1980-81 New York Islanders Roster and Statistics

Record: 48-18-14 (110 points), Finished 1st in NHL Patrick Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Al Arbour (48-18-14)

Primary Arena: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

1980-81 Stanley Cup Champions

Goals For: 355 (1st of 21), Goals Against: 260 (4th of 21)
SRS: 1.13 (2nd of 21), SOS: -0.06 (20th of 21)

Playoffs:
Won Stanley Cup Final (4-1) over Minnesota North Stars
Won Semi-Finals (4-0) over New York Rangers
Won Quarter-Finals (4-2) over Edmonton Oilers
Won Preliminary Round (3-0) over Toronto Maple Leafs

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Recent Game Results

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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
New York Islanders	80	48	18	14	110	.688	355	260	1.13	-0.06	4.44	3.25	93	317	29.34	76	368	79.35	19	6	2417	14.7	2418	.892		5
League Average	80	32	32	16	80	.500	307	307					77	340	22.54	77	340	77.46	10	10	2441	12.6	2441	.874		2

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%
New York Islanders
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Flag	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date	Summary
22	Mike Bossy	ca	RW	24	6-0	186	R/-	3	January 22, 1957	68 G, 51 A, 119 P
14	Bob Bourne	ca	LW	26	6-3	200	L/-	6	June 21, 1954	35 G, 41 A, 76 P
25	Billy Carroll	ca	C	22	5-10	190	L/-	R	January 19, 1959	4 G, 4 A, 8 P
9	Clark Gillies	ca	LW	26	6-3	215	L/-	6	April 7, 1954	33 G, 45 A, 78 P
91	Butch Goring	ca	C	31	5-9	170	L/-	11	October 22, 1949	23 G, 37 A, 60 P
10	Lorne Henning	ca	C	28	5-11	185	L/-	8	February 22, 1952	1 G, 2 A, 3 P
8	Garry Howatt	ca	LW	28	5-9	175	L/-	8	September 26, 1952	4 G, 15 A, 19 P
28	Anders Kallur	se	RW	28	5-11	185	L/-	1	July 6, 1952	36 G, 28 A, 64 P
24	Gord Lane	ca	D	27	6-1	190	L/-	5	March 31, 1953	3 G, 9 A, 12 P
26	Dave Langevin	us	D	26	6-2	200	L/-	1	May 15, 1954	1 G, 16 A, 17 P
4	Bob Lorimer	ca	D	27	6-1	200	R/-	4	August 25, 1953	1 G, 12 A, 13 P
29	Hector Marini	ca	RW	24	6-1	204	R/-	1	January 27, 1957	4 G, 7 A, 11 P
2-16	Mike McEwen	ca	D	24	6-1	185	L/-	4	August 10, 1956	0 G, 3 A, 3 P
1-30	Roland Melanson	ca	G	20	5-10	185	-/L	R	June 28, 1960	8-1-1, 3.10 GAA
11	Wayne Merrick	ca	C	28	6-1	195	L/-	8	April 23, 1952	16 G, 15 A, 31 P
6	Ken Morrow	us	D	24	6-4	210	R/-	1	October 17, 1956	2 G, 11 A, 13 P
23	Bob Nystrom	se	RW	28	6-1	200	R/-	8	October 10, 1952	14 G, 30 A, 44 P
7	Stefan Persson	se	D	26	6-1	189	L/-	3	December 22, 1954	9 G, 52 A, 61 P
5	Denis Potvin (C)	ca	D	27	6-0	205	L/-	7	October 29, 1953	20 G, 56 A, 76 P
3	Jean Potvin	ca	D	31	5-11	188	R/-	10	March 25, 1949	2 G, 3 A, 5 P
1	Glenn Resch	ca	G	32	5-9	165	-/L	7	July 10, 1948	18-7-5, 3.08 GAA
31	Billy Smith	ca	G	30	5-10	185	-/L	9	December 12, 1950	22-10-8, 3.28 GAA
21	Brent Sutter	ca	C	18	6-0	192	R/-	R	June 10, 1962	2 G, 2 A, 4 P
12	Duane Sutter	ca	RW	20	6-1	185	R/-	1	March 16, 1960	7 G, 11 A, 18 P
16	Steve Tambellini	ca	C	22	6-0	190	L/-	2	May 14, 1958	19 G, 17 A, 36 P
27	John Tonelli	ca	LW	23	6-1	200	L/-	2	March 23, 1957	20 G, 32 A, 52 P
19	Bryan Trottier	ca	C	24	5-11	195	L/-	5	July 17, 1956	31 G, 72 A, 103 P

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	Mike Bossy*	24	RW	79	68	51	119	38	32	38	28	2	10	35	16	0	315	21.6			10.2	1.8	12.0
2	Bryan Trottier*	24	C	73	31	72	103	50	74	20	9	2	5	45	22	5	156	19.9			6.6	2.1	8.7
3	Clark Gillies*	26	LW	80	33	45	78	27	99	24	9	0	3	26	19	0	188	17.6			4.7	1.5	6.2
4	Bob Bourne	26	LW	78	35	41	76	34	62	19	9	7	5	31	8	2	195	17.9			4.8	1.7	6.5
5	Denis Potvin*	27	D	74	20	56	76	39	104	11	9	0	4	19	32	5	206	9.7			5.4	5.6	11.0
6	Anders Kallur	28	RW	78	36	28	64	24	32	23	7	6	4	18	7	3	163	22.1			4.0	1.4	5.4
7	Stefan Persson	26	D	80	9	52	61	25	82	3	6	0	2	18	34	0	120	7.5			3.4	5.1	8.5
8	Butch Goring	31	C	78	23	37	60	4	0	18	4	1	1	28	7	2	152	15.1			2.8	0.9	3.7
9	John Tonelli	23	LW	70	20	32	52	7	57	18	2	0	3	24	8	0	114	17.5			2.3	0.9	3.2
10	Bob Nystrom	28	RW	79	14	30	44	6	145	11	3	0	0	30	0	0	161	8.7			0.9	1.0	1.9
11	Steve Tambellini	22	C	61	19	17	36	-11	17	17	2	0	4	13	4	0	112	17.0			1.4	0.3	1.8
12	Wayne Merrick	28	C	71	16	15	31	12	30	15	1	0	2	12	3	0	89	18.0			0.5	1.0	1.5
13	Garry Howatt	28	LW	70	4	15	19	12	174	4	0	0	0	15	0	0	48	8.3			-1.2	1.0	-0.2
14	Duane Sutter	20	RW	23	7	11	18	-7	26	6	1	0	1	8	3	0	48	14.6			0.9	0.0	0.9
15	Dave Langevin	26	D	75	1	16	17	40	122	1	0	0	0	16	0	0	68	1.5			-0.3	5.7	5.4
16	Ken Morrow	24	D	80	2	11	13	19	20	2	0	0	0	11	0	0	69	2.9			-0.6	4.8	4.2
17	Bob Lorimer	27	D	73	1	12	13	45	77	1	0	0	0	11	0	1	65	1.5			-0.5	5.9	5.3
18	Gord Lane	27	D	60	3	9	12	-6	124	2	0	1	1	9	0	0	54	5.6			-0.2	2.5	2.4
19	Hector Marini	24	RW	14	4	7	11	9	39	3	1	0	0	7	0	0	9	44.4			0.5	0.4	0.9
20	Billy Carroll	22	C	18	4	4	8	3	6	4	0	0	1	3	0	1	25	16.0			0.1	0.3	0.4
21	Jean Potvin	31	D	18	2	3	5	-4	25	0	2	0	1	2	1	0	16	12.5			0.1	0.6	0.8
22	Brent Sutter	18	C	3	2	2	4	2	0	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	100.0			0.3	0.1	0.4
23	Lorne Henning	28	C	9	1	2	3	4	24	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	15	6.7			-0.1	0.2	0.1
24	Mike McEwen	24	D	13	0	3	3	3	10	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	27	0.0			-0.1	0.8	0.7
25	Glenn Resch	32	G	32	0	1	1	0	0				0	1			0		1814	56:42	0.0	0.0	6.5
26	Roland Melanson	20	G	11	0	0	0	0	4				0	0			0		620	56:22	0.0	0.0	2.2
27	Billy Smith*	30	G	41	0	0	0	0	33				0	0			0		2359	57:32	0.0	0.0	7.9
	Team Total			80	355	572	927	375	1418	243	93	19	48	388	165	19	2417	14.7			45.9	45.7	108.2

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	Billy Smith*	30	41		22	10	8	129	1229	1100	.895	3.28	2	2359				85	23.2	2.59	7.9
2	Glenn Resch	32	32		18	7	5	93	879	786	.894	3.08	3	1814				85	15.9	2.45	6.5
3	Roland Melanson	20	11		8	1	1	32	304	272	.895	3.10	0	620						2.42	2.2
	Team Total				48	18	14	254	2412	2158	.895	3.18	5	4793				85	44.7	2.52	16.6