1996-97 Washington Capitals Roster and Statistics

Record: 33-40-9 (75 points), Finished 5th in NHL Atlantic Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Jim Schoenfeld (33-40-9)

Primary Arena: USAir Arena

Goals For: 214 (23rd of 26), Goals Against: 231 (9th of 26)
SRS: -0.17 (17th of 26), SOS: 0.04 (3rd of 26)

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +1800

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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
Washington Capitals	82	33	40	9	75	.457	214	231	-0.17	0.04	2.61	2.82	51	322	15.84	54	354	84.75	8	10	2370	9.0	2163	.893		3
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%
Washington Capitals
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
41	Jason Allison	ca CA	C	21	6-3	215	R/-	3	May 29, 1975
27	Craig Berube	ca CA	LW	31	6-1	210	L/-	10	December 17, 1965
45	Patrick Boileau	ca CA	D	21	6-0	202	R/-	R	February 22, 1975
12	Peter Bondra	su SU	RW	28	6-0	200	L/-	6	February 7, 1968
18	Andrew Brunette	ca CA	LW	23	6-1	215	L/-	1	August 24, 1973
30	Jim Carey	us US	G	22	6-2	205	-/L	2	May 31, 1974
33-45	Anson Carter	ca CA	RW	22	6-1	210	R/-	R	June 6, 1974
28	Éric Charron	ca CA	D	27	6-3	195	L/-	4	January 14, 1970
3	Sylvain Côté	ca CA	D	31	5-11	201	R/-	12	January 19, 1966
36	Mike Eagles	ca CA	C	33	5-10	195	L/-	12	March 7, 1963
55	Sergei Gonchar	su SU	D	22	6-2	210	L/-	2	April 13, 1974
96	Phil Housley	us US	D	32	5-10	185	L/-	14	March 9, 1964
32	Dale Hunter (C)	ca CA	C	36	5-10	198	L/-	16	July 31, 1960
6	Calle Johansson	se SE	D	29	5-11	203	L/-	9	February 14, 1967
26	Keith Jones	ca CA	RW	28	6-2	200	L/-	4	November 8, 1968
90	Joé Juneau	ca CA	LW	29	6-0	195	L/-	5	January 5, 1968
23	Kevin Kaminski	ca CA	C	27	5-10	190	L/-	6	March 13, 1969
2	Ken Klee	us US	RW	25	6-1	210	R/-	2	April 24, 1971
37	Olaf Kölzig	za ZA	G	26	6-3	224	-/L	5	April 6, 1970
22	Steve Konowalchuk	us US	LW	24	6-1	207	L/-	5	November 11, 1972
21	Todd Krygier	us US	LW	31	6-0	185	L/-	7	October 12, 1965
9	Curtis Leschyshyn	ca CA	D	27	6-1	207	L/-	8	September 21, 1969
4	Stewart Malgunas	ca CA	D	26	6-0	200	L/-	3	April 21, 1970
10	Kelly Miller	us US	RW	33	5-11	195	L/-	12	March 3, 1963
11-13	Andrei Nikolishin	su SU	LW	23	6-0	213	L/-	2	March 25, 1973
77	Adam Oates	ca CA	C	34	5-11	190	R/-	11	August 27, 1962
14	Pat Peake	us US	C	23	6-1	195	R/-	3	May 28, 1973
20	Michal Pivoňka	cs CS	C	31	6-2	200	L/-	10	January 28, 1966
30	Bill Ranford	ca CA	G	30	5-11	185	-/L	11	December 14, 1966
29	Joe Reekie	ca CA	D	31	6-3	220	L/-	11	February 22, 1965
17	Chris Simon	ca CA	LW	25	6-3	233	L/-	4	January 30, 1972
34	Jaroslav Svejkovský	cs CS	LW	20	6-1	193	R/-	R	October 1, 1976
24	Mark Tinordi	ca CA	D	30	6-4	213	L/-	9	May 9, 1966
92	Rick Tocchet	ca CA	RW	32	6-0	210	R/-	12	April 9, 1964
16	Stefan Ustorf	de DE	LW	23	6-0	195	L/-	1	January 3, 1974
19	Brendan Witt	ca CA	D	21	6-2	223	L/-	1	February 20, 1975
44	Richard Zedník	cs CS	LW	21	6-0	200	L/-	1	January 6, 1976

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	Peter Bondra	28	RW	77	46	31	77	7	72	32	10	4	3	21	10	0	314	14.6			8.7	1.5	10.2
2	Dale Hunter	36	C	82	14	32	46	-2	125	11	3	0	5	23	9	0	110	12.7			2.5	1.3	3.8
3	Steve Konowalchuk	24	LW	78	17	25	42	-3	67	14	2	1	3	19	5	1	155	11.0			2.6	1.2	3.8
4	Joé Juneau	29	LW	58	15	27	42	-11	8	5	9	1	3	18	9	0	124	12.1			3.2	0.6	3.7
5	Phil Housley*	32	D	77	11	29	40	-10	24	7	3	1	2	12	17	0	167	6.6			3.3	3.8	7.2
6	Sergei Gonchar	22	D	57	13	17	30	-11	36	10	3	0	3	9	7	1	129	10.1			3.0	2.6	5.6
7	Kelly Miller	33	RW	77	10	14	24	4	33	9	0	1	3	13	0	1	95	10.5			0.3	1.4	1.6
8	Sylvain Côté	31	D	57	6	18	24	11	28	4	2	0	0	11	7	0	131	4.6			1.7	4.1	5.9
9	Michal Pivoňka	31	C	54	7	16	23	-15	22	5	2	0	1	10	4	2	83	8.4			0.8	0.3	1.1
10	Chris Simon	25	LW	42	9	13	22	-1	165	6	3	0	1	13	0	0	89	10.1			1.3	0.6	2.0
11	Jason Allison	21	C	53	5	17	22	-3	25	4	1	0	1	12	5	0	71	7.0			0.5	0.8	1.3
12	Andrei Nikolishin	23	LW	59	7	14	21	5	30	6	1	0	0	11	3	0	73	9.6			0.4	1.1	1.5
13	Calle Johansson	29	D	65	6	11	17	-2	16	4	2	0	0	7	4	0	133	4.5			0.9	3.7	4.6
14	Todd Krygier	31	LW	47	5	11	16	-10	37	4	1	0	1	7	4	0	121	4.1			0.2	0.4	0.6
15	Adam Oates*	34	C	17	4	8	12	-2	4	3	1	0	1	8	0	0	22	18.2			0.9	0.2	1.1
16	Andrew Brunette	23	LW	23	4	7	11	-3	12	2	2	0	0	4	3	0	23	17.4			0.5	0.3	0.8
17	Ken Klee	25	RW	80	3	8	11	-5	115	3	0	0	2	7	0	1	108	2.8			-1.8	1.1	-0.6
18	Jaroslav Svejkovský	20	LW	19	7	3	10	-1	4	5	2	0	1	2	1	0	30	23.3			0.9	0.3	1.2
19	Rick Tocchet	32	RW	13	5	5	10	0	31	4	1	0	1	5	0	0	37	13.5			0.9	0.2	1.1
20	Joe Reekie	31	D	65	1	8	9	8	107	1	0	0	0	7	0	1	65	1.5			-0.3	4.4	4.1
21	Mark Tinordi	30	D	56	2	6	8	3	118	2	0	0	0	5	0	1	53	3.8			-0.1	3.5	3.4
22	Mike Eagles	33	C	70	1	7	8	-4	42	1	0	0	0	6	0	1	38	2.6			-1.9	1.0	-0.9
23	Craig Berube	31	LW	80	4	3	7	-11	218	4	0	0	1	3	0	0	55	7.3			-2.1	0.9	-1.1
24	Anson Carter	22	RW	19	3	2	5	0	7	2	1	0	1	2	0	0	28	10.7			0.0	0.3	0.3
25	Brendan Witt	21	D	44	3	2	5	-20	88	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	41	7.3			-0.1	1.2	1.1
26	Keith Jones	28	RW	11	2	3	5	-2	13	1	1	0	0	3	0	0	12	16.7			0.2	0.1	0.4
27	Richard Zedník	21	LW	11	2	1	3	-5	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	21	9.5			0.1	0.0	0.1
28	Kevin Kaminski	27	C	38	1	2	3	0	130	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	12	8.3			-1.1	0.6	-0.5
29	Éric Charron	27	D	25	1	1	2	1	20	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	11	9.1			-0.2	1.5	1.3
30	Bill Ranford	30	G	18	0	1	1	0	7	0	0	0	0				0		1010	56:05	0.0	0.0	1.6
31	Patrick Boileau	21	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.1	0.0
32	Jim Carey	22	G	40	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0				0		2293	57:20	0.0	0.0	4.3
33	Olaf Kölzig	26	G	29	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0				0		1644	56:42	0.0	0.0	4.2
34	Curtis Leschyshyn	27	D	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.1	0.1
35	Stewart Malgunas	26	D	6	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.1	0.5	0.4
36	Pat Peake	23	C	4	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0.0			-0.2	0.1	-0.1
37	Stefan Ustorf	23	LW	6	0	0	0	-3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0			-0.2	0.0	-0.2
	Team Total			82	214	342	556	-82	1624	155	51	8	33	243	89	9	2370	9.0			24.9	39.7	74.7

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	Jim Carey	22	40		17	18	3	105	984	879	.893	2.75	1	2293				112	-11.3	2.93	4.3
2	Bill Ranford	30	18		8	7	2	46	412	366	.888	2.73	0	1010				117	-6.8	2.91	1.6
3	Olaf Kölzig	26	29		8	15	4	71	758	687	.906	2.59	2	1644				98	1.2	2.77	4.2
	Team Total				33	40	9	222	2154	1932	.897	2.69	3	4947				108	-16.8	2.87	10.1