The New Jersey Devils used 35 players in the 1996-97 season, with a 50-21-11 record. Bobby Holik led the team with 62 points (23 goals, 39 assists) in 82 games. Martin Brodeur played the most games in goal (67).
| # | 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 | Scott Niedermayer 🇨🇦 D 23 | 81 | 🔥 1 | 5 | 30 | 35 | 0.43 | 3 | 159 | 0 | 0 | 64 | — |
| 2 | Scott Stevens 🇨🇦 D 33 | 79 | 🧊 1 | 5 | 19 | 24 | 0.30 | 0 | 166 | 0 | 0 | 70 | — |
| 3 | Shawn Chambers 🇺🇸 D 30 | 73 | 🧊 5 | 4 | 17 | 21 | 0.29 | 1 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 19 | — |
| 4 | Lyle Odelein 🇨🇦 D 28 | 79 | 🧊 12 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 0.20 | 1 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 110 | — |
| 5 | Ken Daneyko 🇨🇦 D 32 | 77 | 🧊 23 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0.12 | 0 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 70 | — |
| 6 | Dave Ellett 🇺🇸 D 33 | 20 | 🧊 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0.35 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 6 | — |
| 7 | Kevin Dean 🇺🇸 D 28 | 28 | 🧊 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0.21 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 6 | — |
| 8 | Jason Smith 🇨🇦 D 23 | 57 | 🔥 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.05 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 38 | — |
| 9 | Ricard Persson 🇸🇪 D 27 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Team totals · 9 skaters | 82 | 24 | 97 | 121 | 1.48 | 6 | 688 | 0 | 0 | 383 |
| # | 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 | Jeff Reese 🇨🇦 G 31 | 3 | 0 | 4.33 | 0.000 | 0 | 13 | 46:15 | |
| 2 | Martin Brodeur 🇨🇦 G 24 | 67 | 43 | 1.79 | 0.000 | 0 | 120 | 57:17 | |
| 3 | Mike Dunham 🇺🇸 G 24 | 26 | 14 | 1.65 | 0.000 | 0 | 43 | 38:56 |
46% of this roster was born in Canada, against 62% across the league. The team leans on United States: 29% of its players, against 17% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 50% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 16 |
|
-16 | 313 (50%) | Andreychuk, MacLean, Niedermayer, Pederson +12 |
| United States | 10 |
|
+12 | 162 (26%) | Guerin, Rolston, Chambers, Carpenter +6 |
| Czechia | 3 |
|
+5 | 70 (11%) | Holik, Elias, Sykora |
| Russia | 3 |
|
+3 | 42 (7%) | Zelepukin, Brylin, Sharifijanov |
| United Kingdom | 1 |
|
+2 | 34 (5%) | Thomas |
| Poland | 1 |
|
+3 | 0 | Oliwa |
| Sweden | 1 |
|
-1 | 0 | Persson |
Bobby Holik led the New Jersey Devils in scoring in 1996-97 with 62 points — 23 goals and 39 assists in 82 games. Next came Dave Andreychuk (61) and John MacLean (54).
Bill Guerin scored 29 goals for the New Jersey Devils in 1996-97, 7 of them on the power play.
The New Jersey Devils dressed 35 players in 1996-97: 32 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 231 goals.
Martin Brodeur played the most games in goal for the New Jersey Devils in 1996-97: 67 games, 43 wins, a 0.000 save percentage and a 1.79 goals against average. Mike Dunham was the backup, in 26 games.
The average age was 27.3 years. Petr Sykora was the youngest at 20, and Neal Broten the oldest at 37.
The New Jersey Devils used 35 players in 1996-97 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 16 in Canada, 10 in the United States and 3 in Czechia. The other 6 came from Russia, United Kingdom, Poland and Sweden. League-wide that season, 62% of players were born in Canada, against 46% on this roster.