He dressed for 106 NHL games with the San Jose Sharks before being traded to the New Jersey Devils on December 7, 1997.
Wood also played with the IHL's Kansas City Blades, where he was voted most popular player two times as well as winning community service awards.
Wood continued his hockey career after the NHL by playing for a senior league, the Horse Lake Thunder of the North Peace Hockey League[1] and eventually playing for the Allan Cup.
[2] The league included many players that played with Wood in his NHL career including former Vancouver Canuck and Montreal Canadien Gino Odjick, former Calgary Flames fighter Sasha Lakovic and his brother Greg Lakovic, and Theo Fleury's cousin Todd Holt.
[1] Several articles note the irony of "Odjick, Lakovic and Wood banding together in a league with the word peace in its title".