2001–02 Washington Capitals season
2001–02 Washington Capitals | |
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Division | 2nd Southeast |
Conference | 9th Eastern |
2001–02 record | 36–33–11–2 |
Home record | 21–12–6–2 |
Road record | 15–21–5–0 |
Goals for | 228 |
Goals against | 240 |
Team information | |
General manager | George McPhee |
Coach | Ron Wilson |
Captain | Steve Konowalchuk Brendan Witt |
Alternate captains | Peter Bondra Jaromir Jagr Calle Johansson |
Arena | MCI Center |
Average attendance | 17,341 |
Minor league affiliate(s) | Portland Pirates Richmond Renegades |
Team leaders | |
Goals | Peter Bondra (39) |
Assists | Adam Oates (57) |
Points | Jaromir Jagr (79) |
Penalty minutes | Chris Simon (137) |
Plus/minus | Frantisek Kucera (+7) |
Wins | Olaf Kolzig (31) |
Goals against average | Olaf Kolzig (2.79) |
The 2001–02 Washington Capitals season was the team's 28th season of play. The team finished second in the Southeast, but ninth overall in the Eastern Conference to miss the playoffs.
Off-season
[edit]On September 27, Steve Konowalchuk and Brendan Witt were named co-captains.[1]
Regular season
[edit]The Caps tied the New Jersey Devils for fewest short-handed goals scored, with just 2.[2]
Final standings
[edit]No. | CR | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | 3 | Carolina Hurricanes | 82 | 35 | 26 | 16 | 5 | 217 | 217 | 91 |
2 | 9 | Washington Capitals | 82 | 36 | 33 | 11 | 2 | 228 | 240 | 85 |
3 | 13 | Tampa Bay Lightning | 82 | 27 | 40 | 11 | 4 | 178 | 219 | 69 |
4 | 14 | Florida Panthers | 82 | 22 | 44 | 10 | 6 | 180 | 250 | 60 |
5 | 15 | Atlanta Thrashers | 82 | 19 | 47 | 11 | 5 | 187 | 288 | 54 |
Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTL = Overtime loss; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points
Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.
R | Div | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | Z- Boston Bruins | NE | 82 | 43 | 24 | 6 | 9 | 236 | 201 | 101 |
2 | Y- Philadelphia Flyers | AT | 82 | 42 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 234 | 192 | 97 |
3 | Y- Carolina Hurricanes | SE | 82 | 35 | 26 | 16 | 5 | 217 | 217 | 91 |
4 | X- Toronto Maple Leafs | NE | 82 | 43 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 249 | 207 | 100 |
5 | X- New York Islanders | AT | 82 | 42 | 28 | 8 | 4 | 239 | 220 | 96 |
6 | X- New Jersey Devils | AT | 82 | 41 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 205 | 187 | 95 |
7 | X- Ottawa Senators | NE | 82 | 39 | 27 | 9 | 7 | 243 | 208 | 94 |
8 | X- Montreal Canadiens | NE | 82 | 36 | 31 | 12 | 3 | 207 | 209 | 87 |
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9 | Washington Capitals | SE | 82 | 36 | 33 | 11 | 2 | 228 | 240 | 85 |
10 | Buffalo Sabres | NE | 82 | 35 | 35 | 11 | 1 | 213 | 200 | 82 |
11 | New York Rangers | AT | 82 | 36 | 38 | 4 | 4 | 227 | 258 | 80 |
12 | Pittsburgh Penguins | AT | 82 | 28 | 41 | 8 | 5 | 198 | 249 | 69 |
13 | Tampa Bay Lightning | SE | 82 | 27 | 40 | 11 | 4 | 178 | 219 | 69 |
14 | Florida Panthers | SE | 82 | 22 | 44 | 10 | 6 | 180 | 250 | 60 |
15 | Atlanta Thrashers | SE | 82 | 19 | 47 | 11 | 5 | 187 | 288 | 54 |
Divisions: AT – Atlantic, NE – Northeast, SE – Southeast
Z – Clinched Conference; Y – Clinched Division; X – Clinched Playoff spot
Schedule and results
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October: 5–6–1–0 (home: 2–1–0–0; road: 3–5–1–0)
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November: 5–7–2–0 (home: 5–3–1–0; road: 0–4–1–0)
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December: 5–4–4–0 (home: 3–1–3–0; road: 2–3–1–0)
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January: 5–9–1–1 (home: 3–4–1–1; road: 2–5–0–0)
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February: 4–1–1–0 (home: 3–1–0–0; road: 1–0–1–0)
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March: 9–5–1–0 (home: 3–2–0–0; road: 6–3–1–0)
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April: 3–1–1–1 (home: 2–0–1–1; road: 1–1–0–0)
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Legend:
Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Tie (1 point) Overtime loss (1 point) |
Player statistics
[edit]Scoring
[edit]- 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 Capitals only.
- ‡ = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Capitals only.
Regular season | ||||||||
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No. | Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM |
68 | Jaromir Jagr | RW | 69 | 31 | 48 | 79 | 0 | 30 |
12 | Peter Bondra | RW | 77 | 39 | 31 | 70 | −2 | 80 |
77 | Adam Oates‡ | C | 66 | 11 | 57 | 68 | −2 | 22 |
55 | Sergei Gonchar | D | 76 | 26 | 33 | 59 | −1 | 58 |
10 | Ulf Dahlen | LW | 69 | 23 | 29 | 52 | −5 | 8 |
9 | Dainius Zubrus | C | 71 | 17 | 26 | 43 | 5 | 38 |
13 | Andrei Nikolishin | C | 80 | 13 | 23 | 36 | −1 | 40 |
17 | Chris Simon | LW | 82 | 14 | 17 | 31 | −8 | 137 |
8 | Dmitri Khristich | C | 61 | 9 | 12 | 21 | 2 | 12 |
11 | Jeff Halpern | C | 48 | 5 | 14 | 19 | −9 | 29 |
20 | Glen Metropolit† | C | 33 | 1 | 16 | 17 | 3 | 6 |
2 | Ken Klee | D | 68 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 38 |
3 | Sylvain Cote | D | 70 | 3 | 11 | 14 | −15 | 26 |
22 | Steve Konowalchuk | LW | 28 | 2 | 12 | 14 | −2 | 23 |
4 | Frantisek Kucera | D | 56 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 12 |
18 | Matt Pettinger | LW | 61 | 7 | 3 | 10 | −8 | 44 |
19 | Brendan Witt | D | 68 | 3 | 7 | 10 | −1 | 78 |
36 | Colin Forbes† | C | 38 | 5 | 3 | 8 | −2 | 15 |
14 | Joe Sacco | RW | 65 | 0 | 7 | 7 | −13 | 51 |
29 | Joe Reekie‡ | D | 38 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −7 | 41 |
24 | Rob Zettler | D | 49 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 56 |
51 | Stephen Peat | RW | 38 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −1 | 85 |
58 | Jean-Francois Fortin | D | 36 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 20 |
16 | Trevor Linden‡ | RW | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −2 | 6 |
6 | Calle Johansson | D | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −4 | 8 |
40 | Nolan Yonkman | D | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
23 | Ivan Ciernik† | RW | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
48 | Chris Corrinet | RW | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 6 |
27 | Chris Ferraro | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
28 | Peter Ferraro | LW | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 |
33 | Benoit Hogue† | C | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
37 | Olaf Kolzig | G | 71 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
38 | Todd Rohloff | D | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 14 |
23 | Trent Whitfield‡† | C | 24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 28 |
1 | Craig Billington | G | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
39 | Patrick Boileau | D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 |
35 | Sebastien Charpentier | G | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
34 | Jakub Cutta | D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 |
46 | Mike Farrell | RW | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 |
57 | Dean Melanson | D | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
41 | Brian Sutherby | C | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 |
Goaltending
[edit]Regular season | |||||||||||
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No. | Player | GP | W | L | T | SA | GA | GAA | SV% | SO | TOI |
37 | Olaf Kolzig | 71 | 31 | 29 | 8 | 1977 | 192 | 2.79 | .903 | 6 | 4131 |
1 | Craig Billington | 17 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 295 | 36 | 3.04 | .878 | 0 | 710 |
35 | Sebastien Charpentier | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 78 | 5 | 2.46 | .936 | 0 | 122 |
Awards and records
[edit]Awards
[edit]Type | Award/honor | Recipient | Ref |
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League (annual) |
NHL Second All-Star Team | Sergei Gonchar (Defense) | [5] |
League (in-season) |
NHL All-Star Game selection | Sergei Gonchar | [6] |
Jaromir Jagr[a] |
Milestones
[edit]Milestone | Player | Date | Ref |
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400th goal scored | Peter Bondra | December 4, 2001 | [8] |
25th shutout | Olaf Kolzig | January 22, 2002 | [9] |
Transactions
[edit]The Capitals were involved in the following transactions from June 10, 2001, the day after the deciding game of the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals, through June 13, 2002, the day of the deciding game of the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals.[10]
Trades
[edit]Date | Details | Ref | |
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June 23, 2001 | To Washington Capitals 2nd-round pick in 2002 |
To Tampa Bay Lightning New Jersey’s 2nd-round pick in 2001 |
[11] |
July 11, 2001 | To Washington Capitals Jaromir Jagr Frantisek Kucera |
To Pittsburgh Penguins Kris Beech Ross Lupaschuk Michal Sivek Future considerations |
[12] |
August 22, 2001 | To Washington Capitals Chris Ferraro |
To New Jersey Devils Future considerations |
[13] |
November 10, 2001 | To Washington Capitals 1st-round pick in 2002 3rd-round pick in 2002 or 2003[b] |
To Vancouver Canucks Trevor Linden 2nd-round pick in 2002 |
[14] |
January 17, 2002 | To Washington Capitals Future considerations[c] |
To Chicago Blackhawks Joe Reekie |
[15] |
March 19, 2002 | To Washington Capitals Maxime Ouellet 1st-round pick in 2002 2nd-round pick in 2002 3rd-round pick in 2002 |
To Philadelphia Flyers Adam Oates |
[16] |
June 12, 2002 | To Washington Capitals 1st-round pick in 2002 |
To Dallas Stars Philadelphia’s 1st-round pick in 2002 2nd-round pick in 2002 6th-round pick in 2003 |
[17] |
Players acquired
[edit]Date | Player | Former team | Term | Via | Ref |
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August 1, 2001 | Peter Ferraro | Boston Bruins | 1-year | Free agency | [18] |
October 20, 2001 | Glen Metropolit | Tampa Bay Lightning | Waivers | [19] | |
January 8, 2002 | Colin Forbes | Portland Pirates (AHL) | 1-year | Free agency | [20] |
January 19, 2002 | Ivan Ciernik | Ottawa Senators | Waivers | [21] | |
February 1, 2002 | Trent Whitfield | New York Rangers | Waivers | [22] | |
March 19, 2002 | Benoit Hogue | Boston Bruins | Waivers | [23] | |
April 9, 2002 | Graham Mink | Portland Pirates (AHL) | 2-year | Free agency | [24][25] |
Players lost
[edit]Date | Player | New team | Via[d] | Ref |
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July 1, 2001 | Jamie Huscroft[e] | Contract expiration (III) | [26] | |
Brantt Myhres[f] | Contract expiration (UFA) | [26] | ||
July 2, 2001 | Jason Marshall | Minnesota Wild | Free agency (UFA) | [29] |
July 12, 2001 | Jeff Nelson | Schwenninger Wild Wings (DEL) | Free agency | [30] |
July 19, 2001 | Stefan Ustorf | Adler Mannheim (DEL) | Free agency (VI) | [31] |
September 24, 2001 | James Black | Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) | Free agency (III) | [32] |
September 25, 2001 | Derek Bekar | Los Angeles Kings | Free agency (VI) | [33] |
September 28, 2001 | Glen Metropolit | Tampa Bay Lightning | Waiver draft | [34] |
N/A | Steve Shirreffs | Reading Royals (ECHL) | Free agency (UFA) | [35] |
October 3, 2001 | Terry Yake | Essen Mosquitoes (DEL) | Free agency (III) | [36] |
January 16, 2002 | Trent Whitfield | New York Rangers | Waivers | [37] |
June 11, 2002 | Frantisek Kucera | HC Slavia Praha (ELH) | Free agency | [38] |
Signings
[edit]Date | Player | Term | Contract type | Ref |
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June 30, 2001 | Adam Oates | 1-year | Option exercised | [39] |
July 13, 2001 | Ulf Dahlen | 1-year | Re-signing | [40] |
July 19, 2001 | Todd Rohloff | 2-year | Re-signing | [41] |
July 30, 2001 | Andrei Nikolishin | 1-year | Re-signing | [42] |
July 31, 2001 | Trent Whitfield | 1-year | Re-signing | [43] |
August 2, 2001 | Corey Hirsch | 1-year[g] | Re-signing | [44] |
August 3, 2001 | Dean Melanson | 2-year | Re-signing | [45] |
August 6, 2001 | Sebastien Charpentier | 1-year | Re-signing | [46] |
August 7, 2001 | Mark Murphy | 1-year | Re-signing | [47] |
August 20, 2001 | Olaf Kolzig | 5-year | Re-signing | [48] |
August 30, 2001 | Glen Metropolit | 1-year | Re-signing | [49] |
September 14, 2001 | Brendan Witt | 3-year | Extension | [50] |
September 27, 2001 | Jeff Halpern | 2-year[h] | Re-signing | [51] |
October 1, 2001 | Brian Sutherby | 3-year | Entry-level | [52] |
October 18, 2001 | Jaromir Jagr | 5-year | Extension | [53] |
June 3, 2002 | Sebastien Charpentier | 1-year | Option exercised | [54] |
Draft picks
[edit]Washington's draft picks at the 2001 NHL Entry Draft held at the National Car Rental Center in Sunrise, Florida.[55]
Round | # | Player | Nationality | College/Junior/Club team (League) |
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2 | 58 | Nathan Paetsch | ![]() |
Moose Jaw Warriors (WHL) |
3 | 90 | Owen Fussey | ![]() |
Calgary Hitmen (WHL) |
4 | 125 | Jeff Lucky | ![]() |
Spokane Chiefs (WHL) |
5 | 160 | Artyom Ternavsky | ![]() |
Sherbrooke Beavers (QMJHL) |
6 | 191 | Zbynek Novak | ![]() |
Slavia Prague (Czech Republic) |
7 | 221 | Johnny Oduya | ![]() |
Victoriaville Tigres (QMJHL) |
8 | 249 | Matthew Maglione | ![]() |
Princeton University (NCAA) |
8 | 254 | Peter Polcik | ![]() |
HK Ardo Nitra (Slovakia) |
9 | 275 | Robert Muller | ![]() |
Adler Manheim (Germany) |
9 | 284 | Viktor Hubl | ![]() |
Slavia Prague (Czech Republic) |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Jagr was voted to the starting lineup.[7]
- ^ Washington’s option.
- ^ 4th-round pick in 2002
- ^ In parentheses is the player's free agency group on July 1 if applicable.[26]
- ^ Huscroft retired.[27]
- ^ Myhres was inactive during the 2001–02 season.[28]
- ^ Club option for a second year.
- ^ Club option for a third year.
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WASHINGTON CAPITALS--Signed C Graham Mink to a two-year contract.
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Signed by the Capitals as a free agent on April 9, 2002
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Minnesota Wild -- Signed free agent defenseman Jason Marshall
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LOS ANGELES KINGS--Agreed to terms with F Derek Bekar on a one-year contract
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New York Rangers -- Claimed center Trent Whitfield off waivers from the Washington Capitals
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WASHINGTON CAPITALS--Re-signed D Todd Rohloff to a two-year contract.
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WASHINGTON CAPITALS--Signed D Dean Melanson to a two-year contract.
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WASHINGTON CAPITALS--Signed G Sebastien Charpentier to a one-year contract.
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