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New York Rangers, 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
21	82	25-39-18	68	0.415	197	231	-34	14-18-9	11-21-9

Records are wins, then losses, then ties.

Roster

Everyone who played for the team this season, with their stats in those games.

Skater	Pos	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits
Wayne Gretzky	C	82	23	67	90	-11	28	201	4
Pat LaFontaine	C	67	23	39	62	-16	36	160	33
Alex Kovalev	R	73	23	30	53	-22	44	173	36
Brian Leetch	D	76	17	33	50	-36	32	230	114
Niklas Sundstrom	R	70	19	28	47	0	24	115	70
Kevin Stevens	L	80	14	27	41	-7	130	144	163
Adam Graves	L	72	23	12	35	-30	41	226	113
Tim Sweeney	R	56	11	18	29	7	26	75	44
Bruce Driver	D	75	5	15	20	-3	46	116	56
Mike Keane	R	70	8	10	18	-12	47	113	108
Ulf Samuelsson	D	73	3	9	12	1	122	59	123
Brian Skrudland	C	59	5	6	11	-4	39	42	30
Alexander Karpovtsev	D	47	3	7	10	-1	38	46	72
Bill Berg	L	67	1	9	10	-15	55	74	83
Mike Eastwood	C	48	5	5	10	-2	16	34	36
Jeff Finley	D	63	1	6	7	-3	55	32	76
Darren Langdon	L	72	3	3	6	0	197	15	61
Marc Savard	C	28	1	5	6	-4	4	32	4
Jeff Beukeboom	D	63	0	5	5	-25	195	23	193
P.J. Stock	C	38	2	3	5	4	114	9	29
Doug Lidster	D	36	0	4	4	2	24	25	44
Johan Lindbom	L	38	1	3	4	4	28	38	67
Vladimir Vorobiev	R	15	2	2	4	-10	6	27	5
Eric Cairns	D	39	0	3	3	-3	92	17	46
Daniel Goneau	L	11	2	0	2	-4	4	13	12
Geoff Smith	D	15	1	1	2	-4	6	11	9
Maxim Galanov	D	6	0	1	1	1	2	5	2
Ryan Vandenbussche	R	16	1	0	1	-2	38	2	12
Bob Errey	L	12	0	0	0	-5	7	11	17
Brad Smyth	R	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Harry York	C	2	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2
Peter Ferraro	R	1	0	0	0	-2	2	3	0
Pierre Sevigny	L	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	9
Ronnie Sundin	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Sylvain Blouin	L	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	0

Goalie	GP	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	Save %
Mike Richter	72	1888	1704	184	0.903
Dan Cloutier	12	248	225	23	0.907
Jason Muzzatti	6	156	139	17	0.891

Results

Date	Opponent	Result	Shots for	Shots against
Apr 18, 1998	@ PHI	W 2-1	21	32
Apr 15, 1998	vs NYI	W 4-2	30	31
Apr 14, 1998	@ WSH	L 1-3	17	32
Apr 11, 1998	@ DET	L 2-5	19	28
Apr 7, 1998	vs MTL	L 2-3	22	22
Apr 5, 1998	@ CHI	W 2-1 (OT)	17	31
Apr 4, 1998	@ NYI	L 0-3	17	24
Apr 1, 1998	vs BOS	L 2-4	17	22
Mar 30, 1998	vs TBL	L 1-3	24	20
Mar 28, 1998	@ PIT	T 2-2 (OT)	25	34
Mar 26, 1998	@ CAR	L 1-4	16	29
Mar 25, 1998	vs OTT	L 2-3 (OT)	29	26
Mar 22, 1998	@ PHI	L 4-5 (OT)	33	34
Mar 21, 1998	vs DET	L 3-4	22	25
Mar 18, 1998	vs MTL	W 2-1 (OT)	25	25
Mar 16, 1998	vs OTT	W 5-4	20	42
Mar 14, 1998	@ BOS	L 1-5	32	22
Mar 12, 1998	@ MTL	L 1-4	24	18
Mar 11, 1998	vs SJS	W 5-3	25	22
Mar 9, 1998	vs NJD	T 2-2 (OT)	20	35
Mar 7, 1998	@ NJD	L 3-6	18	37
Mar 4, 1998	@ FLA	W 4-3	34	42
Mar 2, 1998	vs BUF	L 0-1	33	18
Feb 28, 1998	vs PHI	L 1-3	27	33
Feb 26, 1998	@ TOR	W 5-2	25	28
Feb 7, 1998	@ PHX	T 1-1 (OT)	18	24
Feb 5, 1998	@ LAK	L 1-3	25	23
Feb 4, 1998	@ ANA	L 2-3	43	26
Feb 2, 1998	@ SJS	W 3-2	24	27
Jan 31, 1998	@ BOS	L 2-4	17	31
Jan 29, 1998	@ OTT	T 2-2 (OT)	22	41
Jan 26, 1998	vs WSH	T 2-2 (OT)	17	29
Jan 24, 1998	vs NJD	T 3-3 (OT)	27	44
Jan 22, 1998	vs PHI	L 3-4	33	32
Jan 20, 1998	vs STL	W 3-1	23	47
Jan 14, 1998	@ NJD	L 1-4	19	22
Jan 12, 1998	vs TOR	W 3-2	19	25
Jan 8, 1998	vs WSH	L 3-5	17	31
Jan 6, 1998	vs CAR	W 4-2	17	28
Jan 3, 1998	@ WSH	W 3-2	27	20
Dec 31, 1997	@ TBL	L 0-2	23	24
Dec 28, 1997	vs BOS	W 4-3	23	29
Dec 26, 1997	@ BUF	L 0-3	28	26
Dec 23, 1997	vs TBL	W 4-1	33	30
Dec 21, 1997	vs BUF	L 0-2	33	23
Dec 20, 1997	@ TBL	T 2-2 (OT)	41	32
Dec 17, 1997	@ FLA	W 4-2	40	29
Dec 16, 1997	@ NJD	L 3-4	17	33
Dec 12, 1997	vs FLA	L 3-4	31	29
Dec 10, 1997	vs CGY	L 1-4	31	18
Dec 8, 1997	vs PHX	W 3-1	29	28
Dec 6, 1997	@ MTL	T 3-3 (OT)	27	22
Dec 5, 1997	vs PHI	T 4-4 (OT)	31	42
Dec 2, 1997	vs WSH	L 2-3 (OT)	25	29
Nov 30, 1997	vs FLA	T 1-1 (OT)	27	31
Nov 28, 1997	@ BUF	T 3-3 (OT)	30	23
Nov 26, 1997	@ NYI	L 1-4	18	25
Nov 25, 1997	vs VAN	L 2-4	25	27
Nov 22, 1997	@ PIT	L 3-4 (OT)	21	25
Nov 21, 1997	@ CAR	W 4-3	28	31
Nov 19, 1997	@ TBL	L 3-6	24	31
Nov 18, 1997	@ FLA	W 3-1	20	31
Nov 16, 1997	vs COL	W 4-1	33	27
Nov 14, 1997	vs PIT	W 3-1	26	33
Nov 12, 1997	vs NJD	L 2-3	19	19
Nov 7, 1997	@ DAL	T 2-2 (OT)	16	27
Nov 5, 1997	@ COL	W 4-2	24	21
Nov 3, 1997	vs EDM	T 2-2 (OT)	28	26
Oct 30, 1997	@ NYI	L 3-5	26	32
Oct 28, 1997	vs DAL	L 2-3	29	25
Oct 26, 1997	vs ANA	T 3-3 (OT)	26	24
Oct 24, 1997	vs TBL	W 4-3	31	27
Oct 22, 1997	vs CHI	L 0-1	31	23
Oct 20, 1997	vs CAR	W 4-2	19	26
Oct 18, 1997	@ STL	L 3-5	19	33
Oct 15, 1997	@ OTT	L 1-5	29	25
Oct 14, 1997	vs PIT	L 0-1	36	19
Oct 11, 1997	@ VAN	W 6-3	32	23
Oct 9, 1997	@ CGY	T 1-1 (OT)	14	28
Oct 8, 1997	@ EDM	T 3-3 (OT)	29	31
Oct 5, 1997	vs LAK	T 2-2 (OT)	32	21
Oct 3, 1997	vs NYI	T 2-2 (OT)	31	29