2007 Stanley Cup Finals

2007 Stanley Cup Final

Game 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Games Anaheim 3 1 Ottawa 2 0
Coaches	Anaheim: Randy Carlyle Ottawa: Bryan Murray
Referees	Paul Devorski, Dan O'Halloran, Bill McCreary, and Brad Watson [1]
Dates	May 28-June 11, 2007
Most Valuable Player	TBD
Networks	CBC, NBC, RDS, Versus
Announcers	(CBC) Bob Cole, Harry Neale (Versus/NBC) Mike Emrick, Ed Olczyk

The 2007 Stanley Cup Finals is the 2007 edition of the final series of the NHL's Stanley Cup Playoffs. The best-of-seven series features the Eastern Conference champion Ottawa Senators, facing Western Conference champion Anaheim Ducks. It's the first finals for the modern-day Senators since joining the NHL in 1992; the original Ottawa Senators last made the finals in 1927. Anaheim is making their second appearance in the Finals, having lost in the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals to the New Jersey Devils. Although the modern Senators have banners at Scotiabank Place honouring past championship teams named the Ottawa Senators, there is no official connection between the Senators of the 1920s and the current squad. The series will mark the first time that two teams from the early-90s expansion era will face each other in the final, and the first Finals since 1999 where neither finalist had ever won the Stanley Cup prior to that year (assuming the achievements of the original Ottawa franchise are not counted).

The 2007 Finals mark the third straight season a Canadian franchise is playing against a franchise based in the U.S. sunbelt. It will also mark the first time a team captain from Europe has made the finals, as Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson is from Sweden.

The Senators and Ducks have never met in the playoffs before, and have not played each other since January 19, 2006, when the Ducks won 4-3 in a shootout in Ottawa.

Path to the Finals

Main article: 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs

The fourth-seeded Ottawa Senators defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins, and upset both the New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres, all in five games apiece, en route to their first Eastern Conference championship. The second-seeded Anaheim Ducks defeated both the Minnesota Wild and Vancouver Canucks in five games before defeating the Detroit Red Wings in six games in the Western Conference Finals.

Anaheim will have home ice advantage for the series, as they finished the regular season with 110 points to Ottawa's 105.

Rosters

Ottawa Senators

Goaltenders
#		Player	GP	MINS	GA	GAA	Save%	SO
1		Ray Emery	15	952	31	1.95	.919	3
29		Martin Gerber	0	0	0	0	0	0

Skaters
#		Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
2		Lawrence Nycholat	0	0	0	0	0	0
4		Chris Phillips - A	15	0	0	0	0	20
5		Christoph Schubert	15	0	0	0	-3	16
6		Wade Redden - A	15	2	6	8	+9	6
7		Joe Corvo	15	2	6	8	+4	6
11		Daniel Alfredsson - C	15	10	7	17	+7	10
12		Mike Fisher	15	3	3	6	0	16
14		Andrej Meszaros	15	1	4	5	+7	10
15		Dany Heatley	15	6	15	21	+7	12
16		Brian McGrattan	0	0	0	0	0	0
19		Jason Spezza	15	7	13	20	+7	6
20		Antoine Vermette	15	2	2	4	+3	6
22		Chris Kelly	15	3	2	5	+2	4
24		Anton Volchenkov	15	1	3	4	+2	18
25		Chris Neil	15	1	2	3	+1	14
27		Peter Schaefer	15	1	3	4	+3	6
37		Dean McAmmond	15	4	3	7	+5	11
42		Tom Preissing	15	2	5	7	+3	6
44		Patrick Eaves	4	0	1	1	0	0
61		Oleg Saprykin	11	1	0	1	-1	4
89		Mike Comrie	15	2	3	5	+2	15

Anaheim Ducks

Goaltenders
#		Player	GP	MINS	GA	GAA	Save%	SO
30		Ilya Bryzgalov	5	267	10	2.25	.922	0
35		Jean-Sebastien Giguere	13	769	24	1.87	.931	0

Skaters
#		Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
5		Richard Jackman	3	1	0	1	0	0
8		Teemu Selanne	16	5	7	12	+2	8
10		Corey Perry	16	4	5	9	+2	27
14		Chris Kunitz	11	1	5	6	+2	19
15		Ryan Getzlaf	16	5	8	13	+1	24
16		George Parros	5	0	0	0	0	10
17		Dustin Penner	16	2	3	5	+2	0
18		Drew Miller	1	0	0	0	0	0
19		Andy McDonald	16	5	2	7	+3	6
21		Sean O'Donnell	16	0	1	1	+4	8
22		Todd Marchant	6	0	2	2	0	12
23		Francois Beauchemin	15	3	4	7	+3	10
24		Brad May	13	0	1	1	-2	24
25		Chris Pronger - A	15	3	11	14	+6	22
26		Samuel Pahlsson	16	2	8	10	+6	12
27		Scott Niedermayer - C	16	3	6	9	+1	20
32		Travis Moen	16	4	5	9	+2	20
33		Joe DiPenta	14	0	0	0	0	4
34		Aaron Rome	1	0	0	0	-2	0
38		Ryan Shannon	11	0	0	0	0	6
40		Kent Huskins	16	0	1	1	+2	11
44		Rob Niedermayer - A	16	3	4	7	+5	39
45		Shawn Thornton	11	0	0	0	-3	17
47		Tim Brent	0	0	0	0	0	0

Game 1

Mike Fisher started off the scoring in the series with a powerplay goal 1:38 into the first period. Anaheim responded nine minutes later with a goal from Andy McDonald at even strength. Ottawa was unable to get even one shot at net in the last eleven minutes of the first, and the period ended 1-1, with the shots 8-4 for Anaheim. Early into the second, Wade Redden scored another power play goal for Ottawa from the blue line, putting the Senators up 2-1, where the score would remain until the end of the second. Anaheim went on to tie the game 2-2 at five minutes into the third on a goal from Ryan Getzlaf, followed by a dramatic game-winning goal by Travis Moen with three minutes left in the third. The shot total ended 32-20 in Anaheim's favor.

See also

• 2006-07 NHL Season
• 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs