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1994–95 New York Rangers season

NHL hockey team season

Field	Value
League	NHL
Season	1994–95
year	1994
Team	New York Rangers
Conference	Eastern
ConferenceRank	8th
Division	Atlantic
DivisionRank	4th
Record	22–23–3
HomeRecord	11–10–3
RoadRecord	11–13–0
GoalsFor	139
GoalsAgainst	134
GeneralManager	Neil Smith
Coach	Colin Campbell
Captain	Mark Messier
AltCaptain	Adam Graves
Brian Leetch
Arena	Madison Square Garden
Attendance	18,194 (99.9%)
MinorLeague	Binghamton Rangers
GoalsLeader	Adam Graves (17)
AssistsLeader	Mark Messier (39)
PointsLeader	Mark Messier (53)
PIMLeader	Nick Kypreos (93)
PlusMinusLeader	Adam Graves (+9)
WinsLeader	Mike Richter (14)
GAALeader	Glenn Healy (2.36)

Brian Leetch

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

For the third time in as many years, the Rangers started the season with a different head coach. Mike Keenan, who had led the team to the Stanley Cup one year earlier, left to become head coach and general manager of the St. Louis Blues under controversial circumstances. Colin Campbell was hired to replace him and the Blues sent Petr Nedved to the Rangers as compensation for Keenan, with Doug Lidster and Esa Tikkanen sent to St. Louis with their former coach.

The Rangers barely qualified for the playoffs in the shortened season, finishing one point ahead of the Florida Panthers for the last spot in the Eastern Conference. The team advanced to the second round of the playoffs, where they fell in a sweep to the Philadelphia Flyers.

Regular season

Final standings

Playoffs

Main article: 1995 Stanley Cup playoffs

The Rangers faced the first-place Quebec Nordiques in the first round of the playoffs. They narrowly lost Game 1, 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 four games to two. 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 at 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 eight 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.

Schedule and results

Regular season

|- | 1 || January 20, 1995 || Buffalo Sabres || 2–1 || 0–1–0 || |- | 2 || January 21, 1995 || Montreal Canadiens || 5–2 || 1–1–0 || |- | 3 || January 23, 1995 || Boston Bruins || 2–1 || 1–2–0 || |- | 4 || January 25, 1995 || Pittsburgh Penguins || 3–2 || 1–3–0 || |- | 5 || January 28, 1995 || @ Quebec Nordiques || 2–0 || 1–4–0 || |- | 6 || January 30, 1995 || Ottawa Senators || 6–2 || 2–4–0 ||

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Playoffs

|- | 1 || May 6, 1995 || @ Quebec Nordiques || 5–4 || Nordiques lead 1–0 || |- | 2 || May 8, 1995 || @ Quebec Nordiques || 8–3 || Series tied 1–1 || |- | 3 || May 10, 1995 || Quebec Nordiques || 4–3 || Rangers lead 2–1 || |- | 4 || May 12, 1995 || Quebec Nordiques || 3–2 OT || Rangers lead 3–1 || |- | 5 || May 14, 1995 || @ Quebec Nordiques || 4–2 || Rangers lead 3–2 || |- | 6 || May 16, 1995 || Quebec Nordiques || 4–2 || Rangers win 4–2 ||

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Player statistics

Scoring

Position abbreviations: C = Center; D = Defense; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
- = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Rangers only.*
- = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Rangers only.*

No.	Pos	Regular season	Playoffs	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts
11	C	46	14	39	53	8	40	10	3	10	13	−11	8
2	D	48	9	32	41	0	18	10	6	8	14	−1	8
21	D	38	10	26	36	−2	18	10	3	8	11	−9	2
9	LW	47	17	14	31	9	51	10	4	4	8	−13	8
28	RW	47	14	15	29	8	16	10	2	2	4	−5	6
27	C	48	13	15	28	−6	30	10	4	7	11	2	10
16	RW	45	14	13	27	−3	26	5	0	0	0	0	8
10	C	46	11	12	23	−1	26	10	3	2	5	−4	6
17	RW	19	10	5	15	−2	18	10	4	6	10	−8	20
13	LW	47	7	6	13	−6	16	10	4	5	9	6	2
25	D	47	4	8	12	−4	30	8	1	0	1	−1	0
24	D	43	2	7	9	0	36	10	0	0	0	−4	8
32	LW	41	3	5	8	−8	25	9	0	1	1	−1	10
4	D	44	1	7	8	−2	58	10	0	1	1	−5	12
23	D	44	1	3	4	3	70	9	0	0	0	1	10
19	LW	40	1	3	4	0	93	10	0	2	2	3	6
20	LW	37	1	3	4	−2	19	7	1	0	1	1	2
12	LW	20	2	1	3	−2	4
26	RW	48	1	2	3	−4	71	10	0	0	0	0	8
5	D	9	0	3	3	2	2	3	0	0	0	−1	0
15	LW	18	1	1	2	0	62
30	G	17	0	2	2		2	5	0	0	0		0
29	D	10	0	2	2	2	18
6	D	6	1	0	1	0	18
39	C	5	1	0	1	1	2
8	RW	3	1	0	1	−1	2
18	LW	1	0	0	0	0	4
37	C	1	0	0	0	0	0
22	C	12	0	0	0	1	0	8	0	0	0	−1	2
14	LW	4	0	0	0	−2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
35	G	35	0	0	0		2	7	0	0	0		0

Goaltending

No.	Player	Regular season	Playoffs	GP	W	L	T	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI	GP	W	L	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI
35	Mike Richter	35	14	17	2	884	97	2.92	.890	2	1993	7	2	5	189	23	3.60	.878	0	384
30	Glenn Healy	17	8	6	1	377	35	2.36	.907	1	888	5	2	1	93	13	3.39	.860	0	230

Awards and records

Awards

Type	Award/honor	Recipient	Ref	League
(annual)	Team
Lester Patrick Trophy	Brian Mullen
Ceil Saidel Memorial Award	Adam Graves	title=2014–15 New York Rangers Media Guide	publisher=New York Rangers	year=2014	pages=349–352}}
"Crumb Bum" Award	Mark Messier
Frank Boucher Trophy	Mark Messier
Good Guy Award	Kevin Lowe
Lars-Erik Sjoberg Award	Mattias Norstrom
Players' Player Award	Adam Graves
Rangers MVP	Mark Messier
Steven McDonald Extra Effort Award	Mark Messier

Milestones

Milestone	Player	Date	Ref	First game	1,000th point	1,000th game played
Jean-Yves Roy	January 25, 1995
Darren Langdon	February 18, 1995
Steve Larmer	March 8, 1995
Steve Larmer	April 20, 1995
Jay Wells	April 30, 1995

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 Nedved.
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 in exchange for RW Pat Verbeek.

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	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	CSKA Moscow (Russia)
8	208	Craig Anderson	D	United States	Park Center Senior High School (USHS-MN)
9	209	Vitali Yeremeyev	G	Kazakhstan	HC Kamenogorsk (Russia)
9	234	Eric Boulton	LW	Canada	Oshawa Generals (OHL)
10	260	Radoslav Kropac	F	Slovakia	Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia)
11	267	Jamie Butt	LW	Canada	Tacoma Rockets (WHL)
11	286	Kim Johnsson	D	Sweden	Malmö IF (SEL)

References

"1994-95 New York Rangers Schedule".
"Lester Patrick Trophy".
(2014). "2014–15 New York Rangers Media Guide". New York Rangers.
"1994-95 NHL Debuts".
(March 9, 1995). "NHL / Larmer's Point Sparks Rangers / 43rd player to reach 1,000".
(April 21, 1995). "HOCKEY; Nedved's Questionable Goal Is the Right Answer".
(May 3, 1995). "HOCKEY; Only Sure Thing for Rangers: 8th Place".
"1994 NHL Entry Draft Picks at hockeydb.com".

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