Gustav Nyquist, 75 points, better than ever at age 34
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Raistlin
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amazing having a career year at the end of your career. Chemistry is an amazing thing considering that he used to play with Zetterberg. ...and Datsyuk.
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wow didn't know he had that good of a season, probably the most under the radar season this year.
Him, O’Reilly and Forsberg have silently and very timid put some villages on fire this season.
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Goose get loose again one last time
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He was amazing in his short stint with the Wild last year. We ultimately chose Johansson over him to resign because he was quite a bit cheaper. Happy for the player tho
The coolest is that a racing horse was named after him. Which won Kentucky Derby.
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Love Nyquist , is he better than ever or is scoring just up and he has good chem with his linemates
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Andrew Brunette is such a good coach, getting so much out of that roster.
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He didn't from what I recall. Datysuk and Zetterberg initially played with Holmstrom and later with Abelkader. Nyquist played with Tatar, sometimes Franzen and a revolving door of centers like Richards, Weiss, Nielsen, etc.
I remember Nyquist coming into the league with a tear. His hype and goal scoring performance was about what Cole Caufield's is/was. I honestly think the Wings wasted his prime years and may have screwed up his development. He didn't get a full season until 2014-15 when he would have been 25. He spent what could have his best years in Grand Rapids because Holland and the organization were too stubborn to move on from aging vets. His first seasons are still his highest goal outputs, his 28 goals in 57 games in 2013-14 is still his career high, followed by 27 in 82 the next year (his first full one as I mentioned).
PP1 time always helps, kinda like a baseball player getting more ABs to get more RBIs.
2014-15: 3:01 PP TOI/game (24 PP points)
2015-16: 2:47 (12 PP points)
2016-17: 2:49 (10 PP points)
2017-18: 2:27 (8 PP points)
2018-19: 2:08 (12 PP points)
2019-20: 2:35 (9 PP points)
2021-22: 1:50 (10 PP points)
2022-23: 1:39 (1 PP point)
2023-24: 3:02 (24 PP points)
2014-15: 3:01 PP TOI/game (24 PP points)
2015-16: 2:47 (12 PP points)
2016-17: 2:49 (10 PP points)
2017-18: 2:27 (8 PP points)
2018-19: 2:08 (12 PP points)
2019-20: 2:35 (9 PP points)
2021-22: 1:50 (10 PP points)
2022-23: 1:39 (1 PP point)
2023-24: 3:02 (24 PP points)
Gus had only 12 goals in 2016-17. The shoulder injury, which he didn't get repaired until 2021, is a big part of the story. The whole middle part of his prime was messed up. That's the biggest reason people are surprised by how good he is now, because he didn't have the prime.
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Also curious about his usage though- 1 pp point in 1:40 is significantly lower than 24 pp points in 3:00,
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Not really. He mostly played 2nd and 3rd line in Detroit. With inferior players to Filip Forsberg.
Anyway, awesome season from him. I thought he could be this guy many years ago. Glad to see he’s fulfilling his potential finally.
FissionFire
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I think lots of players are having big years now because the scoring is way up. Hard to judge off raw point totals.
It’s more surprising to me that he’s already 34. Doesn’t feel that long ago that he and Tatar were going to be the future of the Wings.
Feels a little like Zuccarello finding chemistry and having a big year in his mid 30s next to Hartman and Kaprizov
Feels a little like Zuccarello finding chemistry and having a big year in his mid 30s next to Hartman and Kaprizov
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We have what nine 100 point players this year? And we are seeing guys hit 140, it's extremely high to me if you look at 2008 or even just 10 years ago. Jamie Benn top scorer with 87 points compared to now is absolutely up by a lot.
Nyquist played tons with Zetterberg over his years in Detroit. Not all that much with Datsyuk.
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FissionFire
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SV% also was lower than it was the past 2 seasons. Still it may be slightly lower than the last 2 seasons, but it’s still way up from what it was before that. You have to go back to the early 90s to find scoring rates at the level they have been the past 3 years, and that was when teams had 1-2 more PPs and per game.
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