1994–95 New York Rangers season

1994–95 New York Rangers
1994–95 New York Rangers
Division	4th Atlantic
Conference	8th Eastern
1994–95 record	22–23–3
Home record	11–10–3
Road record	11–13–0
Goals for	139
Goals against	134
Team information
General manager	Neil Smith
Coach	Colin Campbell
Captain	Mark Messier
Alternate captains	Adam Graves ; Brian Leetch
Arena	Madison Square Garden
Average attendance	18,194 (99.9%)
Team leaders
Goals	Adam Graves (17)
Assists	Mark Messier (39)
Points	Mark Messier (53)
Penalty minutes	Nick Kypreos (93)
Wins	Mike Richter (14)
Goals against average	Glenn Healy (2.36)
	← 1993–94 1995–96 →

The 1994–95 New York Rangers season was the 69th season for the franchise. The season was shortened to 48 games due to the 1994-95 NHL lockout.

With Mike Keenan off to St. Louis to coach the Blues, the Rangers hired Colin Campbell to lead the Rangers. Members of the 1994 Stanley Cup championship team Doug Lidster and Esa Tikkanen would join Keenan in St. Louis, as Lidster and Tikkanen were traded for Petr Nedved on July 24, 1994. Another member of the championship team, Glenn Anderson would sign with St. Louis as a free agent on February 13, 1995. On March 23, the team acquired Pat Verbeek through a trade with the Hartford Whalers. Verbeek would prove to be a handy addition to the club, scoring 10 goals in 19 games. The defending Cup champions finished the season 8th place in the Eastern Conference with a mediocre record of 22-23-3 for 47 points - just one point ahead of the Florida Panthers.

Regular season

Final standings

Atlantic Division
No.	CR		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	2	Philadelphia Flyers	48	28	16	4	150	132	60
2	5	New Jersey Devils	48	22	18	8	136	121	52
3	6	Washington Capitals	48	22	18	8	136	120	52
4	8	New York Rangers	48	22	23	3	139	134	47
5	9	Florida Panthers	48	20	22	6	115	127	46
6	12	Tampa Bay Lightning	48	17	28	3	120	144	37
7	13	New York Islanders	48	15	28	5	126	158	35

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Note: No. = Division rank, CR = Conference rank, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Schedule and results

1994-95 Game Log

January: 2-4-0 (Home: 2-3-0; Road: 0-1-0)

February: 7-4-3 (Home: 1-1-3; Road: 6-3-0)

March: 4-8-0 (Home: 3-3-0; Road: 1-5-0)

April: 9-6-0 (Home: 5-2-0; Road: 4-4-0)

May: 0-1-0 (Home: 0-1-0; Road: 0-0-0)

Playoffs

The Rangers faced the first-place Quebec Nordiques in the first round of the playoffs. They narrowly lost game 1 by a score of 5-4, as the Nordiques were powered by Joe Sakic's hat trick. New York came back in game 2, winning 8-3. Sergei Nemchinov and Petr Nedved each scored twice. After edging the Nordiques 4-3 in game 3, the Rangers found themselves trailing 2-0 in game 4. They would tie it up on goals by Brian Leetch and Alexei Kovalev. Steve Larmer scored the winner at 8:09 of the first overtime period. Facing elimination, the Nordiques played a determined game 5 at home and won 4-2 to cut New York's lead in the series to 3-2. The Rangers, at home for game 6, built up a 4-0 lead and ended up winning 4-2, to eliminate the Nordiques 4 games to 2. The Nordiques moved to Colorado almost immediately, as the announcement came on May 25, 1995.

In the second round, the Rangers faced a determined Philadelphia Flyers team that was led by the "Legion of Doom" line. In game 1, the Rangers jumped out to a 2-0 lead after the first period on power-play goals by Brian Leetch and Petr Nedved. With the help of John LeClair's hat trick, the Flyers took a 4-3 lead in the third period. With only 19 seconds remaining, Pat Verbeek tied the game a 4-4. However, it was the Flyers who would ultimately win the game, as Eric Desjardins scored at 7:03 of the first overtime period. Game 2 started nearly identically to game 1, as New York led 2-0 after the first period on power-play goals. Both were scored by Brian Leetch. Philadelphia re-gained control of the game as they had in game 1, leading 3-2 midway through the third period. With under 8 minutes to go, Leetch completed his hat trick to tie the score at 3-3. This game also went into overtime, and the Flyers needed only 25 seconds to win it, as defenseman Kevin Haller scored his 3rd of the playoffs to give Philadelphia a 2-0 lead in the series. The Flyers went on to dominate games 3 and 4 at Madison Square Garden in New York, winning 5-2 and 4-1 to complete the sweep.

Key: Win Loss

1995 Stanley Cup Playoffs

Conference Quarter-finals: vs. (1) Quebec Nordiques - New York Rangers win series 4-2
#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	OT	Series
1	May 6	New York Rangers	4 - 5	Quebec Nordiques		Quebec leads series 1-0
2	May 8	New York Rangers	8 - 3	Quebec Nordiques		Series tied 1-1
3	May 10	Quebec Nordiques	3 - 4	New York Rangers		New York Rangers lead series 2-1
4	May 12	Quebec Nordiques	2 - 3	New York Rangers	OT	New York Rangers lead series 3-1
5	May 14	New York Rangers	2 - 4	Quebec Nordiques		New York Rangers lead series 3-2
6	May 16	Quebec Nordiques	2 - 4	New York Rangers		New York Rangers win series 4-2

Conference Semi-finals: vs. (2) Philadelphia Flyers - Philadelphia wins series 4-0
#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	OT	Series
1	May 21	New York Rangers	4 - 5	Philadelphia Flyers	OT	Philadelphia leads series 1-0
2	May 22	New York Rangers	3 - 4	Philadelphia Flyers	OT	Philadelphia leads series 2-0
3	May 24	Philadelphia Flyers	5 - 2	New York Rangers		Philadelphia leads series 3-0
4	May 26	Philadelphia Flyers	4 - 1	New York Rangers		Philadelphia wins series 4-0

Player statistics

Skaters

Regular Season
Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
Mark Messier	46	14	39	53	8	40
Brian Leetch	48	9	32	41	0	18
Sergei Zubov	38	10	26	36	-2	18
Adam Graves	47	17	14	31	9	51
Steve Larmer	47	14	15	29	8	16
Alexei Kovalev	48	13	15	28	-6	30
Brian Noonan	45	14	13	27	-3	26
Petr Nedved	46	11	12	23	-1	26
Pat Verbeek^†	19	10	5	15	-2	18
Sergei Nemchinov	47	7	6	13	-6	16
Alexander Karpovtsev	47	4	8	12	-4	30
Jay Wells	43	2	7	9	0	36
Stephane Matteau	41	3	5	8	-8	25
Kevin Lowe	44	1	7	8	-2	58
Mark Osborne	37	1	3	4	-2	19
Nick Kypreos	40	1	3	4	0	93
Jeff Beukeboom	44	1	3	4	3	70
Ed Olczyk^‡	20	2	1	3	-2	4
Joey Kocur	48	1	2	3	-4	71
Mattias Norstrom	9	0	3	3	2	2
Darren Langdon	18	1	1	2	0	62
Joby Messier	10	0	2	2	2	18
Jean-Yves Roy	3	1	0	1	-1	2
Shawn McCosh	5	1	0	1	1	2
Glen Featherstone^‡	6	1	0	1	0	18
Mike Hartman	1	0	0	0	0	4
Daniel Lacroix^†	1	0	0	0	0	0
Troy Loney^‡	4	0	0	0	-2	0
Nathan LaFayette^†	12	0	0	0	1	0

Playoffs
Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Brian Leetch	10	6	8	14	8
Mark Messier	10	3	10	13	8
Alexei Kovalev	10	4	7	11	10
Sergei Zubov	10	3	8	11	2
Pat Verbeek	10	4	6	10	20
Sergei Nemchinov	10	4	5	9	2
Adam Graves	10	4	4	8	8
Petr Nedved	10	3	2	5	6
Steve Larmer	10	2	2	4	6
Nick Kypreos	10	0	2	2	6
Mark Osborne	7	1	0	1	2
Kevin Lowe	10	0	1	1	12
Stephane Matteau	9	0	1	1	10
Alexander Karpovtsev	8	1	0	1	0
Nathan LaFayette	8	0	0	0	2
Troy Loney	1	0	0	0	0
Mattias Norstrom	3	0	0	0	0
Joey Kocur	10	0	0	0	8
Jeff Beukeboom	9	0	0	0	10
Jay Wells	10	0	0	0	8
Brian Noonan	5	0	0	0	8

Goaltenders

Regular Season
Player	GP	TOI	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SA	SV%	SO
Mike Richter	35	1993	14	17	2	97	2.92	884	.890	2
Glenn Healy	17	888	8	6	1	35	2.36	377	.907	1

Playoffs
Player	GP	TOI	W	L	GA	GAA	SA	SV%	SO
Mike Richter	7	384	2	5	23	3.60	189	.878	0
Glenn Healy	5	230	2	1	13	3.39	93	.860	0

^†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Rangers. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.
^‡Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.

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Note:

Pos = Position; GPI = Games played in; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; +/- = Plus/minus; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals

Min, TOI = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T,T/OT = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

Transactions

July 24, 1994 - Doug Lidster was traded by the New York Rangers, along with Esa Tikkanen, to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for Petr Nedvěd.
March 23, 1995 - Hartford obtained D Glen Featherstone, D Michael Stewart and a first-round pick in the 1995 Entry Draft (Jean Sebastien Giguere) and a fourth-round pick in the 1996 Entry Draft for RW Pat Verbeek.^[3]

Draft picks

New York's picks at the 1994 NHL Entry Draft in Hartford, Connecticut at the Hartford Civic Center.

Round	#	Player	Position	Nationality	College/Junior/Club Team (League)
1	26	Dan Cloutier	G	Canada	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL)
2	52	Rudolf Vercik	LW	Slovakia	HC Slovan Bratislava (Slovak Extraliga)
3	78	Adam Smith	D	Canada	Tacoma Rockets (WHL)
4	100	Alexander Korobolin	D	Russia	Chelyabinsk Mechel (Rus-1)
4	104	Sylvain Blouin	LW	Canada	Laval Titan (QMJHL)
5	130	Martin Ethier	D	Canada	Beauport Harfangs (QMJHL)
6	135	Yuri Litvinov	C	Russia	PHC Krylya Sovetov (Russia)
6	156	David Brosseau	RW	Canada	Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL)
7	182	Alexei Lazarenko	RW	Ukraine	HC CSKA Moscow (Russia)
8	208	Craig Anderson	D	United States	Park Center H.S. (Minnesota)
9	209	Vitali Yeremeyev	G	Kazakhstan	HC Kamenogorsk (Russia)
9	234	Eric Boulton	LW	Canada	Oshawa Generals (OHL)
10	260	Radoslav Kropac	Forward	Slovakia	HC Slovan Bratislava (Russia)
11	267	Jamie Butt	LW	Canada	Tacoma Rockets (WHL)
11	286	Kim Johnsson	D	Sweden	Malmo IF (SEL)

References

Rangers on Hockey Database

^ Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy; et al. (eds.). THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
^ "1994-95 New York Rangers". hockeydb.com. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
^ NHL.com - 2008 Trade Deadline

[1] Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy; et al. (eds.). THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.

[2] "1994-95 New York Rangers". hockeydb.com. Retrieved 2010-08-01.

[3] NHL.com - 2008 Trade Deadline

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Founded in 1926 Based in New York, New York
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See also	Draft Supplemental draft Lockout Waiver draft Legion of Doom Stanley Cup playoffs Stanley Cup Finals