 The Islanders won the best-of-seven series, four games to none, to win their third consecutive and overall Stanley Cup championship.This is also the most recent time that a Stanley Cup Champion has won three in a row and the first, and so far only, time that a U.S.-based team has won three straight Stanley Cups.This 1982 Finals took place under a revised NHL divisional alignment and playoff structure, which "de facto" revived the "East vs. West" format for the Finals that had been abandoned when the Western Hockey League folded in .