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1995–96 Winnipeg Jets season
NHL hockey team season
NHL hockey team season
| Field | Value |
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| League | NHL |
| Season | 1995–96 |
| year | 1995 |
| Team | Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996)Winnipeg Jets |
| Conference | Western |
| ConferenceRank | 8th |
| Division | Central |
| DivisionRank | 5th |
| Record | 36–40–6 |
| HomeRecord | 22–16–3 |
| RoadRecord | 14–24–3 |
| GoalsFor | 275 |
| GoalsAgainst | 291 |
| GeneralManager | John Paddock |
| Coach | Terry Simpson |
| Captain | Kris King |
| Arena | Winnipeg Arena |
| Attendance | 11,316 |
| MinorLeague | Springfield Falcons |
| GoalsLeader | Keith Tkachuk (50) |
| AssistsLeader | Keith Tkachuk (48) |
| Teemu Selanne (48) | |
| PointsLeader | Keith Tkachuk (98) |
| PIMLeader | Dave Manson (205) |
| PlusMinusLeader | Keith Tkachuk (+11) |
| WinsLeader | Nikolai Khabibulin (26) |
| GAALeader | Nikolai Khabibulin (3.13) |
| prev_season | [1994–95](1994-95-winnipeg-jets-season) |
| next_season | [1996–97 (Phoenix)](1996-97-phoenix-coyotes-season) |
Teemu Selanne (48) The 1995–96 Winnipeg Jets season was the team's 24th and their final season in Winnipeg before the franchise was moved to Phoenix, Arizona, and renamed the Phoenix Coyotes.
The NHL returned to Winnipeg following the 2010–11 season, when the Atlanta Thrashers became the "new" Winnipeg Jets.
The Jets managed to qualify for the eighth and final playoff Western Conference playoff berth in their final season in Winnipeg. The Jets were eliminated in the first round in six games by the Presidents' Trophy winners, the Detroit Red Wings.
Off-season
The interim label was removed from head coach Terry Simpson's title on June 20.
The Jets picked Shane Doan of the Kamloops Blazers as their first-round pick, seventh overall.
Due to contractual disagreements, Keith Tkachuk was replaced as captain by Kris King.
Regular season
Their 36 wins were the highest since the Jets won 40 games during the 1992–93 season.
Season standings
Playoffs
The Jets lost their first round series 4–2 to the Detroit Red Wings. Winnipeg played their last-ever game on April 28, 1996, a home playoff loss to the Red Wings, 4–1. Norm Maciver scored the last goal in original Jets history.
Schedule and results
Regular season
|- |1||October 7, 1995||7–5 || style="text-align:left;"| Dallas Stars (1995–96) ||1–0–0 ||13,914 || |- |2||October 9, 1995||4–3 || style="text-align:left;"| Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (1995–96) ||2–0–0 ||7,856 || |- |3||October 11, 1995||4–6 || style="text-align:left;"| @ New York Rangers (1995–96) ||2–1–0 ||18,200 || |- |4||October 12, 1995||1–4 || style="text-align:left;"| @ New Jersey Devils (1995–96) ||2–2–0 ||10,392 || |- |5||October 15, 1995||5–5 OT|| style="text-align:left;"| Detroit Red Wings (1995–96) ||2–2–1 ||9,399 || |- |6||October 17, 1995||5–2 || style="text-align:left;"| Tampa Bay Lightning (1995–96) ||3–2–1 ||6,770 || |- |7||October 19, 1995||3–3 OT|| style="text-align:left;"| San Jose Sharks (1995–96) ||3–2–2 ||9,001 || |- |8||October 22, 1995||2–6 || style="text-align:left;"| @ Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (1995–96) ||3–3–2 ||17,033 || |- |9||October 25, 1995||6–1 || style="text-align:left;"| @ San Jose Sharks (1995–96) ||4–3–2 ||17,190 || |- |10||October 27, 1995||5–7 || style="text-align:left;"| @ Edmonton Oilers (1995–96) ||4–4–2 ||10,527 || |- |11||October 28, 1995||4–1 || style="text-align:left;"| @ Vancouver Canucks (1995–96) ||5–4–2 ||18,184 || |- |12||October 30, 1995||3–2 || style="text-align:left;"| Detroit Red Wings (1995–96) ||6–4–2 ||7,905 ||
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Playoffs
|- | 1 || April 17, 1996 || 1–4 || style="text-align:left;"| @ Detroit Red Wings || 19,983 || Red Wings lead 1–0 || |- | 2 || April 19, 1996 || 0–4 || style="text-align:left;"| @ Detroit Red Wings || 19,983 || Red Wings lead 2–0 || |- |- | 3 || April 21, 1996 || 4–1 || style="text-align:left;"| Detroit Red Wings || 15,544 || Red Wings lead 2–1 || |- | 4 || April 23, 1996 || 1–6 || style="text-align:left;"| Detroit Red Wings || 15,557 || Red Wings lead 3–1 || |- |- | 5 || April 26, 1996 || 3–1 || style="text-align:left;"| @ Detroit Red Wings || 19,983 || Red Wings lead 3–2 || |- | 6 || April 28, 1996 || 1–4 || style="text-align:left;"| Detroit Red Wings || 15,567 || Red Wings win 4–2 ||
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Player statistics
Scoring
- Position abbreviations: C = Centre; D = Defence; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
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- = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Jets only.*
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- = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Jets only.*
| No. | Player | Pos | Regular season | Playoffs | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM |
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| 7 | LW | 76 | 50 | 48 | 98 | 11 | 156 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 22 | |||
| 8 | RW | 51 | 24 | 48 | 72 | 3 | 18 | |||||||||
| 10 | C | 58 | 22 | 37 | 59 | −4 | 65 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | |||
| 27 | D | 74 | 11 | 43 | 54 | −4 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | |||
| 23 | C | 73 | 22 | 29 | 51 | 1 | 42 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | −2 | 0 | |||
| 16 | C | 51 | 27 | 22 | 49 | 0 | 65 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | |||
| 11 | RW | 69 | 19 | 20 | 39 | −7 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | |||
| 89 | C | 59 | 16 | 16 | 32 | −3 | 26 | |||||||||
| 4 | D | 82 | 7 | 23 | 30 | 8 | 205 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 30 | |||
| 44 | D | 39 | 5 | 25 | 30 | −6 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||
| 32 | C | 80 | 14 | 14 | 28 | −14 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | |||
| 14 | C | 58 | 10 | 14 | 24 | −4 | 37 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 21 | |||
| 34 | LW | 63 | 5 | 18 | 23 | −5 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |||
| 17 | LW | 81 | 9 | 11 | 20 | −7 | 151 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
| 29 | C | 13 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 5 | D | 51 | 5 | 13 | 18 | −2 | 22 | |||||||||
| 19 | RW | 74 | 7 | 10 | 17 | −9 | 101 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||
| 24 | D | 48 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 72 | |||||||||
| 20 | D | 31 | 0 | 8 | 8 | −7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | |||
| 33 | LW | 73 | 4 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 202 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| 26 | D | 65 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −2 | 81 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 4 | |||
| 15 | C | 22 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 | |||||||||
| 18 | LW | 29 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2 | D | 21 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 33 | |||||||||
| 28 | D | 25 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 37 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | |||
| 55 | D | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 28 | |||||||||
| 39 | C | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 22 | RW | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 36 | D | 29 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −10 | 32 | |||||||||
| 3 | D | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 21 | |||||||||
| 21 | RW | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 12 | |||||||||
| 29 | G | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 37 | G | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 6 | D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 75 | LW | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 43 | LW | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | |||||||||
| 35 | G | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 31 | G | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 12 | C | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | |||||||||
| 30 | RW | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 16 | |||||||||
| 37 | G | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Goaltending
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- = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Jets only.*
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- = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Jets only.*
| 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 | Nikolai Khabibulin | 53 | 26 | 20 | 3 | 1656 | 152 | 3.13 | .908 | 2 | 2914 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 214 | 19 | 3.17 | .911 | 0 | 359 | ||
| 29 | Tim Cheveldae | 30 | 8 | 18 | 3 | 948 | 111 | 3.93 | .883 | 0 | 1695 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 37 | Dominic Roussel | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 134 | 16 | 3.37 | .881 | 0 | 285 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 37 | Tom Draper | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 5.37 | .786 | 0 | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 31 | Scott Langkow | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 0 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Awards and records
Awards
| Type | Award/honour | Recipient | Ref | League | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (annual) | League | |||||
| (in-season) | Team | |||||
| King Clancy Memorial Trophy | Kris King | |||||
| [NHL All-Star Game](1996-national-hockey-league-all-star-game) selection | Teemu Selanne | |||||
| Molson Cup | Nikolai Khabibulin |
Milestones
| Milestone | Player | Date | Ref | First game |
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| Shane Doan | October 7, 1995 | |||
| Jason Doig | ||||
| Craig Mills | ||||
| Deron Quint | ||||
| Ravil Gusmanov | November 21, 1995 | |||
| Scott Langkow | December 7, 1995 |
Transactions
Trades
| March 20, 1996 | To Chicago BlackhawksRavil Gusmanov | To Winnipeg Jets4th round pick in [1996](1996-nhl-entry-draft) (Vladimir Antipov) |
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Waivers
| March 20, 1996 | From St. Louis BluesDallas Eakins |
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Free agents
| Tom Draper | New York Islanders |
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| Stephane Beauregard | San Francisco Spiders (IHL) |
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Draft picks
Winnipeg's draft picks at the 1995 NHL entry draft held at the Edmonton Coliseum in Edmonton, Alberta.
| Round | # | Player | Position | Nationality | College/Junior/Club team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | Shane Doan | Centre | Kamloops Blazers (WHL) | |
| 2 | 32 | Marc Chouinard | Centre | Beauport Harfangs (QMJHL) | |
| 2 | 34 | Jason Doig | Defence | Laval Titan College Francais (QMJHL) | |
| 3 | 67 | Brad Isbister | Defence | Portland Winter Hawks (WHL) | |
| 4 | 84 | Justin Kurtz | Defence | Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL) | |
| 5 | 121 | Brian Elder | Goaltender | Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL) | |
| 6 | 137 | Sylvain Daigle | Goaltender | Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL) | |
| 7 | 162 | Paul Traynor | Defence | Kitchener Rangers (OHL) | |
| 8 | 188 | Jaroslav Obsut | Right wing | Battlefords North Stars (SJHL) | |
| 8 | 189 | Fredrik Loven | Defence | Djurgardens IF (SEL) | |
| 9 | 214 | Rob DeCiantis | Centre | Kitchener Rangers (OHL) |
Relocation to Phoenix
As the National Hockey League (NHL) expanded into the United States, the team operating costs and salaries grew rapidly; this development put a high strain on the League's Canadian teams. As Winnipeg was the League's second-smallest market (eventually becoming the smallest market after the Quebec Nordiques moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1995), the Jets were unable to retain their best players. Various schemes were devised to save the team through a tremendous grassroots effort and government funds, but in the end, the efforts were not enough.
Despite strong fan support, the Winnipeg Jets were at a financial disadvantage with many American franchises. The team was sold to Phoenix businessmen Steven Gluckstern and Richard Burke, and in 1996, the club moved to Arizona and became the Phoenix Coyotes. In the summer that the move took place, the franchise saw the exit of Jets stars like Teemu Selanne and Alexei Zhamnov, while the team added established superstar Jeremy Roenick from the Chicago Blackhawks. Roenick teamed up with power wingers Keith Tkachuk and Rick Tocchet to form a dynamic 1–2–3 offensive punch that led the Coyotes through their first years in Arizona. Also impressive were young players Shane Doan (who was the last remaining original Jet active in the NHL), Oleg Tverdovsky and goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin, whom the fans nicknamed the "Bulin Wall."
Notes
References
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;Statistics
References
- (June 20, 1995). "Simpson named Winnipeg head coach - UPI Archives".
- (October 6, 1995). "NHL UPDATE".
- "1995-96 Winnipeg Jets Schedule".
- "King Clancy Memorial Trophy".
- "1996 NHL All-Star Game Rosters".
- "1995-96 NHL Debuts".
- "1995 NHL Entry Draft Picks at hockeydb.com".
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