1981-82 New York Islanders Roster and Statistics

Record: 54-16-10 (118 points), Finished 1st in NHL Patrick Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Al Arbour (54-16-10)

Primary Arena: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

1981-82 Stanley Cup Champions

Goals For: 385 (2nd of 21), Goals Against: 250 (2nd of 21)
SRS: 1.63 (2nd of 21), SOS: -0.05 (15th of 21)

Playoffs:
Won Stanley Cup Final (4-0) versus Vancouver Canucks
Won Conference Finals (4-0) versus Quebec Nordiques
Won Division Finals (4-2) versus New York Rangers
Won Division Semi-Finals (3-2) versus Pittsburgh Penguins

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Injury Report

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	TG/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA	S	S%	SA	SV%	PDO	SO
New York Islanders	80	54	16	10	118	.738	385	250	1.63	-0.05	7.94	80	284	28.17	65	332	80.42	16	3	2469	15.6	2406	.896		0
League Average	80	33	33	14	80	.500	321	321			8.03	73	320	22.85	73	320	77.15	9	9	2489	12.9	2489	.871		1

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%
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Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Flag	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date	Summary
22	Mike Bossy	ca	RW	25	6-0	186	R/-	4	January 22, 1957	64 G, 83 A, 147 P
14	Bob Bourne	ca	LW	27	6-3	200	L/-	7	June 21, 1954	27 G, 26 A, 53 P
4	Paul Boutilier	ca	D	18	6-0	200	L/-	R	May 3, 1963	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
25	Billy Carroll	ca	C	23	5-10	190	L/-	1	January 19, 1959	9 G, 20 A, 29 P
17	Greg Gilbert	ca	LW	20	6-1	191	L/-	R	January 22, 1962	1 G, 0 A, 1 P
9	Clark Gillies	ca	LW	27	6-3	215	L/-	7	April 7, 1954	38 G, 39 A, 77 P
91	Butch Goring	ca	C	32	5-9	170	L/-	12	October 22, 1949	15 G, 17 A, 32 P
33	Neil Hawryliw	ca	RW	26	5-11	185	L/-	R	November 9, 1955	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
3	Tomas Jonsson	se	D	21	5-10	185	L/-	R	April 12, 1960	9 G, 25 A, 34 P
28	Anders Kallur	se	RW	29	5-11	185	L/-	2	July 6, 1952	18 G, 22 A, 40 P
24	Gord Lane	ca	D	28	6-1	190	L/-	6	March 31, 1953	0 G, 13 A, 13 P
26	Dave Langevin	us	D	27	6-2	200	L/-	2	May 15, 1954	1 G, 20 A, 21 P
29	Hector Marini	ca	RW	25	6-1	204	R/-	2	January 27, 1957	4 G, 9 A, 13 P
16	Mike McEwen	ca	D	25	6-1	185	L/-	5	August 10, 1956	10 G, 39 A, 49 P
1	Roland Melanson	ca	G	21	5-10	185	-/L	1	June 28, 1960	22-7-6, 3.24 GAA
10-11	Wayne Merrick	ca	C	29	6-1	195	L/-	9	April 23, 1952	12 G, 27 A, 39 P
6	Ken Morrow	us	D	25	6-4	210	R/-	2	October 17, 1956	1 G, 18 A, 19 P
23	Bob Nystrom	se	RW	29	6-1	200	R/-	9	October 10, 1952	22 G, 25 A, 47 P
7	Stefan Persson	se	D	27	6-1	189	L/-	4	December 22, 1954	6 G, 37 A, 43 P
5	Denis Potvin (C)	ca	D	28	6-0	205	L/-	8	October 29, 1953	24 G, 37 A, 61 P
31	Billy Smith	ca	G	31	5-10	185	-/L	10	December 12, 1950	32-9-4, 2.97 GAA
21	Brent Sutter	ca	C	19	6-0	192	R/-	1	June 10, 1962	21 G, 22 A, 43 P
12	Duane Sutter	ca	RW	21	6-1	185	R/-	2	March 16, 1960	18 G, 35 A, 53 P
27	John Tonelli	ca	LW	24	6-1	200	L/-	3	March 23, 1957	35 G, 58 A, 93 P
19	Bryan Trottier	ca	C	25	5-11	195	L/-	6	July 17, 1956	50 G, 79 A, 129 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	Mike Bossy*	25	RW	80	64	83	147	69	22	47	17	0	10	53	30	0	301	21.3			10.9	2.4	13.3
2	Bryan Trottier*	25	C	80	50	79	129	70	88	30	18	2	10	57	17	5	217	23.0			8.7	2.4	11.2
3	John Tonelli	24	LW	80	35	58	93	48	57	30	5	0	5	46	12	0	165	21.2			5.3	1.9	7.2
4	Clark Gillies*	27	LW	79	38	39	77	39	75	30	8	0	5	33	6	0	200	19.0			4.5	1.6	6.1
5	Denis Potvin*	28	D	60	24	37	61	39	83	12	11	1	4	18	18	1	169	14.2			4.5	4.7	9.2
6	Bob Bourne	27	LW	76	27	26	53	26	77	20	5	2	2	22	2	2	173	15.6			2.2	1.3	3.5
7	Duane Sutter	21	RW	77	18	35	53	23	100	14	4	0	0	31	4	0	140	12.9			1.6	1.2	2.8
8	Mike McEwen	25	D	73	10	39	49	30	50	9	1	0	1	28	10	1	162	6.2			2.5	4.9	7.4
9	Bob Nystrom	29	RW	74	22	25	47	14	103	22	0	0	4	24	1	0	136	16.2			1.6	1.0	2.5
10	Brent Sutter	19	C	43	21	22	43	27	114	18	3	0	1	15	7	0	93	22.6			2.5	1.0	3.6
11	Stefan Persson	27	D	70	6	37	43	34	99	3	3	0	2	15	22	0	107	5.6			1.9	4.9	6.8
12	Anders Kallur	29	RW	58	18	22	40	6	18	13	2	3	3	20	2	0	74	24.3			1.5	0.6	2.1
13	Wayne Merrick	29	C	68	12	27	39	4	20	11	1	0	3	24	3	0	112	10.7			0.6	0.7	1.3
14	Tomas Jonsson	21	D	70	9	25	34	26	51	9	0	0	1	15	10	0	89	10.1			1.5	4.5	6.0
15	Butch Goring	32	C	67	15	17	32	-3	10	9	1	5	1	12	5	0	63	23.8			0.4	0.5	0.9
16	Billy Carroll	23	C	72	9	20	29	12	32	6	0	3	1	15	0	5	42	21.4			-0.4	0.9	0.5
17	Dave Langevin	27	D	73	1	20	21	32	82	1	0	0	0	17	0	3	73	1.4			0.0	5.0	5.0
18	Ken Morrow	25	D	75	1	18	19	53	56	1	0	0	0	17	1	0	91	1.1			-0.2	6.1	6.0
19	Hector Marini	25	RW	30	4	9	13	3	53	3	1	0	1	8	1	0	14	28.6			-0.1	0.3	0.2
20	Gord Lane	28	D	51	0	13	13	27	98	0	0	0	0	13	0	0	46	0.0			-0.2	3.7	3.5
21	Greg Gilbert	20	LW	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	50.0			0.1	0.0	0.1
22	Billy Smith*	31	G	46	0	1	1	0	24				0	1			0		2684	58:21	0.0	0.0	10.5
23	Paul Boutilier	18	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	0.0
24	Neil Hawryliw	26	RW	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	0.0
25	Roland Melanson	21	G	36	0	0	0	0	14				0	0			0		2112	58:40	0.0	0.0	7.6
	Team Total			80	385	652	1037	579	1326	289	80	16	54	484	151	17	2469	15.6			49.3	49.8	117.2

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	GAA	GPS
1	Billy Smith*	31	46		32	9	4	133	1303	1170	.898	2.97	0	2684				80	32.60	2.24	10.5
2	Roland Melanson	21	36		22	7	6	114	1100	986	.896	3.24	0	2112				82	25.80	2.44	7.6
	Team Total				54	16	10	247	2403	2156	.897	3.09	0	4796				81		2.33	18.0

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