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Chris Chelios

#24 · Defence · Atlanta Thrashers · Hockey Hall of Fame

Born Jan 25, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, USA · 6'0", 191 lb · Shoots right · Drafted 40th overall in 1981 by MTL (round 2)

Trophy case

×3 Stanley Cup NHL Champion 2007-08, 2001-02, 1985-86
×3 James Norris Memorial Trophy Top Defenseman 1995-96, 1992-93, 1988-89
Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award Leadership and Growing the Game 2006-07

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 1997-98. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Gary Suter CHI · 42 P in 73 GP Robert Svehla FLA · 43 P in 79 GP Roman Hamrlik EDM · 41 P in 78 GP Dmitri Mironov DET · 43 P in 77 GP Janne Niinimaa EDM · 43 P in 77 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below.

02040601983-84: 2 points283-841984-85: 64 points641985-86: 34 points3485-861986-87: 44 points441987-88: 61 points6187-881988-89: 73 points731989-90: 31 points3189-901990-91: 64 points641991-92: 56 points5691-921992-93: 73 points731993-94: 60 points6093-941994-95: 38 points381995-96: 72 points7295-961996-97: 48 points481997-98: 42 points4297-981998-99: 36 points361999-00: 34 points3499-002000-01: 3 points32001-02: 39 points3901-022002-03: 19 points192003-04: 21 points2103-042005-06: 11 points112006-07: 11 points1106-072007-08: 12 points122008-09: 0 points008-092009-10: 0 points0

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
1983-84 MTL 12 0 2 2 -5 12 23 0 0.17
1984-85 MTL 74 9 55 64 10 87 200 0 0.86
1985-86 MTL 41 8 26 34 6 67 101 0 0.83
1986-87 MTL 71 11 33 44 -5 124 141 0 0.62
1987-88 MTL 71 20 41 61 14 172 199 0 0.86
1988-89 MTL 80 15 58 73 35 185 206 0 0.91
1989-90 MTL 53 9 22 31 20 136 123 0 0.58
1990-91 CHI 77 12 52 64 23 192 187 0 0.83
1991-92 CHI 80 9 47 56 24 245 239 0 0.70
1992-93 CHI 84 15 58 73 14 282 290 0 0.87
1993-94 CHI 76 16 44 60 12 212 219 0 0.79
1994-95 CHI 48 5 33 38 17 72 166 0 0.79
1995-96 CHI 81 14 58 72 25 140 219 0 0.89
1996-97 CHI 72 10 38 48 16 112 194 0 0.67
1997-98 CHI 81 3 39 42 -7 151 205 92 0.52
1998-99 CHI 65 8 26 34 -4 89 172 72 0.52
1998-99 DET 10 1 1 2 5 4 15 11 0.20
1999-00 DET 81 3 31 34 48 103 135 120 0.42
2000-01 DET 24 0 3 3 4 45 26 41 0.13
2001-02 DET 79 6 33 39 40 126 128 106 0.49
2002-03 DET 66 2 17 19 4 78 92 32 0.29
2003-04 DET 69 2 19 21 12 61 113 56 0.30
2005-06 DET 81 4 7 11 22 108 83 74 0.14
2006-07 DET 71 0 11 11 11 34 72 54 0.15
2007-08 DET 69 3 9 12 11 36 60 56 0.17
2008-09 DET 28 0 0 0 1 18 14 22 0.00
2009-10 ATL 7 0 0 0 -2 0 5 8 0.00
26 seasons Career 1651 185 763 948 351 2891 3627 744 0.57

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
1983-84 MTL 15 1 9 10 3 17 25 0 0.67
1984-85 MTL 9 2 8 10 2 17 19 0 1.11
1985-86 MTL 20 2 9 11 3 49 57 0 0.55
1986-87 MTL 17 4 9 13 -1 38 49 0 0.76
1987-88 MTL 11 3 1 4 3 29 39 0 0.36
1988-89 MTL 21 4 15 19 2 28 53 0 0.90
1989-90 MTL 5 0 1 1 -4 8 6 0 0.20
1990-91 CHI 6 1 7 8 2 46 11 0 1.33
1991-92 CHI 18 6 15 21 19 37 54 0 1.17
1992-93 CHI 4 0 2 2 -1 14 18 0 0.50
1993-94 CHI 6 1 1 2 0 8 29 0 0.33
1994-95 CHI 16 4 7 11 6 12 49 0 0.69
1995-96 CHI 10 0 3 3 2 8 28 0 0.30
1996-97 CHI 6 0 1 1 -2 8 18 0 0.17
1998-99 DET 10 0 4 4 -6 14 21 9 0.40
1999-00 DET 9 0 1 1 -3 8 11 13 0.11
2000-01 DET 5 1 0 1 -1 2 9 5 0.20
2001-02 DET 23 1 13 14 15 44 28 32 0.61
2002-03 DET 4 0 0 0 -3 2 4 5 0.00
2003-04 DET 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 0.00
2005-06 DET 6 0 0 0 2 6 3 3 0.00
2006-07 DET 18 1 6 7 7 12 27 27 0.39
2007-08 DET 14 0 0 0 2 10 11 16 0.00
2008-09 DET 6 0 0 0 0 2 4 3 0.00
24 seasons Playoffs 261 31 112 143 47 421 575 114 0.55

1997-98 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
81 3 39 42 -7 151 205 92 0.52 1.5 25:21

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 18, 1998 @ DAL L 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 25:48
Apr 16, 1998 vs NJD T 1-1 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 2 5 2 23:07
Apr 15, 1998 @ TOR L 2-3 0 1 1 -1 0 4 1 16:49
Apr 12, 1998 vs PHX L 1-2 0 1 1 -1 2 3 2 30:22
Apr 9, 1998 @ STL L 2-3 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 26:52
Apr 5, 1998 vs NYR L 1-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 29:28
Apr 4, 1998 vs DET L 2-3 0 0 0 -2 0 2 3 16:45
Apr 2, 1998 vs COL W 2-1 0 0 0 1 4 5 1 17:14
Mar 31, 1998 @ PHI L 2-3 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 27:47
Mar 29, 1998 vs FLA L 0-4 0 0 0 0 17 2 0 11:01
Mar 27, 1998 vs OTT W 2-1 0 0 0 1 0 5 1 31:07
Mar 25, 1998 vs ANA L 2-3 0 1 1 0 2 5 1 31:37
Mar 23, 1998 @ DET T 5-5 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 29:34
Mar 22, 1998 vs BOS W 1-0 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 31:13
Mar 19, 1998 vs MTL W 1-0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 31:00
Mar 17, 1998 @ BUF W 5-3 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 29:07
Mar 15, 1998 @ FLA W 8-4 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 25:13
Mar 14, 1998 @ TBL L 0-1 0 0 0 -1 2 5 0 16:24
Mar 12, 1998 @ DET L 0-3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 28:23
Mar 9, 1998 vs EDM L 3-4 (OT) 0 1 1 -1 2 3 1 18:46
Mar 7, 1998 @ BOS W 2-1 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 31:48
Mar 3, 1998 @ STL L 3-5 0 0 0 -2 34 2 2 22:06
Mar 1, 1998 vs DAL T 2-2 (OT) 0 1 1 0 2 3 2 17:53
Feb 28, 1998 @ COL W 4-0 0 1 1 1 0 5 1 30:56
Feb 26, 1998 vs LAK L 4-7 0 2 2 1 12 3 3 31:06
Feb 7, 1998 @ DAL L 1-3 0 0 0 -1 2 3 1 26:59
Feb 5, 1998 @ COL L 2-4 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 31:33
Feb 3, 1998 @ PHX W 4-2 0 1 1 -1 2 4 1 30:22
Feb 1, 1998 @ ANA L 3-4 (OT) 1 1 2 -2 0 5 1 31:31
Jan 31, 1998 @ LAK L 0-3 0 0 0 -3 0 4 4 23:57
Jan 29, 1998 @ SJS W 3-0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 28:15
Jan 24, 1998 vs STL W 5-4 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 17:20
Jan 22, 1998 vs TOR L 0-3 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 28:43
Jan 20, 1998 vs NYI W 5-2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 26:39
Jan 15, 1998 @ WSH L 2-3 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 29:30
Jan 14, 1998 @ CAR W 4-1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 28:47
Jan 12, 1998 vs VAN W 3-2 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 16:22
Jan 10, 1998 @ TOR W 4-3 0 1 1 -2 2 1 0 28:44
Jan 9, 1998 vs PHX L 2-4 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 31:29
Jan 5, 1998 vs CGY T 1-1 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 18:18
Jan 4, 1998 vs DET W 3-1 0 1 1 3 2 4 4 26:13
Jan 1, 1998 vs TOR T 3-3 (OT) 0 1 1 2 2 4 2 20:11
Dec 30, 1997 @ NJD W 6-2 0 2 2 4 0 2 1 30:44
Dec 28, 1997 vs ANA W 2-0 0 0 0 2 8 4 2 22:40
Dec 26, 1997 @ STL W 4-1 1 0 1 0 5 1 1 26:27
Dec 22, 1997 vs LAK L 0-1 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 17:50
Dec 20, 1997 @ VAN W 5-0 0 2 2 0 0 3 0 17:31
Dec 17, 1997 @ EDM T 0-0 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 33:52
Dec 16, 1997 @ CGY L 3-4 (OT) 0 0 0 -2 2 3 1 31:15
Dec 14, 1997 vs SJS L 1-2 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 12:42
Dec 12, 1997 vs PHI L 2-3 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 28:39
Dec 10, 1997 vs PHX T 3-3 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 34:17
Dec 7, 1997 vs EDM T 3-3 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 18:28
Dec 4, 1997 vs COL L 1-2 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 30:18
Nov 29, 1997 @ OTT W 3-2 0 1 1 1 0 4 1 16:12
Nov 27, 1997 @ CGY T 2-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 31:33
Nov 25, 1997 @ EDM T 2-2 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 31:57
Nov 22, 1997 @ VAN W 5-4 (OT) 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 26:20
Nov 20, 1997 @ LAK L 3-4 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 23:08
Nov 19, 1997 @ ANA W 4-0 1 0 1 2 5 3 2 27:16
Nov 16, 1997 vs DET T 3-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 26:56
Nov 13, 1997 vs TOR L 1-2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 24:18
Nov 11, 1997 @ TOR L 2-5 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 28:20
Nov 10, 1997 vs CGY T 1-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 29:46
Nov 8, 1997 @ NYI W 4-2 0 1 1 0 0 3 6 27:14
Nov 6, 1997 vs STL W 2-1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 16:18
Nov 2, 1997 vs PIT W 3-1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 28:32
Oct 31, 1997 vs SJS W 5-3 0 1 1 3 0 2 1 26:48
Oct 29, 1997 vs VAN W 3-0 0 0 0 1 0 6 0 28:39
Oct 27, 1997 @ MTL L 2-4 0 0 0 -2 2 3 1 31:26
Oct 26, 1997 vs CAR L 2-3 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 26:55
Oct 24, 1997 vs DAL L 0-2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 16:25
Oct 22, 1997 @ NYR W 1-0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 17:09
Oct 19, 1997 vs BUF W 5-2 0 2 2 0 0 3 0 17:05
Oct 17, 1997 vs STL L 0-2 0 0 0 -2 2 3 1 26:58
Oct 15, 1997 vs WSH L 0-2 0 0 0 -1 2 3 1 31:48
Oct 13, 1997 @ PHX L 1-2 0 1 1 1 4 1 0 00:00
Oct 10, 1997 @ DAL L 0-7 0 0 0 -3 2 2 1 27:53
Oct 9, 1997 vs TBL L 1-4 0 1 1 -1 6 3 0 29:24
Oct 4, 1997 @ SJS L 2-3 0 1 1 1 0 5 2 26:46
Oct 1, 1997 @ PHX L 2-6 0 0 0 -3 0 2 0 26:54