Owen Nolan

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Owen Liam Nolan ( born February 12, 1972 in Belfast, Northern Ireland ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player of British origin. During his playing career he played 1988-2011 including for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, San Jose Sharks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Phoenix Coyotes, Calgary Flames and Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League and the ZSC Lions of the Swiss National League a on the position of the right winger in the role of power forwards.

After a successful junior career with the Cornwall Royals in the Ontario Hockey League Nolan has been selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 as the first overall by the Quebec Nordiques. In the course of his 18-year NHL career the winger for six different franchises ran to where he spent his most successful period between 1995 and 2003 with the San Jose Sharks, the team captain, he was from the fall of 1998 for four and a half years. In a total of 1265 NHL games, he reached 925 points scorer five times and took part in the NHL All-Star Game. At international level, Nolan won with the Canadian National Team Gold medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the World Cup 1997 in Finland.

• 2.1 National Competitions 2.1.1 NHL All-Star Game

• 4.1 National Competitions
• 4.2 International Competitions

• 5.1 NHL All-Star Game
• 5.2 Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche
• 5.3 San Jose Sharks

Career

Childhood and youth career in Ontario

Owen Nolan was born on February 12, 1972 in the Northern Ireland capital Belfast. Together with his parents he moved in the summer of 1972 - at the age of seven months - the Canadian Thorold, Ontario and was once a Canadian citizen. With the ice skating and ice hockey games he did not start before the age of nine, but played from the age of 15 for the junior team of his hometown Thorold, the Thorold Blackhawks, in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association and the Junior B group the Ontario Hockey Association. In his last year for the team - the 1987/88 season - came forward in 31 games on 54 goals and 86 points scorer.

Then Nolan was selected in the summer of 1988 in the OHL Priority Selection in the second round in 26th place of the Cornwall Royals of the Ontario Hockey League and moved immediately to the team, which was supervised by Orval Tessier. In his playing time as a rookie Nolan played 62 of 66 games for the Royals in the regular season. He reached 34 goals and 59 points, with which he came on the seventh rank of Evaluation Scorer team internally. With 213 penalty minutes he underscored the strong physical component of his game. Among all rookies the league, he nevertheless secured the Emms Family Award as the best league newcomer. Although Cornwall had only occupied the fourth place in the regular season in the Leyden Division, managed the team in the play- offs to the semifinals, where it failed to mentioned by Mike Ricci Peterborough Petes. Nolan recorded in 18 play-off games for a further 16 points scorer. In the following season, the Cornwall Royals reached again under new head coach Marc Crawford, but with a significant weaker balance sheet, the play-offs. Nolan was promoted in his second OHL game year to the absolute top scorer and finished the season after 58 games with 111 points scorer, with 51 goals from. Behind Keith Primeau, Paul DiPietro and Mike Ricci, he finished fourth in both the scorer and scorer standings. He received the season's end the Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy as the top scoring right winger of the League and was elected to this position in First All -Star team in the league. In the play-offs Nolan added his points tally in six games further twelve, while the Royals failed due to the Oshawa Generals. In addition, he was in his second season with assistant captain of his team.

In June 1990, the then 18- year-old was finally available for the NHL Entry Draft in 1990. Due to the at that time very popular combinations of goalscoring and körperbetontem game Nolan was extremely popular among the franchises. When Draft in Vancouver, he was the first overall position of very strong in retrospect draft vintage - selected by the Quebec Nordiques - ahead of players like Jaromir Jagr, Keith Tkachuk and Martin Brodeur.

Beginnings in the professional field in the Quebec Nordiques

Since the Nordiques in the two seasons before Nolan's Draft each were by far the worst team in the National Hockey League, they already got him in the fall of 1990 in their squad. The same they did before the 1990/91 season with the Swede Mats Sundin, they had also selected in 1989 with the very first franchise in the NHL Entry Draft. Together with the team captain Joe Sakic transported they should in the years to form the basic framework of reconstruction. With the exception of six games for the farm team in Halifax Citadels of the American Hockey League, where Nolan reach eight points, Nolan made ​​the difficult jump in the trunk squad and played 59 of 80 games season. During his NHL debut on October 4, 1990, he was the sixth player in the NHL history, who was born in Northern Ireland or Ireland [note 1] and the first since 1954 in the league. [Note 2] His season yield of three goals and ten templates fell for the young attacker from doing lean. The season ended the Nordiques once again as the worst club in the league, which they in 1991, the first franchise also had NHL Entry Draft. Since the selected Eric Lindros but refused for the French-Canadian franchise to play the Nordiques received by the transfer of Lindros to the Philadelphia Flyers a huge compensation in the form of several players, several draft- choice rights and money, which strengthened the team on a permanent basis and the foundation for future successes laid.

The effect of the changes did not arise immediately for season 1991/92, since Quebec still one of the weakest teams in the league. But Nolan showed an increase by 60 to 73 points scorer for the first time his offensive potential. He finished the game years behind Sakic and Sundin as the third- best scorer of the Nordiques and was starting with 42 hits their undisputed top scorer, equivalent to the tenth place league wide. Before the start of the following season Nolan extended his contract for another four years until the summer of 1996 with the option of a further year. The contract was doped with 4.2 million U.S. dollars. Management's confidence in him paid the striker back immediately improved and the value of 73 points scorer in the 1992/93 season once again by four points with 41 assists and set another personal record. Led by the duo Sakic and Sundin, as well as the new additions Mike Ricci and Steve Duchesne from the Lindros transfer the Nordiques since the 1986/87 season for the first time managed to qualify for the play-offs. There, they failed in the first round of the Montreal Canadiens. In the course of the season Nolan was first invited to the NHL All-Star Game, where he scored one goal and another prepared.

The season 1993/94 provided a first-time low point in Nolan's career dar. In the sixth season game on October 18, 1993, he was injured in the game against the Montreal Canadiens [note 3] so hard on the shoulder, he turned out for the rest of the season. In his six missions he scored four points, but could the injury can heal long as the NHL 1994/95 season due to a lockout first began in January 1995 instead of October 1994. Fully recovered returned the Canadians in the squad, and strengthened the Nordiques as well as the Swede Peter Forsberg. The shortened to 48 games season Québec played the most successful season since the change of the World Hockey Association in the NHL, which was crowned by winning the Northeast Division and first place in the Eastern Conference. In the play-offs but the franchise was eliminated by the reigning Stanley Cup champion New York Rangers. With 49 scorer points, including 30 goals, in 46 missions winger completed the season with the best so far points average of his career. Behind Sakic and Forsberg, he was again within the team 's third- best scorer and his 30 goals meant again took first place in the scoring charts of the team. League wide, he was with his 30 hits in the fourth. With a plus / minus value of 21 he put on the best value of his career. The six play-off operations against the Rangers were the last in the dress of Québec.

Career peak at the San Jose Sharks

On 21 June 1995, the Nordiques were sold due to ongoing financial problems and relocated from the French-Canadian metropolis in the U.S. Denver, Colorado. These concerns were also under contract players who aufliefen henceforth for the Colorado Avalanche. Nolan played in the 1995/96 season only nine games for Colorado. On 26 October 1995 he was transferred to just over four months belonging to the new team in exchange for the Latvian offensive defenseman Sandis Ozoliòš to the San Jose Sharks.

For after the departure of Igor Larionov, Sergei Makarov and Ray Whitney with a few well-known players occupied Nordkaliforniern that their team after seven games without a win to start the season massively revamped, Nolan enjoyed from the beginning to a higher value than in Colorado and Quebec. Although the power forward had not spent the first month of the season with the team and playing time of inconstant performance on his part was coined, he lay with his 61 scorer points for San Jose end of the season just one point behind the team leader Craig Janney. In addition, he was the only member of the Sharks in the NHL All-Star Game in 1996. It was the second All -Star Game attendance of his career.

Prior to the 1996/97 season the Sharks management because of the option for another year valid contract by Nolan made ​​void, and endowed him with a better-paid two- year contract. They expected it, among other things, that the attacker it is intended role as a leader of the team better filled than last year. At the end of the season he led the team in points and goals in the categories and thus became increasingly becoming the " poster child " of the franchise. He came up with 31 goals and 63 points, but he missed the club for the second time in a row to qualify for the play-offs. The personal highlight of the season, however, was to participate in the NHL All-Star Game in 1997, which took place in San Jose. Nolan scored a hat trick in this game. He scored two goals against the end of the second period within eight seconds that signified a new All- Star Game record [note 4], and in order to emphasize the character of the game show, he met worth against the Czech goalie Dominik Hasek when he indicated the corner of the net to be taken before, during a single passage. The hit went under the name "called shot" in the NHL history. However, the performance of three hits was not enough to be named Most Valuable Player of the encounter. This honor was given to Mark Recchi, who also highlighted three hits and the winning team of the Eastern Conference belonged.

The season 1997/98 showed significant declines in the statistical values ​​of the attacker. With only 41 points scorer, he played the worst season personally since his first year in the NHL and had the team-internal Scorer Score more than 20 points behind Jeff Friesen. In the play-offs, he was able to make four points in six games, as San Jose was eliminated in the first round against the Dallas Stars. The Sharks held still firmly Nolan and extended to 30 June 1998 contract expired on 16 October 1998 - and only after the official start of the season - by two years. The contract was doped with about 5.5 million U.S. dollars. They also made ​​him a few days later for the fifth captain of the franchise history after the previous captain Todd Gill had left the team during the summer break. Already by 1995, Nolan was one of the assistant captains. In the season 1998/99 Nolans offensive scores improved only marginally with 19 goals and 45 points. However, he improved his defensive game significantly, and this was reflected in the plus / minus score of 16 and it turned out to San Jose to be very valuable. The play-offs ended again in the first round, as the Sharks failed to Nolan's former team from Denver. For the season 1999/2000 the powerful attacker paid back the trust of the coaching staff with good benefits. He remained largely injury-free and completed 78 games. With 84 scorer points and 44 goals he set personal career records into these categories and led the team in shuffle mode. It was also the first time that a player from the Sharks scored more than 40 goals in a season. Supported by Vincent Damphousse and Jeff Friesen he led the Sharks for the third time in a row in the play-offs. His 44 goals meant the league in second place behind the Russian Pavel Bure, also were his 18 goals on the powerplay League top. He also took part in the course of the season for the fourth time at the NHL All-Star Game. As set in eighth place in the Western Conference team reached San Jose with a victory in the seventh game - since 1995 against the St. Louis Blues for the first time, the second play-off round, where the Dallas Stars again as insurmountable - Nolan scored the decisive goal hurdle posed. In the last game of the first play-off round against St. Louis Nolan was seriously injured on the abdominal muscles. During the series against Dallas worsened the injury, so that Nolan could deny only three of the five games. Ultimately, he came in ten play-off operations at ten points, including eight goals, and was once again leading in these statistics at the Californians. At the end of the season he was then with the Seagate Technology " Sharks Player of the Year " award for the first and only time - an internal team award the San Jose Sharks - considered.

On October 12, 2000 - shortly after the beginning of the game in 2000 / 01 - equipped the management of the San Jose Sharks his captain, who is now regarded as so-called Unrestricted free agent, with a new five year contract from. The contract was endowed with an estimated 30 to 35 million dollars and had a one-year extension option on the part of the club over the season 2004/ 05 and until the summer of 2006. Due to the injury suffered in the play- offs in April 2000 injury and a subsequent groin surgery center August 2000 returned winger until late in the game mode back. After three inserts the end of October had Nolan insert a new forced break because he had contracted a strain of the abdominal muscles. During the lay-off the league lead the NHL began to check the agreement between Nolan and the San Jose Sharks closer and complain about it. The League criticized this two clauses: one hand, it makes it sound like there the contract Nolan the opportunity on his part to extend the contract for another year when the NHL season would be completed in 2004/05 due to a lockout with 40 or fewer games, what was considered to be not excluded. On the other hand, it bothered the league that a further clause implied that the Canadians would be paid in the event the lockout in the 2004/05 season by the Sharks on. In mid-November Nolan returned to the ice and played symptom-free before he to March 1, 2001, a lock of eleven games had to serve from 1 February. In the game against the Dallas Stars, he had returned the favor at the opponent Grant Marshall off the ball with a slap in the face for a previous foul. For this he was punished by the league with a lock on eleven games. A request to reduce the punishment did not come after the league. Due to the downtime Nolan reached only a number of 57 completed games and 49 points scorer, but ranged for second place behind Patrick Marleau in the internal team scorer standings.

In the season 2001/ 02 - in which he was pictured on the cover of the North American version of the computer game NHL 2001 software developer EA Sports - substantiated the striker 's position as so far the best player in franchise history, as in the course of the season to the player he with the most goals, assists and points in the history of the team was promoted. Only Patrick Marleau broke his team record in the course of the season 2006/07. [Note 5] Only stopped for minor injuries, Nolan was almost returned to its former power and played 75 games. With 66 points scorer, he was again top scorer of the team again reached the second round in the play- offs. In addition, he was invited for a fifth time for the NHL All-Star Game in February 2002. Little success, the franchise finally presented in the game in 2002/03. Several long periods of weakness led to San Jose since 1997, the play-offs missed the first time. And the now 30 -year-old Nolan did not give the necessary impetus to the team. Due to the bad course of the season, in which Nolan had gathered up early March 2003 in 61 games 42 points scorer, the club management decided before the upcoming trade deadline for a break. On March 5, they transferred the team captain for the striker Alyn McCauley and Brad Boyes and a first-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2003 [note 6] to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Thus, the eight-year commitment of Canadian ended at the Nordkaliforniern.

Return to Canada and contract disputes in Toronto

In contrast to the situation in San José had Nolan's new club a good chance to move into the play-offs, which in the Eastern Conference succeeded in fifth place. By the end of the regular season the winger played even 14 games for the Maple Leafs, in which he scored twelve points. That Toronto to seven games failed in the first play-off round to the Philadelphia Flyers, he could not stop with disappointing two Torvorbereitungen. Yet another year of Canadians played for the Maple Leafs, but no more ranged approach the performance of previous years. Once again, threw him back several minor injuries and greater in the left eye the end of January 2004. Two games before the play-offs, he retired from then because of an injury to his right knee for the rest of the regular season and the entire playoffs. With 48 points in 65 missions, he nevertheless made ​​it to fifth place in the team-internal scorer standings. In summer 2004, Nolan went into the final year of his time being closed in the fall of 2000, five-year contract.

Due to the lockout and the violation denied Nolan during the game year 2004/ 05 no games. As the season completely failed and no league play took place, the striker who perceive the existing option for its part of the contract in less than 40 matches played in the preseason decided, and thus to extend it by one year. Despite the contract extension Nolan underwent end of July 2005 a made ​​necessary surgery on injured knee. The new salary agreement which made ​​them the striker too expensive, and the view that Nolan had not sustained the injuries on cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in ice hockey, saw the Leafs the contract to be void. The management of the Maple Leafs broke the contract, therefore, on August 1, 2005, whereupon the National Hockey League Players' Association on behalf of Nolan strove for a lawsuit against the National Hockey League, so he still outstanding annual salary of 5.6 million U.S. dollar would get from the Maple Leafs.

After surviving surgery and contract issues with Toronto, which were clarified in 2006 in the silence, it long remained calm and just before the end of the exchange period beginning March 2006, Nolan was back after several NHL teams had advertised the services of free agents. He explained to launch a comeback attempt only to 2006/ 07.

Short exposures in Phoenix, Calgary and Minnesota

After the injury had healed completely over the summer of 2006, Nolan signed on 16 August 2006, worth one million dollars one-year contract with the Phoenix Coyotes, whose head coach Wayne Gretzky had called for a commitment of experienced Power Forwards. While the Coyotes, whose general manager at that time, Nolan's adviser Michael Barnett, was much anticipated by the commitment of the 34 -year-olds and appointed him immediately to one of the assistant captains, the season was rather sobering. Phoenix finished the season with 67 points, worst team in the Western Conference. Nolan reached 40 points scorer with 76 missions, making him the third- best scorer in the franchise. He also graduated in Dress of the Flames 1000 NHL game of his career in the regular season. For his services in the past few years he has been nominated by the Coyotes as a nomination for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. [Note 7] His contract was not renewed after the end of the season.

In the Calgary Flames Owen Nolan was already in early July 2007 a ​​new employer in the NHL. The completed one-year contract guaranteeing him including bonus payments of up to two million U.S. dollars. In the personnel significantly more occupied Calgary team, the strengths of the striker came not as to validity and its statistics continued to decline with 32 points in 77 games. With his experience of nearly 15 years in the league but he was an important component of the team and was - as in the pre-season in Phoenix - one of the assistant captains of the club. He, too, was proposed by the Flames for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, but did not received as well as the previous year. [Note 8] In the first round of the play -offs Calgary failed in seven games at Nolan's former team, the San Jose Sharks.

With contested 153 of possible 164 games of the regular season over two seasons Nolan presented itself healthy and fit what the Minnesota Wild prompting to take him in early July 2008 for two years under contract. The total salary was 5.5 million U.S. dollars. In the wild the winger took as an experienced player a major role. Although Minnesota was known as a defensive -oriented team, Nolan increased its yield point again. However, he also missed 23 games because of various injuries season. Nevertheless, he ended up with 45 points in the rating game scorer in fourth place and was in spite of the many downtime with 25 -goal leading scorer of the franchises. Starting the game in 2009/10 led the Nolan inexperienced team temporarily as an assistant captain on the ice. Although took his statistical values ​​despite more missions than the previous season significantly from, but he was - whether his experience - as the real captain of the team. The game did not renew the expiring contract with the offensive player yet and so Nolan was in the summer of 2010 for the fifth time after 2000, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Unrestricted Free Agent.

Exchange in Switzerland and withdraw from active sports

By the fall of 2010, Nolan was not a new team in the National Hockey League and so he signed on 21 October 2010 a temporary one month contract with the ZSC Lions Zurich, which are located in the Swiss National League A. After a successful trial month with eleven points from seven games, he extended his contract until the end of the season, with the option to up to January 23, 2011 at any time to disembark from the selbigem if he would get an offer from the NHL. However, this did not happen, and so remained until the end of the season Nolan in Switzerland. With Nolan in the squad Zurich made ​​the poor start to the season quickly compensated and managed to qualify for the play-offs. There, the Lions failed in the first round later in the runner- Kloten Flyers. In the main round Nolan came in 24 games on 26 points, while he contributed a further four points in six playoff games.

In the summer, Nolan finally returned to North America, to try again to get a contract with an NHL team. The Vancouver Canucks endowed him 4 August 2011 with a sample contract. Despite inserts in three preseason games on the 2011/12 season in which he scored one goal and another prepared, the Canucks dismissed the striker on 25 September from his probation agreement and submitted to him no longer-term deal.

Without further contract deals the now 39 -year-old moved his center of life afterwards in San Jose California to be near his living there, family of four. On February 3, 2012 announced his former team San Jose Sharks that they would hold a press conference with Owen Nolan on February 7, 2012. On this he was four days before his 40th birthday, retirement from sport known. This he did at his own request, together with the franchise of the San Jose Sharks, the one-day contract offered to him but he did not sign. The following day, Nolan led the ceremonial puck insertion through the first Bully game of his two ex- team San Jose Sharks and Calgary Flames at HP Pavilion.

Nolan finished his career after a total of 18 seasons in the National Hockey League, where he had played between 1990 and 2010 in 1200 games in the regular season, as the last active player who had accrued nor for the Quebec Nordiques. He scored 422 goals and gave it 463 templates for a total of 885 points scorer and was awarded 1793 penalty minutes. He occupied the time of his resignation the shared 100th place in the rating Scorer of the League and the 72nd rank in penalty minutes. With a total of 155 hits on the powerplay, he shared the league the 33rd position. Twice Nolan scored over 40 goals in a season six times more than 30 times and more than 20 in a further 65 meetings of the strikers in the play-offs ran to where he posted 40 points and received 66 penalty minutes. Most games completed and points he scored for the San Jose Sharks, the third-best scorer, scorer and assist provider of franchise history, he was at his resignation. In the penalty minutes he came within the team to second place.

International career with the Canadian national team

After Nolan had never played for a Canadian junior selection at an international tournament, he was at the World Championships 1997 in Finland for the first time in the squad of the Canadian national team. On the side of players such as Rob Blake, Mark Recchi, Jarome Iginla and Keith Primeau winger won the team gold medal and secured Canada as the 21th world title. In the three games lasting final series, the Canadians prevailed against Sweden. Nolan scoring in the decisive third game of the final series, which ended 2-1 for Canada, the second goal himself and prepared the first goal by Dean Evason. Together with Evason and Bob Errey he formed a forward line during the tournament. In ten of the eleven tournament games - the final round game against Russia, he had to sit out due to a match suspension from the game against the Czech Republic - Nolan came for the maple leaves are used and recorded a total of seven points scorer and 31 penalty minutes. He was so behind Travis Green 's second best scorer of the World Cup teams and together with Anson Carter and Rob Zamuner who both shot four goals, the best scorer of the squad. Alone 25 penalty minutes stir forth from the game against the Czechs, in which he received a game misconduct.

Almost five years later, Nolan was part of the squad at the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 in the U.S. Salt Lake City. But he was already on 23 March 2001 as one of the so-called " Elite Eight " [note 9] has been appointed General Manager of Canada's Wayne Gretzky. After a commanding 5-2 victory in the finals of the United States won the listed Mario Lemieux and Steve Yzerman Canadians first time in 50 years, the Olympic gold medal in hockey. Nolan, who formed a forward line with Eric Lindros and Ryan Smyth, played in all six games for the team and came up with three assists; He prepared two goals before the semi-final against Belarus. In addition, he received two penalty minutes.

Career Stats

National Competitions

NHL All-Star Game

International Competitions

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )

Playing style and personality

Nolan embodied the type of player the power forwards, a prolific offensive player, the same preferred the physical play. With a size of 185 centimeters and approximately 100 kg body weight Nolan had excellent conditions for this position and knew to deal with it. This proved his point both high yields and the high number of penalty minutes, which had already announced at youth level with 170 points scorer and 453 penalty minutes in 120 encounters. This at the beginning of the 1990s, very popular blend of hardness and talent that was not to be found often, so made ​​him so interesting for the franchises of the National Hockey League. In the heyday of his NHL career around the turn of the millennium around Nolan was one of the best players at his position. As is usual for this player style, Nolan was not a light-footed skaters, but moved it intelligently and with high speed on the ice. Furthermore, a precise shot him was said. Especially in the power play, the striker took advantage of its strengths and has always been one of the best powerplay goal scorers and points collectors in the league. During his career he continually improved his defensive work.

Despite his physical style of play coined, which allowed no quarter for the body, again and again in injury culminated [note 14] and also with increasing age has not changed, Nolan was off the ice as restrained. In later years, his experience and honest dealings with players and the press was always appreciated.

About his qualities as a leading player opinions are divided. On the one hand is important to note that Nolan from 1995 - held always one of the captain offices - except for the time in Toronto and the first year in Minnesota. The San Jose Sharks he led during his time as captain of the niche in the front table ranks. Also, Rich Preston, one of his former coach, Nolan was certified by the ability to decide a game with a single action in favor of his team. During his last year in San Jose but germinated frequent criticism that questioned his leadership skills and behavior off the ice surface in question.

Nolan's trademark was the shirt number 11 on his jersey, which he both junior and professional players with the exception of his rookie season with the Quebec Nordiques [note 15] and the year in Switzerland by the ZSC Lions [note 16] was wearing.

With his wife, Diana, whom he married on July 20, 2002 his daughter Jordan (* 2003) and his son Dylan (* 2007) lives Owen Nolan in San Jose, California. He is the owner of two pubs British embossed with the name " Britannia Arms " in Downtown San Jose and in the southern district of Almaden Valley. During his career, he worked for many years with the players' agents and consultants Michael Barnett. His nickname is " Buster ".

Awards and achievements

National Competitions

International Competitions

Records

NHL All-Star Game

• Shortest duration for achieving two goals: 8 seconds, January 18, 1997 against the Eastern Conference All-Stars [note 4]

Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche

• Youngest player the franchise's history: 18 years and 234 days, October 4, 1990 against the Hartford Whalers
• Youngest player in the franchise history, who took part in NHL All-Star Game: 19 years and 340 days January 18, 1992
• Most Assists in a third: 4; March 5, 1992 against the Hartford Whalers (together with Anton Šťastný )

San Jose Sharks

• Most shorthanded goals of the franchise history: 14 (together with Marco Sturm )
• Most compensation gates of franchise history: 6
• Most points in one game: 6; October 4, 1999 against the Chicago Blackhawks
• Most points in a third: 4; December 19, 1995 against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
• Most Goals in a Game: 4; December 19, 1995 against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim ( together with four other players )
• Most goals in a third: 3; December 19, 1995 against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim ( along with three other players )
• Most Assists in a Game: 4; March 10, 2002 against the Vancouver Canucks (along with 18 other players )
• Most power play goals in a game: 3; December 19, 1995 against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (together with Ryane Clowe )
• Most power play goals in a third: 3; December 19, 1995 against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
• Shortest duration for achieving three goals: 13 minutes; December 19, 1995 against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
• Shortest time for the achievement of the four gates 32 minutes and 35 seconds; December 19, 1995 against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
• Most penalty minutes in a playoff game: 24; April 24, 1998 against the Dallas Stars
• Most penalty minutes in one-third of a play-off game: 20; April 24, 1998 against the Dallas Stars
• Most consecutive games with a goal: 6; 20 January to 30 January 2003 ( together with three other players )