=Sean|last=McIndoe|date=3 September 2014|publisher=[[grantland.com]]}}</ref> The big issue was the implementation of a [[salary cap]]. The NHL owners were strongly in favor of the cap while the players were opposed to it. The NHL wanted to levy a [[Luxury tax (sports)|luxury tax]], a financial penalty that is assigned by the league, on salaries that were higher than the average. However, the [[National Hockey League Players' Association]] (NHLPA) viewed that as a variation on a salary cap and refused to accept it. This came right off the heels of the [[1992 NHL strike|1992 walkout]] by players, which interrupted the race for the Stanley Cup.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/sports/hockey/general-20/1995-hockey-is-back.html|title=CBC Archives}}</ref> Unlike in the 1992 strike however, it was the owners who wanted to make sure that they got the right deal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isportsweb.com/2014/02/06/around-nhl-time-fix-standings/|title=How to fix the NHL standings|date=6 February 2014|access-date=6 September 2017|archive-date=6 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906091749/http://www.isportsweb.com/2014/02/06/around-nhl-time-fix-standings/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Under the leadership of executive director [[Bob Goodenow]], the NHLPA position was that it would be open to a small tax, however the bulk of the financial goals could be achieved through revenue sharing.
After the lockout had dragged on, the talk of salary cap faded and new items entered the debate. Talk of rookie salary cap, changes to the arbitration system, and loosened free agency. However, large market teams such as [[Toronto Maple Leafs|Toronto]], [[Detroit Red Wings|Detroit]], the [[New York Rangers]], [[Dallas Stars|Dallas]], and [[Philadelphia Flyers|Philadelphia]] eventually broke with the league, as they feared that an extended lockout would outweigh the benefits from getting a salary cap and did not want to be the first league in North America to forfeit an entire season just to help out their small-market colleagues.<ref name="auto"/>
The [[Boston Bruins]] played their final season at the [[Boston Garden]]. They would then move to their current arena, the [[TD Garden]] (then named the FleetCenter).▼
The lockout ended on January 11, 1995. As a result, the league shortened the season length from 84 games, the length of the previous two seasons, to 48.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.si.com/more-sports/photos/2011/07/01-1abbreviated-seasons|magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]]|title=Abbreviated Seasons|date=July 1, 2011}}</ref> The regular season would then last from January 20 to May 3, the first time in NHL history that the regular season extended into May. All games were limited to intra-conference play. The NHL and NHLPA agreed to shorten future seasons to 82 games. The [[NHL All-Star Game]], which had been scheduled to take place January 20–21, 1995, in [[San Jose, California]], was canceled; San Jose was then awarded [[1997 NHL All-Star Game]] instead. The lost revenue due to the lockout would eventually contribute in part to three teams relocating: the [[Quebec Nordiques]] moved to [[Denver, Colorado]] after the 1994–95 season to became the [[Colorado Avalanche]]; the [[Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996)|Winnipeg Jets]] relocated to [[Phoenix, Arizona]] after the [[1995–96 NHL season|1995–96 season]] to became the [[Phoenix Coyotes]]; and the [[Hartford Whalers]] moved to [[Greensboro, North Carolina]] after the [[1996–97 NHL season|1996–97 season]] to become the [[Carolina Hurricanes]].
The [[Vancouver Canucks]] played their last season at [[Pacific Coliseum]]. They would play at GM Place (now known as [[Rogers Arena]]) the following year.▼
The [[Chicago Blackhawks]] moved to the [[United Center]].▼
The [[St. Louis Blues]] moved to the [[Enterprise Center|Kiel Center]] (now the [[Enterprise Center]]).▼
*March 10, 1995 – the game between the [[San Jose Sharks]] and [[Detroit Red Wings]] was postponed due to the [[Guadalupe River (California)|Guadalupe River]] flooding, making it impossible for the teams to travel to the [[HP Pavilion at San Jose|San Jose Arena]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Weekes|first=Don|title=The Best and Worst of Hockey's Firsts: The Unofficial Guide|year=2003|publisher=Greystone Books|location=Canada|isbn=9781550548600|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bestworstofhocke0000week/page/n243 240]|url=https://archive.org/details/bestworstofhocke0000week|url-access=registration}}</ref>▼
===Rule changes===
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* Any severe check from behind risks a major penalty and game misconduct.
* Referees and linesmen would wear numbers instead of nameplates; this restored a practice that had been in use previously from 1955 to 1977.
==Arenas==
▲* The [[Boston Bruins]] played their final season at the [[Boston Garden]]
* The [[Philadelphia Flyers]]'s home arena, the [[Spectrum (arena)|Spectrum]], is renamed the CoreStates Spectrum after [[CoreStates Financial Corporation]] acquires the naming rights.
▲* The [[St. Louis Blues]] moved
▲* The [[Vancouver Canucks]] played their last season at [[Pacific Coliseum]]
==Regular season==
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This was the first season since [[1969–70 NHL season|1969–70]], that the [[Montreal Canadiens]] missed the playoffs.
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==Playoffs==
{{main|1995 Stanley Cup playoffs}}
===Bracket===
The top eight teams in each conference made the playoffs, with the two division winners [[Seed (sports)|seeded]] 1–2 based on regular season records, and the six remaining teams seeded 3–8. In each round, teams competed in a [[best-of-seven]] series (scores in the bracket indicate the number of games won in each best-of-seven series). The NHL used "re-seeding" instead of a fixed bracket playoff system. During the first three rounds, the highest remaining seed in each conference was matched against the lowest remaining seed, the second-highest remaining seed played the second-lowest remaining seed, and so forth. The higher-seeded team was awarded home-ice advantage. The two conference winners then advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals.
{{:1995 Stanley Cup playoffs|transcludesection=Bracket}}
==Awards==
The '''NHL Awards''' presentation took place on July 6, 1995.
{| class="wikitable"
| [[Presidents' Trophy]]: || [[Detroit Red Wings]]
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| [[Lester B. Pearson Award]]: || Eric Lindros, Philadelphia Flyers
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| [[Vezina Trophy]]: || [[Dominik Hašek|Dominik Hasek]], Buffalo Sabres
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| [[William M. Jennings Trophy]]: || [[Ed Belfour]], [[Chicago Blackhawks]]
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This was the first season of the league's five-year U.S. national broadcast rights deals with [[NHL on Fox|Fox]] and [[NHL on ESPN|ESPN]]. Fox's deal marked the NHL's first major American broadcast network agreement since the [[1974–75 NHL season|1974–75 season]]. ESPN's original deal that began [[1992–93 NHL season|1992–93 season]] was also restructured, as Fox replaced ESPN's [[Brokered programming|brokered]] deal with its sister broadcast network [[NHL on ABC|ABC]]. Fox had the All-Star Game and weekly regional telecasts on the last five Sunday afternoons of the regular season, while ESPN and [[ESPN2]] had weeknight games.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 13, 1994|title=Fox, ESPN ink deals with NHL|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/09/13/Fox-ESPN-ink-deals-with-NHL/5942779428800/|work=UPI|location= |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Gatehouse|first=Jonathon|author-link= |date= October 2012|title=The Instigator: How Gary Bettman Remade the NHL and Changed the Game Forever|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ryb0O7riZnQC&q=Fox|location= |publisher=Triumph Books|page=161|isbn=9781623686567}}</ref>
For playoff coverage, this was the first time that all Conference Finals and Stanley Cup Finals games were exclusive to Fox or ESPN. American [[regional sports network]]s could still carry their teams' first and second
==See also==
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* [[1994–95 NHL lockout]]
* [[NHL All-Rookie Team]]
* [[Lester Patrick Trophy]]
* [[1994 in sports]]
* [[1995 in sports]]
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