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| 79 || 1 || @ Winnipeg Jets || 6 - 6 OT || 35-34-10
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| 80 || 3 || Quebec Nordiques

Quebec Nordiques

The Quebec Nordiques were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The Nordiques played in the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League...

 || 3 - 0 || 36-34-10
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Skaters

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! style="border: 0;" | Regular season
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|- align=center
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff; width:40%;"| Player
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff; width:10%;"| GP
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff; width:10%;"| G
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff; width:10%;"| A
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff; width:10%;"| Pts
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff; width:10%;"| +/−
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff; width:10%;"| PIM
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| || 77 || 38 || 50 || 88 || 2 || 76
|- align=center
| || 77 || 23 || 55 || 78 || 8 || 88
|- align=center
| || 69 || 28 || 40 || 68 || -6 || 95
|- align=center
| || 67 || 31 || 34 || 65 || -14 || 54
|- align=center
| || 70 || 17 || 45 || 62 || 16 || 52
|- align=center
| || 74 || 25 || 29 || 54 || -2 || 42
|- align=center
| || 64 || 22 || 32 || 54 || -3 || 16
|- align=center
| || 70 || 29 || 23 || 52 || 5 || 26
|- align=center
| || 66 || 12 || 21 || 33 || 12 || 60
|- align=center
| ^† || 64 || 9 || 24 || 33 || 3 || 223
|- align=center
| || 68 || 7 || 25 || 32 || -8 || 100
|- align=center
| || 74 || 9 || 21 || 30 || -3 || 103
|- align=center
| || 70 || 7 || 19 || 26 || 3 || 33
|- align=center
| || 37 || 9 || 15 || 24 || 10 || 14
|- align=center
| ^† || 40 || 4 || 13 || 17 || -5 || 41
|- align=center
| || 62 || 3 || 11 || 14 || 8 || 63
|- align=center
| || 17 || 2 || 12 || 14 || 5 || 0
|- align=center
| || 10 || 3 || 9 || 12 || -3 || 13
|- align=center
| ^‡ || 44 || 4 || 4 || 8 || -9 || 23
|- align=center
| ^† || 22 || 3 || 5 || 8 || 0 || 96
|- align=center
| || 51 || 1 || 5 || 6 || -9 || 82
|- align=center
| || 18 || 1 || 4 || 5 || -8 || 17
|- align=center
| ^‡ || 17 || 2 || 2 || 4 || -5 || 8
|- align=center
| ^† || 19 || 2 || 2 || 4 || -5 || 31
|- align=center
| || 6 || 1 || 3 || 4 || -2 || 4
|- align=center
| ^‡ || 11 || 1 || 3 || 4 || -4 || 14
|- align=center
| ^† || 21 || 1 || 3 || 4 || -4 || 63
|- align=center
| || 13 || 1 || 2 || 3 || -10 || 8
|- align=center
| || 24 || 1 || 2 || 3 || -5 || 50
|- align=center
| || 12 || 2 || 0 || 2 || -4 || 2
|- align=center
| || 31 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 78
|- align=center
| ^‡ || 4 || 0 || 1 || 1 || -1 || 6
|- align=center
| || 5 || 0 || 1 || 1 || -2 || 4
|- align=center
| || 6 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 12
|- align=center
| || 7 || 0 || 1 || 1 || -1 || 2
|- align=center
| || 14 || 0 || 1 || 1 || -7 || 34
|- align=center
| ^†‡ || 14 || 0 || 1 || 1 || -7 || 48
|- align=center
| || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|- align=center
| || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 2
|- align=center
| || 3 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|- align=center
| ^‡ || 13 || 0 || 0 || 0 || -5 || 10
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Goaltenders

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|- style="text-align:center; background:#ddd;"
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| Player
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| GP
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| Min
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| W
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| L
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| T
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| GA
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| GAA
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| SA
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| Sv%
! style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| SO
|- align=center
| || 56 || 3319 || 27 || 22 || 7 || 187 || 3.38 || 1697 || .890 || 2
|- align=center
| || 25 || 1443 || 8 || 11 || 3 || 85 || 3.53 || 695 || .878 || 0
|- align=center
| || 2 || 90 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 6 || 4.00 || 41 || .854 || 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 1987 NHL Entry Draft

1987 NHL Entry Draft

The 1987 NHL Entry Draft was held at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. The National Hockey League teams selected 252 players eligible for entry into professional ranks, in the reverse order of the 1986–87 NHL season and playoff standings. This is the list of those players selected.-Selections...

 in Detroit, Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

 at the Joe Louis Arena

Joe Louis Arena

Joe Louis Arena, nicknamed The Joe and JLA is a hockey arena located at 600 Civic Center Drive in Detroit, Michigan. It is the home of the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Completed in 1979 at a cost of $57 million, Joe Louis Arena is named after boxer and former heavyweight...

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{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="background:#ddf; width:2.00%;"| Round
! style="background:#ddf; width:2.75%;"| #
! style="background:#ddf; width:16.0%;"| Player
! style="background:#ddf; width:12.25%;"| Position
! style="background:#ddf; width:17.0%;"| Nationality
! style="background:#ddf; width:100.0%;"| College/Junior/Club Team (League)
|-
| 1
| 10
| Jayson More

Jayson More

Jayson W. More is a former National Hockey League defenceman. He was drafted by the New York Rangers in the first round, 10th overall, of the 1987 NHL Entry Draft....

| D

Defenceman (ice hockey)

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

|  Canada
| New Westminster Bruins

New Westminster Bruins

The New Westminster Bruins were a junior ice hockey team from the Western Hockey League. There were two franchises that carried this name:* 1971–1981...

 (WHL

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
| 31
| Daniel Lacroix

Daniel Lacroix

Daniel Lacroix is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He is currently an assistant coach for the Tampa Bay Lightning....

| LW
|  Canada
| Granby Bisons

Granby Bisons

The Granby Bisons were a junior ice hockey team founded in 1981 after the team moved from Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, where they had previously been known as the Sorel Éperviers. The Bisons played at Arena Leonard Grondin in Granby, Quebec. In 1995 they were renamed the Granby Prédateurs. Today they are...

 (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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|-
| 3
| 46
| Simon Gagne
| RW
|  Canada
| Laval Titan

Laval Titan

The Laval Titan was one of the names used by a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League franchise that played in Laval, Quebec, between 1971 and 1998.-History:...

 (QMJHL)
|-
| 4
| 69
| Mike Sullivan
| 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...

|  United States
| Boston University (NCAA)
|-
| 5
| 94
| Erik O'Borsky
| C
|  United States
| Yale University (NCAA)
|-
| 6
| 115
| Ludek Cajka

Luděk Čajka

Luděk Čajka was a Czechoslovak professional ice hockey defenceman.Čajka was drafted 115th overall by the New York Rangers in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft but never played in North America. He played in the Czech Extraliga for TJ Gottwaldov, HC Dukla Jihlava and HC Zlín...

| D
|  Czechoslovakia
| Dukla Jihlava (Czech Extraliga

Czech Extraliga

The Czech Extraliga is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. As of 2009, it is ranked by the IIHF as the third strongest league in Europe....

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|-
| 7
| 136
| Clint Thomas
| D
|  United States
| Bartlett H.S. (Alaska)
|-
| 8
| 157
| Ckuck Wiegand
| RW
|  United States
| Essex Junction H.S. (Vermont)
|-
| 9
| 178
| Eric Burrill
| RW
|  United States
| Tartan H.S. (Massachusetts)
|-
| 10
| 199
| Dave Porter
| F

Forward (ice hockey)

In ice hockey, a forward is a player position on the ice whose primary responsibility is to score goals. Generally, the forwards try to stay in three different lanes, also known as thirds, of the ice going from goal to goal. It is not mandatory however, to stay in a lane. Staying in a lane aids in...

|  United States
| Northern Michigan University

Northern Michigan Wildcats men's ice hockey

The Northern Michigan Wildcats men's ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college ice hockey program that represents Northern Michigan University. The Wildcats are a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association . NMU has won one national title and has...

 (NCAA)
|-
| 10
| 205
| Brett Barnett
| LW
|  Canada
| Wexford Raiders (OPJHL)
|-
| 11
| 220
| Lance Marciano
| D
|  United States
| Choate Academy (Connecticut)
|}

Supplemental Draft

New York's picks at the 1987 NHL Supplemental Draft

1987 NHL Supplemental Draft

The 1987 NHL Supplemental Draft took place on ??, 1987.This is a list of players drafted. They were not selected in this order.-Round 1:-See also:*1987 NHL Entry Draft*1987–88 NHL season*List of NHL players-References:*...

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! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="17.0%" | Nationality
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="100.0%" | College/Junior/Club Team (League)
|-
| Joe Lockwood
| RW
|  United States
| University of Michigan

Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey

The Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team is the college ice hockey team that represents the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Earning varsity status in 1922, the program is competing in its 90th season...

 (CCHA

Central Collegiate Hockey Association

The Central Collegiate Hockey Association is a NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey college athletic conference that operates mostly in Michigan and Ohio, although it also has members in Alaska and Indiana. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. It holds its championship...

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