1997 NHL Eastern Conference Quarter-Finals
New York Rangers defeat Florida Panthers 4-1

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Florida Panthers

W-L: 35-28-19, .543

SRS: 0.25 (8th of 26)

Goals: 221 (21st of 26)

Goals Against: 201 (4th of 26)

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New York Rangers

W-L: 38-34-10, .524

SRS: 0.33 (6th of 26)

Goals: 258 (4th of 26)

Goals Against: 231 (9th of 26)

Game 1, April 17
New York Rangers	0	Final
Florida Panthers	3

Game 2, April 20
New York Rangers	3	Final
Florida Panthers	0

Game 3, April 22
Florida Panthers	3	Final
New York Rangers	4	OT

Game 4, April 23
Florida Panthers	2	Final
New York Rangers	3

Game 5, April 25
New York Rangers	3	Final
Florida Panthers	2	OT

Florida Panthers Skaters Series Stats

Florida Panthers Skaters Series Stats Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists						Ice Time
No.	Player	Pos	Age	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	SHFT	TOI	ATOI
24	Róbert Švehla	D	28	5	1	4	5	-4	4	0	1	0	0				13	7.7
5	Gord Murphy	D	29	5	0	5	5	0	4	0	0	0	0				18	0.0
44	Rob Niedermayer	C	22	5	2	1	3	-1	6	1	1	0	0				5	40.0
9	Kirk Muller	LW	30	5	1	2	3	-3	4	0	1	0	0				20	5.0
29	Johan Garpenlöv	LW	28	4	2	0	2	0	4	0	2	0	1				6	33.3
26	Ray Sheppard	RW	30	5	2	0	2	-4	0	1	1	0	0				12	16.7
27	Scott Mellanby	RW	30	5	0	2	2	-1	4	0	0	0	0				6	0.0
18	Mike Hough	LW	33	5	1	0	1	-2	2	1	0	0	0				10	10.0
15	David Nemirovsky	RW	20	3	1	0	1	-2	0	1	0	0	0				4	25.0
21	Tom Fitzgerald	RW	28	5	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0				14	0.0
3	Paul Laus	D	26	5	0	1	1	-3	4	0	0	0	0				6	0.0
11	Bill Lindsay	RW	25	3	0	1	1	0	8	0	0	0	0				4	0.0
23	Chris Wells	C	21	3	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0				1	0.0
2	Terry Carkner	D	30	5	0	0	0	-3	6	0	0	0	0				7	0.0
7	Rhett Warrener	D	21	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				5	0.0
28	Martin Straka	C	24	4	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0				2	0.0
10	Dave Lowry	LW	31	5	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0				8	0.0
55	Ed Jovanovski	D	20	5	0	0	0	-4	4	0	0	0	0				7	0.0
12	Jody Hull	RW	27	5	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0				12	0.0
19	Radek Dvořák	RW	19	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				1	0.0
	Team Total				10	17	27	-35	50	4	6	0	1				161	6.2

Florida Panthers Goalies Series Stats

Florida Panthers Goalies Series Stats Table
						Goalie Stats						Ice Time
No.	Player	Pos	Age	GP	DEC	GA	SA	SV	SV%	SO	PIM	TOI	ATOI
34	John Vanbiesbrouck	G	33	5	1-4-0	13	184	171	.929	1	0	327:32	65:30
	Team Total				1-4-0	13	184	171	.929	1	0	327:32	65:30

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New York Rangers Skaters Series Stats

New York Rangers Skaters Series Stats Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists						Ice Time
No.	Player	Pos	Age	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	SHFT	TOI	ATOI
99	Wayne Gretzky	C	36	5	4	2	6	3	2	3	1	0	2				19	21.1
11	Mark Messier	LW/C	36	5	2	3	5	3	2	2	0	0	0				20	10.0
10	Esa Tikkanen	LW	32	5	3	1	4	3	6	2	1	0	2				15	20.0
20	Luc Robitaille	LW	30	5	3	1	4	6	2	3	0	0	0				21	14.3
24	Niklas Sundström	RW	21	5	0	4	4	3	2	0	0	0	0				13	0.0
2	Brian Leetch	D	28	5	0	4	4	3	0	0	0	0	0				30	0.0
6	Doug Lidster	D	36	5	0	3	3	1	4	0	0	0	0				3	0.0
32	Mike Eastwood	C	29	5	1	1	2	3	8	1	0	0	0				8	12.5
25	Alexander Karpovtsev	D	26	5	0	1	1	1	6	0	0	0	0				5	0.0
5	Ulf Samuelsson	D	32	5	0	1	1	2	4	0	0	0	0				3	0.0
9	Adam Graves	LW	28	5	0	1	1	2	6	0	0	0	0				12	0.0
18	Bill Berg	LW	29	3	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0				5	0.0
15	Darren Langdon	LW	26	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0
12	Ken Gernander	RW	27	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0
8-26	Patrick Flatley	RW	33	5	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0				8	0.0
26	David Oliver	RW	25	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0
33	Bruce Driver	D	34	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0				12	0.0
21	Russ Courtnall	RW	31	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0				4	0.0
22	Shane Churla	RW	31	5	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0				1	0.0
23	Jeff Beukeboom	D	31	5	0	0	0	4	8	0	0	0	0				5	0.0
	Team Total				13	22	35	36	58	11	2	0	4				184	7.1

New York Rangers Goalies Series Stats

New York Rangers Goalies Series Stats Table
						Goalie Stats						Ice Time
No.	Player	Pos	Age	GP	DEC	GA	SA	SV	SV%	SO	PIM	TOI	ATOI
35	Mike Richter	G	30	5	4-1-0	10	161	151	.938	1	0	327:34	65:31
	Team Total				4-1-0	10	161	151	.938	1	0	327:34	65:31

1996-97 Regular Season Stats

Sunday, Oct 6, 1996
Florida Panthers	5	Final
New York Rangers	2

Tuesday, Oct 8, 1996
New York Rangers	1	Final
Florida Panthers	1	OT

Friday, Oct 25, 1996
New York Rangers	4	Final
Florida Panthers	6

Tuesday, Oct 29, 1996
Florida Panthers	1	Final
New York Rangers	1	OT

Sunday, Dec 22, 1996
Florida Panthers	3	Final
New York Rangers	7

Sunday, Feb 9, 1997
New York Rangers	3	Final
Florida Panthers	4

FLA Scoring Regular Season

FLA Scoring Regular Season Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists					Ice Time		Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TOI	ATOI	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Ray Sheppard	30	RW	68	29	31	60	4	4	16	13	0	7	22	9	0	226	12.8			5.6	1.1	6.7
2	Scott Mellanby	30	RW	82	27	29	56	7	170	17	9	1	4	23	6	0	221	12.2			4.5	1.4	5.9
3	Róbert Švehla	28	D	82	13	32	45	2	86	8	5	0	3	18	14	0	159	8.2			3.7	4.9	8.6
4	Radek Dvořák	19	LW	78	18	21	39	-2	30	16	2	0	1	16	5	0	139	12.9			2.2	1.0	3.3
5	Rob Niedermayer	22	C	60	14	24	38	4	54	11	3	0	2	16	7	1	136	10.3			2.5	1.0	3.5
6	Johan Garpenlöv	28	LW	53	11	25	36	10	47	10	1	0	1	18	7	0	83	13.3			2.3	1.1	3.4
7	Bill Lindsay	25	LW	81	11	23	34	1	120	10	0	1	3	20	0	3	168	6.5			1.0	1.2	2.2
8	Dave Lowry	31	LW	77	15	14	29	2	51	13	2	0	2	11	3	0	96	15.6			1.1	1.2	2.2
9	Per Gustafsson	26	D	58	7	22	29	11	22	5	2	0	1	12	10	0	105	6.7			2.2	4.1	6.3
10	Martin Straka	24	C	55	7	22	29	9	12	5	2	0	1	17	5	0	94	7.4			1.2	1.1	2.3
11	Tom Fitzgerald	28	C	71	10	14	24	7	64	8	0	2	1	13	0	1	135	7.4			0.4	1.2	1.6
12	Gord Murphy	29	D	80	8	15	23	3	51	6	2	0	0	9	4	2	137	5.8			1.3	4.8	6.1
13	Ed Jovanovski	20	D	61	7	16	23	-1	172	4	3	0	1	11	5	0	80	8.8			1.6	3.4	5.0
14	Brian Skrudland	33	C	51	5	13	18	4	48	5	0	0	2	13	0	0	57	8.8			0.1	0.9	1.0
15	Jody Hull	27	RW	67	10	6	16	1	4	9	0	1	2	4	2	0	92	10.9			-0.2	1.0	0.8
16	Mike Hough	33	LW	69	8	6	14	12	48	8	0	0	2	6	0	0	85	9.4			-0.6	1.4	0.7
17	David Nemirovsky	20	RW	39	7	7	14	1	32	6	1	0	0	6	1	0	53	13.2			0.4	0.6	1.0
18	Terry Carkner	30	D	70	0	14	14	-4	96	0	0	0	0	13	1	0	38	0.0			-0.1	3.8	3.7
19	Rhett Warrener	21	D	62	4	9	13	20	88	3	1	0	1	7	2	0	58	6.9			0.3	5.0	5.3
20	Paul Laus	26	D	77	0	12	12	13	313	0	0	0	0	10	1	1	63	0.0			-0.4	5.4	4.9
21	Stu Barnes	26	C	19	2	8	10	-3	10	1	1	0	0	4	4	0	44	4.5			0.4	0.2	0.5
22	Steve Washburn	21	C	18	3	6	9	2	4	2	1	0	0	6	0	0	21	14.3			0.4	0.3	0.7
23	Chris Wells	21	C	47	2	6	8	5	42	2	0	0	0	6	0	0	29	6.9			-0.9	0.8	-0.1
24	Kirk Muller	30	C	10	1	2	3	-2	4	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	21	4.8			0.0	0.1	0.1
25	Jason Podollan	20	C	19	1	1	2	-3	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	20	5.0			-0.5	0.2	-0.3
26	John Vanbiesbrouck	33	G	57	0	2	2	0	8	0	0	0	0				0		3347	58:43	0.0	0.0	10.8
27	Brad Smyth	23	RW	8	1	0	1	-3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	10.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
28	Mark Fitzpatrick	28	G	30	0	1	1	0	13	0	0	0	0				0		1680	55:59	0.0	0.0	4.9
29	Craig Ferguson	26	C	3	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
30	Craig Fisher	26	C	4	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			-0.2	0.0	-0.2
31	Craig Martin	26	RW	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			0.0	0.0	0.0
32	Geoff Smith	27	D	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			-0.1	0.2	0.2
33	Jason Woolley	27	D	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0			-0.1	0.2	0.2
	Team Total			82	221	381	602	99	1608	166	50	5	35	283	87	8	2387	9.3			27.8	47.5	91.1

FLA Goalies Regular Season

FLA Goalies Regular Season Table
			Goalie Stats
Rk	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	QS	QS%	RBS	GA%-	GSAA
1	John Vanbiesbrouck	33	57		27	19	10	128	1582	1454	.919	2.29	2	3347				85	22.7
2	Mark Fitzpatrick	28	30		8	9	9	66	771	705	.914	2.36	0	1680				90	7.5
	Team Total				35	28	19	194	2353	2159	.918	2.32	2	5027				87	30.2

NYR Scoring Regular Season

NYR Scoring Regular Season Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists					Ice Time		Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TOI	ATOI	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Wayne Gretzky*	36	C	82	25	72	97	12	28	19	6	0	2	46	25	1	286	8.7			8.2	1.3	9.5
2	Mark Messier*	36	C	71	36	48	84	12	88	24	7	5	9	31	11	6	227	15.9			8.4	1.1	9.6
3	Brian Leetch*	28	D	82	20	58	78	31	40	11	9	0	2	35	21	2	256	7.8			7.5	5.6	13.1
4	Adam Graves	28	LW	82	33	28	61	10	66	19	10	4	3	20	6	2	269	12.3			5.6	1.2	6.8
5	Niklas Sundström	21	RW	82	24	28	52	23	20	18	5	1	4	24	2	2	132	18.2			3.9	1.6	5.6
6	Luc Robitaille*	30	LW	69	24	24	48	16	48	19	5	0	4	15	9	0	200	12.0			4.0	1.3	5.3
7	Alexander Karpovtsev	26	D	77	9	29	38	1	59	2	6	1	0	16	13	0	84	10.7			2.9	3.3	6.2
8	Alex Kovalev	23	RW	45	13	22	35	11	42	12	1	0	0	14	8	0	110	11.8			2.7	0.8	3.6
9	Bruce Driver	34	D	79	5	25	30	8	48	3	2	0	2	13	12	0	154	3.2			1.7	3.9	5.6
10	Patrick Flatley	33	RW	68	10	12	22	6	26	10	0	0	2	11	1	0	96	10.4			0.4	0.9	1.3
11	Sergei Nemchinov	33	C	63	6	13	19	5	12	5	1	0	1	12	1	0	90	6.7			-0.1	0.8	0.7
12	Ulf Samuelsson	32	D	73	6	11	17	3	138	5	1	0	1	10	0	1	77	7.8			0.7	3.3	4.0
13	Brian Noonan	31	RW	44	6	9	15	-7	28	3	3	0	1	6	3	0	62	9.7			0.3	0.2	0.5
14	Bill Berg	29	LW	67	8	6	14	2	37	6	0	2	3	6	0	0	84	9.5			-0.5	0.8	0.2
15	Daniel Goneau	21	LW	41	10	3	13	-5	10	7	3	0	2	2	1	0	44	22.7			0.6	0.2	0.8
16	Jeff Beukeboom	31	D	80	3	9	12	22	167	3	0	0	0	8	0	1	55	5.5			-0.2	4.9	4.7
17	Vladimir Vorobiev	24	RW	16	5	5	10	4	6	3	2	0	0	4	1	0	42	11.9			0.8	0.3	1.1
18	Darren Langdon	26	LW	60	3	6	9	-1	195	3	0	0	1	6	0	0	24	12.5			-1.2	0.6	-0.6
19	Mike Eastwood	29	C	27	1	7	8	2	10	1	0	0	0	6	0	1	22	4.5			-0.2	0.3	0.1
20	Doug Lidster	36	D	48	3	4	7	10	24	3	0	0	0	3	0	1	42	7.1			0.0	2.7	2.7
21	Russ Courtnall	31	RW	14	2	5	7	-3	2	0	1	1	1	3	2	0	24	8.3			0.3	0.0	0.3
22	David Oliver	25	RW	14	2	1	3	3	4	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	13	15.4			-0.1	0.2	0.2
23	Esa Tikkanen	32	C	14	1	2	3	0	6	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	30	3.3			-0.2	0.1	0.0
24	Christian Dubé	19	C	27	1	1	2	-4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	14	7.1			-0.8	0.1	-0.6
25	Chris Ferraro	24	RW	12	1	1	2	1	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	23	4.3			-0.2	0.2	0.0
26	Ryan VandenBussche	23	RW	11	1	0	1	-2	30	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	25.0			-0.2	0.0	-0.2
27	Eric Cairns	22	D	40	0	1	1	-7	147	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	17	0.0			-0.7	1.2	0.5
28	Shane Churla	31	RW	45	0	1	1	-10	106	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	19	0.0			-1.7	0.1	-1.5
29	Jayson More	28	D	14	0	1	1	0	25	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	10	0.0			-0.2	0.6	0.4
30	Sylvain Blouin	22	D	6	0	0	0	-1	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.2	0.1
31	Dallas Eakins	29	D	3	0	0	0	-1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			-0.1	0.1	0.0
32	Peter Ferraro	24	C	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
33	Glenn Healy	34	G	23	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0				0		1357	59:01	0.0	0.0	3.6
34	Sergio Momesso	31	LW	9	0	0	0	-2	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0.0			-0.3	0.0	-0.3
35	Jeff Nielsen	25	RW	2	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
36	Mike Richter	30	G	61	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0				0		3598	58:59	0.0	0.0	13.0
	Team Total			82	258	432	690	138	1467	180	63	15	38	296	119	17	2528	10.2			41.1	38.0	95.7

NYR Goalies Regular Season

NYR Goalies Regular Season Table
			Goalie Stats
Rk	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	QS	QS%	RBS	GA%-	GSAA
1	Mike Richter	30	61		33	22	6	161	1945	1784	.917	2.69	4	3598				87	24.3
2	Glenn Healy	34	23		5	12	4	59	632	573	.907	2.61	1	1357				98	1.2
	Team Total				38	34	10	220	2577	2357	.915	2.66	5	4955				90	25.5

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