Devils a 2–0 series lead over the Detroit Red Wings to take back home to New Jersey. The Devils completed the sweep at home for their first Stanley Cup Championship. Dowd became the first New Jersey native to both play and win the Stanley Cup for the Devils franchise. Late 1990s On December 19, 1995, less than six months after helping the Devils capture the Stanley Cup, Dowd was traded (alongside a 1997 second-round draft pick) to the Hartford Whalers in exchange for Jocelyn Lemieux and a second-round pick in 1998. Later that same day, Hartford traded Dowd (alongside František Kučera and the same second-round pick in 1997) to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Jeff Brown and a fifth-round pick in 1998. Dowd would only play 38 regular season games and one playoff game for the Canucks. On September 30, 1996, the New York Islanders claimed Dowd in the NHL Waiver Draft. He only played in three games for New York, spending the rest of the season with the International Hockey League (IHL)'s Utah Grizzlies and the AHL's Saint John Flames. On July 10, 1997, Dowd signed as a free agent with the Calgary Flames. In the season, he played in 48 games in Calgary and another 35 regular season (and 19 playoff) games with the Saint John Flames. On June 27, 1998, Dowd was traded to the expansion Nashville Predators in exchange for future considerations. On October 1, 1998, for the second time in his career, he was traded before playing a single game, this time to the Edmonton Oilers (alongside Mikhail Shtalenkov) in exchange for Éric Fichaud, Drake Berehowsky and Greg de Vries. Dowd appeared in one game with the Oilers during the season, spending the rest of the season with their AHL affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs. On September 7, 1999, as a group two free agent, he re-signed with Edmonton and played the season with the Oilers, appearing in an NHL career-high 69 games. 2000s The next chapter in Dowd's career began on June 23, 2000, when the Minnesota Wild selected him during the 2000 NHL Expansion Draft. On March 4, 2004, after nearly four seasons with the Wild, he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick in 2004. After the season, Dowd became an unrestricted free agent and signed with Germany's Hamburg Freezers during the 2004–05 NHL lockout. Following