The Edmonton Oilers used 34 players in the 1996-97 season, with a 41-31-10 record. Doug Weight led the team with 82 points (21 goals, 61 assists) in 80 games. Curtis Joseph played the most games in goal (72).
| # | 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 | Boris Mironov 🇷🇺 D 25 | 55 | 🧊 2 | 6 | 26 | 32 | 0.58 | 2 | 147 | 0 | 0 | 85 | — |
| 2 | Dan Mcgillis 🇨🇦 D 24 | 73 | 🔥 1 | 6 | 16 | 22 | 0.30 | 2 | 139 | 0 | 0 | 52 | — |
| 3 | Bryan Marchment 🇨🇦 D 27 | 71 | 🧊 4 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 0.23 | 1 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 132 | — |
| 4 | Kevin Lowe 🇨🇦 D 37 | 64 | 🧊 18 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 0.22 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 50 | — |
| 5 | Jeff Norton 🇺🇸 D 31 | 62 | 🧊 2 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 0.21 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 42 | — |
| 6 | Luke Richardson 🇨🇦 D 28 | 82 | 🧊 4 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 0.15 | 0 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 91 | — |
| 7 | Michel Petit 🇨🇦 D 33 | 18 | 🧊 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0.33 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 20 | — |
| 8 | Greg De Vries 🇨🇦 D 24 | 37 | 🧊 13 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0.11 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 52 | — |
| 9 | Donald Dufresne 🇨🇦 D 29 | 22 | 🧊 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.05 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 15 | — |
| 10 | Drew Bannister 🇨🇦 D 22 | 1 | 🔥 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 11 | Sean Brown 🇨🇦 D 20 | 5 | 🧊 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | — |
| 12 | Craig Millar 🇨🇦 D 20 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — |
| Team totals · 12 skaters | 82 | 21 | 100 | 121 | 1.48 | 5 | 632 | 0 | 0 | 545 |
| # | 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 | Bob Essensa 🇨🇦 G 32 | 19 | 4 | 2.16 | 0.000 | 0 | 41 | 45:42 | |
| 2 | Curtis Joseph 🇨🇦 G 29 | 72 | 37 | 2.78 | 0.000 | 0 | 200 | 56:56 |
68% of this roster was born in Canada, against 62% across the league. Canadian-born players scored 46% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 23 |
|
+6 | 299 (46%) | Smyth, Arnott, Buchberger, Murray +19 |
| United States | 5 |
|
-2 | 160 (24%) | Weight, Marchant, Grier, Norton +1 |
| Russia | 2 |
|
even | 91 (14%) | Kovalenko, Mironov |
| Czechia | 1 |
|
-1 | 6 (1%) | Klima |
| Poland | 1 |
|
+3 | 47 (7%) | Czerkawski |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
+2 | 28 (4%) | Satan |
| Sweden | 1 |
|
-1 | 25 (4%) | Lindgren |
Doug Weight led the Edmonton Oilers in scoring in 1996-97 with 82 points — 21 goals and 61 assists in 80 games. Next came Ryan Smyth (61) and Andrei Kovalenko (59).
Ryan Smyth scored 39 goals for the Edmonton Oilers in 1996-97, 20 of them on the power play.
The Edmonton Oilers dressed 34 players in 1996-97: 32 skaters and 2 goalies. Together the skaters scored 252 goals.
Curtis Joseph played the most games in goal for the Edmonton Oilers in 1996-97: 72 games, 37 wins, a 0.000 save percentage and a 2.78 goals against average. Bob Essensa was the backup, in 19 games.
The average age was 25.4 years. Steve Kelly was the youngest at 20, and Kevin Lowe the oldest at 37.
The Edmonton Oilers used 34 players in 1996-97 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 23 in Canada, 5 in the United States and 2 in Russia. The other 4 came from Czechia, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden. League-wide that season, 62% of players were born in Canada, against 68% on this roster.