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1996-97 Colorado Avalanche Roster and Statistics

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Record: 49-24-9 (107 points), Finished 1st in NHL Pacific Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Marc Crawford (49-24-9)

Captain: Joe Sakic

Primary Arena: McNichols Sports Arena

Goals For: 277 (2nd of 26), Goals Against: 205 (5th of 26)
SRS: 0.81 (1st of 26), SOS: -0.07 (26th of 26)

Playoffs:
Lost Conference Finals (4-2) to Detroit Red Wings
Won Conference Semi-Finals (4-1) over Edmonton Oilers
Won Conference Quarter-Finals (4-2) over Chicago Blackhawks

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	49	24	9	107	.652	277	205	0.81	-0.07	3.38	2.50	83	403	20.60	42	339	87.61	14	12	2619	10.6	2477	.917		8
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%
Colorado Avalanche
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
6	Wade Belak	ca CA	D	20	6-5	222	R/-	R	July 3, 1976
1	Craig Billington	ca CA	G	30	5-10	170	-/L	8	September 11, 1966
32	Rich Brennan	us US	D	24	6-2	200	R/-	R	November 26, 1972
20	René Corbet	ca CA	LW	23	6-0	195	L/-	3	June 25, 1973
18	Adam Deadmarsh	ca CA	RW	21	6-0	205	R/-	2	May 10, 1975
30	Marc Denis	ca CA	G	19	6-1	193	-/L	R	August 1, 1977
52	Adam Foote	ca CA	D	25	6-2	220	R/-	5	July 10, 1971
21	Peter Forsberg	se SE	C	23	6-0	205	L/-	2	July 20, 1973
5	Alexei Gusarov	su SU	D	32	6-3	185	L/-	6	July 8, 1964
11	Keith Jones	ca CA	RW	28	6-2	200	L/-	4	November 8, 1968
13	Valeri Kamensky	su SU	LW	30	6-2	198	R/-	5	April 18, 1966
25	Mike Keane	ca CA	RW	29	5-10	185	R/-	8	May 29, 1967
24	Jon Klemm	ca CA	D	27	6-2	205	R/-	4	January 8, 1970
4	Uwe Krupp	de DE	D	31	6-6	235	R/-	10	June 24, 1965
28	Eric Lacroix	ca CA	LW	25	6-1	210	L/-	3	July 15, 1971
2	Sylvain Lefebvre	ca CA	D	29	6-2	205	L/-	7	October 14, 1967
22	Claude Lemieux	ca CA	RW	31	6-1	215	R/-	13	July 16, 1965
7	Curtis Leschyshyn	ca CA	D	27	6-1	207	L/-	8	September 21, 1969
10	Josef Marha	cs CS	C	20	6-0	176	L/-	1	June 2, 1976
27	Christian Matte	ca CA	RW	22	6-0	190	R/-	R	January 20, 1975
29	Éric Messier	ca CA	D	23	6-2	195	L/-	R	October 29, 1973
3	Aaron Miller	us US	D	25	6-3	210	R/-	3	August 11, 1971
8	Sandis Ozoliņš	su SU	D	24	6-3	215	L/-	4	August 3, 1972
9	Mike Ricci	ca CA	C	25	6-0	200	L/-	6	October 27, 1971
33	Patrick Roy	ca CA	G	31	6-2	185	-/L	12	October 5, 1965
19	Joe Sakic (C)	ca CA	C	27	5-11	195	L/-	8	July 7, 1969
15	Yves Sarault	ca CA	LW	24	6-1	190	L/-	2	December 23, 1972
23	Brent Severyn	ca CA	LW	30	6-2	211	L/-	4	February 22, 1966
17	Landon Wilson	us US	RW	21	6-3	224	R/-	1	March 13, 1975
26	Stéphane Yelle	ca CA	C	22	6-2	182	L/-	1	May 9, 1974
48	Scott Young	us US	RW	29	6-1	200	R/-	8	October 1, 1967

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*	23	C	65	28	58	86	31	73	19	5	4	4	34	21	3	188	14.9			8.1	1.9	10.0
2	Joe Sakic*	27	C	65	22	52	74	-10	34	10	10	2	5	25	26	1	261	8.4			6.4	0.5	6.9
3	Sandis Ozoliņš	24	D	80	23	45	68	4	88	10	13	0	4	15	29	1	232	9.9			6.9	4.2	11.1
4	Valeri Kamensky	30	LW	68	28	38	66	5	38	20	8	0	4	20	18	0	165	17.0			6.1	1.1	7.2
5	Adam Deadmarsh	21	RW	78	33	27	60	8	136	20	10	3	4	12	14	1	198	16.7			5.6	1.3	6.9
6	Keith Jones	28	RW	67	23	20	43	5	105	9	13	1	7	14	6	0	158	14.6			3.6	1.0	4.6
7	Scott Young	29	RW	72	18	19	37	-5	14	11	7	0	0	6	13	0	164	11.0			2.3	0.8	3.1
8	Eric Lacroix	25	LW	81	18	18	36	16	26	16	2	0	4	17	1	0	141	12.8			1.9	1.6	3.5
9	Mike Ricci	25	C	63	13	19	32	-3	59	8	5	0	3	11	8	0	74	17.6			1.8	0.7	2.5
10	Claude Lemieux	31	RW	45	11	17	28	-4	43	6	5	0	4	9	8	0	168	6.5			1.9	0.4	2.3
11	René Corbet	23	LW	76	12	15	27	14	67	11	1	0	3	13	2	0	128	9.4			0.7	1.5	2.2
12	Mike Keane	29	RW	81	10	17	27	2	63	9	0	1	1	17	0	0	91	11.0			0.3	1.1	1.4
13	Stéphane Yelle	22	C	79	9	17	26	1	38	8	0	1	1	15	0	2	89	10.1			0.2	1.1	1.3
14	Jon Klemm	27	D	80	9	15	24	12	37	6	1	2	1	13	2	0	103	8.7			1.5	4.8	6.3
15	Uwe Krupp	31	D	60	4	17	21	12	48	2	2	0	1	12	3	2	107	3.7			1.2	3.8	5.0
16	Adam Foote	25	D	78	2	19	21	16	135	2	0	0	0	15	2	2	60	3.3			0.6	5.0	5.6
17	Aaron Miller	25	D	56	5	12	17	15	15	5	0	0	3	11	1	0	47	10.6			0.9	3.8	4.8
18	Alexei Gusarov	32	D	58	2	12	14	4	28	2	0	0	0	11	1	0	33	6.1			0.4	3.1	3.5
19	Sylvain Lefebvre	29	D	71	2	11	13	12	30	1	1	0	0	8	1	2	77	2.6			0.0	4.3	4.4
20	Brent Severyn	30	LW	66	1	4	5	-6	193	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	55	1.8			-2.0	0.7	-1.3
21	Curtis Leschyshyn	27	D	11	0	5	5	1	6	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	8	0.0			0.3	0.6	0.9
22	Yves Sarault	24	LW	28	2	1	3	0	6	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	41	4.9			-0.6	0.4	-0.3
23	Landon Wilson	21	RW	9	1	2	3	1	23	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	7	14.3			0.0	0.2	0.2
24	Christian Matte	22	RW	5	1	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	16.7			0.1	0.1	0.2
25	Craig Billington	30	G	23	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0				0		1200	52:11	0.0	0.0	3.4
26	Josef Marha	20	C	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	0.0			-0.1	0.1	-0.1
27	Patrick Roy*	31	G	62	0	1	1	0	15	0	0	0	0				1	0.0	3698	59:39	0.0	0.0	13.5
28	Wade Belak	20	D	5	0	0	0	-1	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.2	0.1
29	Rich Brennan	24	D	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.1	0.1
30	Marc Denis	19	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		60	59:38	0.0	0.0	0.1
31	Éric Messier	23	D	21	0	0	0	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0.0			-0.4	1.5	1.1
	Team Total			82	277	465	742	138	1337	180	83	14	49	292	156	14	2620	10.6			47.5	45.9	110.4

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*	31	62		38	15	7	143	1861	1718	.923	2.32	7	3698				81	34.3	2.47	13.5
2	Craig Billington	30	23		11	8	2	53	584	531	.909	2.65	1	1200				95	2.6	2.85	3.4
3	Marc Denis	19	1		0	1	0	3	26	23	.885	3.02	0	60				121	-0.5	3.02	0.1
	Team Total				49	24	9	199	2471	2272	.919	2.41	8	4958				85	36.4	2.57	17.0