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Florida Panthers, 1997-98

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Atlantic Division, Eastern Conference

1997-98 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
25 82 24-43-15 63 0.384 203 256 -53 11-24-6 13-19-9

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
Ray Whitney L 68 32 29 61 10 28 156 7
Dave Gagner C 78 20 28 48 -21 55 165 33
Robert Svehla D 79 9 34 43 -3 113 144 82
Scott Mellanby R 79 15 24 39 -14 127 188 52
Radek Dvorak R 64 12 24 36 -1 33 112 29
Ray Sheppard R 61 14 17 31 -13 21 136 7
Kirk Muller L 70 8 21 29 -14 54 115 63
Bill Lindsay L 82 12 16 28 -2 80 150 77
Ed Jovanovski D 81 9 14 23 -12 158 142 148
Viktor Kozlov C 46 12 11 23 -1 14 114 16
David Nemirovsky R 41 9 12 21 -3 8 62 6
Steve Washburn C 58 11 8 19 -6 32 61 41
Gord Murphy D 79 6 11 17 -3 46 123 41
Dino Ciccarelli R 28 5 11 16 -2 28 57 7
Chris Wells C 61 5 10 15 4 47 57 52
Rob Niedermayer C 33 8 7 15 -9 41 64 46
Tom Fitzgerald R 69 10 5 15 -4 57 105 62
Paul Laus D 77 0 11 11 -5 293 64 67
Esa Tikkanen L 28 1 8 9 -7 16 34 10
Terry Carkner D 74 1 7 8 6 63 34 51
Jeff Norton D 19 0 7 7 -7 18 20 3
Johan Garpenlov L 39 2 3 5 -6 8 43 11
Rhett Warrener D 79 0 4 4 -16 99 66 87
Jody Hull R 21 2 0 2 1 4 23 8
Ryan Johnson C 10 0 2 2 -4 0 6 6
Dallas Eakins D 23 0 1 1 1 44 16 14
Chris Allen D 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 3
Dave Lowry L 7 0 0 0 -1 2 4 10
John Jakopin D 2 0 0 0 -3 4 1 2
Peter Worrell L 19 0 0 0 -4 153 15 33
Goalie GP WLTOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
John Vanbiesbrouck 60 18291104 1638 1473 165 2.87 0.899
Mark Fitzpatrick 12 27201 265 233 32 3.00 0.879
Kevin Weekes 11 05100 247 215 32 3.96 0.870
Kirk McLean 7 42100 207 185 22 3.25 0.894

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Apr 18, 1998 @ TBL T 2-2 (OT) 21 35
Apr 16, 1998 vs PHI L 3-7 36 29
Apr 14, 1998 vs OTT L 2-3 31 30
Apr 12, 1998 @ NJD T 5-5 (OT) 28 39
Apr 11, 1998 @ PIT T 3-3 (OT) 38 30
Apr 9, 1998 vs PHI W 3-2 27 25
Apr 7, 1998 vs TOR L 1-3 28 27
Apr 5, 1998 vs PIT W 3-1 29 34
Apr 4, 1998 @ PHI W 4-1 24 38
Apr 1, 1998 vs MTL L 3-4 22 29
Mar 29, 1998 @ CHI W 4-0 25 27
Mar 28, 1998 @ BOS W 3-2 (OT) 38 34
Mar 26, 1998 vs MTL W 5-4 21 28
Mar 23, 1998 vs CAR L 3-5 39 29
Mar 21, 1998 @ TBL L 1-5 36 30
Mar 19, 1998 @ BUF L 1-6 32 26
Mar 17, 1998 vs VAN L 2-4 43 29
Mar 15, 1998 vs CHI L 4-8 33 34
Mar 13, 1998 vs EDM L 0-4 23 34
Mar 11, 1998 @ OTT L 3-5 26 38
Mar 9, 1998 @ MTL L 1-6 23 27
Mar 7, 1998 @ WSH L 3-6 31 34
Mar 4, 1998 vs NYR L 3-4 42 34
Feb 27, 1998 @ DET L 1-3 29 34
Feb 25, 1998 vs NJD L 2-3 25 29
Feb 7, 1998 @ TOR L 2-3 40 24
Feb 3, 1998 vs DET T 1-1 (OT) 27 32
Feb 1, 1998 vs BUF L 2-5 31 29
Jan 31, 1998 vs TBL W 2-0 33 27
Jan 29, 1998 vs DAL W 3-2 27 23
Jan 27, 1998 vs CAR W 3-0 17 31
Jan 24, 1998 @ SJS T 1-1 (OT) 29 31
Jan 22, 1998 @ LAK L 1-3 29 23
Jan 21, 1998 @ ANA L 3-8 41 31
Jan 14, 1998 @ PHX L 2-3 25 29
Jan 12, 1998 @ COL L 1-3 30 29
Jan 10, 1998 @ VAN T 2-2 (OT) 26 21
Jan 9, 1998 @ CGY T 3-3 (OT) 26 33
Jan 7, 1998 @ EDM L 2-3 21 39
Jan 4, 1998 vs ANA T 3-3 (OT) 43 27
Jan 2, 1998 @ TBL T 2-2 (OT) 27 28
Jan 1, 1998 vs NJD W 2-1 (OT) 30 20
Dec 30, 1997 vs SJS T 2-2 (OT) 21 29
Dec 27, 1997 @ NYI W 6-2 27 22
Dec 26, 1997 @ CAR W 5-2 27 28
Dec 23, 1997 vs STL L 2-3 26 23
Dec 20, 1997 @ PHI L 0-2 14 25
Dec 18, 1997 @ WSH W 4-0 31 26
Dec 17, 1997 vs NYR L 2-4 29 40
Dec 15, 1997 vs BOS L 2-6 28 40
Dec 13, 1997 @ NYI L 1-4 24 27
Dec 12, 1997 @ NYR W 4-3 29 31
Dec 10, 1997 @ CAR W 5-2 24 23
Dec 7, 1997 vs WSH W 5-4 23 28
Dec 5, 1997 @ WSH L 2-3 (OT) 28 30
Dec 1, 1997 vs PHX L 2-3 32 18
Nov 30, 1997 @ NYR T 1-1 (OT) 31 27
Nov 28, 1997 vs COL L 2-3 25 28
Nov 26, 1997 vs BOS W 10-5 30 37
Nov 23, 1997 vs WSH L 2-5 30 30
Nov 22, 1997 @ NJD W 2-1 (OT) 32 29
Nov 20, 1997 vs CGY L 1-2 29 25
Nov 18, 1997 vs NYR L 1-3 31 20
Nov 15, 1997 @ NYI W 1-0 23 23
Nov 14, 1997 vs PHI L 2-5 24 27
Nov 12, 1997 vs NYI T 2-2 (OT) 39 20
Nov 9, 1997 vs WSH W 3-2 24 30
Nov 6, 1997 @ BUF W 4-2 25 30
Nov 5, 1997 vs NJD L 2-4 26 35
Nov 1, 1997 vs BUF L 3-4 (OT) 23 30
Oct 30, 1997 vs OTT L 2-5 17 33
Oct 28, 1997 vs LAK T 2-2 (OT) 26 12
Oct 25, 1997 @ BOS W 5-4 29 32
Oct 23, 1997 @ OTT T 2-2 (OT) 15 32
Oct 22, 1997 @ MTL L 0-3 26 22
Oct 19, 1997 vs PIT L 1-4 23 18
Oct 16, 1997 @ DAL L 0-4 12 29
Oct 15, 1997 vs TBL W 2-1 27 26
Oct 13, 1997 vs NYI T 2-2 (OT) 27 28
Oct 11, 1997 @ STL L 3-5 20 29
Oct 4, 1997 @ PIT W 5-3 23 30
Oct 1, 1997 @ PHI L 1-3 24 29