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1983-84 New York Islanders Roster and Statistics

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Record: 50-26-4 (104 points), Finished 1st in NHL Patrick Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Al Arbour (50-26-4)

Captain: Denis Potvin

Primary Arena: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Goals For: 357 (3rd of 21), Goals Against: 269 (4th of 21)
SRS: 1.00 (4th of 21), SOS: -0.10 (16th of 21)

Playoffs:
Lost Stanley Cup Final (4-1) to Edmonton Oilers
Won Conference Finals (4-2) over Montreal Canadiens
Won Division Finals (4-1) over Washington Capitals
Won Division Semi-Finals (3-2) over New York Rangers

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

80. Apr 1, NYI (50-26) beat PIT, 2-1

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
New York Islanders	80	50	26	4	104	.650	357	269	1.00	-0.10	4.46	3.36	63	280	22.50	66	360	81.67	18	9	2422	14.7	2671	.899		2
League Average	80	36	36	8	80	.500	316	316					74	336	21.98	74	336	78.02	11	11	2448	12.9	2448	.871		2

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%
New York Islanders
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
32	Bruce Affleck	ca	D	29	6-0	205	L/-	6	May 5, 1954
22	Mike Bossy	ca	RW	27	6-0	186	R/-	6	January 22, 1957
14	Bob Bourne	ca	LW	29	6-3	200	L/-	9	June 21, 1954
4	Paul Boutilier	ca	D	20	6-0	200	L/-	2	May 3, 1963
25	Billy Carroll	ca	C	25	5-10	190	L/-	3	January 19, 1959
2	Gord Dineen	ca	D	21	6-0	195	R/-	1	September 21, 1962
8	Patrick Flatley	ca	RW	20	6-2	197	R/-	R	October 3, 1963
17	Greg Gilbert	ca	LW	22	6-1	191	L/-	2	January 22, 1962
9	Clark Gillies	ca	LW	29	6-3	215	L/-	9	April 7, 1954
91	Butch Goring	ca	C	34	5-9	170	L/-	14	October 22, 1949
20	Mats Hallin	se	LW	25	6-2	200	L/-	1	March 19, 1958
30	Kelly Hrudey	ca	G	23	5-10	189	-/L	R	January 13, 1961
3	Tomas Jonsson	se	D	23	5-10	185	L/-	2	April 12, 1960
28	Anders Kallur	se	RW	31	5-11	185	L/-	4	July 6, 1952
16	Pat LaFontaine	us	C	18	5-10	182	R/-	R	February 22, 1965
24	Gord Lane	ca	D	30	6-1	190	L/-	8	March 31, 1953
26	Dave Langevin	us	D	29	6-2	200	L/-	4	May 15, 1954
34	Garth MacGuigan	ca	C	27	6-0	190	L/-	1	February 16, 1956
16	Mike McEwen	ca	D	27	6-1	185	L/-	7	August 10, 1956
1	Roland Melanson	ca	G	23	5-10	185	-/L	3	June 28, 1960
11	Wayne Merrick	ca	C	31	6-1	195	L/-	11	April 23, 1952
6	Ken Morrow	us	D	27	6-4	210	R/-	4	October 17, 1956
23	Bob Nystrom	se	RW	31	6-1	200	R/-	11	October 10, 1952
7	Stefan Persson	se	D	29	6-1	189	L/-	6	December 22, 1954
5	Denis Potvin (C)	ca	D	30	6-0	205	L/-	10	October 29, 1953
8	Darcy Regier	ca	D	27	5-11	190	L/-	2	November 27, 1956
31	Billy Smith	ca	G	33	5-10	185	-/L	12	December 12, 1950
21	Brent Sutter	ca	C	21	6-0	192	R/-	3	June 10, 1962
12	Duane Sutter	ca	RW	23	6-1	185	R/-	4	March 16, 1960
27	John Tonelli	ca	LW	26	6-1	200	L/-	5	March 23, 1957
19	Bryan Trottier	ca	C	27	5-11	195	L/-	8	July 17, 1956

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*	27	RW	67	51	67	118	65	8	45	6	0	11	45	22	0	246	20.7			9.3	2.2	11.5
2	Bryan Trottier*	27	C	68	40	71	111	68	59	30	7	3	4	53	16	2	194	20.6			8.0	2.3	10.3
3	Denis Potvin*	30	D	78	22	63	85	54	87	10	11	1	3	42	19	2	247	8.9			5.9	6.0	12.0
4	John Tonelli	26	LW	73	27	40	67	22	66	21	5	1	7	34	6	0	105	25.7			3.8	1.2	4.9
5	Greg Gilbert	22	LW	79	31	35	66	49	59	25	6	0	2	28	6	1	118	26.3			3.7	1.9	5.6
6	Bob Bourne	29	LW	78	22	34	56	11	75	12	5	5	2	25	6	3	140	15.7			2.4	0.9	3.4
7	Brent Sutter	21	C	69	34	15	49	4	69	27	7	0	6	13	2	0	156	21.8			3.1	0.7	3.8
8	Tomas Jonsson	23	D	72	11	36	47	12	54	9	2	0	1	19	15	2	122	9.0			2.6	3.6	6.2
9	Butch Goring	34	C	71	22	24	46	6	8	17	0	5	3	21	3	0	88	25.0			2.0	0.7	2.7
10	Bob Nystrom	31	RW	74	15	29	44	8	80	14	1	0	1	25	4	0	132	11.4			1.3	0.8	2.1
11	Duane Sutter	23	RW	78	17	23	40	4	94	15	2	0	1	22	1	0	137	12.4			1.0	0.7	1.7
12	Stefan Persson	29	D	75	9	24	33	29	65	5	4	0	2	11	12	1	95	9.5			1.4	4.6	6.0
13	Clark Gillies*	29	LW	76	12	16	28	6	65	9	3	0	2	15	1	0	137	8.8			-0.1	0.8	0.6
14	Anders Kallur	31	RW	65	9	14	23	-1	24	4	2	3	1	11	3	0	70	12.9			-0.3	0.5	0.2
15	Pat LaFontaine*	18	C	15	13	6	19	9	6	12	1	0	0	6	0	0	35	37.1			1.7	0.4	2.0
16	Dave Langevin	29	D	69	3	16	19	24	53	3	0	0	1	15	0	1	89	3.4			0.1	4.1	4.2
17	Ken Morrow	27	D	63	3	11	14	25	45	3	0	0	1	10	0	1	71	4.2			-0.1	3.9	3.8
18	Gord Dineen	21	D	43	1	11	12	7	32	1	0	0	0	10	1	0	37	2.7			0.0	2.2	2.2
19	Wayne Merrick	31	C	31	6	5	11	2	10	6	0	0	0	5	0	0	32	18.8			0.0	0.3	0.3
20	Paul Boutilier	20	D	28	0	11	11	18	36	0	0	0	0	10	1	0	31	0.0			0.2	2.1	2.3
21	Patrick Flatley	20	RW	16	2	7	9	3	6	1	1	0	0	6	1	0	17	11.8			0.1	0.2	0.4
22	Billy Carroll	25	C	39	5	2	7	-1	12	5	0	0	2	1	0	1	39	12.8			-0.7	0.3	-0.4
23	Mats Hallin	25	LW	40	2	5	7	-2	27	2	0	0	0	5	0	0	32	6.3			-0.9	0.3	-0.7
24	Gord Lane	30	D	37	0	3	3	6	70	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	16	0.0			-0.6	1.9	1.3
25	Mike McEwen	27	D	15	0	2	2	-5	6	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	27	0.0			-0.2	0.4	0.2
26	Roland Melanson	23	G	37	0	2	2	0	10				0	2			0		2018	54:33	0.0	0.0	8.4
27	Billy Smith*	33	G	42	0	2	2	0	23				0	2			0		2276	54:11	0.0	0.0	8.8
28	Garth MacGuigan	27	C	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0			0.0	0.0	0.0
29	Darcy Regier	27	D	5	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	0.0			0.0	0.3	0.3
30	Bruce Affleck	29	D	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			0.0	0.0	0.0
31	Kelly Hrudey	23	G	12	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		532	44:21	0.0	0.0	2.2
	Team Total			80	357	576	933	424	1149	276	63	18	50	443	119	14	2423	14.7			43.6	43.2	106.3

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	Billy Smith*	33	42		23	13	2	130	1253	1123	.896	3.43	2	2276				82	28.9	2.69	8.8
2	Roland Melanson	23	37		20	11	2	110	1128	1018	.902	3.27	0	2018				77	33.0	2.56	8.4
3	Kelly Hrudey	23	12		7	2	0	28	289	261	.903	3.16	0	532						2.48	2.2
	Team Total				50	26	4	268	2670	2402	.900	3.33	2	4826				79	70.5	2.61	19.4