New Jersey finished the regular season with 111 points and an Atlantic Division title, good for the first overall seed in the Eastern Conference.

In the playoffs, they defeated the Carolina Hurricanes 4–2, the Toronto Maple Leafs 4–3 and the Pittsburgh Penguins 4–1 to advance to the Finals.

In the playoffs, they defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4–0, the Los Angeles Kings 4–3 and the St. Louis Blues 4–1 to advance to the Finals.

The Colorado Rockies were formerly based in Denver and were relocated to East Rutherford and renamed the New Jersey Devils prior to the 1982–83 season.

Devils centre Jason Arnott scored an early power-play goal, but in the tenth minute, the Avalanche evened through defenceman Martin Skoula.

In the first period of game four, Colorado scored an early goal when Rob Blake shot the puck past Devils goalkeeper Martin Brodeur.

But the third period belonged to the Devils: Scott Gomez and Petr Sykora each scored a goal in the third, and Brodeur stopped every puck that went his way.

After stopping them all, and with two minutes remaining in the first period, Colorado defenceman Adam Foote scored an unassisted goal to give the Avalanche the lead on just their fourth shot.

Colorado was given permission to include Muir's name on the Stanley Cup because one of his three playoff games was played in the conference finals.

^ Six players also won the Stanley Cup with Colorado in 1996: Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, Jon Klemm, Stephane Yelle, Patrick Roy and Adam Foote.

The new salary cap era forced the team to part ways with other key players, ending their dominance.

The franchise experienced a resurgence in the late 2010s, led by Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, and Cale Makar.

Under his leadership, the Devils rallied to make the playoffs, but were eliminated in the first round by the eventual Eastern Conference champion Carolina Hurricanes.

The Devils would make it back to the Finals in 2003, where they would defeat the Mighty Ducks, now led in part by Sykora, in seven games.

The Devils' disciplined, defense-first style—led by Brodeur, Stevens, and Niedermayer— epitomized the NHL's “Dead puck era” in the mid-1990s to early 2000s.

While Brodeur and Elias helped the team remain competitive, their ability to dominate as they had in the years directly preceding the lockout waned.

By the mid 2010s, New Jersey entered a rebuilding phase, but the emergence of first overall draft picks Jack Hughes and Nico Hischier has given the franchise renewed hope in the 2020s.