1997-98 Colorado Avalanche Roster and Statistics

Record: 39-26-17 (95 points), Finished 1st in NHL Pacific Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Marc Crawford (39-26-17)

Primary Arena: McNichols Sports Arena

Goals For: 231 (6th of 26), Goals Against: 205 (12th of 26)
SRS: 0.27 (10th of 26), SOS: -0.04 (24th of 26)

Playoffs:
Lost Conference Quarter-Finals (4-3) to Edmonton Oilers

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +500

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Recent Game Results

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	GF/G	GA/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA	S	S%	SA	SV%	PDO	SO
Colorado Avalanche	82	39	26	17	95	.579	231	205	0.27	-0.05	2.82	2.50	74	426	17.37	53	409	87.04	8	12	2289	10.1	2420	.915		5
League Average	82	35	35	13	82	.500	216	216					57	380	15.08	57	380	84.92	10	10	2242	9.6	2242	.904		6

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5)

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5) Table
Team	S%	SV%	PDO	CF	CA	CF%	xGF	xGA	aGF	aGA	axDiff	SCF	SCA	SCF%	HDF	HDA	HDF%	HDGF	HDC%	HDGA	HDCO%
Colorado Avalanche
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Flag	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date	Summary
6	Wade Belak	ca	D	21	6-5	222	R/-	1	July 3, 1976	1 G, 1 A, 2 P
1	Craig Billington	ca	G	31	5-10	170	-/L	9	September 11, 1966	8-7-4, 2.32 GAA
20	René Corbet	ca	LW	24	6-0	195	L/-	4	June 25, 1973	16 G, 12 A, 28 P
18	Adam Deadmarsh	ca	RW	22	6-0	205	R/-	3	May 10, 1975	22 G, 21 A, 43 P
12	Shean Donovan	ca	RW	23	6-3	218	R/-	3	January 22, 1975	5 G, 7 A, 12 P
14	Tom Fitzgerald	us	C	29	6-0	190	R/-	9	August 28, 1968	2 G, 1 A, 3 P
52	Adam Foote	ca	D	26	6-2	220	R/-	6	July 10, 1971	3 G, 14 A, 17 P
21	Peter Forsberg	se	C	24	6-0	205	L/-	3	July 20, 1973	25 G, 66 A, 91 P
5	Alexei Gusarov	su	D	33	6-3	185	L/-	7	July 8, 1964	4 G, 10 A, 14 P
11	Keith Jones	ca	RW	29	6-2	200	L/-	5	November 8, 1968	3 G, 7 A, 10 P
13	Valeri Kamensky	su	LW	31	6-2	198	R/-	6	April 18, 1966	26 G, 40 A, 66 P
24	Jon Klemm	ca	D	28	6-2	205	R/-	5	January 8, 1970	6 G, 8 A, 14 P
4	Uwe Krupp	de	D	32	6-6	235	R/-	11	June 24, 1965	9 G, 22 A, 31 P
17	Jari Kurri	fi	C	37	6-0	194	R/-	16	May 18, 1960	5 G, 17 A, 22 P
28	Eric Lacroix	ca	LW	26	6-1	210	L/-	4	July 15, 1971	16 G, 15 A, 31 P
40	Brad Larsen	ca	LW	20	6-0	210	L/-	R	June 28, 1977	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
2	Sylvain Lefebvre	ca	D	30	6-2	205	L/-	8	October 14, 1967	0 G, 10 A, 10 P
22	Claude Lemieux	ca	RW	32	6-1	215	R/-	14	July 16, 1965	26 G, 27 A, 53 P
27	François Leroux	ca	LW	27	6-6	247	L/-	9	April 18, 1970	1 G, 2 A, 3 P
10	Josef Marha	cs	LW	21	6-0	176	L/-	2	June 2, 1976	2 G, 5 A, 7 P
14	Christian Matte	ca	RW	23	6-0	190	R/-	1	January 20, 1975	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
29	Éric Messier	ca	D	24	6-2	195	L/-	1	October 29, 1973	4 G, 12 A, 16 P
3	Aaron Miller	us	D	26	6-3	210	R/-	4	August 11, 1971	2 G, 2 A, 4 P
16	Jeff Odgers	ca	RW	28	5-11	200	R/-	6	May 31, 1969	5 G, 8 A, 13 P
8	Sandis Ozoliņš	su	D	25	6-3	215	L/-	5	August 3, 1972	13 G, 38 A, 51 P
9	Mike Ricci	ca	C	26	6-0	200	L/-	7	October 27, 1971	0 G, 4 A, 4 P
33	Patrick Roy	ca	G	32	6-2	185	-/L	13	October 5, 1965	31-19-13, 2.39 GAA
10	Warren Rychel	ca	LW	30	6-0	205	L/-	6	May 12, 1967	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
19	Joe Sakic (C)	ca	C	28	5-11	195	L/-	9	July 7, 1969	27 G, 36 A, 63 P
15	Yves Sarault	ca	LW	25	6-1	190	L/-	3	December 23, 1972	1 G, 0 A, 1 P
7	Pascal Trépanier	ca	D	24	6-0	210	R/-	R	September 4, 1973	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
26	Stéphane Yelle	ca	C	23	6-2	182	L/-	2	May 9, 1974	7 G, 15 A, 22 P

Scoring Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Scoring Regular Season Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists					Ice Time		Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TOI	ATOI	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Peter Forsberg*	24	C	72	25	66	91	6	94	15	7	3	7	36	30	0	202	12.4			9.0	1.1	10.1
2	Valeri Kamensky	31	LW	75	26	40	66	-2	60	18	8	0	4	21	19	0	173	15.0			6.4	0.9	7.3
3	Joe Sakic*	28	C	64	27	36	63	0	50	14	12	1	2	20	16	0	254	10.6			6.7	0.8	7.5
4	Claude Lemieux	32	RW	78	26	27	53	-7	115	14	11	1	1	20	7	0	261	10.0			5.0	0.7	5.7
5	Sandis Ozoliņš	25	D	66	13	38	51	-12	65	4	9	0	2	12	26	0	135	9.6			5.1	2.3	7.3
6	Adam Deadmarsh	22	RW	73	22	21	43	0	125	12	10	0	6	13	6	2	187	11.8			3.8	0.9	4.7
7	Eric Lacroix	26	LW	82	16	15	31	0	84	11	5	0	6	12	3	0	126	12.7			1.6	1.0	2.7
8	Uwe Krupp	32	D	78	9	22	31	21	38	4	5	0	2	13	8	1	149	6.0			2.4	5.4	7.8
9	René Corbet	24	LW	68	16	12	28	8	133	12	4	0	4	7	5	0	117	13.7			1.9	1.2	3.0
10	Stéphane Yelle	23	C	81	7	15	22	-10	48	6	0	1	0	15	0	0	93	7.5			-0.1	0.6	0.5
11	Jari Kurri*	37	C	70	5	17	22	6	12	3	2	0	0	11	5	1	61	8.2			0.1	1.1	1.2
12	Adam Foote	26	D	77	3	14	17	-3	124	3	0	0	1	12	1	1	64	4.7			0.4	3.5	3.9
13	Éric Messier	24	D	62	4	12	16	4	20	4	0	0	0	6	6	0	66	6.1			0.7	3.3	4.0
14	Jon Klemm	28	D	67	6	8	14	-3	30	6	0	0	0	8	0	0	60	10.0			0.6	3.0	3.6
15	Alexei Gusarov	33	D	72	4	10	14	9	42	3	0	1	1	8	1	1	47	8.5			0.3	4.2	4.5
16	Jeff Odgers	28	RW	68	5	8	13	5	213	5	0	0	0	8	0	0	47	10.6			-0.8	1.0	0.3
17	Shean Donovan	23	RW	47	5	7	12	3	48	5	0	0	0	7	0	0	57	8.8			-0.1	0.7	0.6
18	Keith Jones	29	RW	23	3	7	10	-4	22	2	1	0	2	4	3	0	31	9.7			0.4	0.1	0.6
19	Sylvain Lefebvre	30	D	81	0	10	10	2	48	0	0	0	0	7	2	1	66	0.0			-0.7	4.1	3.4
20	Josef Marha	21	LW	11	2	5	7	0	4	2	0	0	0	2	3	0	10	20.0			0.5	0.1	0.6
21	Aaron Miller	26	D	55	2	2	4	0	51	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	29	6.9			-0.6	2.7	2.1
22	Mike Ricci	26	C	6	0	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	5	0.0			0.2	0.1	0.3
23	Tom Fitzgerald	29	C	11	2	1	3	0	22	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	14	14.3			0.1	0.1	0.2
24	François Leroux	27	LW	50	1	2	3	-3	140	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	14	7.1			-1.5	0.5	-1.0
25	Patrick Roy*	32	G	65	0	3	3	0	39	0	0	0	0				1	0.0	3835	59:00	0.0	0.0	12.8
26	Wade Belak	21	D	8	1	1	2	-3	27	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	50.0			0.1	0.2	0.3
27	Yves Sarault	25	LW	2	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	100.0			0.1	0.1	0.2
28	Pascal Trépanier	24	D	15	0	1	1	-2	18	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	9	0.0			-0.2	0.6	0.4
29	Craig Billington	31	G	23	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0				0		1162	50:31	0.0	0.0	4.6
30	Brad Larsen	20	LW	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	0.0
31	Christian Matte	23	RW	5	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0			-0.2	0.1	-0.1
32	Warren Rychel	30	LW	8	0	0	0	-1	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0			-0.3	0.1	-0.2
	Team Total			82	231	404	635	15	1705	149	74	8	39	253	141	7	2290	10.1			40.9	40.4	98.6

Goalies Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Goalies Regular Season Table
			Goalie Stats
Rk	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	QS	QS%	RBS	GA%-	GSAA	adjGAA	GPS
1	Patrick Roy*	32	65		31	19	13	153	1825	1672	.916	2.39	4	3835				89	18.1	2.83	12.8
2	Craig Billington	31	23		8	7	4	45	588	543	.923	2.32	1	1162				82	10.1	2.74	4.6
	Team Total				39	26	17	198	2413	2215	.918	2.38	5	4997				88	28.2	2.81	17.4