The Florida Panthers used 33 players in the 1996-97 season, with a 46-24-12 record. Ray Sheppard led the team with 60 points (29 goals, 31 assists) in 68 games. John Vanbiesbrouck played the most games in goal (57).
| # | 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 | Robert Svehla 🇸🇰 D 28 | 82 | 🔥 1 | 13 | 32 | 45 | 0.55 | 5 | 159 | 0 | 0 | 86 | — |
| 2 | Per Gustafsson 🇸🇪 D 26 | 58 | 🔥 1 | 7 | 22 | 29 | 0.50 | 2 | 105 | 0 | 0 | 22 | — |
| 3 | Gord Murphy 🇨🇦 D 30 | 80 | 🧊 2 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 0.29 | 2 | 137 | 0 | 0 | 51 | — |
| 4 | Ed Jovanovski 🇨🇦 D 20 | 61 | 🔥 1 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 0.38 | 3 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 172 | — |
| 5 | Terry Carkner 🇨🇦 D 31 | 70 | 🧊 5 | 0 | 14 | 14 | 0.20 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 96 | — |
| 6 | Rhett Warrener 🇨🇦 D 21 | 62 | 🧊 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 0.21 | 1 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 88 | — |
| 7 | Paul Laus 🇨🇦 D 26 | 77 | 🧊 10 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 0.16 | 0 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 313 | — |
| 8 | Jason Woolley 🇨🇦 D 27 | 3 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — |
| 9 | Geoff Smith 🇨🇦 D 28 | 3 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — |
| Team totals · 9 skaters | 82 | 39 | 120 | 159 | 1.94 | 13 | 649 | 0 | 0 | 832 |
| # | 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 | John Vanbiesbrouck 🇺🇸 G 33 | 57 | 34 | 2.25 | 0.000 | 0 | 128 | 58:43 | |
| 2 | Mark Fitzpatrick 🇨🇦 G 28 | 30 | 14 | 2.20 | 0.000 | 0 | 66 | 55:59 |
76% of this roster was born in Canada, against 62% across the league. Canadian-born players scored 66% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 25 |
|
+14 | 397 (66%) | Sheppard, Mellanby, Niedermayer, Lindsay +21 |
| United States | 3 |
|
-8 | 24 (4%) | Fitzgerald, Ferguson, Vanbiesbrouck |
| Czechia | 2 |
|
+2 | 68 (11%) | Dvorak, Straka |
| Sweden | 2 |
|
+2 | 65 (11%) | Garpenlov, Gustafsson |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
+2 | 45 (8%) | Svehla |
Ray Sheppard led the Florida Panthers in scoring in 1996-97 with 60 points — 29 goals and 31 assists in 68 games. Next came Scott Mellanby (56) and Robert Svehla (45).
Ray Sheppard scored 29 goals for the Florida Panthers in 1996-97, 13 of them on the power play.
The Florida Panthers dressed 33 players in 1996-97: 31 skaters and 2 goalies. Together the skaters scored 221 goals.
John Vanbiesbrouck played the most games in goal for the Florida Panthers in 1996-97: 57 games, 34 wins, a 0.000 save percentage and a 2.25 goals against average. Mark Fitzpatrick was the backup, in 30 games.
The average age was 26.5 years. Radek Dvorak was the youngest at 20, and Mike Hough the oldest at 34.
The Florida Panthers used 33 players in 1996-97 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 25 in Canada, 3 in the United States and 2 in Czechia. The other 3 came from Sweden and Slovakia. League-wide that season, 62% of players were born in Canada, against 76% on this roster.