2014–15 Worcester Sharks season

2014–15 Worcester Sharks
Division	3rd Atlantic
Conference	7th Eastern
2014–15 record	41–29–6
Goals for	224
Goals against	128
Team information
Coach	Roy Sommer
Assistant Coach	Ryan Mougenel
Captain	Bryan Lerg
Alternate captains	Michael Haley Matt Taormina
Arena	DCU Center
Team leaders
Goals	Michael Haley (18)
Assists	Bryan Lerg (28) Taylor Fedun (28)
Points	Bryan Lerg (41)
Penalties in minutes	Michael Haley (106)
Plus/minus	Gus Young (+14)
Wins	Troy Grosenick (20)
Goals against average	Aaron Dell (2.06)
< 2013–14 2015–16 >

The 2014–15 Worcester Sharks season is the American Hockey League franchise's ninth season in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. This was also the team's last season in Worcester, as the franchise relocated to San Jose the following season to become the San Jose Barracuda.

Regular season

Conference standings

#	Eastern Conference	Div	GP	W	L	OTL	SOL	Pts	GF	GA
1	y– Manchester Monarchs (LA)	AT	76	50	17	6	3	109	241	176
2	y– Hershey Bears (WSH)	ET	76	46	22	5	3	100	218	181
3	y– Hartford Wolf Pack (NYR)	NE	76	43	24	5	4	95	221	214
4	x– Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (PIT)	ET	76	45	24	3	4	97	212	163
5	x– Syracuse Crunch (TB)	NE	76	41	25	10	0	92	218	219
6	x– Providence Bruins (BOS)	AT	76	41	26	7	2	91	209	185
7	x– Worcester Sharks (SJ)	AT	76	41	29	4	2	88	224	198
8	x– Portland Pirates (ARZ)	AT	76	39	28	7	2	87	203	190
9	e– Springfield Falcons (CBJ)	NE	76	38	28	8	2	86	192	209
10	e– Albany Devils (NJ)	NE	76	37	28	5	6	85	199	201
11	e– Binghamton Senators (OTT)	ET	76	34	34	7	1	76	242	258
12	e– St. John's IceCaps (WPG)	AT	76	32	33	9	2	75	183	235
13	e– Lehigh Valley Phantoms (PHI)	ET	76	33	35	7	1	74	194	237
14	e– Norfolk Admirals (ANA)	ET	76	27	39	6	4	64	168	219
15	e– Bridgeport Sound Tigers (NYI)	NE	76	28	40	7	1	64	213	246

Playoffs

Eastern Conference quarterfinals

(2) Hershey Bears vs. (7) Worcester Sharks

April 24	Worcester Sharks		1 – 4		Hershey Bears	DCU Center	Recap
Micheal Haley (1) – pp – 19:46		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			18:31 – Connor Carrick (1)
No scoring		Third period			17:39 – pp – Nate Schmidt (1) 19:03 – pp – Stanislav Galiev (1) 19:30 – en, pp – Chris Brown (1)
Aaron Dell 20 saves / 23 shots		Goalie stats			Pheonix Copley 41 saves / 42 shots

April 25	Worcester Sharks		1 – 3		Hershey Bears	DCU Center	Recap
No scoring		First period			No scoring
Eriah Hayes (1) – 02:46		Second period			01:03 – Jim O'Brien (1) 03:34 – Chris Conner (1) 13:58 – Cameron Schilling (1)
No scoring		Third period			No scoring
Aaron Dell 26 saves / 29 shots		Goalie stats			Pheonix Copley 33 saves / 34 shots

April 29	Hershey Bears		1 – 4		Worcester Sharks	Giant Center	Recap
Liam O'Brien (1) – 03:13		First period			No scoring
No scoring		Second period			01:01 – pp – Chris Tierney (1) 3:55 – Ryan Carpenter (1)
No scoring		Third period			05:37 – pp – Taylor Fedun (1) 19:53 – en – Micheal Haley (2)
Pheonix Copley 29 saves / 32 shots		Goalie stats			Troy Grosenick 27 saves / 28 shots

May 1	Hershey Bears		10 – 4		Worcester Sharks	Giant Center	Recap
Chris Brown (2) – 0:24 Dustin Gazley (1) – sh – 03:44 Jakub Vrana – 10:40 Casey Wellman (1) – pp – 16:10		First period			12:17 – Dylan DeMelo (1)
Cameron Schilling (2) – 09:05 Tim Kennedy (1) – pp – 19:32		Second period			4:07 – pp – Karl Stollery (1)
Casey Wellman (2) – pp – 0:19 Liam O'Brien (2) – pp – 01:28 Casey Wellman (3) – 2:09 Chris Brown (3) – 08:06		Third period			11:05 – Rylan Schwartz (1) 15:07 – Matt Taormina (1)
Philipp Grubauer 19 saves / 21 shots Pheonix Copley 11 saves / 13 shots		Goalie stats			Troy Grosenick 12 saves / 16 shots Aaron Dell 26 saves / 32 shots

Hershey wins series 3–1

Roster

Updated May 1, 2015.

#	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace	Contract
10		Konrad Abeltshauser	D	R	31	2013	Bad Tölz, Germany	San Jose
34		J. P. Anderson	G	R	31	2012	Toronto, Ontario	San Jose
48		Julius Bergman	D	R	28	2015	Stockholm, Sweden	San Jose
43		Jimmy Bonneau	LW	L	39	2011	Baie-Comeau, Quebec	Worcester
22		Ryan Carpenter	RW	R	33	2014	Oviedo, Florida	San Jose
25		Daniel Ciampini	LW	R	33	2015	Concord, Ontario	Worcester
26		Willie Coetzee (PTO)	RW	R	33	2014	Johannesburg, South Africa	Worcester
33		Chris Crane	RW	R	32	2015	West Chester, Ohio	San Jose
8		Derek DeBlois (PTO)	RW	R	33	2015	Warwick, Rhode Island	Worcester
29		Aaron Dell	G	L	34	2014	Airdrie, Alberta	San Jose
2		Dylan DeMelo	D	R	30	2012	London, Ontario	San Jose
4		Taylor Doherty	D	R	33	2011	Cambridge, Ontario	San Jose
41		Petter Emanuelsson	F	R	32	2013	Kiruna, Sweden	San Jose
14		Taylor Fedun	D	R	35	2014	Edmonton, Alberta	San Jose
8		Nikolay Goldobin	RW	L	28	2015	Moscow, Russia	San Jose
23		Barclay Goodrow	RW	L	31	2014	Toronto, Ontario	San Jose
1		Troy Grosenick	G	L	34	2013	Brookfield, Wisconsin	San Jose
18		Micheal Haley (A)	LW	L	38	2014	Guelph, Ontario	San Jose
7		Eriah Hayes	RW	R	35	2012	La Crescent, Minnesota	Worcester
28		Jeremy Langlois	RW	R	33	2014	Tempe, Arizona	Worcester
11		Bryan Lerg (C)	LW	L	38	2014	Livonia, Michigan	San Jose
17		John McCarthy	LW	L	37	2015	Boston, Massachusetts	Blues
21		Travis Oleksuk	C	L	35	2012	Thunder Bay, Ontario	San Jose
39		Trevor Parkes	RW	R	32	2015	Fort Erie, Ontario	Worcester
24		Joakim Ryan (ATO)	D	L	30	2015	Rumson, New Jersey	Worcester
27		Rylan Schwartz	C	L	34	2012	Wilcox, Saskatchewan	San Jose
37		Karl Stollery	D	L	36	2015	Camrose, Alberta	San Jose
19		Daniil Tarasov	RW	R	32	2012	Moscow, Soviet Union	San Jose
20		Matt Taormina (A)	D	L	37	2014	Warren, Michigan	Worcester
5		Matt Tennyson	D	R	34	2012	Minneapolis, Minnesota	San Jose
50		Chris Tierney	C	L	29	2014	Keswick, ON	San Jose
13		Evan Trupp	C	L	36	2014	Anchorage, Alaska	San Jose
15		Matt Willows (ATO)	RW	L	32	2015	Congers, New York	Worcester
3		Gus Young	D	L	32	2014	Dedham, Massachusetts	Worcester

External links

• Official Website of the AHL