 The upstart Oilers won the best-of-seven series, four games to one, to win their first Stanley Cup, becoming the third post-1967 expansion team and first former World Hockey Association team to win the Cup, and also the first team based west of Chicago to win the Cup since the WCHL's Victoria Cougars became the last non-NHL team to win it in .In the previous year's Stanley Cup Finals, the Islanders had swept the Oilers in four straight games.The teams rematched in 1984, with the Islanders seeking their fifth consecutive Stanley Cup championship.