Jeff Friesen

Medal record
Representing Canada
World Championships
World Junior Championships

Jeff Friesen
Jeff Friesen
	Friesen with the Calgary Flames in 2007
Born	August 5, 1976 (age 48); Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
Height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight	200 lb (91 kg; 14 st 4 lb)
Position	Left wing
Shot	Left
Played for	San Jose Sharks ; Mighty Ducks of Anaheim ; New Jersey Devils ; Washington Capitals ; Calgary Flames ; Eisbären Berlin
National team	Canada
NHL draft	11th overall, 1994; San Jose Sharks
Playing career	1994–2011

Jeffrey Daryl Friesen (born August 5, 1976) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played over 800 games in the National Hockey League, spending roughly half his career with the San Jose Sharks, who drafted him in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. The rest of his career was spent with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, New Jersey Devils, Washington Capitals, and Calgary Flames. He won the Stanley Cup with the Devils in 2003.

Playing career

Friesen played his junior years with the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League (WHL) where he was Rookie of the Year in 1993. He was selected 11th overall in the first round of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft by the San Jose Sharks. He played 14 season in the NHL as a winger, originally as a left winger but also as a right winger.

Friesen played nearly seven seasons with the Sharks, becoming their 3rd all-time leading scorer, but was traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim near the end of the 2000–01 season. After playing the following season with the Ducks, he was traded to the New Jersey Devils for the 2002–03 season where he won the Stanley Cup.^[1] In the Eastern Conference Finals against the Ottawa Senators that year, Friesen scored the game-winning goal with just under three minutes left in regulation in Game 7. It was his third game-winning goal of the series. Then in Game 7 of the finals, he scored two goals against his former team, the Ducks en route to the Devils' third Stanley Cup championship.

On September 26, 2005, the salary cap-troubled Devils traded Friesen to the Washington Capitals in exchange for a conditional 2006 draft pick. On March 9, 2006, he was moved again to the Ducks for a second-round draft pick, but spent a significant part of the 2005–06 season sidelined with a groin injury.

Friesen was signed by the Calgary Flames on July 5, 2006 to a 1-year $1.6 million contract for the 2006–07 season. After a disappointing season that had Friesen producing six goals and six assists in seventy-two games, the Calgary Flames chose not to re-sign him. He played in the AHL as a left wing for the Lake Erie Monsters before January 29, 2008, when Friesen was released.

Friesen attended the San Jose Sharks' 2008 training camp on a tryout basis.^[2] On October 9, 2008, Sharks Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Wilson announced that Friesen had been released from training camp.^[3] On August 29, 2009, Friesen signed a one-year contract with the Eisbären Berlin of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).^[4]

Friesen is tied with Jamie Baker for the Sharks single-season short-handed goals record with 6, set in the 1997–98 season.^[5] On February 21, 2015 he returned to San Jose (Santa Clara) where he was introduced along with several other former Shark players before the outdoor Stadium Series game vs. the L.A. Kings at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.

Personal life

Friesen and his ex-wife Rhonda have a daughter and son together.^[6]^[7]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1991–92	Regina Pats	WHL	4	3	1	4	2	—	—	—	—	—
1992–93	Regina Pats	WHL	70	45	38	83	23	13	7	10	17	8
1993–94	Regina Pats	WHL	66	51	67	118	48	4	3	2	5	2
1994–95	Regina Pats	WHL	25	21	23	44	22	—	—	—	—	—
1994–95	San Jose Sharks	NHL	48	15	10	25	14	11	1	5	6	4
1995–96	San Jose Sharks	NHL	79	15	31	46	42	—	—	—	—	—
1996–97	San Jose Sharks	NHL	82	28	34	62	75	—	—	—	—	—
1997–98	San Jose Sharks	NHL	79	31	32	63	40	6	0	1	1	2
1998–99	San Jose Sharks	NHL	78	22	35	57	42	6	2	2	4	14
1999–2000	San Jose Sharks	NHL	82	26	35	61	47	11	2	2	4	10
2000–01	San Jose Sharks	NHL	64	12	24	36	56	—	—	—	—	—
2000–01	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL	15	2	10	12	10	—	—	—	—	—
2001–02	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL	81	17	26	43	44	—	—	—	—	—
2002–03	New Jersey Devils	NHL	81	23	28	51	26	24	10	4	14	6
2003–04	New Jersey Devils	NHL	81	17	20	37	26	5	0	0	0	4
2005–06	Washington Capitals	NHL	33	3	4	7	24	—	—	—	—	—
2005–06	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL	18	1	3	4	8	16	3	1	4	6
2006–07	Calgary Flames	NHL	72	6	6	12	34	5	0	0	0	2
2007–08	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL	5	1	4	5	0	—	—	—	—	—
2009–10	Eisbären Berlin	DEL	53	15	30	45	130	5	1	1	2	0
2010–11	Eisbären Berlin	DEL	30	5	9	14	12	11	1	4	5	2
NHL totals			893	218	298	516	488	84	18	15	33	48

International

Year	Team	Event	Result	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1994	Canada	WJC		5	0	2	2	0
1995	Canada	WJC		7	5	2	7	4
1996	Canada	WC		8	2	0	2	6
1997	Canada	WC		11	3	4	7	16
1999	Canada	WC	4th	7	2	2	4	0
2001	Canada	WC	5th	7	1	3	4	6
2004	Canada	WC		9	0	1	1	4
Junior totals				12	5	4	9	4
Senior totals				42	8	10	18	32