1996-97 San Jose Sharks Roster and Statistics

Record: 27-47-8 (62 points), Finished 7th in NHL Pacific Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Al Sims (27-47-8)

Goals For: 211 (26th of 26), Goals Against: 278 (24th of 26)
SRS: -0.78 (26th of 26), SOS: 0.03 (5th of 26)

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +7500

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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
San Jose Sharks	82	27	47	8	62	.378	211	278	-0.78	0.03	2.57	3.39	50	349	14.33	66	409	83.86	9	11	2360	8.9	2398	.884		1
League Average	82	35	35	11	82	.500	239	239					55	336	16.27	55	336	83.73	10	10	2444	9.8	2444	.902		5

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%
San Jose Sharks
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Birth	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date
20-30	Ed Belfour	ca CA	G	31	5-11	202	-/L	7	April 21, 1965
3	Doug Bodger	ca CA	D	30	6-2	210	L/-	12	June 18, 1966
91	Jan Čaloun	cs CS	RW	24	5-10	190	R/-	1	December 20, 1972
22	Ulf Dahlén	se SE	LW	30	6-2	199	L/-	9	January 21, 1967
42	Shean Donovan	ca CA	RW	22	6-3	218	R/-	2	January 22, 1975
14-22	Bob Errey	ca CA	LW	32	5-10	185	L/-	13	September 21, 1964
36	Todd Ewen	ca CA	RW	30	6-2	230	R/-	10	March 22, 1966
31	Wade Flaherty	ca CA	G	29	6-0	171	-/L	4	January 11, 1968
28	Iain Fraser	ca CA	C	27	5-10	175	L/-	4	August 10, 1969
39	Jeff Friesen	ca CA	LW	20	6-1	205	L/-	2	August 5, 1976
23	Todd Gill (C)	ca CA	D	31	6-0	180	L/-	12	November 9, 1965
21	Tony Granato	us US	RW	32	5-10	185	R/-	8	July 25, 1964
17	Steve Guolla	ca CA	LW	23	6-0	190	L/-	R	March 15, 1973
4	Greg Hawgood	ca CA	D	28	5-10	190	L/-	8	August 10, 1968
32	Kelly Hrudey	ca CA	G	36	5-10	189	-/L	13	January 13, 1961
19	Tim Hunter	ca CA	LW	36	6-2	202	R/-	15	September 10, 1960
43	Al Iafrate	us US	D	30	6-3	235	L/-	10	March 21, 1966
25	Viktor Kozlov	su SU	C	21	6-4	232	R/-	2	February 14, 1975
44	Vlastimil Kroupa	cs CS	D	21	6-3	215	L/-	3	April 27, 1975
26	Chris Lipuma	us US	D	25	6-0	183	L/-	4	March 23, 1971
33	Marty McSorley	ca CA	D	33	6-1	235	R/-	13	May 18, 1963
62	Andrei Nazarov	su SU	LW	22	6-5	242	R/-	3	May 22, 1974
9	Bernie Nicholls	ca CA	C	35	6-0	185	R/-	15	June 24, 1961
11	Owen Nolan	gb GB	RW	24	6-1	214	R/-	6	February 12, 1972
7	Ville Peltonen	fi FI	LW	23	5-11	182	L/-	1	May 24, 1973
10	Marcus Ragnarsson	se SE	D	25	6-1	215	L/-	1	August 13, 1971
40	Mike Rathje	ca CA	D	22	6-5	235	L/-	3	May 11, 1974
12	Ron Sutter	ca CA	C	33	6-0	180	R/-	14	December 2, 1963
38	Michal Sýkora	cs CS	D	23	6-5	225	L/-	3	July 5, 1973
18	Chris Tancill	us US	LW	28	5-10	185	R/-	6	February 7, 1968
30	Chris Terreri	us US	G	32	5-9	170	-/L	9	November 15, 1964
8	Darren Turcotte	us US	C	28	6-0	182	L/-	8	March 2, 1968
14	Ray Whitney	ca CA	LW	24	5-10	180	R/-	5	May 8, 1972
5	Jason Widmer	ca CA	D	23	6-0	200	L/-	2	August 1, 1973
16	Dody Wood	ca CA	C	24	6-0	200	L/-	3	March 18, 1972
15	Alexei Yegorov	su SU	RW	21	5-11	185	L/-	1	May 21, 1975

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	Owen Nolan	24	RW	72	31	32	63	-19	155	21	10	0	3	22	10	0	225	13.8			6.3	0.4	6.7
2	Jeff Friesen	20	LW	82	28	34	62	-8	75	20	6	2	5	26	7	1	200	14.0			5.5	0.9	6.4
3	Bernie Nicholls	35	C	65	12	33	45	-21	63	9	2	1	0	18	12	3	137	8.8			3.0	0.2	3.2
4	Viktor Kozlov	21	C	78	16	25	41	-16	40	12	4	0	4	17	8	0	184	8.7			2.5	0.6	3.0
5	Tony Granato	32	RW	76	25	15	40	-7	159	19	5	1	4	11	4	0	231	10.8			3.3	0.9	4.2
6	Darren Turcotte	28	C	65	16	21	37	-8	16	12	3	1	4	13	8	0	126	12.7			2.6	0.7	3.3
7	Andrei Nazarov	22	LW	60	12	15	27	-4	222	11	1	0	1	13	2	0	116	10.3			1.4	0.7	2.2
8	Steve Guolla	23	LW	43	13	8	21	-10	14	11	2	0	1	7	1	0	81	16.0			1.6	0.3	1.9
9	Todd Gill	31	D	79	0	21	21	-20	101	0	0	0	0	16	5	0	101	0.0			0.5	2.6	3.1
10	Ulf Dahlén	30	LW	43	8	11	19	-11	8	5	3	0	1	8	3	0	78	10.3			0.9	0.2	1.2
11	Greg Hawgood	28	D	63	6	12	18	-22	69	3	3	0	0	3	9	0	83	7.2			1.1	1.7	2.8
12	Marcus Ragnarsson	25	D	69	3	14	17	-18	63	1	2	0	0	10	4	0	57	5.3			0.6	2.3	2.8
13	Marty McSorley	33	D	57	4	12	16	-6	186	3	0	1	1	11	1	0	74	5.4			0.8	2.5	3.3
14	Doug Bodger	30	D	81	1	15	16	-14	64	1	0	0	1	8	7	0	96	1.0			0.0	3.2	3.2
15	Shean Donovan	22	RW	73	9	6	15	-18	42	8	0	1	0	6	0	0	115	7.8			-0.5	0.4	-0.1
16	Al Iafrate	30	D	38	6	9	15	-10	91	3	3	0	0	5	4	0	91	6.6			1.3	1.2	2.5
17	Ron Sutter	33	C	78	5	7	12	-8	65	2	1	2	1	5	0	2	78	6.4			-1.4	0.9	-0.5
18	Bob Errey	32	LW	30	3	6	9	-2	20	3	0	0	0	6	0	0	38	7.9			0.0	0.4	0.4
19	Vlastimil Kroupa	21	D	35	2	6	8	-17	12	0	2	0	1	4	2	0	24	8.3			0.3	0.6	0.9
20	Mike Rathje	22	D	31	0	8	8	-1	21	0	0	0	0	7	1	0	22	0.0			0.2	1.5	1.7
21	Michal Sýkora	23	D	35	2	5	7	0	59	1	1	0	0	4	1	0	39	5.1			0.2	1.8	2.0
22	Dody Wood	24	C	44	3	2	5	-3	193	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	43	7.0			-0.9	0.5	-0.4
23	Ville Peltonen	23	LW	28	2	3	5	-8	0	1	1	0	0	3	0	0	35	5.7			-0.4	0.1	-0.3
24	Chris Tancill	28	LW	25	4	0	4	-5	8	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	20	20.0			-0.2	0.2	0.0
25	Tim Hunter	36	LW	46	0	4	4	0	135	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	13	0.0			-1.4	0.7	-0.7
26	Todd Ewen	30	RW	51	0	2	2	-5	162	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	22	0.0			-1.8	0.6	-1.2
27	Ray Whitney	24	LW	12	0	2	2	-6	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	24	0.0			-0.3	0.0	-0.3
28	Jason Widmer	23	D	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0				0.1	0.2	0.2
29	Alexei Yegorov	21	RW	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0				0.0	0.1	0.1
30	Ed Belfour*	31	G	13	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0				0		757	58:16	0.0	0.0	1.3
31	Jan Čaloun	24	RW	2	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
32	Wade Flaherty	29	G	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		359	51:21	0.0	0.0	-0.1
33	Iain Fraser	27	C	2	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				-0.1	0.0	-0.1
34	Kelly Hrudey	36	G	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		2631	54:48	0.0	0.0	5.0
35	Chris Lipuma	25	D	8	0	0	0	-2	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0			-0.2	0.3	0.1
36	Chris Terreri	32	G	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		1200	54:32	0.0	0.0	2.8
	Team Total			82	211	330	541	-270	2079	152	50	9	27	235	89	6	2360	8.9			24.7	26.6	60.3

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	Kelly Hrudey	36	48		16	24	5	140	1263	1123	.889	3.19	0	2631				116	-19.7	3.42	5.0
2	Chris Terreri	32	22		6	10	3	55	553	498	.901	2.75	0	1200				104	-2.3	2.95	2.8
3	Ed Belfour*	31	13		3	9	0	43	371	328	.884	3.41	1	757				122	-7.7	3.64	1.3
4	Wade Flaherty	29	7		2	4	0	31	202	171	.847	5.18	0	359						5.51	-0.1
	Team Total				27	47	8	269	2389	2120	.887	3.26	1	4947				118	-41.4	3.49	9.0