1994–95 Pittsburgh Penguins season

1994–95 Pittsburgh Penguins
Division	2nd Northeast
Conference	3rd Eastern
1994–95 record	29–16–3
Home record	18–5–1
Road record	11–11–2
Goals for	181
Goals against	158
Team information
General manager	Craig Patrick
Coach	Eddie Johnston
Captain	Ron Francis
Alternate captains	Ulf Samuelsson Kevin Stevens
Arena	Pittsburgh Civic Arena
Team leaders
Goals	Jaromir Jagr (32)
Assists	Ron Francis (48)
Points	Jaromir Jagr (70)
Penalty minutes	Francois Leroux (114)
Plus/minus	Ron Francis (+30)
Wins	Ken Wregget (25)
Goals against average	Ken Wregget (3.21)

Despite the absence of Mario Lemieux, the Penguins started the 1994–95 season off strong, winning their first seven games. They remained undefeated in their first 13 games, going 12–0–1. However, after such a red-hot start to the season, the Penguins had a lukewarm record in their final 35 games, going 17–16–2. Jaromir Jagr won the Art Ross Trophy for most points (70), captain Ron Francis led the league in assists (48) and plus/minus (+30), and goaltender Ken Wregget led the league in wins (25). In a 7-3 Penguins' win over the Florida Panthers on February 7, Joe Mullen recorded an assist and became the first American-born NHL player to reach 1,000 points. Nine days later, Luc Robitaille scored 4 goals in a 5-2 Penguins' win over the Hartford Whalers.

Despite finding themselves in a three-games-to-one series deficit against the Washington Capitals in the first round of the playoffs, the Penguins won game five at home in overtime, 6–5, on Luc Robitaille's goal at 4:30 of the first overtime period. Peter Bondra, Dale Hunter, Jaromir Jagr and Kevin Stevens each scored twice in the game. Pittsburgh went on to win game six in Washington, 7–1, and then closed out the series at home with a 3–0 victory in game seven. It was the second time in four years that the Penguins had come back to defeat the Capitals after being down three games to one. The Penguins faced the New Jersey Devils in the second round, and won the opening game, 3–2. With only 1:15 remaining in game two, Jaromir Jagr tied the game at 2–2. The game seemed certain to head to overtime until a breakaway-goal by Devils captain Scott Stevens with just 29 seconds remaining. Claude Lemieux added an empty-net goal and the Devils tied the series with a 4–2 win. In the final three games of the series, the Penguins managed to score only three goals, and were eliminated at home in game five, by a score of 4–1.

Offseason

NHL draft

Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	College/junior/club team
1	24	Chris Wells (Centre)	Canada	Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL)
2	50	Richard Park (Centre)	United States	Belleville Bulls (OHL)

Regular season

Final standings

Northeast Division

No.	CR		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	1	Quebec Nordiques	48	30	13	5	185	134	65
2	3	Pittsburgh Penguins	48	29	16	3	181	158	61
3	4	Boston Bruins	48	27	18	3	150	127	57
4	7	Buffalo Sabres	48	22	19	7	130	119	51
5	10	Hartford Whalers	48	19	24	5	127	141	43
6	11	Montreal Canadiens	48	18	23	7	125	148	43
7	14	Ottawa Senators	48	9	34	5	117	174	23

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Game log

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	W	January 20, 1995	5–3	@ Tampa Bay Lightning (1994–95)	1–0–0
2	W	January 23, 1995	6–5	@ Florida Panthers (1994–95)	2–0–0
3	W	January 25, 1995	3–2	@ New York Rangers (1994–95)	3–0–0
4	W	January 27, 1995	5–4	Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	4–0–0
5	W	January 29, 1995	4–1	@ Washington Capitals (1994–95)	5–0–0
6	W	February 1, 1995	4–3	New York Rangers (1994–95)	6–0–0
7	W	February 4, 1995	6–3	Tampa Bay Lightning (1994–95)	7–0–0
8	T	February 5, 1995	3–3 OT	@ New Jersey Devils (1994–95)	7–0–1
9	W	February 7, 1995	7–3	Florida Panthers (1994–95)	8–0–1
10	W	February 9, 1995	5–2	@ New York Islanders (1994–95)	9–0–1
11	W	February 11, 1995	3–1	Montreal Canadiens (1994–95)	10–0–1
12	W	February 14, 1995	5–3	Boston Bruins (1994–95)	11–0–1
13	W	February 16, 1995	5–2	Hartford Whalers (1994–95)	12–0–1
14	L	February 18, 1995	2–4	@ Hartford Whalers (1994–95)	12–1–1
15	T	February 19, 1995	3–3 OT	Buffalo Sabres (1994–95)	12–1–2
16	W	February 21, 1995	5–4	Quebec Nordiques (1994–95)	13–1–2
17	L	February 24, 1995	2–4	Tampa Bay Lightning (1994–95)	13–2–2
18	L	February 25, 1995	1–3	@ New York Islanders (1994–95)	13–3–2
19	W	February 27, 1995	7–5	@ Quebec Nordiques (1994–95)	14–3–2
20	L	March 2, 1995	3–6	@ Buffalo Sabres (1994–95)	14–4–2
21	W	March 4, 1995	4–3 OT	@ Boston Bruins (1994–95)	15–4–2
22	L	March 5, 1995	2–6	@ Philadelphia Flyers (1994–95)	15–5–2
23	L	March 7, 1995	4–5	Quebec Nordiques (1994–95)	15–6–2
24	W	March 9, 1995	4–2	New York Islanders (1994–95)	16–6–2
25	W	March 11, 1995	6–2	Buffalo Sabres (1994–95)	17–6–2
26	W	March 13, 1995	4–2	Montreal Canadiens (1994–95)	18–6–2
27	L	March 15, 1995	5–8	@ Montreal Canadiens (1994–95)	18–7–2
28	L	March 16, 1995	2–3	@ Quebec Nordiques (1994–95)	18–8–2
29	W	March 19, 1995	4–3	@ Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	19–8–2
30	W	March 21, 1995	3–2	@ Buffalo Sabres (1994–95)	20–8–2
31	W	March 24, 1995	5–2	New Jersey Devils (1994–95)	21–8–2
32	L	March 26, 1995	0–2	@ Florida Panthers (1994–95)	21–9–2
33	W	March 28, 1995	6–3	New York Islanders (1994–95)	22–9–2
34	W	April 1, 1995	3–2	Philadelphia Flyers (1994–95)	23–9–2
35	L	April 5, 1995	4–8	Hartford Whalers (1994–95)	23–10–2
36	L	April 8, 1995	1–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1994–95)	23–11–2
37	W	April 10, 1995	4–3	@ Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	24–11–2
38	W	April 11, 1995	3–1	Washington Capitals (1994–95)	25–11–2
39	W	April 15, 1995	5–2	Ottawa Senators (1994–95)	26–11–2
40	L	April 16, 1995	3–4 OT	@ Philadelphia Flyers (1994–95)	26–12–2
41	W	April 18, 1995	6–5	New York Rangers (1994–95)	27–12–2
42	L	April 22, 1995	1–2	Washington Capitals (1994–95)	27–13–2
43	W	April 23, 1995	4–2	@ Hartford Whalers (1994–95)	28–13–2
44	T	April 26, 1995	3–3 OT	@ New Jersey Devils (1994–95)	28–13–3
45	W	April 28, 1995	4–1	Boston Bruins (1994–95)	29–13–3
46	L	April 30, 1995	2–5	@ Boston Bruins (1994–95)	29–14–3
47	L	May 2, 1995	2–7	@ Washington Capitals (1994–95)	29–15–3
48	L	May 3, 1995	3–4	Florida Panthers (1994–95)	29–16–3

Player stats

Skaters

Note: GP= Games played; G= Goals; A= Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Jaromir Jagr	48	32	38	70	37
Ron Francis	44	11	48	59	18
Tomas Sandstrom	47	21	23	44	42
Luc Robitaille	46	23	19	42	37
Larry Murphy	48	13	25	38	18
John Cullen	46	13	24	37	66
Joe Mullen	45	16	21	37	6
Kevin Stevens	27	15	12	27	51
Shawn McEachern	44	13	13	26	22
Ulf Samuelsson	44	1	15	16	113
Martin Straka	31	4	12	16	16
Chris Joseph	33	5	10	15	46
Len Barrie	48	3	11	14	66
Mike Hudson	40	2	9	11	34
Norm Maciver	13	0	9	9	6
Kjell Samuelsson	41	1	6	7	54
Greg Hawgood	21	1	4	5	25
Grant Jennings	25	0	4	4	36
Greg Andrusak	7	0	4	4	6
Markus Naslund	14	2	2	4	2
Jim McKenzie	39	2	1	3	63
Francois Leroux	40	0	2	2	114
Troy Murray	13	0	2	2	23
Chris Tamer	36	2	0	2	82
Peter Taglianetti	13	0	1	1	12
Richard Park	1	0	1	1	2
Rusty Fitzgerald	4	1	0	1	0
Drake Berehowsky	4	0	0	0	13
Philippe DeRouville	1	0	0	0	0
Jeff Christian	1	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Note: GP= Games played; W= Wins; L= Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average

Player	GP	W	L	T	SO	GAA
Tom Barrasso	2	0	1	1	0	3.84
Philippe DeRouville	1	1	0	0	0	3.00
Ken Wregget	38	25	9	2	0	3.21
Wendell Young	10	3	6	0	0	3.26

See also

• 1994–95 NHL season

References

• 1994–95 Pittsburgh Penguins Games. Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-06.
• Penguins on Hockey Database