The New Jersey Devils defeated the defending champion Dallas Stars for their second Stanley Cup championship.

Also, in the 2000 Stanley Cup playoffs, the New Jersey Devils overcame a three-games-to-one deficit against the Philadelphia Flyers to win the Eastern Conference Finals.

The two conference winners then advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals, where home ice advantage was awarded to the team that had the better regular season record.

Coverage of the Stanley Cup playoffs continued to primarily be on CBC, while CTV Sportsnet aired first round all-U.S. series.

[18] ABC's terms of this deal included four to five weeks worth of regional games on selected Saturday afternoons,[19][20] typically between beginning in January or March for the first two seasons.

During the first two rounds of the playoffs, ESPN and ESPN2 aired selected games, while ABC had weekend regional telecasts.

ESPN then aired the first two games of the Stanley Cup Finals before the rest of the series shifted to ABC.