1997-98 San Jose Sharks Roster and Statistics

Record: 34-38-10 (78 points), Finished 4th in NHL Pacific Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Darryl Sutter (34-38-10)

Goals For: 210 (18th of 26), Goals Against: 216 (14th of 26)
SRS: -0.10 (16th of 26), SOS: -0.03 (20th of 26)

Playoffs:
Lost Conference Quarter-Finals (4-2) to Dallas Stars

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +15000

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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	34	38	10	78	.476	210	216	-0.10	-0.03	2.56	2.63	54	400	13.50	59	398	85.18	10	5	2169	9.7	2020	.893		7
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%
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
34	Niklas Andersson	se SE	LW	26	5-9	180	L/-	3	May 20, 1971
3	Doug Bodger	ca CA	D	31	6-2	210	L/-	13	June 18, 1966
7	Rich Brennan	us US	D	25	6-2	200	R/-	1	November 26, 1972
28	Shawn Burr	ca CA	LW	31	6-1	205	L/-	13	July 1, 1966
22	Murray Craven	ca CA	LW	33	6-3	195	L/-	15	July 20, 1964
42	Shean Donovan	ca CA	RW	23	6-3	218	R/-	3	January 22, 1975
39	Jeff Friesen	ca CA	LW	21	6-1	205	L/-	3	August 5, 1976
23	Todd Gill (C)	ca CA	D	32	6-0	180	L/-	13	November 9, 1965
21	Tony Granato	us US	RW	33	5-10	185	R/-	9	July 25, 1964
17	Steve Guolla	ca CA	LW	24	6-0	190	L/-	1	March 15, 1973
2	Bill Houlder	ca CA	D	30	6-2	217	L/-	10	March 11, 1967
32	Kelly Hrudey	ca CA	G	37	5-10	189	-/L	14	January 13, 1961
43	Al Iafrate	us US	D	31	6-3	235	L/-	11	March 21, 1966
27	Alexander Korolyuk	su SU	C	22	5-9	190	L/-	R	January 15, 1976
25	Viktor Kozlov	su SU	C	22	6-4	232	R/-	3	February 14, 1975
15-26	Dave Lowry	ca CA	LW	32	6-1	195	L/-	12	February 14, 1965
15	John MacLean	ca CA	RW	33	6-0	200	R/-	13	November 20, 1964
27	Bryan Marchment	ca CA	D	28	6-1	200	L/-	9	May 1, 1969
14	Patrick Marleau	ca CA	C	18	6-2	218	L/-	R	September 15, 1979
37	Stéphane Matteau	ca CA	LW	28	6-4	215	L/-	7	September 2, 1969
33	Marty McSorley	ca CA	D	34	6-1	235	R/-	14	May 18, 1963
17	Joe Murphy	ca CA	RW	30	6-0	190	L/-	11	October 16, 1967
30	Jason Muzzatti	ca CA	G	27	6-2	210	-/L	4	February 3, 1970
62	Andrei Nazarov	su SU	RW	23	6-5	242	R/-	4	May 22, 1974
9	Bernie Nicholls	ca CA	C	36	6-0	185	R/-	16	June 24, 1961
11	Owen Nolan	gb GB	RW	25	6-1	214	R/-	7	February 12, 1972
24	Barry Potomski	ca CA	LW	25	6-2	215	L/-	2	November 24, 1972
10	Marcus Ragnarsson	se SE	D	26	6-1	215	L/-	2	August 13, 1971
40	Mike Rathje	ca CA	D	23	6-5	235	L/-	4	May 11, 1974
18	Mike Ricci	ca CA	C	26	6-0	200	L/-	7	October 27, 1971
8	Jarrod Skalde	ca CA	C	26	6-0	185	L/-	5	February 26, 1971
19	Marco Sturm	de DE	C	19	6-0	196	L/-	R	September 8, 1978
12	Ron Sutter	ca CA	RW	34	6-0	180	R/-	15	December 2, 1963
5	Ken Sutton	ca CA	D	28	6-1	205	L/-	6	November 5, 1969
29	Mike Vernon	ca CA	G	34	5-9	180	-/L	14	February 24, 1963
16	Dody Wood	ca CA	C	25	6-0	200	L/-	4	March 18, 1972
20	Andrei Zyuzin	su SU	D	20	6-1	208	L/-	R	January 21, 1978

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	Jeff Friesen	21	LW	79	31	32	63	8	40	18	7	6	7	17	14	1	186	16.7	1363	17:15	6.9	1.3	8.2
2	Owen Nolan	25	RW	75	14	27	41	-2	144	10	3	1	1	13	10	4	192	7.3	1385	18:28	2.9	0.9	3.8
3	John MacLean	33	RW	51	13	19	32	0	28	8	5	0	2	12	6	1	139	9.4	888	17:24	2.8	0.7	3.4
4	Patrick Marleau	18	C	74	13	19	32	5	14	12	1	0	2	13	6	0	90	14.4	977	13:12	1.9	1.2	3.1
5	Bill Houlder	30	D	82	7	25	32	13	48	3	4	0	2	12	12	1	102	6.9	1836	22:24	2.4	5.3	7.6
6	Marco Sturm	19	C	74	10	20	30	-2	40	8	2	0	3	16	4	0	118	8.5	1031	13:56	1.4	0.9	2.3
7	Stéphane Matteau	28	LW	73	15	14	29	4	60	14	1	0	2	14	0	0	79	19.0	1072	14:41	1.8	1.1	2.9
8	Murray Craven	33	LW	67	12	17	29	4	25	7	2	3	3	14	3	0	107	11.2	1115	16:38	1.8	1.0	2.8
9	Bernie Nicholls	36	C	60	6	22	28	-4	26	3	3	0	0	16	6	0	81	7.4	902	15:02	1.3	0.6	1.9
10	Tony Granato	33	RW	59	16	9	25	3	70	13	3	0	2	8	1	0	119	13.4	748	12:41	2.1	0.9	2.9
11	Marcus Ragnarsson	26	D	79	5	20	25	-11	65	2	3	0	2	12	7	1	91	5.5	1661	21:01	1.5	3.3	4.7
12	Mike Ricci	26	C	59	9	14	23	-4	30	4	5	0	2	9	5	0	86	10.5	990	16:46	1.1	0.6	1.7
13	Todd Gill	32	D	64	8	13	21	-13	31	4	4	0	1	5	8	0	100	8.0	1285	20:04	1.7	2.3	4.0
14	Mike Rathje	23	D	81	3	12	15	-4	59	2	1	0	0	11	1	0	61	4.9	1597	19:43	0.2	3.9	4.1
15	Andrei Zyuzin	20	D	56	6	7	13	8	66	4	2	0	2	5	2	0	72	8.3	986	17:36	0.8	3.5	4.3
16	Shawn Burr	31	LW	42	6	6	12	2	50	6	0	0	0	6	0	0	63	9.5	506	12:03	0.3	0.6	0.9
17	Marty McSorley	34	D	56	2	10	12	10	140	2	0	0	0	9	0	1	46	4.3	796	14:12	0.3	3.7	4.0
18	Doug Bodger	31	D	28	4	6	10	0	32	4	0	0	1	1	5	0	41	9.8	609	21:44	0.9	1.5	2.3
19	Jarrod Skalde	26	C	22	4	6	10	-2	14	4	0	0	0	5	1	0	30	13.3	287	13:04	0.6	0.2	0.8
20	Joe Murphy	30	RW	10	5	4	9	1	14	3	2	0	0	2	2	0	29	17.2	133	13:20	1.1	0.2	1.3
21	Al Iafrate	31	D	21	2	7	9	-1	28	0	2	0	0	4	2	1	37	5.4	363	17:16	0.7	1.0	1.7
22	Ron Sutter	34	RW	57	2	7	9	-2	22	2	0	0	1	7	0	0	57	3.5	626	10:59	-1.0	0.7	-0.4
23	Dave Lowry	32	LW	50	4	4	8	0	51	4	0	0	1	4	0	0	47	8.5	538	10:45	-0.6	0.6	0.0
24	Viktor Kozlov	22	C	18	5	2	7	-2	2	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	51	9.8	237	13:08	0.6	0.2	0.7
25	Shean Donovan	23	RW	20	3	3	6	3	22	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	24	12.5	249	12:27	0.2	0.4	0.6
26	Alexander Korolyuk	22	C	19	2	3	5	-5	6	1	1	0	0	3	0	0	23	8.7	207	10:54	0.0	0.1	0.1
27	Rich Brennan	25	D	11	1	2	3	-4	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	24	4.2	176	15:59	0.2	0.3	0.5
28	Bryan Marchment	28	D	12	0	3	3	2	43	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	13	0.0	265	22:03	0.1	0.8	0.8
29	Steve Guolla	24	LW	7	1	1	2	-2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	9	11.1	79	11:14	0.0	0.0	0.1
30	Andrei Nazarov	23	RW	40	1	1	2	-4	112	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	31	3.2	297	7:25	-1.2	0.4	-0.8
31	Mike Vernon*	34	G	62	0	2	2	0	24	0	0	0	0				0		3564	57:29	0.0	0.0	6.7
32	Barry Potomski	25	LW	9	0	1	1	1	30	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0.0	45	5:01	-0.2	0.2	-0.1
33	Niklas Andersson	26	LW	5	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.0	47	9:26	-0.2	0.0	-0.2
34	Kelly Hrudey	37	G	28	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0				0		1360	48:35	0.0	0.0	2.9
35	Jason Muzzatti	27	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		27	26:45	0.0	0.0	0.0
36	Ken Sutton	28	D	8	0	0	0	-4	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0	126	15:48	-0.2	0.1	-0.1
37	Dody Wood	25	C	8	0	0	0	-3	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	50	6:12	-0.3	0.0	-0.3
	Team Total			82	210	338	548	-6	1397	146	54	10	34	228	98	10	2169	9.7			31.6	38.2	79.5

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	Mike Vernon*	34	62		30	22	8	146	1401	1255	.896	2.46	5	3564				111	-14.6	2.91	6.7
2	Kelly Hrudey	37	28		4	16	2	62	600	538	.897	2.73	1	1360				110	-5.7	3.26	2.9
3	Jason Muzzatti	27	1		0	0	0	2	13	11	.846	4.49	0	27						4.49	0.0
	Team Total				34	38	10	210	2014	1804	.896	2.54	6	4951				111	-21.2	3.02	9.6