1987-88 New Jersey Devils season

The 1987-88 New Jersey Devils season was their 6th season in New Jersey. They would go 38-36-6 to record 82 points on the season, making the playoffs. They would advance to the Conference Finals before falling in 7 games to the Boston Bruins.

Offseason

NHL Draft

Round	#	Player	Nationality	College/Junior/Club Team
1	2	Brendan Shanahan	Canadian	London Knights (OHL)
2	23	Ricard Persson	Swedish	Östersunds IK (SWE)
4	65	Brian Sullivan	American	Springfield Olympics (NEJHL)
5	86	Kevin Dean	American	Culver Military Academy (Independent)
6	107	Ben Hankinson	American	Edina High School (Minn.)
7	128	Tom Neziol	Canadian	Miami University (NCAA)
8	149	Jim Dowd	American	Brick Township High School (NJSIAA)
9	170	John Blessman	Canadian	Toronto Marlboros (OHL)
10	191	Pete Fry	Canadian	Victoria Cougars (WHL)
11	212	Alain Charland	Canadian	Drummondville Voltigeurs (QMJHL)

Regular season

Season standings

Patrick Division	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	PIM
New York Islanders	80	39	31	10	88	308	267	1732
Philadelphia Flyers	80	38	33	9	85	292	292	2194
Washington Capitals	80	38	33	9	85	281	249	1680
New Jersey Devils	80	38	36	6	82	295	296	2315
New York Rangers	80	36	34	10	82	300	283	1775
Pittsburgh Penguins	80	36	35	9	81	319	316	2211

Player stats

Forwards

Note: GP= Games played; G= Goals; AST= Assists; PTS = Points; PIM = Points

Player	GP	G	AST	PTS	PIM
Kirk Muller	80	37	57	94	114
Aaron Broten	80	26	57	83	80
Pat Verbeek	73	46	31	77	227
Patrik Sundström	78	15	36	51	42
John MacLean	76	23	16	39	145
Claude Loiselle	68	17	18	35	118
Mark Johnson	54	14	19	33	14
Doug Sulliman	59	16	14	30	25
Brendan Shanahan	65	7	19	26	131
Andy Brickley	45	8	14	22	14
Perry Anderson	60	4	6	10	222
Pat Conacher	24	2	5	7	12
David Maley	44	4	2	6	65
George McPhee	5	3	0	3	8
Chris Cichocki	5	1	0	1	2
Anders Carlsson	9	1	0	1	0
Murray Brumwell	3	0	1	1	2
Troy Crowder*	-	-	-	-	-
Dan Dorion	1	0	0	0	2
Alan Stewart	1	0	0	0	0
Bench	80	0	0	0	10

Troy Crowder missed the whole season due to injury but came back to play one playoffs game

Defencemen

Note: GP= Games played; G= Goals; AST= Assists; PTS = Points; PIM = Points

Player	GP	G	AST	PTS	PIM
Bruce Driver	74	15	40	55	68
Joe Cirella	80	8	31	39	191
Tom Kurvers	56	5	29	34	46
Craig Wolanin	78	6	25	31	170
Jack O'Callahan	50	7	19	26	97
Jim Korn	52	8	13	21	140
Ken Daneyko	80	5	7	12	239
Randy Velischek	51	3	9	12	66
Gord Mark	19	0	2	2	27

Goaltending

Note: GP= Games played; W= Wins; L= Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against SV% = Save percentage

Player	GP	W	L	T	SO	GAA	SV%	G	A	PTS	PIM
Sean Burke	13	10	1	0	1	3.05	0.883	0	1	1	6
Bob Sauvé	34	10	16	3	2	3.56	0.87	0	1	1	4
Alain Chevrier	45	18	19	3	1	3.77	0.867	0	1	1	8

References

• Devils on Hockey Database