The New York Islanders used 39 players in the 1996-97 season, with a 37-39-6 record. Ziggy Palffy led the team with 90 points (48 goals, 42 assists) in 80 games. Tommy Salo played the most games in goal (58).
| # | 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 | Bryan Berard 🇺🇸 D 20 | 82 | 🧊 1 | 8 | 40 | 48 | 0.59 | 3 | 172 | 0 | 0 | 86 | — |
| 2 | Bryan McCabe 🇨🇦 D 21 | 82 | 🧊 1 | 8 | 20 | 28 | 0.34 | 2 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 165 | — |
| 3 | Kenny Jonsson 🇸🇪 D 22 | 81 | 🧊 6 | 3 | 18 | 21 | 0.26 | 1 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 24 | — |
| 4 | Scott Lachance 🇺🇸 D 24 | 81 | 🧊 7 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 0.17 | 1 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 47 | — |
| 5 | Doug Houda 🇨🇦 D 30 | 70 | 🔥 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 0.14 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 99 | — |
| 6 | Rich Pilon 🇨🇦 D 28 | 52 | 🧊 11 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.10 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 179 | — |
| 7 | Darius Kasparaitis 🇱🇹 D 24 | 18 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0.28 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 16 | — |
| 8 | Dennis Vaske 🇺🇸 D 29 | 17 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0.24 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 12 | — |
| 9 | Jason Holland 🇨🇦 D 20 | 4 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 10 | Corey Foster 🇨🇦 D 27 | 7 | 🧊 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — |
| Team totals · 10 skaters | 82 | 26 | 110 | 136 | 1.66 | 7 | 559 | 0 | 0 | 630 |
| # | 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 | Eric Fichaud 🇨🇦 G 21 | 34 | 13 | 2.68 | 0.000 | 0 | 91 | 51:44 | |
| 2 | Tommy Salo 🇸🇪 G 26 | 58 | 25 | 2.60 | 0.000 | 0 | 151 | 55:18 | |
| 3 | Tommy Soderstrom 🇸🇪 G 27 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0:26 |
54% of this roster was born in Canada, against 62% across the league. The team leans on Sweden: 13% of its players, against 4% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 39% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 21 |
|
-8 | 241 (39%) | Green, King, McCabe, Bertuzzi +17 |
| United States | 9 |
|
+6 | 188 (31%) | Smolinski, Berard, Mcinnis, Lachance +5 |
| Sweden | 5 |
|
+9 | 68 (11%) | Andersson, Jonsson, Johansson, Salo +1 |
| Czechia | 1 |
|
-1 | 19 (3%) | Reichel |
| Lithuania | 1 |
|
+3 | 5 (1%) | Kasparaitis |
| Russia | 1 |
|
-3 | 0 | Vasilyev |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
+2 | 90 (15%) | Palffy |
Ziggy Palffy led the New York Islanders in scoring in 1996-97 with 90 points — 48 goals and 42 assists in 80 games. Next came Travis Green (64) and Bryan Smolinski (56).
Ziggy Palffy scored 48 goals for the New York Islanders in 1996-97, 6 of them on the power play.
The New York Islanders dressed 39 players in 1996-97: 36 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 240 goals.
Tommy Salo played the most games in goal for the New York Islanders in 1996-97: 58 games, 25 wins, a 0.000 save percentage and a 2.60 goals against average. Eric Fichaud was the backup, in 34 games.
The average age was 25.6 years. Jason Holland was the youngest at 20, and Mike Donnelly the oldest at 33.
The New York Islanders used 39 players in 1996-97 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 21 in Canada, 9 in the United States and 5 in Sweden. The other 4 came from Czechia, Lithuania, Russia and Slovakia. League-wide that season, 62% of players were born in Canada, against 54% on this roster.