2002–03 New York Rangers season

2002–03 New York Rangers
Division	4th Atlantic
Conference	9th Eastern
2002–03 record	32–36–10–4
Goals for	210
Goals against	231
Team information
General manager	Glen Sather
Coach	Bryan Trottier/Glen Sather
Captain	Mark Messier
Arena	Madison Square Garden
Team leaders
Goals	Petr Nedved (27)
Assists	Tom Poti (37)
Points	Petr Nedved (58)
Penalty minutes	Dale Purinton (161)
Wins	Mike Dunham (19)
Goals against average	Mike Dunham (2.29)

The 2002–03 New York Rangers season was the 77th season for the team in the National Hockey League (NHL). In the regular season, the Rangers posted a 32–36–10–4 record, finishing fourth in the Atlantic Division. The Rangers' ninth-place finish in the Eastern Conference left them out of the Stanley Cup playoffs for the sixth straight season.

Regular season

Final standings

Atlantic Division

No.	CR		GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	Pts
1	2	New Jersey Devils	82	46	20	10	6	216	166	108
2	4	Philadelphia Flyers	82	45	20	13	4	211	166	107
3	8	New York Islanders	82	35	34	11	2	224	231	83
4	9	New York Rangers	82	32	36	10	4	210	231	78
5	14	Pittsburgh Penguins	82	27	44	6	5	189	255	65

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.

Game log

#	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	Oct 9, 2002	4–1	@ Carolina Hurricanes	1–0–0–0
2	L	Oct 11, 2002	1–4	Montreal Canadiens	1–1–0–0
3	L	Oct 12, 2002	0–6	@ Pittsburgh Penguins	1–2–0–0
4	W	Oct 15, 2002	5–4	Toronto Maple Leafs	2–2–0–0
5	T	Oct 17, 2002	4–4 OT	@ Buffalo Sabres	2–2–1–0
6	T	Oct 19, 2002	2–2 OT	Nashville Predators	2–2–2–0
7	L	Oct 21, 2002	2–4	Tampa Bay Lightning	2–3–2–0
8	L	Oct 23, 2002	1–2	Washington Capitals	2–4–2–0
9	L	Oct 25, 2002	2–6	Los Angeles Kings	2–5–2–0
10	W	Oct 26, 2002	4–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs	3–5–2–0
11	W	Oct 28, 2002	3–2 OT	Phoenix Coyotes	4–5–2–0
12	L	Oct 30, 2002	0–3	@ Tampa Bay Lightning	4–6–2–0
13	L	Nov 2, 2002	2–3	@ Boston Bruins	4–7–2–0
14	L	Nov 3, 2002	2–3	St. Louis Blues	4–8–2–0
15	W	Nov 5, 2002	5–2	Edmonton Oilers	5–8–2–0
16	W	Nov 7, 2002	1–0 OT	Calgary Flames	6–8–2–0
17	L	Nov 9, 2002	3–6	@ Columbus Blue Jackets	6–9–2–0
18	W	Nov 11, 2002	5–4	@ San Jose Sharks	7–9–2–0
19	W	Nov 14, 2002	2–1	@ Calgary Flames	8–9–2–0
20	L	Nov 16, 2002	1–3	@ Vancouver Canucks	8–10–2–0
21	W	Nov 19, 2002	3–2 OT	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	9–10–2–0
22	T	Nov 21, 2002	4–4 OT	@ New Jersey Devils	9–10–3–0
23	L	Nov 23, 2002	1–3	New York Islanders	9–11–3–0
24	W	Nov 25, 2002	3–1	Carolina Hurricanes	10–11–3–0
25	L	Nov 28, 2002	4–7	@ Atlanta Thrashers	10–12–3–0
26	T	Nov 29, 2002	3–3 OT	@ Dallas Stars	10–12–4–0
27	W	Dec 1, 2002	4–3	Tampa Bay Lightning	11–12–4–0
28	W	Dec 3, 2002	5–3	Columbus Blue Jackets	12–12–4–0
29	L	Dec 5, 2002	2–3 OT	@ Philadelphia Flyers	12–12–4–1
30	L	Dec 6, 2002	1–4	Buffalo Sabres	12–13–4–1
31	L	Dec 8, 2002	1–4	Boston Bruins	12–14–4–1
32	L	Dec 11, 2002	3–4	Chicago Blackhawks	12–15–4–1
33	L	Dec 14, 2002	1–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs	12–16–4–1
34	W	Dec 16, 2002	2–1 OT	San Jose Sharks	13–16–4–1
35	L	Dec 19, 2002	1–3	Montreal Canadiens	13–17–4–1
36	L	Dec 21, 2002	2–3	@ Detroit Red Wings	13–18–4–1
37	T	Dec 23, 2002	2–2 OT	New Jersey Devils	13–18–5–1
38	L	Dec 26, 2002	1–6	Pittsburgh Penguins	13–19–5–1
39	W	Dec 28, 2002	2–1 OT	@ Florida Panthers	14–19–5–1
40	L	Dec 29, 2002	3–5	@ Tampa Bay Lightning	14–20–5–1
41	W	Dec 31, 2002	2–0	@ Carolina Hurricanes	15–20–5–1
42	T	Jan 4, 2003	2–2 OT	Washington Capitals	15–20–6–1
43	L	Jan 6, 2003	2–5	Ottawa Senators	15–21–6–1
44	W	Jan 8, 2003	5–1	Carolina Hurricanes	16–21–6–1
45	L	Jan 9, 2003	2–3	@ Montreal Canadiens	16–22–6–1
46	W	Jan 11, 2003	3–1	@ Pittsburgh Penguins	17–22–6–1
47	W	Jan 13, 2003	5–1	Toronto Maple Leafs	18–22–6–1
48	W	Jan 15, 2003	2–1 OT	@ Washington Capitals	19–22–6–1
49	L	Jan 19, 2003	2–4	Philadelphia Flyers	19–23–6–1
50	W	Jan 21, 2003	5–0	@ New York Islanders	20–23–6–1
51	W	Jan 23, 2003	4–2	@ Nashville Predators	21–23–6–1
52	L	Jan 25, 2003	1–4	Atlanta Thrashers	21–24–6–1
53	L	Jan 26, 2003	2–7	@ Washington Capitals	21–25–6–1
54	L	Jan 28, 2003	2–5	@ Atlanta Thrashers	21–26–6–1
55	L	Jan 30, 2003	3–4 OT	Colorado Avalanche	21–26–6–2
56	L	Feb 5, 2003	3–5	Ottawa Senators	21–27–6–2
57	T	Feb 6, 2003	4–4 OT	@ St. Louis Blues	21–27–7–2
58	L	Feb 8, 2003	1–2	@ Philadelphia Flyers	21–28–7–2
59	W	Feb 12, 2003	3–1	@ Florida Panthers	22–28–7–2
60	W	Feb 14, 2003	1–0	Pittsburgh Penguins	23–28–7–2
61	L	Feb 15, 2003	4–5	@ Buffalo Sabres	23–29–7–2
62	L	Feb 17, 2003	2–3	@ Ottawa Senators	23–30–7–2
63	W	Feb 19, 2003	4–2	@ Minnesota Wild	24–30–7–2
64	W	Feb 21, 2003	6–2	@ Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	25–30–7–2
65	L	Feb 23, 2003	1–4	@ Colorado Avalanche	25–31–7–2
66	T	Feb 25, 2003	3–3 OT	@ New Jersey Devils	25–31–8–2
67	W	Feb 27, 2003	4–1	Boston Bruins	26–31–8–2
68	W	Mar 1, 2003	5–2	Florida Panthers	27–31–8–2
69	T	Mar 3, 2003	1–1 OT	New York Islanders	27–31–9–2
70	W	Mar 7, 2003	5–1	Philadelphia Flyers	28–31–9–2
71	L	Mar 10, 2003	1–2	Florida Panthers	28–32–9–2
72	L	Mar 13, 2003	2–3 OT	@ Ottawa Senators	28–32–9–3
73	L	Mar 15, 2003	1–3	@ New Jersey Devils	28–33–9–3
74	W	Mar 17, 2003	1–0	New York Islanders	29–33–9–3
75	W	Mar 19, 2003	3–0	Buffalo Sabres	30–33–9–3
76	W	Mar 22, 2003	2–1	@ Philadelphia Flyers	31–33–9–3
77	L	Mar 26, 2003	1–3	Pittsburgh Penguins	31–34–9–3
78	W	Mar 29, 2003	3–1	@ Boston Bruins	32–34–9–3
79	L	Mar 31, 2003	3–4 OT	Atlanta Thrashers	32–34–9–4
80	T	Apr 1, 2003	2–2 OT	@ New York Islanders	32–34–10–4
81	L	Apr 4, 2003	1–2	New Jersey Devils	32–35–10–4
82	L	Apr 5, 2003	4–5	@ Montreal Canadiens	32–36–10–4

Player stats

Regular season
Scoring
Player Pos GP G A Pts PIM +/- PPG SHG GWG Nedved, PetrPetr Nedved C 78 27 31 58 64 -4 8 3 4 Lindros, EricEric Lindros C 81 19 34 53 141 5 9 0 3 Poti, TomTom Poti D 80 11 37 48 58 -6 3 0 2 Messier, MarkMark Messier C 78 18 22 40 30 -2 8 1 5 Barnaby, MatthewMatthew Barnaby RW 79 14 22 36 142 9 1 0 1 Holik, BobbyBobby Holik C 64 16 19 35 52 -1 3 0 2 Bure, PavelPavel Bure RW 39 19 11 30 16 4 5 1 3 Leetch, BrianBrian Leetch D 51 12 18 30 20 -3 5 0 2 Dvorak, RadekRadek Dvorak RW 63 6 21 27 16 -3 2 0 0 Samuelsson, MikaelMikael Samuelsson RW 58 8 14 22 32 0 1 1 2 Lundmark, JamieJamie Lundmark C 55 8 11 19 16 -3 0 0 0 Malakhov, VladimirVladimir Malakhov D 71 3 14 17 52 -7 1 0 0 McCarthy, SandySandy McCarthy RW 82 6 9 15 81 -4 0 0 1 Petrovicky, RonaldRonald Petrovicky RW 66 5 9 14 77 -12 2 1 1 Kasparaitis, DariusDarius Kasparaitis D 80 3 11 14 85 5 0 0 1 Kovalev, AlexAlex Kovalev RW 24 10 3 13 20 2 3 0 2 Murray, RemRem Murray C/LW 32 6 6 12 4 -3 1 1 1 Bouchard, JoelJoel Bouchard D 27 5 7 12 14 6 1 0 2 Mironov, BorisBoris Mironov D 36 3 9 12 34 3 1 0 0 Purinton, DaleDale Purinton D 58 3 9 12 161 -2 0 0 0 Fata, RicoRico Fata RW 36 2 4 6 2 -1 0 0 0 Carter, AnsonAnson Carter RW 11 1 4 5 6 0 0 0 0 LaCouture, DanDan LaCouture LW 24 1 4 5 0 4 0 0 0 Cross, CoryCory Cross D 26 0 4 4 16 13 0 0 0 Donato, TedTed Donato LW 49 2 1 3 6 -1 0 0 0 Tripp, JohnJohn Tripp RW 9 1 2 3 2 1 0 0 0 Karpa, DaveDave Karpa D 19 0 2 2 14 -1 0 0 0 Lefebvre, SylvainSylvain Lefebvre D 35 0 2 2 10 -7 0 0 0 Lintner, RichardRichard Lintner D 10 1 0 1 0 -5 1 0 0 Dunham, MikeMike Dunham G 43 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Dwyer, GordieGordie Dwyer LW 17 0 1 1 50 -1 0 0 0 Blackburn, DanDan Blackburn G 32 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 Green, JoshJosh Green LW 4 0 0 0 2 -1 0 0 0 Holmqvist, JohanJohan Holmqvist G 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lyashenko, RomanRoman Lyashenko C 2 0 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 Oliwa, KrzysztofKrzysztof Oliwa LW 9 0 0 0 51 1 0 0 0 Pisa, AlesAles Pisa D 26 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Richter, MikeMike Richter G 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tibbetts, BillyBilly Tibbetts RW 11 0 0 0 12 -2 0 0 0 Ward, DixonDixon Ward RW 8 0 0 0 2 -2 0 0 0 Wilson, MikeMike Wilson D 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L T/OT GA GAA SO SA SV SV% Dunham, MikeMike Dunham 2467 43 19 17 5 94 2.29 5 1229 1135 .924 Blackburn, DanDan Blackburn 1762 32 8 16 4 93 3.17 1 842 749 .890 Richter, MikeMike Richter 694 13 5 6 1 34 2.94 0 329 295 .897 Holmqvist, JohanJohan Holmqvist 39 1 0 1 0 2 3.08 0 18 16 .889 Team: 4962 82 32 40 10 223 2.70 6 2418 2195 .908

Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals
      MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T/OT = Ties/Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

See also

• 2002–03 NHL season

References

• 2002-03 New York Rangers Statistics