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Year-by-Year Results
1996-97 Regular Season 1997-98 Regular Season
40-30-12 1st Place – Northeast Division 36-29-17 3rd Place – Northeast Division
Oct. 4 @ Edmonton 3-4 L
Oct. 6 @ Calgary 0-3 L
Oct. 9 @ Vancouver 2-1 W
Oct. 12 Detroit 1-6 L
Oct. 15 Tampa Bay 0-4 L
Oct. 17 Pittsburgh 4-1 W
Oct. 18 @ Washington 4-1 W
Oct. 24 Montreal 6-3 W
Oct. 26 Hartford 6-3 W
Oct. 27 @ NY Rangers 4-6 L
Oct. 30 @ Dallas 0-2 L
Nov. 1 @ St. Louis 4-2 W
Nov. 2 @ Colorado 0-0 T
Nov. 7 Philadelphia 2-5 L
Nov. 9 @ Hartford 3-4 L*
Nov. 11 Florida 3-2 W*
Nov. 12 @ Pittsburgh 0-3 L
Nov. 14 Colorado 5-4 W
Nov. 19 @ Toronto 3-4 L
Nov. 21 Toronto 6-3 W
Nov. 23 @ Boston 3-2 W*
Nov. 26 @ Florida 3-4 L
Nov. 27 @ Tampa Bay 3-0 W
Nov. 29 Ottawa 3-0 W
Nov. 30 @ NY Islanders 3-2 W
Dec. 4 Vancouver 6-7 L*
Dec. 6 Anaheim 1-1 T
Dec. 7 @ Hartford 4-6 L
Dec. 11 @ Montreal 3-2 W*
Dec. 13 NY Rangers 0-3 L
Dec. 14 @ Boston 4-0 W
Dec. 18 Tampa Bay 5-3 W
Dec. 20 Los Angeles 6-2 W
Dec. 21 @ Ottawa 3-2 W
Dec. 23 @ New Jersey 0-0 T
Dec. 26 Hartford 5-1 W
Dec. 28 @ Pittsburgh 0-2 L
Dec. 31 New Jersey 6-5 W
Jan. 3 St. Louis 2-2 T
Jan. 5 Phoenix 5-1 W
Jan. 7 @ San Jose 1-1 T
Jan. 9 @ Los Angeles 3-6 L
Jan. 10 @ Anaheim 2-5 L
Jan. 12 @ Phoenix 3-2 W*
Jan. 15 @ NY Islanders 2-1 W
Jan. 20 Chicago 2-1 W
Jan. 22 Montreal 6-1 W
Jan. 24 Edmonton 1-3 L
Jan. 25 Hartford 1-5 L
Jan. 29 Pittsburgh 3-1 W
Jan. 31 Dallas 3-1 W
Feb. 2 Washington 2-2 T
Feb. 4 @ Philadelphia 1-1 T
Feb. 6 Florida 1-1 T
Feb. 8 @ Tampa Bay 3-1 W
Feb. 9 Ottawa 2-1 W
Feb. 12 Montreal 2-2 T
Feb. 16 San Jose 6-2 W
Feb. 18 Calgary 5-5 T
Feb. 21 NY Islanders 5-2 W
Feb. 23 Boston 5-1 W
Feb. 27 @ New Jersey 1-4 L
Mar. 1 @ Ottawa 3-1 W
Mar. 5 Pittsburgh 4-2 W
Mar. 8 @ Montreal 3-3 T
Mar. 9 New Jersey 1-4 L
Mar. 11 Philadelphia# 3-2 W*
Mar. 15 @ Philadelphia 7-5 W
Mar. 17 Boston## 5-1 W
Mar. 18 @ Pittsburgh 3-5 L
Mar. 21 @ Washington 4-1 W
Mar. 22 @ Florida 2-3 L
Mar. 26 NY Islanders 2-3 L*
Mar. 28 @ Detroit 1-2 L*
Mar. 30 @ Chicago 2-3 L
Apr. 1 @ NY Rangers 1-1 T
Apr. 2 Ottawa 0-2 L
Apr. 4 NY Rangers 5-1 W
Apr. 7 @ Hartford 2-4 L
Apr. 10 @ Boston 5-1 W
Apr. 12 @ Ottawa 0-1 L
Apr. 13 Washington 3-8 L
* - overtime decision ## - rescheduled from November 16 # - rescheduled from March 16 * - overtime decision
NO. PLAYER GP G A PTS +/- PIM PP SH GW GT SHOTS PCT.
26 Derek Plante 82 27 26 53 14 24 5 0 6 1 191 14.1
19 Brian Holzinger 81 22 29 51 9 54 2 2 6 0 142 15.5
28 Donald Audette 73 28 22 50 -6 48 8 0 5 1 182 15.4
27 Michael Peca 79 20 29 49 26 80 5 6 4 0 137 14.6
43 Jason Dawe 81 22 26 48 14 32 4 1 3 0 136 16.2
15 Dixon Ward 79 13 32 45 17 36 1 2 4 0 93 14.0
36 Matthew Barnaby 68 19 24 43 16 249 2 0 1 0 121 15.7
3 Garry Galley 71 4 34 38 10 102 1 1 1 0 84 4.8
18 Michal Grosek 82 15 21 36 25 71 1 0 2 1 117 12.8
44 Alexei Zhitnik 80 7 28 35 10 95 3 1 0 1 170 4.1
12 Randy Burridge 55 10 21 31 17 20 1 3 0 0 85 11.8
8 Darryl Shannon 82 4 19 23 23 112 1 0 1 0 94 4.3
4 Mike Wilson 77 2 9 11 13 51 0 0 1 0 57 3.5
81 Miroslav Satan 12 8 2 10 1 4 2 0 1 0 29 27.6
32 Rob Ray 82 7 3 10 3 286 0 0 1 0 45 15.6
74 Jay McKee* 43 1 9 10 3 35 0 0 0 0 29 3.4
16 Pat LaFontaine 13 2 6 8 -8 4 1 0 0 0 38 5.3
38 Barrie Moore* 31 2 6 8 1 18 1 0 0 0 42 4.8
6 Bob Boughner 77 1 7 8 12 225 0 0 0 0 34 2.9
37 Curtis Brown* 28 4 3 7 4 18 0 0 1 0 31 12.9
10 Brad May 42 3 4 7 -8 106 1 0 1 0 75 4.0
93 Anatoli Semenov 25 2 4 6 -3 2 1 0 1 0 21 9.5
76 Wayne Primeau* 45 2 4 6 -2 64 1 0 0 0 25 8.0
5 Ed Ronan 18 1 4 5 4 11 0 0 0 0 10 10.0
39 Dominik Hasek 67 0 3 3 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
22 Charlie Huddy 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
40 Rumun Ndur* 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
30 Andrei Trefilov 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
25 Vaclav Varada* 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.0
31 Steve Shields* 13 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oct. 1 @ St. Louis 3-1 W
Oct. 3 @ Washington 2-6 L
Oct. 5 @ Tampa Bay 1-1 T
Oct. 7 Dallas 2-4 L
Oct. 9 Washington 5-2 W
Oct. 11 @ New Jersey 2-3 L
Oct. 15 @ Carolina 3-3 T
Oct. 17 Montreal 1-5 L
Oct. 19 @ Chicago 2-5 L
Oct. 22 Calgary 4-1 W
Oct. 26 @ Phoenix 1-6 L
Oct. 28 @ Colorado 2-3 L
Oct. 31 @ Carolina 3-2 W*
Nov. 1 @ Florida 4-3 W*
Nov. 6 Florida 2-4 L
Nov. 8 @ Pittsburgh 2-2 T
Nov. 10 Edmonton 4-4 T
Nov. 13 Washington 2-3 L
Nov. 15 New Jersey 2-3 L
Nov. 20 @ Boston 5-0 W
Nov. 22 NY Islanders 6-1 W
Nov. 24 @ Pittsburgh 1-5 L
Nov. 26 Philadelphia 1-3 L
Nov. 28 NY Rangers 3-3 T
Dec. 1 @ Philadelphia 1-1 T
Dec. 3 Anaheim 4-0 W
Dec. 5 Tampa Bay 4-0 W
Dec. 6 @ Ottawa 0-3 L
Dec. 11 @ Boston 1-2 L
Dec. 12 Carolina 3-2 W*
Dec. 15 @ Dallas 4-8 L
Dec. 17 @ NY Islanders 0-4 L
Dec. 19 Montreal 1-0 W
Dec. 21 @ NY Rangers 2-0 W
Dec. 23 Detroit 1-3 L
Dec. 26 NY Rangers 3-0 W
Dec. 27 @ Carolina 1-4 L
Dec. 29 New Jersey 1-3 L
Dec. 31 Ottawa 3-0 W
Jan. 2 Colorado 2-2 T
Jan. 7 @ Anaheim 3-2 W
1996-97 Regular Season Scoring 1997-98 Regular Season Scoring
NO. PLAYER GP MIN AVG. W L T EN SO GA SA PCT.
39 Dominik Hasek 67 4037 2.27 37 20 10 3 5 153 2177 .930
31 Steve Shields* 13 789 2.97 3 8 2 2 0 39 447 .913
30 Andrei Trefilov 3 159 3.77 0 2 0 1 0 10 98 .898
TEAM TOTALS 82 5003 2.49 40 30 12 6 5 208 2728 .924
* - rookie
192
Jan. 8 @ Los Angeles 2-2 T
Jan. 10 @ San Jose 2-5 L
Jan. 14 @ Toronto 4-1 W
Jan. 15 Vancouver 6-2 W
Jan. 20 @ Philadelphia 0-3 L
Jan. 21 Carolina 2-1 W
Jan. 23 Tampa Bay 4-1 W
Jan. 27 St. Louis 3-3 T
Jan. 30 Phoenix 3-3 T
Feb. 1 @ Florida 5-2 W
Feb. 2 @ Tampa Bay 7-3 W
Feb. 4 Boston 2-2 T
Feb. 6 Pittsburgh 2-2 T
Feb. 7 @ Montreal 4-1 W
Feb. 25 Toronto 2-2 T
Feb. 26 @ Boston 1-1 T
Mar. 1 @ Washington 3-0 W
Mar. 2 @ NY Rangers 1-0 W
Mar. 6 NY Islanders 2-4 L
Mar. 7 @ Montreal 2-1 W
Mar. 10 @ NY Islanders 2-2 T
Mar. 12 San Jose 3-1 W
Mar. 14 @ Pittsburgh 1-2 L
Mar. 15 Pittsburgh 3-0 W
Mar. 17 Chicago 3-5 L
Mar. 19 Florida 6-1 W
Mar. 21 Boston 1-2 L
Mar. 24 @ Calgary 2-0 W
Mar. 26 @ Vancouver 5-2 W
Mar. 27 @ Edmonton 1-0 W
Mar. 29 @ Detroit 2-4 L
Apr. 1 Los Angeles 4-0 W
Apr. 3 Boston 5-4 W
Apr. 5 Ottawa 0-1 L
Apr. 8 Carolina 3-1 W
Apr. 10 Montreal 2-1 W
Apr. 11 @ Ottawa 4-4 T
Apr. 13 Philadelphia 2-1 W
Apr. 15 @ New Jersey 4-5 L*
Apr. 18 @Montreal 3-3 T
Apr. 19 Ottawa 1-2 L
NO. PLAYER GP G A PTS +/- PIM PP SH GW GT SHOTS PCT.
81 Miroslav Satan 79 22 24 46 2 34 9 0 4 0 139 15.8
44 Alexei Zhitnik 78 15 30 45 19 102 2 3 3 2 191 7.9
28 Donald Audette 75 24 20 44 10 59 10 0 5 1 198 12.1
27 Michael Peca 61 18 22 40 12 57 6 5 1 1 132 13.6
17 Jason Dawe 68 19 17 36 10 36 4 1 3 1 115 16.5
19 Brian Holzinger 69 14 21 35 -2 36 4 2 1 1 116 12.1
5 Jason Woolley 71 9 26 35 8 35 3 0 2 1 129 7.0
26 Derek Plante 72 13 21 34 8 26 5 0 1 0 150 8.7
18 Michal Grosek 67 10 20 30 9 60 2 0 1 0 114 8.8
36 Matthew Barnaby 72 5 20 25 8 289 0 0 2 0 96 5.2
37 Curtis Brown 63 12 12 24 11 34 1 1 2 1 91 13.2
15 Dixon Ward 71 10 13 23 9 42 0 2 3 1 99 10.1
8 Darryl Shannon 76 3 19 22 26 56 1 0 1 0 85 3.5
42 Richard Smehlik 72 3 17 20 11 62 0 1 0 0 90 3.3
74 Jay McKee 56 1 13 14 -1 42 0 0 0 0 55 1.8
22 Wayne Primeau 69 6 6 12 9 87 2 0 1 0 51 11.8
10 Brad May 36 4 7 11 2 113 0 0 0 0 41 9.8
25 Vaclav Varada* 27 5 6 11 0 15 0 0 1 1 27 18.5
12 Randy Burridge 30 4 6 10 0 0 1 0 1 0 40 10.0
80 Geoff Sanderson 26 4 5 9 6 20 0 0 2 0 72 5.6
4 Mike Wilson 66 4 4 8 13 48 0 0 1 0 52 7.7
32 Rob Ray 63 2 4 6 2 234 1 0 1 0 19 10.5
9 Erik Rasmussen* 21 2 3 5 2 14 0 0 0 0 28 7.1
6 Bob Boughner 69 1 3 4 5 165 0 0 0 0 26 3.8
24 Paul Kruse 12 1 1 2 1 49 0 0 0 0 8 12.5
39 Dominik Hasek 72 0 2 2 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
40 Rumun Ndur* 1 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
21 Mike Hurlbut 3 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 3 0.0
45 Scott Nichol* 3 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 5 0.0
31 Steve Shields* 16 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
NO. PLAYER GP MIN AVG. W L T EN SO GA SA PCT.
39 Dominik Hasek 72 4220 2.09 33 23 13 3 13 147 2149 .932
31 Steve Shields* 16 785 2.83 3 6 4 0 0 37 408 .909
TEAM TOTALS 82 5019 2.24 36 29 17 3 13 187 2560 .927
* - rookie