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Florida Panthers, 1996-97

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Atlantic Division, Eastern Conference Made the playoffs

1996-97 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
7 82 35-28-19 89 0.543 221 201 +20 21-12-8 14-16-11

Records are wins, then losses, then ties.

Playoffs

Round Opponent Result
Conference Quarterfinals New York Rangers Lost 1-4

Roster

Everyone who played for the team this season, with their stats for it.

Skater Pos GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits
Ray Sheppard R 68 29 31 60 4 4 226 0
Scott Mellanby R 82 27 29 56 7 170 221 0
Robert Svehla D 82 13 32 45 2 86 159 0
Radek Dvorak R 78 18 21 39 -2 30 139 0
Rob Niedermayer C 60 14 24 38 4 54 136 0
Johan Garpenlov L 53 11 25 36 10 47 83 0
Bill Lindsay L 81 11 23 34 1 120 168 0
Dave Lowry L 77 15 14 29 2 51 96 0
Martin Straka C 55 7 22 29 9 12 94 0
Per Gustafsson D 58 7 22 29 11 22 105 0
Tom Fitzgerald R 71 10 14 24 7 64 135 0
Ed Jovanovski D 61 7 16 23 -1 172 80 0
Gord Murphy D 80 8 15 23 3 51 137 0
Brian Skrudland C 51 5 13 18 4 48 57 0
Jody Hull R 67 10 6 16 1 4 92 0
David Nemirovsky R 39 7 7 14 1 32 53 0
Mike Hough L 69 8 6 14 12 48 85 0
Terry Carkner D 70 0 14 14 -4 96 38 0
Rhett Warrener D 62 4 9 13 20 88 58 0
Paul Laus D 77 0 12 12 13 313 63 0
Stu Barnes C 19 2 8 10 -3 10 44 0
Steve Washburn C 18 3 6 9 2 4 21 0
Chris Wells C 47 2 6 8 5 42 29 0
Kirk Muller L 10 1 2 3 -2 4 21 0
Jason Podollan C 19 1 1 2 -3 4 20 0
Brad Smyth R 8 1 0 1 -3 2 10 0
Craig Ferguson C 3 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0
Craig Fisher C 4 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0
Craig Martin R 1 0 0 0 0 5 1 0
Geoff Smith D 3 0 0 0 1 2 2 0
Jason Woolley D 3 0 0 0 1 2 7 0
Goalie GP WLTOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
John Vanbiesbrouck 57 27191002 1582 1454 128 2.29 0.919
Mark Fitzpatrick 30 89900 771 705 66 2.36 0.914

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Apr 11, 1997 vs PIT W 4-2 35 33
Apr 9, 1997 vs NJD W 4-2 29 34
Apr 6, 1997 @ WSH T 3-3 (OT) 23 35
Apr 5, 1997 @ BOS L 2-4 29 29
Apr 2, 1997 @ TOR L 1-3 34 28
Mar 31, 1997 @ PIT L 3-4 29 32
Mar 29, 1997 vs TBL T 1-1 (OT) 29 20
Mar 27, 1997 vs OTT L 2-3 21 28
Mar 22, 1997 vs BUF W 3-2 32 18
Mar 20, 1997 @ OTT T 2-2 (OT) 20 28
Mar 19, 1997 @ NYI L 4-7 28 23
Mar 17, 1997 @ NJD W 4-1 29 32
Mar 15, 1997 vs TOR T 3-3 (OT) 46 25
Mar 13, 1997 vs VAN W 5-4 24 24
Mar 11, 1997 vs NYI W 3-2 32 25
Mar 9, 1997 vs BOS L 1-3 27 20
Mar 7, 1997 vs CGY L 1-3 28 26
Mar 5, 1997 vs PHX L 0-3 14 28
Mar 1, 1997 @ TBL L 0-2 24 30
Feb 27, 1997 vs STL W 3-2 (OT) 20 28
Feb 25, 1997 vs SJS T 2-2 (OT) 33 40
Feb 22, 1997 vs PHI L 3-4 (OT) 34 40
Feb 20, 1997 vs NJD T 2-2 (OT) 27 26
Feb 18, 1997 @ PIT L 2-4 28 32
Feb 16, 1997 vs DET L 2-4 22 19
Feb 15, 1997 @ NYI L 0-1 (OT) 29 21
Feb 12, 1997 vs TBL W 5-2 34 22
Feb 9, 1997 vs NYR W 4-3 29 32
Feb 7, 1997 @ NJD T 2-2 (OT) 29 35
Feb 6, 1997 @ BUF T 1-1 (OT) 33 26
Feb 3, 1997 @ MTL T 2-2 (OT) 41 24
Feb 1, 1997 vs WSH L 1-3 21 27
Jan 30, 1997 vs BOS W 3-1 16 38
Jan 28, 1997 vs MTL W 5-1 38 31
Jan 25, 1997 vs TBL W 3-2 18 30
Jan 23, 1997 @ BOS W 4-1 33 29
Jan 22, 1997 @ HFD L 1-2 (OT) 41 32
Jan 20, 1997 vs COL L 2-4 35 27
Jan 15, 1997 @ EDM L 0-4 40 28
Jan 14, 1997 @ VAN T 4-4 (OT) 28 34
Jan 11, 1997 @ CGY W 4-1 39 41
Jan 8, 1997 @ ANA L 2-3 32 27
Jan 4, 1997 @ LAK W 5-0 31 28
Jan 1, 1997 vs ANA L 0-3 28 22
Dec 29, 1996 vs MTL L 1-2 30 17
Dec 28, 1996 @ WSH T 1-1 (OT) 20 25
Dec 26, 1996 @ TBL T 3-3 (OT) 38 34
Dec 23, 1996 @ NYI W 4-3 (OT) 23 22
Dec 22, 1996 @ NYR L 3-7 31 38
Dec 20, 1996 @ CHI W 3-1 23 35
Dec 19, 1996 @ OTT L 2-5 22 32
Dec 15, 1996 vs EDM W 6-3 23 28
Dec 11, 1996 @ HFD L 2-5 30 31
Dec 10, 1996 @ PHI L 4-5 22 29
Dec 8, 1996 vs DAL T 1-1 (OT) 19 22
Dec 5, 1996 vs NYI W 4-2 36 42
Dec 3, 1996 @ NJD L 0-2 28 34
Dec 1, 1996 @ DET W 4-2 18 30
Nov 29, 1996 vs HFD T 1-1 (OT) 30 30
Nov 26, 1996 vs BUF W 4-3 33 23
Nov 23, 1996 @ STL W 3-1 28 30
Nov 22, 1996 @ DAL W 2-1 (OT) 27 30
Nov 20, 1996 vs LAK W 4-1 29 28
Nov 18, 1996 vs WSH L 2-4 29 29
Nov 15, 1996 vs NYI T 3-3 (OT) 30 18
Nov 13, 1996 @ MTL W 5-3 34 21
Nov 11, 1996 @ BUF L 2-3 (OT) 31 27
Nov 9, 1996 vs PIT W 4-2 38 29
Nov 7, 1996 vs WSH W 4-2 32 26
Nov 2, 1996 vs PHI L 2-3 28 44
Oct 30, 1996 vs CHI W 3-2 35 32
Oct 29, 1996 @ NYR T 1-1 (OT) 24 35
Oct 27, 1996 @ PHI W 3-2 28 23
Oct 25, 1996 vs NYR W 6-4 37 32
Oct 23, 1996 vs OTT W 5-2 32 38
Oct 20, 1996 @ PHX T 1-1 (OT) 28 25
Oct 17, 1996 @ COL W 2-1 32 26
Oct 16, 1996 @ SJS T 3-3 (OT) 34 21
Oct 12, 1996 vs HFD W 6-0 32 21
Oct 8, 1996 vs NYR T 1-1 (OT) 32 28
Oct 6, 1996 @ NYR W 5-2 29 36
Oct 5, 1996 @ PHI W 3-1 20 32