The Boston Bruins used 44 players in the 1996-97 season, with a 28-44-10 record. Jozef Stumpel led the team with 76 points (21 goals, 55 assists) in 78 games. Bill Ranford played the most games in goal (37).
| # | Player — sort by name ⇅ | GP — sort by games played ⇅ | Streak | G — sort by goals ⇅ | A — sort by assists ⇅ | PTS — sort by points ▼ | P/GP — sort by points per game ⇅ | PPG — sort by power-play goals ⇅ | SOG — sort by shots on goal ⇅ | HIT — sort by hits ⇅ | BLK — sort by blocked shots ⇅ | PIM — sort by penalty minutes ⇅ | TOI — sort by average ice time ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ray Bourque 🇨🇦 D 36 | 62 | 🔥 1 | 19 | 31 | 50 | 0.81 | 8 | 230 | 0 | 0 | 18 | — |
| 2 | Don Sweeney 🇨🇦 D 30 | 82 | 🧊 4 | 3 | 23 | 26 | 0.32 | 0 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 39 | — |
| 3 | Barry Richter 🇺🇸 D 26 | 50 | 🧊 4 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 0.36 | 1 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 32 | — |
| 4 | Kyle McLaren 🇨🇦 D 19 | 58 | 🧊 7 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 0.24 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 54 | — |
| 5 | Steve Staios 🇨🇦 D 23 | 54 | 🔥 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 0.20 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 71 | — |
| 6 | Mattias Timander 🇸🇪 D 22 | 41 | 🧊 22 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 0.22 | 0 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 14 | — |
| 7 | Jon Rohloff 🇺🇸 D 27 | 37 | 🧊 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0.22 | 1 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 31 | — |
| 8 | Bob Beers 🇺🇸 D 29 | 27 | 🧊 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0.26 | 1 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 8 | — |
| 9 | Dean Chynoweth 🇨🇦 D 28 | 57 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0.05 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 171 | — |
| 10 | Anders Myrvold 🇳🇴 D 21 | 9 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.22 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | — |
| 11 | Yevgeny Shaldybin 🇷🇺 D 21 | 3 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.33 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 12 | Dean Malkoc 🇨🇦 D 27 | 33 | 🧊 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 70 | — |
| Team totals · 12 skaters | 82 | 43 | 106 | 149 | 1.82 | 11 | 776 | 0 | 0 | 512 |
| # | Goalie — sort by name ⇅ | GP — sort by games played ⇅ | Share of games | W — sort by wins ⇅ | GAA — sort by goals against average ▲ | SV% — sort by save percentage ⇅ | SV — sort by saves ⇅ | GA — sort by goals against ⇅ | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paxton Schafer 🇨🇦 G 21 | 3 | 0 | 2.00 | 0.000 | 0 | 6 | 25:49 | |
| 2 | Robbie Tallas 🇨🇦 G 24 | 28 | 10 | 2.46 | 0.000 | 0 | 69 | 44:25 | |
| 3 | Tim Cheveldae 🇨🇦 G 29 | 2 | 0 | 2.50 | 0.000 | 0 | 5 | 46:34 | |
| 4 | Scott Bailey 🇨🇦 G 24 | 8 | 1 | 3.00 | 0.000 | 0 | 24 | 49:13 | |
| 5 | Jim Carey 🇺🇸 G 22 | 19 | 5 | 3.37 | 0.000 | 0 | 64 | 52:50 | |
| 6 | Bill Ranford 🇨🇦 G 30 | 37 | 15 | 3.38 | 0.000 | 0 | 125 | 58:01 |
66% of this roster was born in Canada, against 62% across the league. The team leans on United States: 25% of its players, against 17% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 59% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 29 |
|
+4 | 371 (59%) | Oates, Bourque, Tocchet, DiMaio +25 |
| United States | 11 |
|
+8 | 167 (27%) | Donato, Heinze, Sweeney, Richter +7 |
| Norway | 1 |
|
+2 | 2 (0%) | Myrvold |
| Russia | 1 |
|
-4 | 1 (0%) | Shaldybin |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
+1 | 76 (12%) | Stumpel |
| Sweden | 1 |
|
-2 | 9 (1%) | Timander |
Jozef Stumpel led the Boston Bruins in scoring in 1996-97 with 76 points — 21 goals and 55 assists in 78 games. Next came Adam Oates (70) and Ted Donato (51).
Ted Donato scored 25 goals for the Boston Bruins in 1996-97, 6 of them on the power play.
The Boston Bruins dressed 44 players in 1996-97: 38 skaters and 6 goalies. Together the skaters scored 234 goals.
Bill Ranford played the most games in goal for the Boston Bruins in 1996-97: 37 games, 15 wins, a 0.000 save percentage and a 3.38 goals against average. Robbie Tallas was the backup, in 28 games.
The average age was 25.8 years. Kyle McLaren was the youngest at 19, and Ray Bourque the oldest at 36.
The Boston Bruins used 44 players in 1996-97 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 29 in Canada, 11 in the United States and 1 in Norway. The other 3 came from Russia, Slovakia and Sweden. League-wide that season, 62% of players were born in Canada, against 66% on this roster.