WHL Defensemen Scoring Leaders 1997‑1998

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WHL defenseman scoring leaders in the 1997-1998 season.

Rk	Name	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP
1	Burke Henry	18	D	72	18	65	83	153	35	6	1	1	0.250	0.903	1.153
2	Michal Rozsíval	19	D	71	14	55	69	122	24	8	1	2	0.197	0.775	0.972
3	Andrew Ference	18	D	72	11	57	68	142	75	5	1	3	0.153	0.792	0.944
4	Brad Stuart	18	D	72	20	45	65	82	49	10	3	1	0.278	0.625	0.903
5	Joel Kwiatkowski	20	D	62	21	43	64	65	16	8	0	2	0.339	0.694	1.032
6	Shane Belter	20	D	65	22	39	61	83	-6	10	0	5	0.338	0.600	0.938
7	Scott Schoneck	18	D	71	16	41	57	47	-13	7	0	0	0.225	0.577	0.803
8	Kevin Haupt	19	D	65	16	39	55	12	51	11	0	1	0.246	0.600	0.846
9	Micki Dupont	17	D	71	13	41	54	93	-11	7	0	1	0.183	0.577	0.761
10	Perry Johnson	20	D	65	9	44	53	61	19	5	0	2	0.138	0.677	0.815
11	Derek Holland	18	D	68	9	41	50	188	-28	4	0	0	0.132	0.603	0.735
12	Luc Theoret	18	D	65	12	37	49	98	28	5	1	2	0.185	0.569	0.754
13	Lawrence Nycholat	18	D	71	13	35	48	108	13	6	0	2	0.183	0.493	0.676
14	Cory Sarich	19	D	46	8	40	48	137	-6	5	0	2	0.174	0.870	1.043
15	Jame Pollock	18	D	66	11	36	47	78	22	6	1	1	0.167	0.545	0.712
16	Andrei Lupandin	19	D	66	18	28	46	83	16	5	0	6	0.273	0.424	0.697
17	Gerad Adams	19	D	69	10	32	42	202	34	3	0	1	0.145	0.464	0.609
18	Darren Shakotko	19	D	72	16	25	41	47	14	5	3	3	0.222	0.347	0.569
19	Ryan Gaucher	19	D	65	15	26	41	74	-11	5	0	2	0.231	0.400	0.631
20	Ian Walterson	19	D	72	12	29	41	77	26	2	1	3	0.167	0.403	0.569
21	Christian Chartier	17	D	68	8	33	41	43	-41	6	0	1	0.118	0.485	0.603
22	Steve McCarthy	16	D	58	11	29	40	59	-16	6	0	2	0.190	0.500	0.690
23	Trevor Johnson	20	D	72	11	29	40	202	-1	0	0	2	0.153	0.403	0.556
24	Scott Hannan	18	D	47	10	30	40	70	2	6	0	0	0.213	0.638	0.851
25	Kyle Kos	18	D	71	7	33	40	102	1	1	1	2	0.099	0.465	0.563
26	Brad Ference	18	D	54	9	30	39	213	16	5	0	0	0.167	0.556	0.722
27	Paul Elliott	17	D	72	11	27	38	47	-44	6	0	1	0.153	0.375	0.528
28	Robby Sandrock	19	D	67	6	32	38	91	-52	5	0	0	0.090	0.478	0.567
29	Darrell Hay	17	D	71	5	33	38	90	-20	1	1	0	0.070	0.465	0.535
30	Robert Hegberg	20	D	62	8	29	37	58	-19	3	0	0	0.129	0.468	0.597
31	Jeff Henkelman	20	D	71	7	29	36	85	12	3	0	0	0.099	0.408	0.507
32	Chris Flynn	17	D	52	10	24	34	50	-20	7	0	0	0.192	0.462	0.654
33	Johnathan Aitken	19	D	69	9	25	34	183	25	6	1	1	0.130	0.362	0.493
34	Chad Wilchynski	20	D	39	9	24	33	53	3	6	0	1	0.231	0.615	0.846
35	Josef Melichar	18	D	67	9	24	33	152	-42	5	0	0	0.134	0.358	0.493
36	Kurtis Drummond	19	D	53	8	25	33	31	1	5	0	2	0.151	0.472	0.623
37	Lance Ward	19	D	71	8	25	33	249	-7	4	0	1	0.113	0.352	0.465
38	Kenton Smith	18	D	69	7	26	33	81	14	3	0	0	0.101	0.377	0.478
39	Eric Brewer	18	D	34	5	28	33	45	11	3	0	0	0.147	0.824	0.971
40	Garry Toor	18	D	71	5	27	32	41	13	1	0	1	0.070	0.380	0.451
41	Zenith Komarniski	19	D	46	7	24	31	108	-3	5	0	0	0.152	0.522	0.674
42	Matt Kinch	17	D	55	7	24	31	13	4	3	0	1	0.127	0.436	0.564
43	Rick Berry	19	D	59	9	21	30	131	10	1	1	0	0.153	0.356	0.508
44	Brad Swanson	20	D	69	8	22	30	100	-38	6	0	1	0.116	0.319	0.435
45	Scott Roles	18	D	75	6	24	30	44	15	3	0	0	0.080	0.320	0.400
46	Chris Fleury	19	D	56	5	25	30	37	12	1	0	2	0.089	0.446	0.536
47	Karel Betík	19	D	61	5	25	30	121	23	0	0	2	0.082	0.410	0.492
48	Richard Seeley	18	D	65	8	21	29	114	-3	2	0	2	0.123	0.323	0.446
49	Dennis Mullen	20	D	56	7	22	29	249	-10	3	1	2	0.125	0.393	0.518
50	Harlan Pratt	19	D	61	8	20	28	35	-19	5	0	1	0.131	0.328	0.459

WHL Defensemen Scoring Leaders 1997‑1998

1997-1998 WHL Demographics

WHL nationality split - All defensemen ‑ 1997‑1998 season