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Philadelphia Flyers

The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

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| 80 || 3 || New York Islanders

New York Islanders

The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

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Skaters

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! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff; width:10%;"| A
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| || 80 || 34 || 46 || 80 || 52
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| || 77 || 27 || 48 || 75 || 50
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| || 78 || 21 || 41 || 62 || 43
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| || 59 || 32 || 24 || 56 || 47
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| || 75 || 22 || 31 || 53 || 26
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| || 80 || 12 || 38 || 50 || 38
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| || 74 || 11 || 37 || 48 || 131
|- align=center
| || 80 || 11 || 36 || 47 || 89
|- align=center
| || 78 || 17 || 29 || 46 || 33
|- align=center
| || 80 || 14 || 29 || 43 || 38
|- align=center
| || 80 || 23 || 17 || 40 || 35
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| || 77 || 16 || 23 || 39 || 44
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| ^† || 61 || 10 || 12 || 22 || 43
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| || 66 || 3 || 18 || 21 || 100
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| || 80 || 2 || 17 || 19 || 102
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| || 41 || 9 || 8 || 17 || 37
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| || 61 || 2 || 13 || 15 || 8
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| || 70 || 4 || 8 || 12 || 174
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| ^‡ || 9 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 0
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| || 19 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 31
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| || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
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| || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
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| || 5 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
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| || 5 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
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| ^‡ || 9 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 2
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| || 9 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 4
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Goaltenders

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| || 41 || 2034 || 11 || 18 || 7 || 143 || 4.22 || 0
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| || 39 || 2116 || 14 || 14 || 6 || 125 || 3.54 || 1
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| || 12 || 570 || 3 || 4 || 1 || 28 || 2.95 || 1
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| || 2 || 80 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 10 || 7.50 || 0
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^†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Rangers. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.

^‡Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.

Draft picks

New York's picks at the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft

1976 NHL Amateur Draft

The 1976 NHL Amateur Draft was held at the NHL office in Montreal, Quebec on June 1, 1976. It is notable as featuring one of the weakest first rounds in draft history, as only two players played more than 450 career NHL games. In 2002, Federko was elected into the Hockey Hall-of-Fame after...

 in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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! style="background:#ddf; width:17.0%;"| Nationality
! style="background:#ddf; width:100.0%;"| College/Junior/Club Team (League)
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| 1
| 6
| Don Murdoch

Don Murdoch

Donald Walter Murdoch is a retired former professional ice hockey player. After a standout junior career with the Medicine Hat Tigers, Murdoch made the New York Rangers as a 20-year-old and had an impressive rookie scoring 56 points in 59 games his rookie season...

| RW
|  Canada
| Medicine Hat Tigers

Medicine Hat Tigers

The Medicine Hat Tigers are a junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League who play out of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Established in 1970, the team has won two national Memorial Cups, five WHL League Championships and seven Division Titles. The Tigers play at the Medicine Hat Arena....

 (WCHL

Western Hockey League

The Western Hockey League is a major junior ice hockey league based in Western Canada and the Northwestern United States. The WHL is one of three leagues that constitute the Canadian Hockey League as the highest level of junior hockey in Canada...

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| 2
| 24
| Dave Farrish

Dave Farrish

David Allan Farrish is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played 430 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the New York Rangers, Quebec Nordiques, and Toronto Maple Leafs...

| D

Defenceman (ice hockey)

Defence in ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring...

|  Canada
| Sudbury Wolves

Sudbury Wolves

The Sudbury Wolves are the name of the ice hockey team from Sudbury, Ontario. Sudbury has had a hockey team known as the "Wolves" nearly every year since World War I. The Sudbury Wolves, the senior men's AAA team, have twice been chosen to be Canada's representatives at the Ice Hockey World...

 (OHA

Ontario Hockey Association

The Ontario Hockey Association is the governing body for the majority of Junior and Senior level ice hockey teams in the Province of Ontario. The OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Other Ontario sanctioning bodies along with the...

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| 3
| 42
| Mike McEwen
| D
|  Canada
| Toronto Marlboros

Toronto Marlboros

The Toronto Marlborough Athletic Club, commonly known as the Toronto Marlboros, was founded in 1903. It operated a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association and Ontario Hockey League from 1904 to 1989...

 (OHA)
|-
| 4
| 60
| Claude Periard
| LW
|  Canada
| Trois Rivieres Draveurs (QMJHL

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League...

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| 5
| 78
| Doug Caines
| C

Centre (ice hockey)

The centre in ice hockey is a forward position of a player whose primary zone of play is the middle of the ice, away from the side boards. Centres have more flexibility in their positioning and are expected to cover more ice surface than any other player...

|  Canada
| St. Catharines Black Hawks

St. Catharines Black Hawks

The St. Catharines Black Hawks were a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association from 1962 to 1976. The team was based in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.-History:...

 (OHA)
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| 6
| 96
| Barry Scully
| RW
|  Canada
| Kingston Canadians

Kingston Canadians

The Kingston Canadians were a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League from 1973 to 1988. The team played home games at the Kingston Memorial Centre in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.-History:...

 (OHA)
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| 7
| 112
| Remi Levesque
| C
|  Canada
| Quebec Remparts

Québec Remparts

There have been two junior ice hockey franchises known as the Quebec Remparts that played in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The first franchise played from 1969 to 1985; the current franchise has played since 1997. Both franchises were based out of Quebec City, Quebec...

(QMJHL)
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