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Washington Capitals, 1996-97

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Atlantic Division, Eastern Conference

1996-97 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
18 82 33-40-9 75 0.457 214 231 -17 19-17-5 14-23-4

Records are wins, then losses, then ties.

Roster

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

Skater Pos GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits
Peter Bondra R 77 46 31 77 7 72 314 0
Dale Hunter C 82 14 32 46 -2 125 110 0
Joe Juneau C 58 15 27 42 -11 8 124 0
Steve Konowalchuk L 78 17 25 42 -3 67 155 0
Phil Housley D 77 11 29 40 -10 24 167 0
Sergei Gonchar D 57 13 17 30 -11 36 129 0
Kelly Miller L 77 10 14 24 4 33 95 0
Sylvain Cote D 57 6 18 24 11 28 131 0
Michal Pivonka C 54 7 16 23 -15 22 83 0
Chris Simon L 42 9 13 22 -1 165 89 0
Jason Allison C 53 5 17 22 -3 25 71 0
Andrei Nikolishin C 59 7 14 21 5 30 73 0
Calle Johansson D 65 6 11 17 -2 16 133 0
Todd Krygier L 47 5 11 16 -10 37 121 0
Adam Oates C 17 4 8 12 -2 4 22 0
Andrew Brunette L 24 4 7 11 -3 12 23 0
Ken Klee D 80 3 8 11 -5 115 108 0
Jaroslav Svejkovsky R 19 7 3 10 -1 4 30 0
Rick Tocchet R 13 5 5 10 0 31 37 0
Joe Reekie D 65 1 8 9 8 107 65 0
Mark Tinordi D 56 2 6 8 3 118 53 0
Mike Eagles L 71 1 7 8 -4 42 38 0
Craig Berube L 80 4 3 7 -11 218 55 0
Anson Carter R 19 3 2 5 0 7 28 0
Brendan Witt D 44 3 2 5 -20 88 41 0
Keith Jones R 11 2 3 5 -2 13 12 0
Kevin Kaminski C 39 1 2 3 0 130 12 0
Richard Zednik R 11 2 1 3 -5 4 21 0
Eric Charron D 25 1 1 2 1 20 11 0
Curtis Leschyshyn D 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Pat Peake C 4 0 0 0 1 4 9 0
Patrick Boileau D 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stefan Ustorf L 6 0 0 0 -3 2 7 0
Stewart Malgunas D 6 0 0 0 2 2 3 0
Goalie GP WLTOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
Jim Carey 40 1718301 984 879 105 2.75 0.893
Olie Kolzig 29 815402 758 687 71 2.59 0.906
Bill Ranford 18 87200 412 366 46 2.73 0.888

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Apr 13, 1997 @ BUF W 8-3 38 24
Apr 12, 1997 vs NYI W 6-2 38 22
Apr 10, 1997 vs MTL W 3-2 33 23
Apr 6, 1997 vs FLA T 3-3 (OT) 35 23
Apr 3, 1997 @ OTT L 0-4 25 32
Apr 1, 1997 vs NJD L 0-1 25 27
Mar 29, 1997 vs PHI L 3-5 24 27
Mar 26, 1997 @ CHI L 3-5 35 20
Mar 25, 1997 vs STL W 3-2 26 25
Mar 22, 1997 @ MTL W 3-1 20 29
Mar 21, 1997 vs BUF L 1-4 31 12
Mar 19, 1997 vs NJD T 2-2 (OT) 30 31
Mar 16, 1997 vs HFD W 5-3 23 26
Mar 15, 1997 @ NJD L 2-3 27 27
Mar 12, 1997 @ NYR L 2-3 27 41
Mar 11, 1997 vs VAN W 4-1 31 17
Mar 9, 1997 @ PHI L 0-5 15 25
Mar 6, 1997 vs COL W 6-3 30 31
Mar 4, 1997 vs CGY W 2-1 24 21
Mar 2, 1997 vs NYI L 0-2 39 19
Feb 28, 1997 vs ANA L 1-4 25 33
Feb 26, 1997 @ TOR W 3-1 31 29
Feb 24, 1997 vs BOS T 3-3 (OT) 45 26
Feb 22, 1997 @ HFD L 0-2 28 21
Feb 18, 1997 vs OTT L 1-6 32 29
Feb 15, 1997 @ TBL L 1-4 39 24
Feb 14, 1997 vs TBL W 5-4 (OT) 24 25
Feb 11, 1997 @ VAN W 5-2 29 27
Feb 9, 1997 @ EDM L 1-4 31 33
Feb 7, 1997 @ CGY L 2-5 27 27
Feb 2, 1997 @ BUF T 2-2 (OT) 29 24
Feb 1, 1997 @ FLA W 3-1 27 21
Jan 29, 1997 vs PHI L 1-2 30 27
Jan 26, 1997 vs EDM L 1-3 41 25
Jan 24, 1997 vs DAL L 2-5 38 34
Jan 22, 1997 vs NYR L 3-5 40 28
Jan 20, 1997 @ BOS W 3-2 26 33
Jan 15, 1997 @ OTT L 1-5 22 28
Jan 13, 1997 vs TOR W 6-3 35 30
Jan 11, 1997 @ PHI T 3-3 (OT) 31 30
Jan 9, 1997 vs NYR W 2-0 24 25
Jan 4, 1997 @ HFD T 1-1 (OT) 30 25
Jan 3, 1997 vs PHX W 3-0 24 22
Jan 1, 1997 vs HFD W 3-2 (OT) 25 24
Dec 30, 1996 @ PIT L 3-5 28 30
Dec 28, 1996 vs FLA T 1-1 (OT) 25 20
Dec 26, 1996 @ DET L 4-5 (OT) 38 33
Dec 23, 1996 @ TBL W 3-1 34 24
Dec 21, 1996 @ BOS L 3-4 31 33
Dec 20, 1996 vs SJS W 3-2 32 21
Dec 17, 1996 @ PHX L 3-4 34 26
Dec 14, 1996 @ LAK T 4-4 (OT) 44 31
Dec 13, 1996 @ ANA L 4-5 37 26
Dec 11, 1996 @ SJS L 2-3 22 28
Dec 7, 1996 @ NYI L 0-2 24 23
Dec 6, 1996 vs PIT L 3-5 29 28
Dec 4, 1996 vs DET L 0-2 19 18
Nov 30, 1996 @ MTL W 2-0 20 27
Nov 29, 1996 vs NYI L 0-2 23 22
Nov 27, 1996 vs OTT L 1-2 32 15
Nov 23, 1996 vs NJD W 4-3 23 32
Nov 22, 1996 @ NJD W 5-1 27 39
Nov 19, 1996 vs BOS T 2-2 (OT) 30 23
Nov 18, 1996 @ FLA W 4-2 29 29
Nov 15, 1996 vs MTL W 3-1 24 31
Nov 14, 1996 @ PHI W 5-2 27 30
Nov 12, 1996 @ NJD L 2-3 (OT) 20 26
Nov 9, 1996 vs NYR W 3-2 21 25
Nov 7, 1996 @ FLA L 2-4 26 32
Nov 6, 1996 @ TBL W 2-1 26 17
Nov 2, 1996 @ NYI L 1-6 29 20
Nov 1, 1996 vs PIT W 4-2 35 41
Oct 30, 1996 vs PHI W 4-2 28 25
Oct 28, 1996 @ COL L 0-1 40 34
Oct 26, 1996 @ STL W 6-4 28 29
Oct 23, 1996 @ NYR W 3-2 23 25
Oct 19, 1996 @ PIT L 1-2 19 19
Oct 18, 1996 vs BUF L 1-4 32 26
Oct 12, 1996 vs LAK L 3-4 22 26
Oct 11, 1996 vs TBL W 6-2 31 23
Oct 8, 1996 @ DAL L 3-5 26 27
Oct 5, 1996 vs CHI L 2-5 23 27