1996-97 Washington Capitals Statistics

National Hockey League (NHL)
Team Record: 33-40-9 - 75 points
Finishing 5th in the NHL's Atlantic Division
Coach: Jim Schoenfeld (33-40-9)
Location: Landover, Maryland

1996-97 Washington Capitals Roster
1996-97 Washington Capitals Results

The Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League ended the 1996-97 season with a record of 33 wins and 40 losses and 9 ties for 75 points, finishing fifth in the NHL's Atlantic Division.

The Capitals scored 214 goals and allowed 231. Peter Bondra netted 46 goals for Washington, while Dale Hunter contributed 32 assists. Jim Carey topped the squad with 17 wins, and Olaf Kolzig recorded a 2.59 goals against average, pacing qualifying goaltenders.

Jim Schoenfeld coached the team.

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Scoring:

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	GTG	SOG	SG%
Peter Bondra	R	77	46	31	77	72	7	10	10	4	0	3	2	314	14.6
Dale Hunter	C	82	14	32	46	125	-2	3	9	0	0	5	0	110	12.7
Steve Konowalchuk	L	78	17	25	42	67	-3	2	5	1	1	3	1	155	11.0
Joe Juneau	C	58	15	27	42	8	-11	9	9	1	0	3	0	124	12.1
Phil Housley	D	77	11	29	40	24	-10	3	17	1	0	2	0	167	6.6
Sergei Gonchar	D	57	13	17	30	36	-11	3	7	0	1	3	0	129	10.1
Kelly Miller	L	77	10	14	24	33	4	0	0	1	1	3	0	95	10.5
Sylvain Cote	D	57	6	18	24	28	11	2	7	0	0	0	0	131	4.6
Michal Pivonka	C	54	7	16	23	22	-15	2	4	0	2	1	0	83	8.4
Chris Simon	L	42	9	13	22	165	-1	3	0	0	0	1	0	89	10.1
Jason Allison	C	53	5	17	22	25	-3	1	5	0	0	1	0	71	7.0
Andrei Nikolishin	C	59	7	14	21	30	5	1	3	0	0	0	0	73	9.6
Calle Johansson	D	65	6	11	17	16	-2	2	4	0	0	0	0	133	4.5
Todd Krygier	L	47	5	11	16	37	-10	1	4	0	0	1	0	121	4.1
Adam Oates	C	17	4	8	12	4	-2	1	0	0	0	1	0	22	18.2
Andrew Brunette	L	23	4	7	11	12	-3	2	3	0	0	0	0	23	17.4
Ken Klee	D	80	3	8	11	115	-5	0	0	0	1	2	0	108	2.8
Jaroslav Svejkovsky	L	19	7	3	10	4	-1	2	1	0	0	1	0	30	23.3
Rick Tocchet	R	13	5	5	10	31	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	37	13.5
Joe Reekie	D	65	1	8	9	107	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	65	1.5
Mark Tinordi	D	56	2	6	8	118	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	53	3.8
Mike Eagles	L	70	1	7	8	42	-4	0	0	0	1	0	0	38	2.6
Craig Berube	L	80	4	3	7	218	-11	0	0	0	0	1	0	55	7.3
Brendan Witt	D	44	3	2	5	88	-20	0	0	0	0	0	0	41	7.3
Anson Carter	C	19	3	2	5	7	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	28	10.7
Keith Jones	R	11	2	3	5	13	-2	1	0	0	0	0	0	12	16.7
Richard Zednik	R	11	2	1	3	4	-5	1	0	0	0	0	0	21	9.5
Kevin Kaminski	C	38	1	2	3	130	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	12	8.3
Eric Charron	D	25	1	1	2	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	9.1
Bill Ranford	G	18	0	1	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Patrick Boileau	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stefan Ustorf	F	6	0	0	0	2	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0
Pat Peake	R	4	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0.0
Jim Carey	G	40	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Olaf Kolzig	G	29	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Curtis Leschyshyn	D	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stewart Malgunas	D	6	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0
Totals		1560	214	342	556	1624	-82	51	89	8	9	33	4	2370	9.0

Goaltenders:

Player	GP	Min	W	L	T/OL	ENG	SHO	GA	GAA	Shts	SVS	SV%
Jim Carey	40	2293	17	18	3	2	1	105	2.75	984	879	.893
Bill Ranford	18	1010	8	7	2	1	0	46	2.73	412	366	.888
Olaf Kolzig	29	1645	8	15	4	6	2	71	2.59	758	687	.906
Totals	87	4948	33	40	9	9	3	222	2.69	2376	2154	.907

1996-97 Washington Capitals Statistics

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