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The 1993-94 NHL season was the 77th regular season of the National Hockey League . Twenty-six teams each played 84 games. The New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup four games to three over the Vancouver Canucks . It was the Rangers' fourth championship. In addition, the final game started the 1994 Stanley Cup Riot s in Downtown Vancouver . This season was the first for two expansion teams, the Mighty Ducks Of Anaheim and the Florida Panthers . The Minnesota North Stars relocated to Dallas, Texas to become the Dallas Stars . It was the first franchise relocation for the NHL since the Colorado Rockies became the New Jersey Devils in 1982-83 . One major change this season drew the ire of some hockey , who had previously worked in the National Basketball Association (NBA), thought the old names could be confusing to non-traditional fans and believed that a change to geographically-named divisions, as used in the NBA and most other North American professional sports, would be more easily understandable to new fans. In addition, the playoff format was slightly altered to resemble that of the NBA; where playoffs had previously been bracketed and seeded by division, the playoffs were now broken down only by conference: the division winners were seeded one-two by order of point finish, then the top six remaining teams were seeded three through eight. However, unlike the NBA, the NHL matches the highest seeded winners against the lowest seeded winners in the second round. In order to reduce the number of long trips to and from the West Coast, whenever a Central Division team played a Pacific Division team in the playoffs, the format was 2-3-2 rather than the traditional 2-2-1-1-1, a format which lasted only for the 1993-94 season. This was also the first season that all 4 former WHA teams missed the playoffs since joining in 1979 REGULAR SEASON Final standings ''Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points'' Eastern Conference
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