Playoff series with multiple NHL records

vikash1987

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Can you name a Stanley Cup playoff series which has two (2) or more distinct NHL records associated with it? I'm curious how many series fit this bill.

The criteria:
  1. The records can be team-related, individual-related, game-related, etc.
  2. The records don't have to be in the "official" NHL record books, but they must be league-wide in scope
  3. The records must have been established during that playoff series
  4. The records should be distinct, i.e., not closely related to one another
Examples:

1982 Smythe Div. SF bet. LA and Edmonton
  1. Most goals, from both teams combined, in a single playoff game (18 goals in the Kings' 10-8 win in Game 1)
  2. Biggest single-game comeback in playoff history (Kings erasing a 5-goal deficit in Game 3, the so-called "Miracle on Manchester")
2000 ECSF bet. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
  1. Longest game in modern NHL history (5OT game in Game 4, ended by Keith Primeau)
  2. First and only rookie defenseman to score a hat trick in a playoff game (Andy Delmore in Game 5)
 

The Panther

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1985 Edmonton - Chicago
(Apologies if these seem "closely related"):
-- Most goals by both teams in any playoff series
69
-- Most goals by one team in any playoff series
44, Edmonton
-- Most goals by one player, one playoff series
12, Jari Kurri

1990 Edmonton - Boston
-- Fastest goal from the start of a Finals' game:
John Byce, Boston: 10 seconds, game three @ Edmonton
(Note: This record had actually been set, also at 10 seconds, two years earlier by Glenn Anderson -- same teams -- but I'm not sure it officially counts as it occurred in the "lights-out" cancelled game "four" in Boston.)
-- Longest Cup-Finals game:
Game one -- 115 min. 13 seconds (Petr Klima scored at 55:13 of overtime)
-- Most points, one Cup Final game:
Jari Kurri 5, game two (tied with six other players, but Kurri is alone from WWII to today)
 
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The Panther

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Has to be the series where Peterson and Middleton had 20 plus points for the bruins
That would be (I assume) the 1983 Boston-Buffalo series, won by Boston in seven. But Middleton had 19 points (the all-time series record) and Pederson had 16.

I believe (I could be wrong) that series and the 1985 Edmonton-Chicago series are the only ones in history where two players on the same team scored 15 or more points (the latter was Gretzky 18, Kurri 15).
 

Davenport

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Am I correct to assume that Terry Sawchuk still holds the record for fewest goals allowed in 8 playoff games? In the 1951-52 playoffs, he allowed just 5 goals in 8 games. He had 4 shutouts. His GAA was 0.62.
 
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