The 1996–97 NHL season was the 80th regular season of the National Hockey League. The Stanley Cup winners were the Detroit Red Wings, who swept the Philadelphia Flyers in four games and won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 42 years.
The regular season saw a decline in scoring and rise in the number of shutouts, to an all-time record of 127.[1] This trend continued into the playoffs, during which an all-time record of 18 shutouts were recorded.[2] Only two players, Mario Lemieux and Teemu Selanne, reached the 100-point plateau during the regular season[3] (compared with 12 who reached the plateau in 1995-96[4]).
Many factors, including fewer power-plays, more calls of the
skate-in-the-crease rule, fewer shots on goal, and more injuries to star
players than the season before contributed to the reduction in scoring
and skyrocketing in shutouts. Paradoxically, teams actually averaged
more even-strength goals scored (174)[5] than in 1995-96 (172).[6]
This was the first time in 30 years - and in the entire expansion era - that the Boston Bruins
had either a losing record or missed the playoffs, ending a
still-unsurpassed North American professional sports streak of 29
straight seasons in the playoffs. Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%E2%80%9397_NHL_season.
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