1996-97 New York Islanders Roster and Statistics

Record: 29-41-12 (70 points), Finished 7th in NHL Atlantic Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Mike Milbury (13-23-9), Rick Bowness (16-18-3)

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Primary Arena: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Goals For: 240 (11th of 26), Goals Against: 250 (18th of 26)
SRS: -0.10 (15th of 26), SOS: 0.02 (7th of 26)

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +10000

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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
New York Islanders	82	29	41	12	70	.427	240	250	-0.10	0.02	2.93	3.05	48	346	13.87	53	319	83.39	14	9	2188	11.0	2481	.899		5
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%
New York Islanders
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Birth	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date
32	Niklas Andersson	se SE	LW	25	5-9	180	L/-	2	May 20, 1971
24	Dave Archibald	ca CA	C	27	6-1	210	L/-	7	April 14, 1969
14	Derek Armstrong	ca CA	C	23	6-0	197	R/-	2	April 23, 1973
33	Ken Belanger	ca CA	LW	22	6-4	225	L/-	2	May 14, 1974
34	Bryan Berard	us US	D	19	6-2	220	L/-	R	March 5, 1977
44	Todd Bertuzzi	ca CA	RW	21	6-3	229	L/-	1	February 2, 1975
36	Jarrett Deuling	ca CA	LW	22	6-0	205	L/-	1	March 4, 1974
8	Mike Donnelly	us US	LW	33	5-11	185	L/-	10	October 10, 1963
28	Jim Dowd	us US	C	28	6-0	180	R/-	5	December 25, 1968
1	Éric Fichaud	ca CA	G	21	5-11	179	-/L	1	November 4, 1975
6-10	Corey Foster	ca CA	D	27	6-3	204	L/-	3	October 27, 1969
39	Travis Green	ca CA	C	26	6-1	204	R/-	4	December 20, 1970
46	Jason Holland	ca CA	D	20	6-3	219	R/-	R	April 30, 1976
6	Doug Houda	ca CA	D	30	6-2	208	R/-	10	June 3, 1966
20	Brent Hughes	ca CA	RW	30	5-11	195	L/-	7	April 5, 1966
38	Andreas Johansson	se SE	C	23	6-0	202	L/-	1	May 19, 1973
3	Kenny Jönsson	se SE	D	22	6-3	217	L/-	2	October 6, 1974
11	Darius Kasparaitis	su SU	D	24	5-11	215	L/-	4	October 16, 1972
27	Derek King	ca CA	LW	29	6-1	203	L/-	10	February 11, 1967
24	Paul Kruse	ca CA	LW	26	6-1	215	L/-	6	March 15, 1970
7	Scott Lachance	us US	D	24	6-1	215	L/-	5	October 22, 1972
13-48	Claude Lapointe	ca CA	C	28	5-9	188	L/-	6	October 11, 1968
4	Bryan McCabe	ca CA	D	21	6-2	220	L/-	1	June 8, 1975
18	Marty McInnis	us US	C	26	5-11	187	R/-	5	June 2, 1970
10	Dave McLlwain	ca CA	C	30	6-0	185	L/-	9	January 9, 1967
16	Žigmund Pálffy	cs CS	RW	24	5-10	183	L/-	3	May 5, 1972
2-47	Rich Pilon	ca CA	D	28	6-2	220	L/-	8	April 30, 1968
21-42	Dan Plante	us US	RW	25	5-11	202	R/-	2	October 5, 1971
21	Robert Reichel	cs CS	C	25	5-10	180	L/-	5	June 25, 1971
35	Tommy Salo	se SE	G	25	5-11	182	-/L	2	February 1, 1971
15	Bryan Smolinski	us US	LW	25	6-1	203	R/-	4	December 27, 1971
30	Tommy Söderström	se SE	G	27	5-7	157	-/L	4	July 17, 1969
25	Chris Taylor	ca CA	C	24	6-2	192	L/-	2	March 6, 1972
21	Nick Vachon	ca CA	C	24	5-10	185	L/-	R	July 20, 1972
42	Andrei Vasilyev	su SU	LW	24	5-9	180	R/-	2	March 30, 1972
28-37	Dennis Vaske	us US	D	29	6-2	210	L/-	6	October 11, 1967
12	Mick Vukota	ca CA	RW	30	6-1	225	R/-	9	September 14, 1966
62	Steve Webb	ca CA	RW	21	6-0	211	R/-	R	April 30, 1975
10-11	Randy Wood	us US	LW	33	6-0	195	L/-	10	October 12, 1963

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	Žigmund Pálffy	24	RW	80	48	42	90	21	43	38	6	4	6	25	15	2	292	16.4			10.2	1.8	12.0
2	Travis Green	26	C	79	23	41	64	-5	38	13	10	0	3	32	9	0	177	13.0			5.3	0.9	6.2
3	Bryan Smolinski	25	LW	64	28	28	56	9	25	19	9	0	1	19	9	0	183	15.3			5.6	1.2	6.8
4	Derek King	29	LW	70	23	30	53	-6	20	18	5	0	3	24	6	0	153	15.0			4.6	0.7	5.3
5	Bryan Berard	19	D	82	8	40	48	1	86	5	3	0	1	23	17	0	172	4.7			3.8	3.8	7.6
6	Niklas Andersson	25	LW	74	12	31	43	4	57	10	1	1	1	24	5	2	122	9.8			2.4	1.1	3.6
7	Marty McInnis	26	C	70	20	22	42	-7	20	15	4	1	4	14	6	2	163	12.3			3.3	0.7	4.0
8	Bryan McCabe	21	D	82	8	20	28	-2	165	5	2	1	2	16	4	0	117	6.8			1.9	3.6	5.4
9	Todd Bertuzzi	21	RW	64	10	13	23	-3	68	7	3	0	1	11	2	0	79	12.7			0.7	0.7	1.4
10	Kenny Jönsson	22	D	81	3	18	21	10	24	2	1	0	0	14	4	0	92	3.3			0.7	4.4	5.1
11	Robert Reichel	25	C	12	5	14	19	7	4	4	0	1	0	11	3	0	33	15.2			1.9	0.4	2.3
12	Claude Lapointe	28	C	73	13	5	18	-12	49	10	0	3	3	5	0	0	80	16.3			0.2	0.5	0.7
13	Scott Lachance	24	D	81	3	11	14	-7	47	2	1	0	0	9	2	0	97	3.1			0.0	3.2	3.2
14	Derek Armstrong	23	C	50	6	7	13	-8	33	6	0	0	2	6	1	0	36	16.7			-0.1	0.4	0.3
15	Dan Plante	25	RW	67	4	9	13	-6	75	2	0	2	0	9	0	0	61	6.6			-1.0	0.7	-0.3
16	Randy Wood	33	LW	65	6	5	11	-7	61	5	0	1	2	3	0	2	96	6.3			-0.9	0.6	-0.3
17	Brent Hughes	30	RW	51	7	3	10	-4	57	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	47	14.9			-0.3	0.5	0.2
18	Doug Houda	30	D	70	2	8	10	1	99	2	0	0	0	6	2	0	29	6.9			-0.2	3.2	3.0
19	Paul Kruse	26	LW	48	4	2	6	-5	111	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	39	10.3			-0.9	0.5	-0.4
20	Rich Pilon	28	D	52	1	4	5	4	179	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	17	5.9			-0.4	2.6	2.2
21	Steve Webb	21	RW	41	1	4	5	-10	144	0	1	0	0	3	1	0	21	4.8			-1.0	0.2	-0.8
22	Darius Kasparaitis	24	D	18	0	5	5	-7	16	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	12	0.0			0.1	0.3	0.5
23	Andreas Johansson	23	C	15	2	2	4	-6	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	21	9.5			0.0	0.0	0.0
24	Dennis Vaske	29	D	17	0	4	4	3	12	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	19	0.0			0.1	1.0	1.0
25	Dave McLlwain	30	C	4	1	1	2	-2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	33.3			0.1	0.0	0.1
26	Ken Belanger	22	LW	18	0	2	2	-1	102	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	0.0			-0.5	0.2	-0.3
27	Jason Holland	20	D	4	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	33.3			0.1	0.3	0.4
28	Mick Vukota	30	RW	17	1	0	1	-2	71	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	14.3			-0.5	0.2	-0.3
29	Tommy Salo	25	G	58	0	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	0				0		3208	55:18	0.0	0.0	8.5
30	Dave Archibald	27	C	7	0	0	0	-4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0			-0.3	0.0	-0.3
31	Jarrett Deuling	22	LW	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	0.0
32	Mike Donnelly	33	LW	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
33	Jim Dowd	28	C	3	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.0	-0.1
34	Éric Fichaud	21	G	34	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0				0		1759	51:45	0.0	0.0	4.3
35	Corey Foster	27	D	7	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.2	0.0
36	Tommy Söderström	27	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		0	0:26	0.0	0.0	0.0
37	Chris Taylor	24	C	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			0.0	0.0	0.0
38	Nick Vachon	24	C	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	-0.1
39	Andrei Vasilyev	24	LW	3	0	0	0	-3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	-0.1	-0.2
	Team Total			82	240	372	612	-50	1622	178	48	14	29	275	87	9	2188	11.0			34.5	33.6	80.9

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	Tommy Salo	25	58		20	27	8	151	1576	1425	.904	2.82	5	3208				101	-0.9	3.03	8.5
2	Éric Fichaud	21	34		9	14	4	91	897	806	.899	3.10	0	1759				106	-5.5	3.34	4.3
3	Tommy Söderström	27	1		0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0	0						0.00	0.0
	Team Total				29	41	12	242	2473	2231	.902	2.92	5	4967				103	-6.4	3.14	12.8