1994–95 New York Islanders season

1994–95 New York Islanders
Division	7th Atlantic
Conference	13th Eastern
1994–95 record	15–28–5
Home record	10–11–3
Road record	5–17–2
Goals for	126
Goals against	158
Team information
General manager	Don Maloney
Coach	Lorne Henning
Captain	Patrick Flatley
Arena	Nassau Coliseum
Average attendance	12,573
Minor league affiliate(s)	Denver Grizzlies Tallahassee Tiger Sharks
Team leaders
Goals	Ray Ferraro (22)
Assists	Ray Ferraro (21)
Points	Ray Ferraro (43)
Penalty minutes	Mick Vukota (109)
Plus/minus	Dean Chynoweth (+9) Patrick Flatley (+9)
Wins	Tommy Soderstrom (8)
Goals against average	Tommy Soderstrom (3.11)
← 1993–94 1995–96 →

The 1994–95 New York Islanders season was the 23rd season in the franchise's history. The Islanders were unable to qualify for the playoffs, thus ending their two-season playoff streak.

Offseason

Longtime head coach Al Arbour announced his retirement from coaching and was named the team's vice president of hockey operations on June 1.^[1] Assistant coach Lorne Henning was named his successor on June 20.^[2]

Regular season

After starting the season with a 4–2–1 record, the Islanders fell into a slump from which they could not recover. They would win only 11 of their remaining 41 games, going 11–26–4. The Islanders would finish 12 points out of eighth place and miss the playoffs for the first time since 1992.

Near the end of the season, General Manager Don Maloney decided that the core of players he had left alone for three seasons should be totally revamped, and he undertook a rebuilding project. He traded Pierre Turgeon and Vladimir Malakhov to Montreal for Kirk Muller and Mathieu Schneider, and Benoit Hogue was sent to Toronto for young goaltender Eric Fichaud. Additionally, Maloney allowed the team's leading scorer, Ray Ferraro, to depart as an unrestricted free agent at the conclusion of the season. Fans' displeasure at the GM for trading the popular Turgeon was magnified when Muller balked at joining a rebuilding team. He only played 45 games for the Islanders before being sent to the Maple Leafs.

The Islanders finished the regular season having allowed the most short-handed goals in the NHL, with 11.^[3]

Season standings

Atlantic Division
No.	CR		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	2	Philadelphia Flyers	48	28	16	4	150	132	60
2	5	New Jersey Devils	48	22	18	8	136	121	52
3	6	Washington Capitals	48	22	18	8	136	120	52
4	8	New York Rangers	48	22	23	3	139	134	47
5	9	Florida Panthers	48	20	22	6	115	127	46
6	12	Tampa Bay Lightning	48	17	28	3	120	144	37
7	13	New York Islanders	48	15	28	5	126	158	35

^[4]

Note: No. = Division rank, CR = Conference rank, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Eastern Conference^[5]
R		Div	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Quebec Nordiques	NE	48	30	13	5	185	134	65
2	Philadelphia Flyers	AT	48	28	16	4	150	132	60
3	Pittsburgh Penguins	NE	48	29	16	3	181	158	61
4	Boston Bruins	NE	48	27	18	3	150	127	57
5	New Jersey Devils	AT	48	22	18	8	136	121	52
6	Washington Capitals	AT	48	22	18	8	136	120	52
7	Buffalo Sabres	NE	48	22	19	7	130	119	51
8	New York Rangers	AT	48	22	23	3	139	134	47

9	Florida Panthers	AT	48	20	22	6	115	127	46
10	Hartford Whalers	NE	48	19	24	5	127	141	43
11	Montreal Canadiens	NE	48	18	23	7	125	148	43
12	Tampa Bay Lightning	AT	48	17	28	3	120	144	37
13	New York Islanders	AT	48	15	28	5	126	158	35
14	Ottawa Senators	NE	48	9	34	5	117	174	23

Divisions: AT – Atlantic, NE – Northeast

bold – Qualified for playoffs

Schedule and results

1994–95 regular season^[6]

January: 3–2–1 (home: 2–1–1; road: 1–1–0)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
1	W	January 21, 1995	2–1	Florida Panthers (1994–95)	1–0–0	Recap
2	T	January 22, 1995	3–3 OT	Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	1–0–1	Recap
3	W	January 24, 1995	4–3	Philadelphia Flyers (1994–95)	2–0–1	Recap
4	L	January 27, 1995	2–5	@ Washington Capitals (1994–95)	2–1–1	Recap
5	L	January 28, 1995	1–4	Tampa Bay Lightning (1994–95)	2–2–1	Recap
6	W	January 31, 1995	5–1	@ Florida Panthers (1994–95)	3–2–1	Recap

February: 5–6–2 (home: 4–3–0; road: 1–3–2)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
7	W	February 2, 1995	5–4 OT	@ Philadelphia Flyers (1994–95)	4–2–1	Recap
8	L	February 4, 1995	2–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1994–95)	4–3–1	Recap
9	L	February 7, 1995	2–5	@ Tampa Bay Lightning (1994–95)	4–4–1	Recap
10	L	February 9, 1995	2–5	Pittsburgh Penguins (1994–95)	4–5–1	Recap
11	W	February 11, 1995	2–1	Buffalo Sabres (1994–95)	5–5–1	Recap
12	L	February 14, 1995	2–3	Quebec Nordiques (1994–95)	5–6–1	Recap
13	T	February 17, 1995	2–2 OT	@ New Jersey Devils (1994–95)	5–6–2	Recap
14	W	February 18, 1995	3–2	New Jersey Devils (1994–95)	6–6–2	Recap
15	L	February 20, 1995	2–3 OT	@ Montreal Canadiens (1994–95)	6–7–2	Recap
16	T	February 22, 1995	3–3 OT	@ Buffalo Sabres (1994–95)	6–7–3	Recap
17	L	February 23, 1995	1–4	Tampa Bay Lightning (1994–95)	6–8–3	Recap
18	W	February 25, 1995	3–1	Pittsburgh Penguins (1994–95)	7–8–3	Recap
19	W	February 28, 1995	2–1	Montreal Canadiens (1994–95)	8–8–3	Recap

March: 2–10–1 (home: 2–2–1; road: 0–8–0)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
20	L	March 2, 1995	3–4	Washington Capitals (1994–95)	8–9–3	Recap
21	L	March 5, 1995	1–3	@ Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	8–10–3	Recap
22	W	March 7, 1995	3–1	Hartford Whalers (1994–95)	9–10–3	Recap
23	L	March 9, 1995	2–4	@ Pittsburgh Penguins (1994–95)	9–11–3	Recap
24	L	March 11, 1995	1–2	@ Quebec Nordiques (1994–95)	9–12–3	Recap
25	L	March 14, 1995	4–6	@ Hartford Whalers (1994–95)	9–13–3	Recap
26	L	March 16, 1995	3–6	@ Buffalo Sabres (1994–95)	9–14–3	Recap
27	L	March 18, 1995	3–4	@ Boston Bruins (1994–95)	9–15–3	Recap
28	W	March 23, 1995	1–0	New York Rangers (1994–95)	10–15–3	Recap
29	L	March 25, 1995	1–5	@ Hartford Whalers (1994–95)	10–16–3	Recap
30	T	March 26, 1995	5–5 OT	New Jersey Devils (1994–95)	10–16–4	Recap
31	L	March 28, 1995	3–6	@ Pittsburgh Penguins (1994–95)	10–17–4	Recap
32	L	March 30, 1995	2–3	Boston Bruins (1994–95)	10–18–4	Recap

April: 5–9–1 (home: 2–4–1; road: 3–5–0)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
33	L	April 1, 1995	1–5	Buffalo Sabres (1994–95)	10–19–4	Recap
34	L	April 4, 1995	4–5	Washington Capitals (1994–95)	10–20–4	Recap
35	W	April 7, 1995	4–3	@ New York Rangers (1994–95)	11–20–4	Recap
36	T	April 8, 1995	2–2 OT	Florida Panthers (1994–95)	11–20–5	Recap
37	L	April 11, 1995	2–5	@ Tampa Bay Lightning (1994–95)	11–21–5	Recap
38	W	April 12, 1995	3–1	@ Florida Panthers (1994–95)	12–21–5	Recap
39	L	April 14, 1995	3–6	@ New Jersey Devils (1994–95)	12–22–5	Recap
40	L	April 16, 1995	2–3	New York Rangers (1994–95)	12–23–5	Recap
41	W	April 18, 1995	5–2	Quebec Nordiques (1994–95)	13–23–5	Recap
42	L	April 20, 1995	1–2	@ Philadelphia Flyers (1994–95)	13–24–5	Recap
43	L	April 22, 1995	2–3	Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	13–25–5	Recap
44	W	April 24, 1995	5–3	Boston Bruins (1994–95)	14–25–5	Recap
45	L	April 26, 1995	5–6	@ Washington Capitals (1994–95)	14–26–5	Recap
46	W	April 28, 1995	4–2	@ New York Rangers (1994–95)	15–26–5	Recap
47	L	April 29, 1995	3–4	@ Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	15–27–5	Recap

May: 0–1–0 (home: 0–1–0; road: 0–0–0)

Game	Result	Date	Score	Opponent	Record	Recap
48	L	May 2, 1995	0–2	Philadelphia Flyers (1994–95)	15–28–5	Recap

Legend:

Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Tie (1 point)

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 Islanders only.
‡ = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Islanders only.

			Regular season
No.	Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
20	Ray Ferraro	C	47	22	21	43	1	30
77	Pierre Turgeon‡	C	34	13	14	27	−12	10
26	Patrick Flatley	RW	45	7	20	27	9	12
32	Steve Thomas	RW	47	11	15	26	−14	60
27	Derek King	LW	43	10	16	26	−5	41
68	Zigmund Palffy	LW	33	10	7	17	3	6
18	Marty McInnis	LW	41	9	7	16	−1	8
92^[a]	Vladimir Malakhov‡	D	26	3	13	16	−1	32
7	Scott Lachance	D	26	6	7	13	2	26
39	Travis Green	C	42	5	7	12	−10	25
37	Dennis Vaske	D	41	1	11	12	3	53
33	Benoit Hogue‡	LW	33	6	4	10	0	34
24	Troy Loney‡	LW	26	5	4	9	0	23
72	Mathieu Schneider†	D	13	3	6	9	−5	30
2	Bob Beers	D	22	2	7	9	−8	6
9	Kirk Muller†	C	12	3	5	8	3	14
15	Brad Dalgarno	RW	22	3	2	5	−8	14
17	Chris Marinucci	C	12	1	4	5	−1	2
14	Ron Sutter	C	27	1	4	5	−8	21
75	Brett Lindros	RW	33	1	3	4	−8	100
6	Chris Luongo	D	47	1	3	4	−2	36
24^[b]	Brent Severyn†	D	19	1	3	4	1	34
25	Paul Stanton†	D	18	0	4	4	−6	9
28^[c]	Chris Taylor	C	10	0	3	3	1	2
34	Yan Kaminsky	LW	2	1	1	2	2	0
47	Rich Pilon	D	20	1	1	2	−3	40
3	Dean Chynoweth	D	32	0	2	2	9	77
12	Mick Vukota	RW	39	0	2	2	1	109
11	Darius Kasparaitis	D	13	0	1	1	−11	22
10	Kip Miller	C	8	0	1	1	1	0
35	Tommy Salo	G	6	0	1	1		0
9	Dave Chyzowski	LW	13	0	0	0	−2	11
10	Craig Darby†	C	3	0	0	0	−1	0
8	Gord Dineen	D	9	0	0	0	−5	2
29	Jamie McLennan	G	21	0	0	0		2
30	Tommy Soderstrom	G	26	0	0	0		2
34	Milan Tichy	D	2	0	0	0	−1	2
38	Andrei Vasilyev	LW	2	0	0	0	0	2
36	Jason Widmer	D	1	0	0	0	−1	0

Goaltending

		Regular season
No.	Player	GP	W	L	T	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI
30	Tommy Soderstrom	26	8	12	3	717	70	3.11	.902	1	1350
29	Jamie McLennan	21	6	11	2	539	67	3.39	.876	0	1185
35	Tommy Salo	6	1	5	0	189	18	3.02	.905	0	358

Draft picks

New York's draft picks at the 1994 NHL Entry Draft in Hartford, Connecticut.^[7]

Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	College/junior/club team
1	9	Brett Lindros (RW)	Canada	Kingston Frontenacs (OHL)
2	38	Jason Holland (D)	Canada	Kamloops Blazers (WHL)
3	63	Jason Strudwick (D)	Canada	Kamloops Blazers (WHL)
4	90	Brad Lukowich (D)	Canada	Kamloops Blazers (WHL)
5	112	Mark McArthur (G)	Canada	Guelph Storm (OHL)
5	116	Albie O'Connell (LW)	United States	Saint Sebastian's School (USHS-MA)
6	142	Jason Stewart (C)	United States	Simley High School (USHS-MA)
8	194	Mike Loach (C)	Canada	Windsor Spitfires (OHL)
8	203	Peter Hogardh (C)	Sweden	Västra Frölunda HC (Sweden)
9	220	Gord Walsh (LW)	Canada	Kingston Frontenacs (OHL)
10	246	Kirk DeWaele (D)	Canada	Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL)
11	272	Dick Tarnstrom (D)	Sweden	AIK IF (Sweden)

Notes

^ Malakhov wore number 23 in his first ten games.
^ Severyn wore number 4 in his first eight games.
^ Taylor wore number 25 in his first two games.

References

"New York Islanders 1994-95 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com". www.hockeydb.com. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
"1994-95 New York Islanders Roster, Stats, Injuries, Scores, Results, Shootouts". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved September 6, 2023.

^ "Islanders coach Arbour returns to front office". Tampa Bay Times. June 2, 1994. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
^ "HENNING REPLACES ARBOUR AS ISLANDERS COACH". Deseret News. June 21, 1994. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
^ "1994-95 NHL Summary". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
^ Standings: NHL Public Relations Department (2008). Dave McCarthy; et al. (eds.). THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Official Guide & Record Book/2009. National Hockey League. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-894801-14-0.
^ "1994-1995 Conference Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". NHL.
^ "1994-95 New York Islanders Schedule". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
^ "1994 NHL Entry Draft Picks at hockeydb.com". www.hockeydb.com. Retrieved May 12, 2021.

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