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1997-98 Florida Panthers Roster and Statistics

Record: 24-43-15 (63 points), Finished 6th in NHL Atlantic Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Doug MacLean (7-12-4), Bryan Murray (17-31-11)

Primary Arena: Miami Arena

Goals For: 203 (20th of 26), Goals Against: 256 (23rd of 26)
SRS: -0.61 (24th of 26), SOS: 0.03 (5th of 26)

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +1500

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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	24	43	15	63	.384	203	256	-0.62	0.03	2.48	3.12	55	409	13.45	82	403	79.65	12	16	2278	8.9	2361	.892		5
League Average	82	35	35	13	82	.500	216	216					57	380	15.08	57	380	84.92	10	10	2242	9.6	2242	.904		6

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
12	Chris Allen	ca	D	19	6-2	197	R/-	R	May 8, 1978
2	Terry Carkner	ca	D	31	6-3	210	L/-	11	March 7, 1966
22	Dino Ciccarelli	ca	RW	37	5-10	185	R/-	17	February 8, 1960
19	Radek Dvořák	cs	LW	20	6-2	195	R/-	2	March 9, 1977
8	Dallas Eakins	us	D	30	6-2	195	L/-	5	February 27, 1967
21	Tom Fitzgerald	us	C	29	6-0	190	R/-	9	August 28, 1968
30	Mark Fitzpatrick	ca	G	29	6-2	195	-/L	9	November 13, 1968
15	Dave Gagner	ca	C	33	5-10	188	L/-	13	December 11, 1964
29	Johan Garpenlöv	se	LW	29	6-0	185	L/-	7	March 21, 1968
12	Jody Hull	ca	RW	28	6-2	195	R/-	9	February 2, 1969
4	John Jakopin	ca	D	22	6-5	239	R/-	R	May 16, 1975
16	Ryan Johnson	ca	C	21	6-1	199	L/-	R	June 14, 1976
55	Ed Jovanovski	ca	D	21	6-3	220	L/-	2	June 26, 1976
25	Viktor Kozlov	su	C	22	6-4	232	R/-	3	February 14, 1975
3	Paul Laus	ca	RW	27	6-1	215	R/-	4	September 26, 1970
11	Bill Lindsay	us	LW	26	6-0	195	L/-	6	May 17, 1971
10	Dave Lowry	ca	LW	32	6-1	195	L/-	12	February 14, 1965
1	Kirk McLean	ca	G	31	6-0	180	-/L	12	June 26, 1966
27	Scott Mellanby (C)	ca	RW	31	6-1	208	R/-	12	June 11, 1966
9	Kirk Muller	ca	C	31	6-0	205	L/-	13	February 8, 1966
5	Gord Murphy	ca	D	30	6-2	195	R/-	9	March 23, 1967
51	David Nemirovsky	ca	RW	21	6-2	205	R/-	2	August 1, 1976
44	Rob Niedermayer	ca	C	23	6-2	203	L/-	4	December 28, 1974
6	Jeff Norton	us	D	32	6-2	195	L/-	10	November 25, 1965
26	Ray Sheppard	ca	RW	31	6-1	195	R/-	10	May 27, 1966
24	Róbert Švehla	cs	D	29	6-0	209	R/-	3	January 2, 1969
10-97	Esa Tikkanen	fi	LW	33	6-1	190	L/-	12	January 25, 1965
34	John Vanbiesbrouck	us	G	34	5-8	176	-/L	15	September 4, 1963
7	Rhett Warrener	ca	D	22	6-1	203	R/-	2	January 27, 1976
17	Steve Washburn	ca	C	22	6-2	198	L/-	2	April 10, 1975
1	Kevin Weekes	ca	G	22	6-2	215	-/L	R	April 4, 1975
23	Chris Wells	ca	LW	22	6-6	223	L/-	2	November 12, 1975
14	Ray Whitney	ca	LW	25	5-10	180	R/-	6	May 8, 1972
28	Peter Worrell	ca	LW	20	6-6	235	L/-	R	August 18, 1977

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 Whitney	25	LW	68	32	29	61	10	28	20	12	0	2	14	15	0	156	20.5	1154	16:58	7.2	1.2	8.4
2	Dave Gagner	33	C	78	20	28	48	-21	55	14	5	1	1	16	12	0	165	12.1	1303	16:42	4.2	0.2	4.3
3	Róbert Švehla	29	D	79	9	34	43	-3	113	6	3	0	0	10	23	1	144	6.3	1988	25:10	3.8	3.0	6.8
4	Scott Mellanby	31	RW	79	15	24	39	-14	127	9	6	0	1	18	6	0	188	8.0	1349	17:04	2.7	0.4	3.1
5	Radek Dvořák	20	LW	64	12	24	36	-1	33	7	2	3	0	20	2	2	112	10.7	919	14:22	2.6	0.8	3.4
6	Ray Sheppard	31	RW	61	14	17	31	-13	21	9	5	0	1	9	8	0	136	10.3	957	15:42	2.4	0.3	2.6
7	Kirk Muller	31	C	70	8	21	29	-14	54	7	1	0	3	17	3	1	115	7.0	1078	15:24	1.2	0.3	1.5
8	Bill Lindsay	26	LW	82	12	16	28	-2	80	10	0	2	5	15	0	1	150	8.0	1193	14:33	1.1	0.9	2.0
9	Viktor Kozlov	22	C	46	12	11	23	-1	14	7	3	2	0	10	1	0	114	10.5	766	16:39	1.9	0.5	2.4
10	Ed Jovanovski	21	D	81	9	14	23	-12	158	6	2	1	3	9	5	0	142	6.3	1579	19:30	1.6	2.4	4.0
11	David Nemirovsky	21	RW	41	9	12	21	-3	8	7	2	0	1	7	5	0	62	14.5	504	12:18	1.6	0.4	2.0
12	Steve Washburn	22	C	58	11	8	19	-6	32	7	4	0	2	5	2	1	61	18.0	750	12:56	0.9	0.5	1.4
13	Gord Murphy	30	D	79	6	11	17	-3	46	3	3	0	0	8	1	2	123	4.9	1689	21:23	0.7	3.0	3.7
14	Dino Ciccarelli*	37	RW	28	5	11	16	-2	28	3	2	0	1	7	4	0	57	8.8	440	15:43	1.1	0.3	1.4
15	Tom Fitzgerald	29	C	69	10	5	15	-4	57	9	0	1	1	5	0	0	105	9.5	981	14:13	0.0	0.7	0.7
16	Rob Niedermayer	23	C	33	8	7	15	-9	41	3	5	0	2	6	1	0	64	12.5	602	18:14	1.2	0.1	1.2
17	Chris Wells	22	LW	61	5	10	15	4	47	4	0	1	0	6	1	3	57	8.8	735	12:03	-0.2	0.9	0.7
18	Paul Laus	27	RW	77	0	11	11	-5	293	0	0	0	0	8	2	1	64	0.0	1081	14:02	-1.8	0.8	-1.0
19	Esa Tikkanen	33	LW	28	1	8	9	-7	16	1	0	0	0	4	4	0	34	2.9	428	15:18	0.0	0.1	0.1
20	Terry Carkner	31	D	74	1	7	8	6	63	1	0	0	1	7	0	0	34	2.9	1358	18:21	-0.6	3.5	2.9
21	Jeff Norton	32	D	19	0	7	7	-7	18	0	0	0	0	5	2	0	20	0.0	352	18:31	0.3	0.2	0.6
22	Johan Garpenlöv	29	LW	39	2	3	5	-6	8	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	43	4.7	533	13:39	-0.7	0.2	-0.5
23	Rhett Warrener	22	D	79	0	4	4	-16	99	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	66	0.0	1336	16:55	-1.3	2.0	0.7
24	John Vanbiesbrouck	34	G	60	0	3	3	0	6	0	0	0	0				0		3451	57:31	0.0	0.0	8.5
25	Jody Hull	28	RW	21	2	0	2	1	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	23	8.7	256	12:11	-0.4	0.3	-0.1
26	Ryan Johnson	21	C	10	0	2	2	-4	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	0.0	106	10:39	-0.2	0.0	-0.2
27	Dallas Eakins	30	D	23	0	1	1	1	44	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	16	0.0	266	11:34	-0.4	1.0	0.6
28	Chris Allen	19	D	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	18	18:00	0.0	0.0	0.0
29	Mark Fitzpatrick	29	G	12	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0				0		640	53:21	0.0	0.0	0.8
30	John Jakopin	22	D	2	0	0	0	-3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	20	10:12	0.0	-0.2	-0.2
31	Dave Lowry	32	LW	7	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	78	11:05	-0.3	0.0	-0.2
32	Kirk McLean	31	G	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		406	58:01	0.0	0.0	0.9
33	Kevin Weekes	22	G	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		485	44:07	0.0	0.0	0.5
34	Peter Worrell	20	LW	19	0	0	0	-4	153	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	0.0	134	7:02	-0.7	0.1	-0.6
	Team Total			82	203	328	531	-139	1656	136	55	12	24	216	97	12	2278	8.9			27.8	23.9	62.4

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	34	60		18	29	11	165	1638	1473	.899	2.87	4	3451				107	-11.4	3.43	8.5
2	Kirk McLean	31	7		4	2	1	22	207	185	.894	3.25	0	406						3.84	0.9
3	Mark Fitzpatrick	29	12		2	7	2	32	265	233	.879	3.00	1	640						3.56	0.8
4	Kevin Weekes	22	11		0	5	1	32	247	215	.870	3.96	0	485						4.70	0.5
	Team Total				24	43	15	251	2357	2106	.894	3.02	5	4982				114	-30.0	3.60	10.7