1996-97 Florida Panthers Roster and Statistics

Recent Game Results

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3 Injuries

3 Injuries Table
Player	Date of Injury	Injury Type	Injury Note
Aaron Ekblad	Mon, Mar 29, 2021	Lower body	Ekblad will miss the rest of the season with a left leg fracture.
Noah Juulsen	Thu, Feb 25, 2021	Undisclosed	Juulsen has not played since Feb. 25. No timetable has been announced for his return.
Carter Verhaeghe	Tue, Apr 13, 2021	Upper Body	Verhaeghe did not play in Thursday's game (Apr. 15).

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 Dvorak	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 Garpenlov	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	Robert Svehla	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

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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	Robert Svehla	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 Dvorak	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 Garpenlov	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