As of 3/27/97 # NAME POS 2 Brian Leetch (alternate captain) LD 5 Ulf Samuelsson LD 6 Doug Lidster RD 8 Patrick Flatley RW 9 Adam Graves (alternate captain) LW (#11) 10 Esa Tikkanen LW/C 11 Mark Messier (captain) C 14 Chris Ferraro C 15 Darren Langdon LW 18 Bill Berg LW 20 Luc Robitaille LW 21 Russ Courtnall RW 22 Shane Churla RW 23 Jeff Beukeboom RD 24 Niklas Sundstrom C/W 25 Alexander Karpovtsev RD 26 David Oliver RW 27 Alexei Kovalev C/RW 28 Dallas Eakins LD 29 Eric Cairns LD 30 Glenn Healy G 32 Mike Eastwood C 33 Bruce Driver LD 35 Mike Richter G 37 Ryan VandenBussche RW 99 Wayne Gretzky CAlso on roster this year: 32 Sergio Momesso LW (traded to St. Louis for Brian Noonan, 11/13/96), 16 Daniel Goneau LW (returned to Binghamton, 1/7/97), 34 Dan Cloutier (DNP) G (returned to Binghamton, 1/24/97), 19 Christian Dube C (returned to Hull (QMJHL), 1/29/97), 21 Jayson More RD (traded to Phoenix for Mike Eastwood and Dallas Eakins, 2/6/97), 36 Jeff Nielsen RW (returned to Binghamton, 2/24/97), 39 Vladimir Vorobiev RW (returned to Binghamton, 2/24/97), 38 Sylvain Blouin (returned to Binghamton, c. 3/8/97), 13 Sergei Nemchinov C and 28 Brian Noonan RW (traded to Vancouver for Russ Courtnall and Esa Tikkanen, 3/9/97), 17 Peter Ferraro RW (returned to Binghamton, 3/10/97).