The 2022 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2021–22 season and the culmination of the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs. The series was between the Eastern Conference and two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning and the Western Conference champion Colorado Avalanche. The Avalanche won the best-of-seven series, four games to two, for their third championship in franchise history. Colorado had home ice advantage in the series with the better regular season record.
Andre Burakovsky scored the overtime-winning goal in game one.
Cale Makar scored a power-play goal and short-handed goal in game two.
Steven Stamkos scored a goal and two points in game three.
Nazem Kadri, shown with the Toronto Marlies in 2012, returned to the Avalanche lineup and scored the overtime-winning goal in game four.
William "Bill" L. Daly III is an American attorney and the current deputy commissioner and chief legal officer of the National Hockey League (NHL) under Commissioner Gary Bettman. He is also a Hockey Hall of Fame board member and former NHL vice president and chief legal officer. Before joining the NHL front office he worked for the New York law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and his J.D. degree from New York University School of Law.
Bill Daly
