1996-97 Hartford Whalers Roster and Statistics

Record: 32-39-11 (75 points), Finished 5th in NHL Northeast Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Paul Maurice (32-39-11)

Primary Arena: Hartford Civic Center

Goals For: 226 (18th of 26), Goals Against: 256 (19th of 26)
SRS: -0.37 (22nd of 26), SOS: -0.00 (14th of 26)

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +5000

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	GF/G	GA/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA	S	S%	SA	SV%	PDO	SO
Hartford Whalers	82	32	39	11	75	.457	226	256	-0.37	0.00	2.76	3.12	58	321	18.07	51	332	84.64	12	11	2435	9.3	2583	.901		4
League Average	82	35	35	11	82	.500	239	239					55	336	16.27	55	336	83.73	10	10	2444	9.8	2444	.902		5

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5)

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5) Table
Team	S%	SV%	PDO	CF	CA	CF%	xGF	xGA	aGF	aGA	axDiff	SCF	SCA	SCF%	HDF	HDA	HDF%	HDGF	HDC%	HDGA	HDCO%
Hartford Whalers
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Birth	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date
27	Jeff Brown	ca CA	D	30	6-1	204	R/-	11	April 30, 1966
46	Kevin Brown	gb GB	RW	22	6-1	212	R/-	2	May 11, 1974
1	Sean Burke	ca CA	G	30	6-4	211	-/L	8	January 29, 1967
6	Adam Burt	us US	D	28	6-2	205	L/-	8	January 15, 1969
21	Andrew Cassels	ca CA	C	27	6-1	185	L/-	7	July 23, 1969
39	Kelly Chase	ca CA	RW	29	5-11	201	R/-	7	October 25, 1967
3	Steve Chiasson	ca CA	D	29	6-1	205	L/-	10	April 14, 1967
77	Paul Coffey	ca CA	D	35	6-0	205	L/-	16	June 1, 1961
37	Jeff Daniels	ca CA	LW	28	6-1	200	L/-	5	June 24, 1968
4	Gerald Diduck	ca CA	D	31	6-1	216	R/-	12	April 6, 1965
11	Kevin Dineen (C)	ca CA	RW	33	5-11	198	R/-	12	October 28, 1963
17	Hnat Domenichelli	ca CA	LW	20	6-0	195	L/-	R	February 17, 1976
16	Nelson Emerson	ca CA	RW	29	5-11	180	R/-	6	August 17, 1967
36	Glen Featherstone	ca CA	D	28	6-4	209	L/-	8	July 8, 1968
47	Jean-Sébastien Giguère	ca CA	G	19	6-1	202	-/L	R	May 16, 1977
7	Brian Glynn	de DE	D	29	6-4	218	L/-	9	November 23, 1967
5	Alexander Godynyuk	su SU	D	27	6-0	207	L/-	6	January 27, 1970
32	Stu Grimson	ca CA	LW	31	6-4	240	L/-	8	May 20, 1965
14	Kevin Haller	ca CA	D	26	6-2	199	L/-	7	December 5, 1970
22	Mark Janssens	ca CA	C	28	6-3	212	L/-	9	May 19, 1968
24	Sami Kapanen	fi FI	RW	23	5-10	185	L/-	1	June 14, 1973
27	Derek King	ca CA	LW	29	6-1	203	L/-	10	February 11, 1967
18	Robert Kron	cs CS	C	29	5-11	185	L/-	6	February 27, 1967
7	Curtis Leschyshyn	ca CA	D	27	6-1	207	L/-	8	September 21, 1969
23	Marek Malík	cs CS	D	21	6-6	235	L/-	2	June 24, 1975
44	Kent Manderville	ca CA	C	25	6-3	200	L/-	5	April 12, 1971
26	Steve Martins	ca CA	C	24	5-9	185	L/-	1	April 13, 1972
25	Jason McBain	us US	D	22	6-2	180	L/-	1	April 12, 1974
17	Chris Murray	ca CA	RW	22	6-2	213	R/-	2	October 25, 1974
29	Jason Muzzatti	ca CA	G	26	6-2	210	-/L	3	February 3, 1970
10	Andrei Nikolishin	su SU	LW	23	6-0	213	L/-	2	March 25, 1973
92	Jeff O'Neill	ca CA	C	20	6-1	195	R/-	1	February 23, 1976
41	Nolan Pratt	ca CA	D	21	6-3	207	L/-	R	August 14, 1975
55	Keith Primeau	ca CA	C	25	6-5	220	L/-	6	November 24, 1971
28	Paul Ranheim	us US	LW	31	6-1	210	R/-	8	January 25, 1966
12	Steven Rice	ca CA	RW	25	6-0	217	R/-	6	May 26, 1971
8	Geoff Sanderson	ca CA	LW	24	6-0	190	L/-	6	February 1, 1972
94	Brendan Shanahan	ca CA	LW	28	6-3	220	R/-	9	January 23, 1969
20	Glen Wesley	ca CA	D	28	6-1	207	L/-	9	October 2, 1968

Scoring Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Scoring Regular Season Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists					Ice Time		Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TOI	ATOI	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Geoff Sanderson	24	LW	82	36	31	67	-9	29	23	12	1	4	20	11	0	297	12.1			6.7	1.0	7.7
2	Andrew Cassels	27	C	81	22	44	66	-16	46	14	8	0	2	28	14	2	142	15.5			5.3	0.7	6.0
3	Keith Primeau	25	C	75	26	25	51	-3	161	17	6	3	2	19	4	2	169	15.4			4.5	1.1	5.5
4	Kevin Dineen	33	RW	78	19	29	48	-6	141	11	8	0	5	21	7	1	185	10.3			3.4	1.0	4.4
5	Nelson Emerson	29	RW	66	9	29	38	-21	34	6	2	1	2	14	15	0	194	4.6			2.0	0.3	2.2
6	Steven Rice	25	RW	78	21	14	35	-11	59	16	5	0	2	11	3	0	159	13.2			2.3	0.8	3.2
7	Glen Wesley	28	D	68	6	26	32	0	40	2	3	1	0	15	11	0	126	4.8			2.3	3.6	5.9
8	Jeff O'Neill	20	C	72	14	16	30	-24	40	11	2	1	2	12	4	0	101	13.9			1.4	0.3	1.7
9	Sami Kapanen	23	RW	45	13	12	25	6	2	10	3	0	2	11	1	0	82	15.9			1.9	0.9	2.8
10	Robert Kron	29	C	68	10	12	22	-18	10	8	2	0	4	8	4	0	182	5.5			0.4	0.4	0.9
11	Paul Ranheim	31	LW	67	10	11	21	-13	18	7	0	3	1	9	1	1	96	10.4			0.4	0.6	1.0
12	Curtis Leschyshyn	27	D	64	4	13	17	-19	30	2	1	1	1	8	5	0	94	4.3			0.8	2.0	2.8
13	Steve Chiasson	29	D	18	3	11	14	-10	7	0	3	0	0	3	8	0	56	5.4			1.3	0.2	1.5
14	Adam Burt	28	D	71	2	11	13	-13	79	2	0	0	0	6	3	2	85	2.4			0.0	2.8	2.9
15	Kent Manderville	25	C	44	6	5	11	3	18	6	0	0	1	4	0	1	51	11.8			-0.1	0.8	0.7
16	Gerald Diduck	31	D	56	1	10	11	-9	40	1	0	0	1	8	2	0	59	1.7			0.1	2.3	2.4
17	Paul Coffey*	35	D	20	3	5	8	0	18	2	1	0	1	3	2	0	39	7.7			0.7	1.0	1.7
18	Kevin Haller	26	D	35	2	6	8	-11	48	2	0	0	0	4	2	0	43	4.7			0.3	1.1	1.3
19	Glen Featherstone	28	D	41	2	5	7	0	87	2	0	0	0	1	3	1	40	5.0			0.1	2.1	2.2
20	Andrei Nikolishin	23	LW	12	2	5	7	-2	2	2	0	0	0	3	2	0	25	8.0			0.4	0.1	0.5
21	Alexander Godynyuk	27	D	55	1	6	7	-10	41	1	0	0	1	6	0	0	34	2.9			-0.3	2.2	1.9
22	Derek King	29	LW	12	3	3	6	0	2	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	28	10.7			0.4	0.2	0.6
23	Mark Janssens	28	C	54	2	4	6	-10	90	2	0	0	0	3	1	0	30	6.7			-1.3	0.5	-0.8
24	Marek Malík	21	D	47	1	5	6	5	50	1	0	0	1	5	0	0	33	3.0			-0.3	2.8	2.6
25	Stu Grimson	31	LW	75	2	2	4	-7	218	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	17	11.8			-2.3	0.9	-1.4
26	Kevin Brown	22	RW	11	0	4	4	-6	6	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	12	0.0			0.0	0.0	-0.1
27	Hnat Domenichelli	20	LW	13	2	1	3	-4	7	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	14	14.3			0.0	0.1	0.0
28	Kelly Chase	29	RW	28	1	2	3	2	122	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	20.0			-0.7	0.5	-0.2
29	Chris Murray	22	RW	8	1	1	2	1	10	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	9	11.1			0.0	0.2	0.1
30	Sean Burke	30	G	51	0	2	2	0	14	0	0	0	0				0		2985	58:32	0.0	0.0	9.9
31	Jeff Daniels	28	LW	10	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	0.0			-0.2	0.2	0.0
32	Nolan Pratt	21	D	9	0	2	2	0	6	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	0.0			0.0	0.5	0.5
33	Brian Glynn	29	D	1	1	0	1	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	50.0			0.2	0.2	0.4
34	Brendan Shanahan*	28	LW	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	13	7.7			0.1	0.1	0.2
35	Steve Martins	24	C	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0			0.0	0.0	0.0
36	Jason Muzzatti	26	G	31	0	1	1	0	18	0	0	0	0				0		1591	51:19	0.0	0.0	3.1
37	Jeff Brown	30	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.1	0.0
38	Jean-Sébastien Giguère	19	G	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		394	49:15	0.0	0.0	0.6
39	Jason McBain	22	D	6	0	0	0	-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
	Team Total			82	226	356	582	-204	1495	156	58	12	32	239	104	10	2435	9.3			29.4	31.4	74.6

Goalies Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Goalies Regular Season Table
			Goalie Stats
Rk	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	QS	QS%	RBS	GA%-	GSAA	adjGAA	GPS
1	Sean Burke	30	51		22	22	6	134	1560	1426	.914	2.69	4	2985				90	14.6	2.87	9.9
2	Jason Muzzatti	26	31		9	13	5	91	815	724	.888	3.43	0	1591				117	-13.4	3.70	3.1
3	Jean-Sébastien Giguère	19	8		1	4	0	24	201	177	.881	3.65	0	394						3.96	0.6
	Team Total				32	39	11	249	2576	2327	.903	3.01	4	4970				101	-3.6	3.22	13.7