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New York Islanders, 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
19	82	30-41-11	71	0.433	212	225	-13	17-20-4	13-21-7

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
Ziggy Palffy	R	82	45	42	87	-2	34	277	52
Robert Reichel	C	82	25	40	65	-11	32	201	23
Bryan Berard	D	75	14	32	46	-32	59	192	52
Bryan Smolinski	C	81	13	30	43	-16	34	203	100
Kenny Jonsson	D	81	14	26	40	-2	58	108	71
Tom Chorske	R	82	12	23	35	7	39	132	69
Sergei Nemchinov	L	74	10	19	29	3	24	94	37
Travis Green	C	54	14	12	26	-19	66	99	44
Mariusz Czerkawski	R	68	12	13	25	11	23	136	41
Claude Lapointe	C	78	10	10	20	-9	47	82	147
Todd Bertuzzi	R	52	7	11	18	-19	58	63	103
Trevor Linden	C	25	10	7	17	-1	33	59	53
Scott Lachance	D	63	2	11	13	-11	45	62	69
Bryan McCabe	D	56	3	9	12	9	145	81	62
Mike Hough	L	74	5	7	12	-4	27	44	77
Paul Kruse	L	62	6	1	7	-12	138	44	100
Rich Pilon	D	76	0	7	7	1	291	37	214
J.J. Daigneault	D	18	0	6	6	1	21	18	14
Joe Sacco	L	25	3	3	6	1	10	32	11
Ken Belanger	L	38	3	1	4	1	101	10	30
Kip Miller	C	9	1	3	4	-2	2	11	1
Dennis Vaske	D	19	0	3	3	2	12	16	31
Doug Houda	D	31	1	2	3	-6	47	15	37
Jason Dawe	R	13	1	2	3	-2	6	19	9
Dane Jackson	R	8	1	1	2	1	4	5	7
Vladimir Chebaturkin	D	2	0	2	2	-1	0	0	2
Dan Plante	R	7	0	1	1	-1	6	7	9
Jason Strudwick	D	17	0	1	1	1	36	3	7
Jevgeni Namestnikov	D	6	0	1	1	-1	4	2	18
Ray Schultz	D	13	0	1	1	3	45	4	9
Vladimir Orszagh	L	11	0	1	1	-3	2	9	9
Zdeno Chara	D	25	0	1	1	1	50	10	52
Gino Odjick	L	13	0	0	0	1	31	16	15
Jason Holland	D	8	0	0	0	-4	4	6	7
Jeff Libby	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Janssens	C	12	0	0	0	-3	34	4	5
Mark Lawrence	R	2	0	0	0	0	2	4	3
Sean Haggerty	L	5	0	0	0	-3	0	2	3
Steve Webb	R	20	0	0	0	-2	35	6	49
Warren Luhning	R	8	0	0	0	-4	0	6	9

Goalie	GP	W	L	T	SO	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	GAA	Save %
Tommy Salo	62	23	29	5	4	1617	1465	152	2.64	0.906
Eric Fichaud	17	3	8	3	0	422	382	40	2.97	0.905
Wade Flaherty	16	4	4	3	3	309	286	23	1.99	0.926

Results

Date	Opponent	Result	Shots for	Shots against
Apr 18, 1998	@ NJD	W 2-1	24	47
Apr 16, 1998	vs TBL	W 4-0	24	25
Apr 15, 1998	@ NYR	L 2-4	31	30
Apr 13, 1998	vs WSH	L 0-2	35	31
Apr 11, 1998	@ MTL	T 3-3 (OT)	32	35
Apr 9, 1998	@ BOS	L 1-4	28	31
Apr 8, 1998	vs NJD	W 3-2	22	26
Apr 6, 1998	@ TBL	W 3-0	25	26
Apr 4, 1998	vs NYR	W 3-0	24	17
Apr 1, 1998	vs TBL	W 4-0	28	25
Mar 31, 1998	@ WSH	L 2-5	33	25
Mar 28, 1998	@ TOR	L 3-4 (OT)	28	32
Mar 26, 1998	vs PIT	W 4-3	18	26
Mar 24, 1998	@ VAN	L 3-4	24	28
Mar 22, 1998	@ EDM	W 3-1	30	33
Mar 20, 1998	@ CGY	L 1-4	32	21
Mar 18, 1998	@ OTT	T 4-4 (OT)	24	42
Mar 14, 1998	vs VAN	L 2-6	41	29
Mar 12, 1998	vs WSH	L 1-2	33	21
Mar 10, 1998	vs BUF	T 2-2 (OT)	22	32
Mar 7, 1998	vs COL	L 2-4	30	22
Mar 6, 1998	@ BUF	W 4-2	22	30
Mar 3, 1998	vs PHI	W 3-1	24	35
Mar 1, 1998	vs BOS	L 4-5	28	25
Feb 25, 1998	vs DAL	L 1-4	22	25
Feb 7, 1998	vs NJD	L 2-3	34	35
Feb 4, 1998	vs MTL	W 4-2	24	27
Feb 2, 1998	@ PIT	W 4-2	18	30
Feb 1, 1998	vs BOS	T 2-2 (OT)	34	33
Jan 30, 1998	vs CAR	W 2-0	25	31
Jan 28, 1998	vs PHI	W 6-1	25	23
Jan 26, 1998	@ PHI	L 1-3	11	21
Jan 24, 1998	@ OTT	L 2-3	25	39
Jan 22, 1998	@ STL	T 3-3 (OT)	23	38
Jan 20, 1998	@ CHI	L 2-5	30	31
Jan 14, 1998	@ TBL	W 7-1	34	22
Jan 12, 1998	vs DET	T 1-1 (OT)	29	31
Jan 10, 1998	vs CAR	L 1-2 (OT)	30	20
Jan 8, 1998	vs MTL	L 2-8	27	26
Jan 6, 1998	vs PIT	L 2-4	26	17
Jan 3, 1998	@ PHX	L 1-2	25	23
Jan 2, 1998	@ DAL	L 1-2	18	33
Dec 31, 1997	@ COL	L 1-3	25	29
Dec 29, 1997	@ PIT	L 1-5	20	43
Dec 27, 1997	vs FLA	L 2-6	22	27
Dec 26, 1997	@ NJD	L 3-4	20	22
Dec 22, 1997	vs OTT	L 1-4	15	32
Dec 20, 1997	@ BOS	W 4-3	20	32
Dec 17, 1997	vs BUF	W 4-0	29	28
Dec 16, 1997	@ WSH	T 2-2 (OT)	27	30
Dec 13, 1997	vs FLA	W 4-1	27	24
Dec 11, 1997	@ PHI	L 3-4	18	29
Dec 9, 1997	vs CGY	L 1-3	20	21
Dec 6, 1997	vs PHX	W 4-0	24	22
Dec 3, 1997	@ CAR	L 3-5	33	23
Dec 2, 1997	vs OTT	L 2-4	16	27
Nov 29, 1997	vs STL	W 4-2	20	36
Nov 28, 1997	@ PHI	L 1-4	28	36
Nov 26, 1997	vs NYR	W 4-1	25	18
Nov 22, 1997	@ BUF	L 1-6	29	33
Nov 20, 1997	@ NJD	L 1-5	28	43
Nov 19, 1997	@ DET	W 3-2	19	32
Nov 15, 1997	vs FLA	L 0-1	23	23
Nov 14, 1997	@ TBL	W 4-1	18	34
Nov 12, 1997	@ FLA	T 2-2 (OT)	20	39
Nov 10, 1997	vs NJD	L 1-3	30	27
Nov 8, 1997	vs CHI	L 2-4	26	30
Nov 7, 1997	@ CAR	W 3-2	24	29
Nov 5, 1997	vs EDM	T 4-4 (OT)	24	29
Nov 1, 1997	vs LAK	W 4-2	32	33
Oct 30, 1997	vs NYR	W 5-3	32	26
Oct 29, 1997	@ MTL	W 5-2	26	23
Oct 27, 1997	vs SJS	L 1-2	18	22
Oct 25, 1997	vs ANA	L 2-4	38	17
Oct 21, 1997	@ LAK	L 2-3	28	36
Oct 19, 1997	@ ANA	W 5-2	31	41
Oct 16, 1997	@ SJS	W 5-2	25	34
Oct 13, 1997	@ FLA	T 2-2 (OT)	28	27
Oct 11, 1997	@ WSH	L 1-3	18	20
Oct 8, 1997	vs WSH	L 3-6	31	28
Oct 4, 1997	vs TOR	W 3-0	28	26
Oct 3, 1997	@ NYR	T 2-2 (OT)	29	31