1996–97 Toronto Maple Leafs season
1996–97 Toronto Maple Leafs | |
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Division | 6th Central |
Conference | 11th Western |
1996–97 record | 30–44–8 |
Home record | 18–20–3 |
Road record | 12–24–5 |
Goals for | 230 |
Goals against | 273 |
Team information | |
General manager | Cliff Fletcher |
Coach | Mike Murphy |
Captain | Doug Gilmour (Oct-Feb) Vacant (Feb-Apr) |
Arena | Maple Leaf Gardens |
Average attendance | 15,703 |
Minor league affiliate(s) | St. John's Maple Leafs |
Team leaders | |
Goals | Mats Sundin (41) |
Assists | Mats Sundin (53) |
Points | Mats Sundin (94) |
Penalty minutes | Tie Domi (275) |
Plus/minus | Rob Zettler (+8) |
Wins | Felix Potvin (27) |
Goals against average | Felix Potvin (3.15) |
The 1996–97 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 80th season in the National Hockey League (NHL).
The Maple Leafs entered the 1996–97 NHL season with the hopes of making the playoffs for the fifth consecutive year. Mike Murphy was hired prior to the season as the head coach replacing interim coach Nick Beverley. The team played poorly for most of the season and missed the playoffs for the first time since 1992. This season would be Cliff Fletcher's last as general manager of the Maple Leafs. In one of his final moves, Fletcher traded captain Doug Gilmour to the New Jersey Devils in February.
Offseason
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Regular season
[edit]Season standings
[edit]No. | CR | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | 2 | Dallas Stars | 82 | 48 | 26 | 8 | 252 | 198 | 104 |
2 | 3 | Detroit Red Wings | 82 | 38 | 26 | 18 | 253 | 197 | 94 |
3 | 5 | Phoenix Coyotes | 82 | 38 | 37 | 7 | 240 | 243 | 83 |
4 | 6 | St. Louis Blues | 82 | 36 | 35 | 11 | 236 | 239 | 83 |
5 | 8 | Chicago Blackhawks | 82 | 34 | 35 | 13 | 223 | 210 | 81 |
6 | 11 | Toronto Maple Leafs | 82 | 30 | 44 | 8 | 230 | 273 | 68 |
Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points
Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.
R | Div | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | p – Colorado Avalanche | PAC | 82 | 49 | 24 | 9 | 277 | 205 | 107 |
2 | Dallas Stars | CEN | 82 | 48 | 26 | 8 | 252 | 198 | 104 |
3 | Detroit Red Wings | CEN | 82 | 38 | 26 | 18 | 253 | 197 | 94 |
4 | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim | PAC | 82 | 36 | 33 | 13 | 245 | 233 | 85 |
5 | Phoenix Coyotes | CEN | 82 | 38 | 37 | 7 | 240 | 243 | 83 |
6 | St. Louis Blues | CEN | 82 | 36 | 35 | 11 | 236 | 239 | 83 |
7 | Edmonton Oilers | PAC | 82 | 36 | 37 | 9 | 252 | 247 | 81 |
8 | Chicago Blackhawks | CEN | 82 | 34 | 35 | 13 | 223 | 210 | 81 |
9 | Vancouver Canucks | PAC | 82 | 35 | 40 | 7 | 257 | 273 | 77 |
10 | Calgary Flames | PAC | 82 | 32 | 41 | 9 | 214 | 239 | 73 |
11 | Toronto Maple Leafs | CEN | 82 | 30 | 44 | 8 | 230 | 273 | 68 |
12 | Los Angeles Kings | PAC | 82 | 28 | 43 | 11 | 214 | 268 | 67 |
13 | San Jose Sharks | PAC | 82 | 27 | 47 | 8 | 211 | 278 | 62 |
Divisions: CEN – Central, PAC – Pacific
bold – Qualified for playoffs; p – Won Presidents' Trophy
Schedule and results
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October: 5–6–0 (home: 3–4–0; road: 2–2–0)
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November: 5–9–0 (home: 5–1–0; road: 0–8–0)
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December: 7–7–0 (home: 3–4–0; road: 4–3–0)
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January: 2–10–1 (home: 1–5–0; road: 1–5–1)
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February: 4–5–1 (home: 2–2–0; road: 2–3–1)
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March: 5–4–5 (home: 2–3–3; road: 3–1–2)
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April: 2–3–1 (home: 2–1–0; road: 0–2–1)
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Legend:
Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Tie (1 point) |
Player statistics
[edit]Scoring
[edit]- Position abbreviations: C = Centre; D = Defence; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
- † = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Maple Leafs only.
- ‡ = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Maple Leafs only.
No. | Player | Pos | Regular season | |||||
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GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | |||
13 | Mats Sundin | C | 82 | 41 | 53 | 94 | 6 | 59 |
93 | Doug Gilmour‡ | C | 61 | 15 | 45 | 60 | −5 | 46 |
17 | Wendel Clark | LW | 65 | 30 | 19 | 49 | −2 | 75 |
94 | Sergei Berezin | LW | 73 | 25 | 16 | 41 | −3 | 2 |
55 | Larry Murphy‡ | D | 69 | 7 | 32 | 39 | 1 | 20 |
21 | Kirk Muller‡ | C | 66 | 20 | 17 | 37 | −23 | 85 |
8 | Todd Warriner | LW | 75 | 12 | 21 | 33 | −3 | 41 |
28 | Tie Domi | RW | 80 | 11 | 17 | 28 | −17 | 275 |
9 | Mike Craig | RW | 65 | 7 | 13 | 20 | −20 | 62 |
14 | Darby Hendrickson† | C | 64 | 11 | 6 | 17 | −20 | 47 |
16 | Jamie Baker | C | 58 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 28 |
11 | Steve Sullivan† | C | 21 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 23 |
4 | David Ellett‡ | D | 56 | 4 | 10 | 14 | −8 | 34 |
36 | Dmitri Yushkevich | D | 74 | 4 | 10 | 14 | −24 | 56 |
2 | Rob Zettler | D | 48 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 51 |
19 | Fredrik Modin | RW | 76 | 6 | 7 | 13 | −14 | 24 |
72 | Mathieu Schneider | D | 26 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 20 |
34 | Jamie Macoun | D | 73 | 1 | 10 | 11 | −14 | 93 |
12 | Brandon Convery | RW | 39 | 2 | 8 | 10 | −9 | 20 |
10 | Zdenek Nedved | RW | 23 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
42 | David Cooper | D | 19 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 16 |
32 | Nick Kypreos | LW | 35 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 62 |
26 | Jamie Heward | RW | 20 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −6 | 6 |
25 | Jason Smith† | D | 21 | 0 | 5 | 5 | −4 | 16 |
20 | Mike Johnson† | RW | 13 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 4 |
3 | Matt Martin | D | 36 | 0 | 4 | 4 | −12 | 38 |
26 | Craig Wolanin† | D | 23 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
24 | Tom Pederson† | D | 15 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
7 | Jason Podollan† | C | 10 | 0 | 3 | 3 | −2 | 6 |
29 | Felix Potvin | G | 74 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 19 | |
43 | Nathan Dempsey | LW | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 2 |
7 | Kelly Fairchild | C | 22 | 0 | 2 | 2 | −5 | 2 |
31 | Marcel Cousineau | G | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
20 | Ralph Intranuovo‡ | C | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 |
4 | D. J. Smith | D | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −5 | 7 |
33 | Don Beaupre | G | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
39 | Kelly Chase† | RW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
44 | John Craighead | RW | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
37 | Mark Kolesar | RW | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 |
22 | Scott Pearson | LW | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
25 | Greg Smyth | D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
41 | Shayne Toporowski | RW | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
38 | Yannick Tremblay | D | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 |
23 | Jeff Ware | D | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
15 | Brian Wiseman | C | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goaltending
[edit]No. | Player | Regular season | |||||||||
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GP | W | L | T | SA | GA | GAA | SV% | SO | TOI | ||
29 | Felix Potvin | 74 | 27 | 36 | 7 | 2438 | 224 | 3.15 | .908 | 0 | 4271 |
31 | Marcel Cousineau | 13 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 317 | 31 | 3.29 | .902 | 1 | 566 |
33 | Don Beaupre | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 60 | 10 | 5.46 | .833 | 0 | 110 |
Awards and records
[edit]Awards
[edit]Typ | Award/honour | Recipient | Ref |
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League (annual) |
NHL All-Rookie Team | Sergei Berezin (Forward) | [3] |
League (in-season) |
NHL All-Star Game selection | Mats Sundin | [4] |
NHL Rookie of the Month | Steve Sullivan (March) | [5] | |
Team | Molson Cup | Felix Potvin | [6] |
Milestones
[edit]Milestone | Player | Date | Ref |
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1,000th game played | Doug Gilmour | November 16, 1996 | [7] |
Transactions
[edit]The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1996–97 season.
Trades
[edit]October 10, 1996 | To New York Islanders 5th round pick in 1998 (Jiri Dopita) |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Darby Hendrickson |
January 31, 1997 | To Tampa Bay Lightning 3rd round pick in 1998 (Alex Henry) |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Craig Wolanin |
February 25, 1997 | To New Jersey Devils Doug Gilmour Dave Ellett 3rd round pick in 1999 (Andre Lakos) |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Jason Smith Alyn McCauley Steve Sullivan |
March 18, 1997 | To Detroit Red Wings Larry Murphy |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Future Considerations |
March 18, 1997 | To Florida Panthers Kirk Muller |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Jason Podollan |
March 18, 1997 | To Hartford Whalers 8th round pick in 1998 (Jaroslav Svoboda) |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Kelly Chase |
June 12, 1997 | To Florida Panthers Mike Lankshear |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Per Gustafsson |
Waivers
[edit]September 30, 1996 | From Edmonton Oilers Ralph Intranuovo |
October 25, 1996 | To Edmonton Oilers Ralph Intranuovo |
Free agents
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Draft picks
[edit]Toronto's picks at the 1996 NHL Entry Draft held at the Kiel Center in St. Louis, Missouri.[8]
Round | # | Name | Nationality | College/Junior/Club team |
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2 | 36 | Marek Posmyk | ![]() |
Dukla Jihlava (Czech Republic) |
2 | 50 | Francis Larivee | ![]() |
Laval Titan (QMJHL) |
3 | 66 | Mike Lankshear | ![]() |
Guelph Storm (OHL) |
3 | 68 | Konstantin Kalmikov | ![]() |
Detroit Falcons (CoHL) |
4 | 86 | Jason Sessa | ![]() |
Lake Superior State University (CCHA) |
4 | 103 | Vladimir Antipov | ![]() |
Torpedo Yaroslavl (Russia) |
5 | 110 | Peter Cava | ![]() |
Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL) |
5 | 111 | Brandon Sugden | ![]() |
London Knights (OHL) |
6 | 140 | Dmytro Yakushyn | ![]() |
Pembroke Lumber Kings (COJHL) |
6 | 148 | Chris Bogas | ![]() |
Michigan State University (CCHA) |
6 | 151 | Lucio DeMartinis | ![]() |
Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL) |
7 | 178 | Reggie Berg | ![]() |
University of Minnesota (WCHA) |
8 | 204 | Tomas Kaberle | ![]() |
HC Kladno (Czech Republic) |
9 | 230 | Jared Hope | ![]() |
Spokane Chiefs (WHL) |
Farm teams
[edit]The Maple Leafs farm team was the St. John's Maple Leafs, based in St. John's, Newfoundland.
References
[edit]- "Toronto Maple Leafs 1996-97 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com". www.hockeydb.com. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
- "1996-97 Toronto Maple Leafs Roster, Stats, Injuries, Scores, Results, Shootouts". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
- ^ "1996-1997 Conference Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". NHL.
- ^ "1996-97 Toronto Maple Leafs Schedule". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
- ^ "Postseason All-Star Teams". records.nhl.com. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
- ^ "1997 NHL All-Star Game Rosters". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved August 29, 2024.
- ^ "NHL Rookies of the Month". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
- ^ Toronto Maple Leafs 2015–16 Media Guide, p.373
- ^ "1982 NHL Entry Draft -- Doug Gilmour". www.hockeydraftcentral.com. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
Played in his 1,000th career NHL game for Toronto on Nov. 16, 1996, at Phoenix.
- ^ "1996 NHL Entry Draft Picks at hockeydb.com". www.hockeydb.com. Retrieved July 27, 2023.