The 2022 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) 2021–22 season and the culmination of the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs. The series was between the Eastern Conference and two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning and the Western Conference champion Colorado Avalanche. The Avalanche won the best-of-seven series, four games to two, for their third championship in franchise history. Colorado had a home-ice advantage in the series with the better regular season record.

The series began on June 15 and concluded on June 26. With the Government of Canada allowing cross-border travel for fully vaccinated players and team personnel between Canada and the United States, the league was able to return to its usual two-conference alignment and reinstate its standard playoff format that was used from 2014–2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Finals were still pushed from the expected start date in late May for the third consecutive year due to a scheduled break in the regular season that coincided with the league’s planned participation in the 2022 Winter Olympics. However, the league’s players ultimately did not participate in the Olympics. When NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman tested positive for COVID-19, NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly took over the Conn Smythe Trophy and the Stanley Cup presentation. This was the first time since 1992 that Gary Bettman did not give a presentation.