Cheats:

 To enable the cheat mode press [Shift] and type WAGD. Now you have:

 [H]        Home team scores goal
 [V]        Visiting team scores goal
 [P]        Ends period
 [G]        Ends game
 [O]        Goes to overtime
 [I]        Causes an injury
 [F]        Causes a fight
 [T]        Shrinks players each time you hit it
 [Shift][T] Makes players larger each time you hit it
 [1]        Two minute penalty is called
 [2]        Four minute penalty is called
 [4]        Five minute penalty is called
 [5]        Penalty shot

 He, and there are secret teams in the game !!!

 To access the two secret teams in NHL '97, you must do the following:
 Go into the credits screen. When the picture of all of the
 Programmers appear, type PIONEER. Let the credits finish and then
 play in an exhibition game. Scroll down to the bottom of the list of
 teams in the team select screen and EA Sports 1 and EA Sports 2 will
 now appear.

 And we can change the team jerseys:

 Click the left mouse button on the logo of ANAHEIM, BOSTON,
 PITTSBURGH, LA or VANCOUVER you will get the third jersey of the
 team.

The Team that never looses:

 1.line: LF:Kurri (NYR),C:Gretzky(NYR),RF.:Bondra(WSH),LD:Coffey(DET),
 RD:Bourque(BOS),G:Roy(COL)+ Belfour(CHI)
 2.line: LF:Tkatchuk(PHX),C:Lemieux(PIT),RF:Jagr(PIT),LD:Macinnis(STL),
 Chelios(CHI)
 3.line:LF Nedved(PIT),C:Messier(NYR),RF:Bure(VAN),LD:Samuelsson(NYR),
 RD:Murphy(TOR)
 4.line:LF:Sel„nne(ANA),C:Lindros(PHI),RF:Kovalev(NYR)