1996-97 Florida Panthers Roster and Statistics

Record: 35-28-19 (89 points), Finished 3rd in NHL Atlantic Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Doug MacLean (35-28-19)

Primary Arena: Miami Arena

Goals For: 221 (21st of 26), Goals Against: 201 (4th of 26)
SRS: 0.25 (8th of 26), SOS: 0.00 (13th of 26)

Playoffs:
Lost Conference Quarter-Finals (4-1) to New York Rangers

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +1500

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Recent Game Results

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	GF/G	GA/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA	S	S%	SA	SV%	PDO	SO
Florida Panthers	82	35	28	19	89	.543	221	201	0.25	0.00	2.70	2.45	50	352	14.20	50	346	85.55	5	17	2387	9.3	2360	.915		2
League Average	82	35	35	11	82	.500	239	239					55	336	16.27	55	336	83.73	10	10	2444	9.8	2444	.902		5

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5)

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5) Table
Team	S%	SV%	PDO	CF	CA	CF%	xGF	xGA	aGF	aGA	axDiff	SCF	SCA	SCF%	HDF	HDA	HDF%	HDGF	HDC%	HDGA	HDCO%
Florida Panthers
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Flag	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date	Summary
14	Stu Barnes	ca	C	26	5-11	182	R/-	5	December 25, 1970	2 G, 8 A, 10 P
2	Terry Carkner	ca	D	30	6-3	210	L/-	10	March 7, 1966	0 G, 14 A, 14 P
19	Radek Dvořák	cs	LW	19	6-2	195	R/-	1	March 9, 1977	18 G, 21 A, 39 P
16	Craig Ferguson	us	C	26	5-11	190	L/-	3	April 8, 1970	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
16	Craig Fisher	ca	C	26	6-3	180	L/-	3	June 30, 1970	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
21	Tom Fitzgerald	us	C	28	6-0	190	R/-	8	August 28, 1968	10 G, 14 A, 24 P
30	Mark Fitzpatrick	ca	G	28	6-2	195	-/L	8	November 13, 1968	8-9-9, 2.36 GAA
29	Johan Garpenlöv	se	LW	28	6-0	185	L/-	6	March 21, 1968	11 G, 25 A, 36 P
4	Per Gustafsson	se	D	26	6-2	190	L/-	R	June 6, 1970	7 G, 22 A, 29 P
18	Mike Hough	ca	LW	33	6-1	197	L/-	10	February 6, 1963	8 G, 6 A, 14 P
12	Jody Hull	ca	RW	27	6-2	195	R/-	8	February 2, 1969	10 G, 6 A, 16 P
55	Ed Jovanovski	ca	D	20	6-3	220	L/-	1	June 26, 1976	7 G, 16 A, 23 P
3	Paul Laus	ca	D	26	6-1	215	R/-	3	September 26, 1970	0 G, 12 A, 12 P
11	Bill Lindsay	us	LW	25	6-0	195	L/-	5	May 17, 1971	11 G, 23 A, 34 P
10	Dave Lowry	ca	LW	31	6-1	195	L/-	11	February 14, 1965	15 G, 14 A, 29 P
8	Craig Martin	ca	RW	26	6-2	215	R/-	1	January 21, 1971	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
27	Scott Mellanby	ca	RW	30	6-1	208	R/-	11	June 11, 1966	27 G, 29 A, 56 P
9	Kirk Muller	ca	C	30	6-0	205	L/-	12	February 8, 1966	1 G, 2 A, 3 P
5	Gord Murphy	ca	D	29	6-2	195	R/-	8	March 23, 1967	8 G, 15 A, 23 P
15	David Nemirovsky	ca	RW	20	6-2	205	R/-	1	August 1, 1976	7 G, 7 A, 14 P
44	Rob Niedermayer	ca	C	22	6-2	203	L/-	3	December 28, 1974	14 G, 24 A, 38 P
17	Jason Podollan	ca	C	20	6-1	198	R/-	R	February 18, 1976	1 G, 1 A, 2 P
26	Ray Sheppard	ca	RW	30	6-1	195	R/-	9	May 27, 1966	29 G, 31 A, 60 P
20	Brian Skrudland (C)	ca	C	33	6-0	195	L/-	11	July 31, 1963	5 G, 13 A, 18 P
25	Geoff Smith	ca	D	27	6-3	194	L/-	7	March 7, 1969	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
19	Brad Smyth	ca	RW	23	6-0	200	R/-	1	March 13, 1973	1 G, 0 A, 1 P
28	Martin Straka	cs	C	24	5-9	180	L/-	4	September 3, 1972	7 G, 22 A, 29 P
24	Róbert Švehla	cs	D	28	6-0	209	R/-	2	January 2, 1969	13 G, 32 A, 45 P
34	John Vanbiesbrouck	us	G	33	5-8	176	-/L	14	September 4, 1963	27-19-10, 2.29 GAA
7	Rhett Warrener	ca	D	21	6-1	203	R/-	1	January 27, 1976	4 G, 9 A, 13 P
22	Steve Washburn	ca	C	21	6-2	198	L/-	1	April 10, 1975	3 G, 6 A, 9 P
23	Chris Wells	ca	C	21	6-6	223	L/-	1	November 12, 1975	2 G, 6 A, 8 P
6	Jason Woolley	ca	D	27	6-0	203	L/-	5	July 27, 1969	0 G, 0 A, 0 P

Scoring Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

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

Goalies Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

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	adjGAA	GPS
1	John Vanbiesbrouck	33	57		27	19	10	128	1582	1454	.919	2.29	2	3347				85	22.7	2.44	10.8
2	Mark Fitzpatrick	28	30		8	9	9	66	771	705	.914	2.36	0	1680				90	7.5	2.50	4.9
	Team Total				35	28	19	194	2353	2159	.918	2.32	2	5027				87	30.2	2.46	15.8