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Erik Cole

#72 · Left wing · Detroit Red Wings

Born Nov 6, 1978 in Oswego, New York, USA · 6'2", 205 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 71st overall in 1998 by CAR (round 3)

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Stanley Cup NHL Champion 2005-06

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2001-02. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Maxim Afinogenov BUF · 40 P in 81 GP Jochen Hecht EDM · 40 P in 82 GP Justin Williams PHI · 40 P in 75 GP Martin Lapointe BOS · 40 P in 68 GP Claude Lemieux PHX · 41 P in 82 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

02040602001-02: 40 points4001-022002-03: 27 points2702-032003-04: 42 points4203-042005-06: 59 points5905-062006-07: 61 points6106-072007-08: 51 points5107-082008-09: 42 points4208-092009-10: 16 points1609-102010-11: 52 points5210-112011-12: 61 points6111-122012-13: 13 points1312-132013-14: 29 points2913-142014-15: 39 points3914-15

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2001-02 CAR 81 16 24 40 -10 35 159 257 0.49
2002-03 CAR 53 14 13 27 1 72 125 37 0.51
2003-04 CAR 80 18 24 42 -4 93 172 175 0.53
2005-06 CAR 60 30 29 59 19 54 164 123 0.98
2006-07 CAR 71 29 32 61 2 76 166 222 0.86
2007-08 CAR 73 22 29 51 5 76 216 186 0.70
2008-09 EDM 63 16 11 27 -3 63 145 134 0.43
2008-09 CAR 17 2 13 15 3 10 33 46 0.88
2009-10 CAR 40 11 5 16 -9 29 81 94 0.40
2010-11 CAR 82 26 26 52 -1 49 201 225 0.63
2011-12 MTL 82 35 26 61 11 48 241 186 0.74
2012-13 MTL 19 3 3 6 1 10 41 43 0.32 $4.5M
2012-13 DAL 28 6 1 7 -7 10 45 58 0.25
2013-14 DAL 75 16 13 29 -17 20 139 89 0.39 $4.5M
2014-15 DAL 57 18 15 33 4 14 98 116 0.58 $4.5M
2014-15 DET 11 3 3 6 -2 0 24 18 0.55
13 seasons Career 892 265 267 532 -7 659 2050 2009 0.60

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2001-02 CAR 23 6 3 9 -2 30 68 113 0.39
2005-06 CAR 2 0 0 0 -1 0 3 12 0.00
2008-09 CAR 18 0 5 5 -5 22 32 76 0.28
2013-14 DAL 3 0 0 0 -3 2 2 6 0.00
4 seasons Playoffs 46 6 8 14 -11 54 105 207 0.30

2001-02 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
81 16 24 40 -10 35 159 257 0.49 10.1 16:04

Contract

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2012-13 to 2014-15 $4.5M

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2001-02 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 14, 2002 @ ATL T 2-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 18:50
Apr 12, 2002 @ FLA W 3-1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:08
Apr 10, 2002 vs TBL W 4-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 17:42
Apr 8, 2002 @ NYI W 2-1 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 16:19
Apr 7, 2002 vs ATL T 1-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 19:02
Apr 3, 2002 vs NJD L 2-3 0 1 1 0 0 5 4 19:17
Apr 2, 2002 @ OTT L 3-4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 14:30
Mar 30, 2002 @ BOS W 2-0 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 18:09
Mar 28, 2002 vs PHI W 4-1 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 17:43
Mar 26, 2002 vs BOS L 2-3 0 1 1 -1 0 1 5 15:40
Mar 23, 2002 @ NJD W 4-2 0 0 0 -1 2 0 2 16:54
Mar 21, 2002 vs FLA W 3-2 0 1 1 -1 0 3 4 18:19
Mar 18, 2002 vs MTL T 1-1 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 3 5 15:58
Mar 16, 2002 @ MTL L 2-3 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 17:40
Mar 11, 2002 vs CGY T 3-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 17:45
Mar 8, 2002 vs WSH T 2-2 (OT) 0 1 1 -1 0 2 6 17:11
Mar 7, 2002 @ PIT W 3-1 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 18:19
Mar 5, 2002 @ CHI W 2-1 (OT) 1 0 1 1 0 4 3 17:33
Mar 2, 2002 @ MTL W 4-3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 16:05
Feb 28, 2002 @ BOS W 6-2 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 15:08
Feb 26, 2002 @ TOR L 1-4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 14:12
Feb 10, 2002 @ SJS L 0-4 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 18:55
Feb 8, 2002 @ ANA W 4-1 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 20:48
Feb 7, 2002 @ LAK L 1-2 0 1 1 -2 0 1 1 19:17
Feb 5, 2002 vs PIT T 3-3 (OT) 0 0 0 -3 0 2 2 20:21
Jan 30, 2002 @ TBL W 3-1 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 17:27
Jan 29, 2002 vs BUF T 2-2 (OT) 0 1 1 0 2 3 4 21:13
Jan 26, 2002 @ PHI L 2-4 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 20:33
Jan 25, 2002 vs FLA T 1-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 4 9 19:01
Jan 23, 2002 vs NSH T 2-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 21:38
Jan 21, 2002 vs VAN L 5-7 1 0 1 -1 0 3 6 17:07
Jan 19, 2002 @ NJD T 3-3 (OT) 1 1 2 1 0 4 2 18:56
Jan 17, 2002 vs MTL T 1-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 18:38
Jan 15, 2002 vs MIN W 2-0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 13:32
Jan 12, 2002 @ VAN L 1-7 0 0 0 1 0 4 2 19:35
Jan 10, 2002 @ EDM W 4-1 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 19:07
Jan 6, 2002 vs PHI L 3-4 1 0 1 -1 0 4 5 18:19
Jan 5, 2002 vs NJD L 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 19:08
Jan 2, 2002 vs BOS L 3-6 0 2 2 -1 0 1 8 17:22
Dec 31, 2001 @ BUF W 5-4 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 16:27
Dec 30, 2001 @ WSH T 5-5 (OT) 0 0 0 -2 0 1 3 16:19
Dec 27, 2001 @ TBL W 3-2 0 0 0 -1 2 2 1 17:09
Dec 26, 2001 vs TOR W 4-3 0 0 0 -1 0 2 5 15:13
Dec 22, 2001 @ PHI L 3-4 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 17:25
Dec 21, 2001 vs ATL W 5-4 (OT) 3 0 3 2 0 4 7 19:41
Dec 18, 2001 vs OTT L 1-5 0 0 0 -1 0 3 4 18:42
Dec 16, 2001 @ PIT W 7-0 1 1 2 3 5 5 2 12:41
Dec 14, 2001 @ BUF L 2-3 (OT) 1 0 1 0 0 1 4 16:21
Dec 12, 2001 vs FLA W 4-1 1 1 2 3 0 4 5 17:31
Dec 10, 2001 @ NYR W 4-3 (OT) 0 1 1 1 0 1 4 17:44
Dec 8, 2001 @ FLA W 3-2 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 17:03
Dec 4, 2001 vs BUF L 2-4 0 1 1 0 0 6 4 17:13
Dec 2, 2001 vs WSH L 3-4 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 18:13
Nov 30, 2001 @ WSH L 2-6 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 15:41
Nov 29, 2001 @ NYR L 0-5 0 0 0 -1 2 0 2 18:46
Nov 27, 2001 @ TOR W 5-2 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 16:39
Nov 25, 2001 vs TBL L 0-4 0 0 0 -1 0 3 4 16:28
Nov 21, 2001 @ DAL T 4-4 (OT) 1 2 3 3 0 3 2 16:12
Nov 19, 2001 vs CBJ W 5-2 0 2 2 2 4 5 5 13:48
Nov 17, 2001 @ TBL L 0-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:03
Nov 15, 2001 @ OTT T 1-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 13:47
Nov 13, 2001 @ DET L 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 10:40
Nov 11, 2001 vs EDM T 1-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 11:14
Nov 9, 2001 vs SJS W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10:43
Nov 6, 2001 vs PIT T 2-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 12:32
Nov 4, 2001 vs PHX W 1-0 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14:01
Nov 2, 2001 vs NYR W 3-2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 10:29
Nov 1, 2001 @ STL L 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 12:26
Oct 30, 2001 vs DET L 2-5 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 13:51
Oct 28, 2001 vs LAK W 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 12:10
Oct 26, 2001 vs NYI L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 12:52
Oct 24, 2001 @ MIN W 7-3 1 1 2 2 0 1 2 10:51
Oct 23, 2001 @ COL L 1-5 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 09:32
Oct 20, 2001 vs ATL W 2-1 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 08:47
Oct 18, 2001 @ NYI L 1-2 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 1 7 14:40
Oct 17, 2001 vs NYI L 0-4 0 0 0 -2 0 2 5 12:20
Oct 13, 2001 @ ATL W 5-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 13:48
Oct 11, 2001 vs TOR L 2-3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 09:22
Oct 9, 2001 vs OTT L 2-6 0 0 0 -3 2 2 2 12:53
Oct 7, 2001 vs DAL W 3-0 0 1 1 1 2 4 0 12:49
Oct 5, 2001 vs NYR W 3-1 0 1 1 1 0 1 8 12:42