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The 2001–02 NHL season was the 85th regular season of the National Hockey League. Thirty teams each played 82 games. The Stanley Cup winners were the Detroit Red Wings, who won the best of seven series 4–1 against the Carolina Hurricanes.
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League business

The cash-strapped Pittsburgh Penguins, desperate to dump payroll, could no longer afford perennial superstar Jaromir Jagr.^[1] He would be traded, along with Frantisek Kucera, to the Washington Capitals in exchange for Kris Beech, Ross Lupaschuk, Michal Sivek and $4.9 million. Despite Mario Lemieux's return last season, the absence of Jagr proved devastating to the Penguins, and they missed the playoffs for the first time since 1990. They would continue to miss the playoffs until the Sidney Crosby era began.

The Dallas Stars moved their home games from Reunion Arena to American Airlines Center.

The NHL honored the victims of 9/11 by having all players wear a patch on their jerseys, a ribbon sticker on the back of their helmet, as well as a red, white and blue ribbon painted on the ice behind each net, (with the Canadian teams having a red and white ribbon painted on the ice behind either net). On September 20, 2001, in the middle of a pre-season game between the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers with both teams tied up 2–2, nine days after the attacks, the game was stopped. A message from United States President George W. Bush about the 9/11 attacks was broadcast on the arena video screen. After the message, the game did not resume and was declared a 2–2 tie.^[2]

Regular season

For the second time in three seasons, no player reached the 100-point plateau.^[3] In addition, for the first time since 1980, the Art Ross Trophy was not won by either Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, or Jaromir Jagr. Instead, the award went to Jarome Iginla, who scored 96 points.

Final standings

The Detroit Red Wings placed first in the league standings, and received home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs.
This is the first season that the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers both missed the playoffs.

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points

Eastern Conference

Teams in bold qualified for the playoffs.

Divisions: AT – Atlantic, NE – Northeast, SE – Southeast

Z- Clinched Conference; Y- Clinched Division; X- Clinched Playoff spot

Western Conference

Teams in bold qualified for the playoffs.

Divisions: CEN – Central, PAC – Pacific, NW – Northwest

bold – Qualified for playoffs; p – Won Presidents' Trophy; y – Won division

Playoffs

The Stanley Cup

Final

The Final was contested by the Western Conference champion Detroit Red Wings and the Eastern Conference champion Carolina Hurricanes. It was Detroit's twenty-second appearance in the Final, their last appearance being a win in 1998. It was Carolina's first appearance in the Final in franchise history. Detroit defeated Carolina in five games to win their tenth Stanley Cup championship in franchise history.

Playoff bracket

• During the first three rounds home ice is determined by seeding number, not position on the bracket. In the Finals the team with the better regular season record has home ice.

Awards

The NHL Awards presentation took place in Toronto.

All-Star teams

Player statistics

Scoring leaders

Note: GP = Games Played, G = Goals, A = Assists, Pts = Points

Leading goaltenders

Note: GP = Games played; Min - Minutes Played; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts

Source: 2003 NHL Yearbook

Coaches

Eastern Conference

• Atlanta Thrashers: Curt Fraser
  


• Boston Bruins: Robbie Ftorek
  


• Buffalo Sabres: Lindy Ruff
  


• Carolina Hurricanes: Paul Maurice
  


• Florida Panthers: Mike Keenan
  


• Montreal Canadiens: Michel Therrien
  


• New Jersey Devils: Larry Robinson and Kevin Constantine
  


• New York Islanders: Peter Laviolette
  


• New York Rangers: Ron Low
  


• Ottawa Senators: Jacques Martin
  


• Philadelphia Flyers: Bill Barber and Ken Hitchcock
  


• Pittsburgh Penguins: Rick Kehoe
  


• Tampa Bay Lightning: John Tortorella
  


• Toronto Maple Leafs: Pat Quinn
  


• Washington Capitals: Ron Wilson
  

Western Conference

• Mighty Ducks of Anaheim: Brian Murray
  


• Calgary Flames: Greg Gilbert
  


• Chicago Blackhawks: Brian Sutter
  


• Colorado Avalanche: Bob Hartley
  


• Columbus Blue Jackets: Dave King
  


• Dallas Stars: Ken Hitchcock
  


• Detroit Red Wings: Scotty Bowman
  


• Edmonton Oilers: Craig MacTavish
  


• Los Angeles Kings: Andy Murray
  


• Minnesota Wild: Jacques Lemaire
  


• Nashville Predators: Barry Trotz
  


• Phoenix Coyotes: Bobby Francis
  


• San Jose Sharks: Darryl Sutter
  


• St. Louis Blues: Joel Quenneville
  


• Vancouver Canucks: Marc Crawford
  

Milestones

Debuts

The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 2001–02 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):

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  Ilya Bryzgalov, Anaheim Mighty Ducks


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  Dany Heatley, Atlanta Thrashers


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  Ilya Kovalchuk, Atlanta Thrashers


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  Ales Kotalik, Buffalo Sabres


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  Henrik Tallinder, Buffalo Sabres


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  Erik Cole, Carolina Hurricanes


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  Tyler Arnason, Chicago Blackhawks


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  Radim Vrbata, Colorado Avalanche


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  Pavel Datsyuk, Detroit Red Wings


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  Sean Avery, Detroit Red Wings


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  Kristian Huselius, Florida Panthers


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  Stephen Weiss, Florida Panthers


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  Nick Schultz, Minnesota Wild


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  Martin Erat, Nashville Predators


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  Brian Gionta, New Jersey Devils


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  Raffi Torres, New York Islanders


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  Trent Hunter*, New York Islanders


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  Chris Neil, Ottawa Senators


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  Vesa Toskala, San Jose Sharks


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  Barret Jackman, St. Louis Blues


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  Alex Auld, Vancouver Canucks

Last games

The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 2001–02 (listed with their last team):

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  Steve Duchesne, Detroit Red Wings^[6]


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  Ray Ferraro, St. Louis Blues^[7]


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  Grant Ledyard, Tampa Bay Lightning^[8]


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  John MacLean, Dallas Stars^[9]


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  Dave Manson, Dallas Stars^[10]


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  Stephane Richer, New Jersey Devils^[11]


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  Kevin Stevens, Pittsburgh Penguins^[12]


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  Gary Suter, San Jose Sharks^[13]


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  Rick Tocchet, Philadelphia Flyers^[14]


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  John Vanbiesbrouck, New Jersey Devils^[15]


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  Pat Verbeek, Dallas Stars^[16]


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  Mike Vernon, Calgary Flames^[17]

Trading deadline

Trading deadline: March 19, 2002.^[18]

• March 19, 2002: Anaheim traded C Dave Roche to NY Islanders for RW Ben Guite and the rights to RW Bjorn Melin.


• March 19, 2002: Atlanta traded D Jiri Slegr to Detroit for C Yuri Butsayev and Detroit's third-round pick in the 2002 Entry Draft.


• March 19, 2002: Atlanta traded LW Darcy Hordichuk and Atlanta's fourth and fifth-round picks in the 2002 Entry Draft to Phoenix for D Kirill Safronov, the rights to RW Ruslan Zainullin and Phoenix's fourth-round pick in the 2002 Entry Draft.


• March 19, 2002: Atlanta traded C Bob Corkum to Buffalo for Buffalo's fifth-round pick in the 2002 Entry Draft.


• March 19, 2002: Boston traded LW Greg Crozier to Minnesota for LW Darryl Laplante.


• March 19, 2002: Boston traded D Bobby Allen to Edmonton for D Sean Brown.


• March 19, 2002: Chicago traded D Jaroslav Spacek and Chicago's second round pick in the 2003 Entry Draft to Columbus for D Lyle Odelein.


• March 19, 2002: Columbus traded RW Blake Sloan to Calgary for D Jamie Allison.


• March 19, 2002: Colorado Avalanche obtain D Darius Kasparaitis from Pittsburgh for D Rick Berry and LW Ville Nieminen.


• March 19, 2002: New Jersey Devils obtain Joe Nieuwendyk and Jamie Langenbrunner from the Dallas Stars for Jason Arnott, Randy McKay and 2002 first round draft pick (Daniel Paille, later traded).


• March 19, 2002: Edmonton Oilers traded D Tom Poti and C Rem Murray to the New York Rangers for C Mike York and the Rangers' fourth-round pick in the 2002 Entry Draft (Ivan Koltsov).


• March 19, 2002: Florida traded D Darren Van Impe to NY Islanders for the Islanders' fifth-round pick in the 2003 Entry Draft.


• March 19, 2002: Florida traded D Jeff Norton to Boston for Boston's sixth-round pick in the 2002 Entry Draft.


• March 19, 2002: Los Angeles traded G Stephane Fiset to Montreal for future considerations.


• March 19, 2002: Nashville traded D Richard Lintner to the New York Rangers for D Peter Smrek.


• March 19, 2002: Pittsburgh traded RW Stephane Richer to New Jersey for a conditional pick in the 2003 Entry Draft.


• March 19, 2002: Washington Capitals traded C Adam Oates to Philadelphia Flyers for G Maxime Ouellet and Philadelphia's first, second and third-round picks in the 2002 Entry Draft (Martin Vagner, Maxime Daigneault and Derek Krestanovich).


• March 18, 2002: Florida Panthers traded Pavel Bure and 2002 second round draft pick (Lee Falardeau) to the New York Rangers for Igor Ulanov, rights to Filip Novak and 2002 first and second round draft picks (Petr Taticek and Rob Globke).

Hat tricks

See also

• List of Stanley Cup champions


• 2001 NHL Entry Draft


• 52nd National Hockey League All-Star Game


• NHL All-Star Game


• NHL All-Rookie Team


• Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics


• 2001 in sports


• 2002 in sports

References

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  Dinger, Ralph, ed. (2011). The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book 2012. Toronto, ON: Dan Diamond & Associates. ISBN 978-1-894801-22-5..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
  


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  Fischler, Stan; Fischler, Shirley; Hughes, Morgan; Romain, Joseph; Duplacey, James (2003). The Hockey Chronicle: Year-by-Year History of the National Hockey League. Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International Inc. ISBN 0-7853-9624-1.
  

Notes

External links

• Hockey Database


• http://nhl.com/