1997-98 Washington Capitals Roster and Statistics

Record: 40-30-12 (92 points), Finished 3rd in NHL Atlantic Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Ron Wilson (40-30-12)

Primary Arena: MCI Center

Goals For: 219 (13th of 26), Goals Against: 202 (10th of 26)
SRS: 0.17 (11th of 26), SOS: -0.04 (23rd of 26)

Playoffs:
Lost Stanley Cup Final (4-0) to Detroit Red Wings
Won Conference Finals (4-2) over Buffalo Sabres
Won Conference Semi-Finals (4-1) over Ottawa Senators
Won Conference Quarter-Finals (4-2) over Boston Bruins

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +2500

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Recent Game Results

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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
Washington Capitals	82	40	30	12	92	.561	219	202	0.17	-0.04	2.67	2.46	55	350	15.71	39	362	89.23	14	4	2225	9.8	2292	.912		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%
Washington Capitals
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
38	Nolan Baumgartner	ca CA	D	21	6-2	195	R/-	1	March 23, 1976
23	Brian Bellows	ca CA	RW	33	5-11	210	R/-	15	September 1, 1964
28	Jan Benda	be BE	C	25	6-3	215	R/-	R	March 28, 1972
27	Craig Berube	ca CA	LW	32	6-1	210	L/-	11	December 17, 1965
12	Peter Bondra	su SU	RW	29	6-0	200	L/-	7	February 7, 1968
28	Jeff Brown	ca CA	D	31	6-1	204	R/-	12	April 30, 1966
18	Andrew Brunette	ca CA	LW	24	6-1	215	L/-	2	August 24, 1973
8	Jan Bulis	cs CS	C	19	6-1	208	L/-	R	March 18, 1978
25	Brad Church	ca CA	LW	21	6-1	210	L/-	R	November 14, 1976
3	Sylvain Côté	ca CA	D	32	5-11	201	R/-	13	January 19, 1966
36	Mike Eagles	ca CA	LW	34	5-10	195	L/-	13	March 7, 1963
55	Sergei Gonchar	su SU	D	23	6-2	210	L/-	3	April 13, 1974
48	Benoît Gratton	ca CA	C	21	5-11	194	L/-	R	December 28, 1976
43	David Harlock	ca CA	D	26	6-2	215	L/-	3	March 16, 1971
42	Dwayne Hay	ca CA	LW	20	6-1	203	L/-	R	February 11, 1977
96	Phil Housley	us US	D	33	5-10	185	L/-	15	March 9, 1964
32	Dale Hunter (C)	ca CA	C	37	5-10	198	L/-	17	July 31, 1960
6	Calle Johansson	se SE	D	30	5-11	203	L/-	10	February 14, 1967
90	Joé Juneau	ca CA	C	30	6-0	195	L/-	6	January 5, 1968
2	Ken Klee	us US	RW	26	6-1	210	R/-	3	April 24, 1971
37	Olaf Kölzig	za ZA	G	27	6-3	224	-/L	6	April 6, 1970
22	Steve Konowalchuk	us US	LW	25	6-1	207	L/-	6	November 11, 1972
9	Todd Krygier	us US	RW	32	6-0	185	L/-	8	October 12, 1965
4	Stewart Malgunas	ca CA	D	27	6-0	200	L/-	4	April 21, 1970
10	Kelly Miller	us US	RW	34	5-11	195	L/-	13	March 3, 1963
26	Ryan Mulhern	us US	C	25	6-1	202	R/-	R	January 11, 1973
13	Andrei Nikolishin	su SU	C	24	6-0	213	L/-	3	March 25, 1973
77	Adam Oates	ca CA	C	35	5-11	190	R/-	12	August 27, 1962
14	Pat Peake	us US	RW	24	6-1	195	R/-	4	May 28, 1973
20	Michal Pivoňka	cs CS	LW	32	6-2	200	L/-	11	January 28, 1966
30	Bill Ranford	ca CA	G	31	5-11	185	-/L	12	December 14, 1966
29	Joe Reekie	ca CA	D	32	6-3	220	L/-	12	February 22, 1965
17	Chris Simon	ca CA	LW	26	6-3	233	L/-	5	January 30, 1972
34	Jaroslav Svejkovský	cs CS	RW	21	6-1	193	R/-	1	October 1, 1976
11	Esa Tikkanen	fi FI	LW	33	6-1	190	L/-	12	January 25, 1965
24	Mark Tinordi	ca CA	D	31	6-4	213	L/-	10	May 9, 1966
21	Jeff Toms	ca CA	C	23	6-5	200	L/-	2	June 4, 1974
19	Brendan Witt	ca CA	D	22	6-2	223	L/-	2	February 20, 1975
44	Richard Zedník	cs CS	RW	22	6-0	200	L/-	2	January 6, 1976

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	Peter Bondra	29	RW	76	52	26	78	14	44	36	11	5	13	16	10	0	284	18.3	1641	21:35	10.5	1.6	12.1
2	Adam Oates*	35	C	82	18	58	76	6	36	13	3	2	3	31	23	4	121	14.9	1897	23:08	6.5	1.4	7.9
3	Calle Johansson	30	D	73	15	20	35	-11	30	4	10	1	1	9	10	1	163	9.2	1803	24:42	3.6	3.2	6.8
4	Steve Konowalchuk	25	LW	80	10	24	34	9	80	8	2	0	2	23	1	0	131	7.6	1312	16:24	1.5	1.5	3.0
5	Joé Juneau	30	C	56	9	22	31	-8	26	4	4	1	1	14	8	0	87	10.3	917	16:23	2.0	0.5	2.5
6	Phil Housley*	33	D	64	6	25	31	-10	24	1	4	1	0	10	15	0	116	5.2	1211	18:55	2.4	2.8	5.2
7	Richard Zedník	22	RW	65	17	9	26	-2	28	15	2	0	2	9	0	0	148	11.5	765	11:46	1.9	0.9	2.8
8	Dale Hunter	37	C	82	8	18	26	1	103	8	0	0	1	13	1	4	82	9.8	956	11:39	0.4	1.2	1.6
9	Andrew Brunette	24	LW	28	11	12	23	2	12	7	4	0	2	8	4	0	42	26.2	427	15:15	2.4	0.5	2.9
10	Sergei Gonchar	23	D	72	5	16	21	2	66	3	2	0	0	9	7	0	134	3.7	1430	19:52	1.1	4.2	5.3
11	Mark Tinordi	31	D	47	8	9	17	9	39	7	0	1	0	8	0	1	57	14.0	957	20:21	1.6	3.3	4.9
12	Chris Simon	26	LW	28	7	10	17	-1	38	3	4	0	1	5	5	0	71	9.9	484	17:17	1.4	0.4	1.8
13	Andrei Nikolishin	24	C	38	6	10	16	1	14	5	1	0	1	8	2	0	40	15.0	563	14:49	0.8	0.6	1.4
14	Jan Bulis	19	C	48	5	11	16	-5	18	5	0	0	0	10	1	0	37	13.5	505	10:32	0.3	0.5	0.8
15	Sylvain Côté	32	D	59	1	15	16	-5	36	1	0	0	0	13	1	1	83	1.2	1095	18:33	0.5	2.9	3.4
16	Craig Berube	32	LW	74	6	9	15	-3	189	6	0	0	0	9	0	0	68	8.8	629	8:30	-0.7	0.9	0.3
17	Kelly Miller	34	RW	76	7	7	14	-2	41	4	0	3	3	7	0	0	68	10.3	846	11:08	-0.7	1.0	0.3
18	Todd Krygier	32	RW	45	2	12	14	-3	30	2	0	0	1	9	3	0	71	2.8	594	13:12	-0.1	0.5	0.5
19	Esa Tikkanen	33	LW	20	2	10	12	-4	2	1	1	0	2	6	4	0	33	6.1	412	20:36	0.7	0.1	0.8
20	Joe Reekie	32	D	68	2	8	10	15	70	2	0	0	1	7	0	1	59	3.4	1387	20:24	-0.2	5.0	4.8
21	Brian Bellows	33	RW	11	6	3	9	-3	6	1	5	0	2	3	0	0	26	23.1	191	17:24	1.1	0.0	1.2
22	Michal Pivoňka	32	LW	33	3	6	9	5	20	3	0	0	1	5	1	0	38	7.9	488	14:47	0.0	0.7	0.6
23	Brendan Witt	22	D	64	1	7	8	-11	112	1	0	0	0	5	1	1	68	1.5	1128	17:38	-0.4	2.7	2.3
24	Jeff Toms	23	C	33	3	4	7	-11	8	3	0	0	1	3	0	1	55	5.5	371	11:15	-0.2	0.0	-0.2
25	Ken Klee	26	RW	51	4	2	6	-3	46	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	44	9.1	570	11:10	-0.9	0.6	-0.3
26	Jeff Brown	31	D	9	0	6	6	4	6	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	15	0.0	200	22:16	0.4	0.8	1.2
27	Jaroslav Svejkovský	21	RW	17	4	1	5	-5	10	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	29	13.8	192	11:19	0.3	0.0	0.3
28	Mike Eagles	34	LW	36	1	3	4	-2	16	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	25	4.0	348	9:40	-0.9	0.4	-0.4
29	Jan Benda	25	C	9	0	3	3	1	6	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	8	0.0	83	9:15	0.0	0.2	0.1
30	Nolan Baumgartner	21	D	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0.0	72	17:55	0.0	0.2	0.2
31	Benoît Gratton	21	C	6	0	1	1	1	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	0.0	42	7:02	-0.1	0.1	0.0
32	Olaf Kölzig	27	G	64	0	1	1	0	12	0	0	0	0				0		3788	59:11	0.0	0.0	12.7
33	Bill Ranford	31	G	22	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		1183	53:47	0.0	0.0	3.0
34	Brad Church	21	LW	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	22	10:46	-0.1	0.0	0.0
35	David Harlock	26	D	6	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	96	16:00	-0.1	0.5	0.4
36	Dwayne Hay	20	LW	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	10	4:57	-0.1	0.0	0.0
37	Stewart Malgunas	27	D	8	0	0	0	1	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0	127	15:52	-0.2	0.5	0.4
38	Ryan Mulhern	25	C	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	26	8:41	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
39	Pat Peake	24	RW	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		13	12:42	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Team Total			82	219	370	589	-16	1196	150	55	14	40	251	103	14	2225	9.8			34.6	40.0	90.4

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	Olaf Kölzig	27	64		33	18	10	139	1729	1590	.920	2.20	5	3788				86	23.1	2.60	12.7
2	Bill Ranford	31	22		7	12	2	55	555	500	.901	2.79	0	1183				106	-3.0	3.30	3.0
	Team Total				40	30	12	194	2284	2090	.915	2.34	5	4971				91	20.1	2.76	15.7