Best regular season by an individual player

[vadim sharifijanov]

not counting playoffs, so don’t bump 94 bure

mostly i’m curious whether hughes this year tops anyone’s list. it honestly might for me, although man that first luongo year…

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[Frankie Blueberries]

Voted Luongo 2007. Without him the team is a likely bottom 10 team

 

[lawrence]

It was between 94 Bure or 2010 Hank Sedin.

Went with 94 Bure as he way less to work with than Hank Sedin did.

I have no clue , how Bure pulled off 60 goals back to back, playing with at best, a second centreman, on those Canucks years.

He pulled it off again, although only 50 goals playing with deadbeat mark messier by that time that standard he’s just a second line centreman, and he also did it again in Florida, at best Victor Koslov a good player, but no not a superstar.

 

[sting101]

It's Bure

Have to keep in mind that it was the start of the dead puck era.

Slogging through all the hooking holding interference goonery center line etc. Would be wild to see what he could do today.

Furthermore his 60 goals was 28 more than Linden and his 107 pts was 37 more than Courtnall who he rarely played with.

He also was deployed a lot with his buddy Gino Odjick that year and carried him to 16 goals which was astonishing for how limited he was as a player.

 

[Svencouver]

Honestly? Hughes this year

 

[kaiser matias]

I picked Luongo, but it is a hard choice. Also thinking of Henrik in 2010, Bure 1994 as strong contenders. I also think Hughes this year is going to be a top 5 all-time season, but I want to see where he ends up once the season is done (ie. Norris/Hart/All-Star voting).

 

[LemonSauceD]

Hughes 2023 2024 season is easily top 3.

Still, would have to go with Lu’s 07 performance.

 

[ChilliBilly]

Sbisa is on the list?!?! Amused.

Sedins Bure and Hughes in a tie for me.

 

[RobertKron]

Have absolutely loved watching Hughes this year, but I think Bure and Luongo are pretty definitely above. I think the Sedins' big years are close enough that it becomes muddied by the difference in positions.

Those big Bure seasons have been interesting to revisit a bit as an adult and realize that it's a rare occasion where a childhood sports hero might have actually been even more impressive than I had understood at the time. Luongo in 06-07 is maybe the best example I can think of for a single player dragging a whole team to a pretty successful season.

 

[Lindgren]

I don't know how to vote in this one. But I can say that I find it weird watching Hughes. It's so incongruous, the Canucks having a defenseman like that. They never have that guy.

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

I don't know how to vote in this one. But I can say that I find it weird watching Hughes. It's so incongruous, the Canucks having a defenseman like that. They never have that guy.

Don't want to derail the thread, but could you imagine a prime Bure, and Quinn Hughes on the ice..?..That would be a thing of beauty.

 

[nowhereman]

I think this is pretty clearly H. Sedin for me. He won the Art Ross and Hart against prime Sid and OV with Daniel injured for a good chunk of the season.

 

[ziploc]

Bure 94
Luongo
H Sedin
Hughes

 

[sandwichbird2023]

Feels kind of odd to vote for anybody other than Henrik, who won the Art Ross and Hart, for "best regular season by a player". How can anybody have a better season when Henrik is the only one that was voted as league wide MVP?

But it is hard to not pick Hughes this year or Luongo in 07 either. Tough choice.

 

[82Ninety42011]

Don't want to derail the thread, but could you imagine a prime Bure, and Quinn Hughes on the ice..?..That would be a thing of beauty.

Got me thinking what's my favourite all time line-up. Went Bure 94 in poll.

Sedin Sedin Bure
Hughes Ohlund
Luongo

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Mario Lemieux

 

[Bojack Horvatman]

Hughes 2024, Henri 2010, Luongo 2007, and Bure 1994 are all worth 2nd place options to Sbisa 2015. In all seriousness I feel like Kesler in 2010 and 2011 deserves an honourable mention. Not so much for production, although he did hit 40 goals and 70+ points is still excellent. But he was arguably the best matchup C in the game those years when Datsyuk and Bergeron were in their primes, and won the Selke in 2011.

 

[lawrence]

Pavel Bures 60 goals was also in 76 games, at the start of the dead puck era, although not fully because in 1996, it was also another high-scoring season. Bure also didn't play with a very good set up man.

Hanks 2010 season, he won the Art Ross trophy, set a franchise record, 2010, was closer to a dead puck era still, as we see Prime Ovies and Crosby's stats kinda decline from previous years.

Luongo 2007 season. Utterly insane. We were winning 2-1 games left right centre because of Luongo, however it helped a lot that he had Mitchell, Ohlund, Salo, and a decent defensive group in front of him, and the 2007 A.V made us play an air tight defensive system.

 

[SillyRabbit]

The guy who won the Art Ross, Hart and Lindsay.

C'mon now.

 

[Ace of Hades]

Hank Sedin.

Pretty sure he had something crazy like 80 ES points without his bro Daniel in action for an extended time. There was even a time where he was producing PPG while having Burrows and Bieksa on his wings.

HM: Hughes. Best season of any defenseman who played for the franchise for sure.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Henrik Sedin for me.

Luongo in 2007 was completely head and shoulders better than everyone else on the team. And Bure in 1994 was just an unstoppable scorer. But I think Henrik’s 2010 season was just a different kind of special, especially with how his play elevated when Daniel got injured long term. And how he beat out Ovechkin for the Art Ross.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Luongo for me. The team was not good. What he was able to do was nothing short of insane.

Problem with Bert & Naz is that the effort was not really individual. One does not happen with out the other.

Luongo, Bure and Quinn Hughes are the closest thing to how I understand the question.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

I don't know how to vote in this one. But I can say that I find it weird watching Hughes. It's so incongruous, the Canucks having a defenseman like that. They never have that guy.

i think you could say that about 1992 mclean (first guy to legitimately be in the hart conversation), 1993 bure (first superstar), 1994 bure (first to lead the league in something), 2003 naslund (first to truly make a run for the hart/ross), and 2010 henrik (first to get it done)

although the feeling is most similar to 2007 luongo because it was really a pinch yourself situation that we actually had an superstar goalie, not just a very very good goalie having a career year

HM: Hughes. Best season of any defenseman who played for the franchise for sure.

he might already have the beat three or four seasons of any canucks dman ever

Hughes 2024, Henri 2010, Luongo 2007, and Bure 1994 are all worth 2nd place options to Sbisa 2015. In all seriousness I feel like Kesler in 2010 and 2011 deserves an honourable mention. Not so much for production, although he did hit 40 goals and 70+ points is still excellent. But he was arguably the best matchup C in the game those years when Datsyuk and Bergeron were in their primes, and won the Selke in 2011.

tbh i thought about including 2010 kes, which imo was the better season, both defensively and offensively. but i felt like two kes years when nobody was going to vote for either was overkill, so i just listed the 40 goal/trophy year.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

zero votes for bertuzzi...

it begs the related question: what’s the best half season ever?

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1994 bure, second half: 40 goals, 65 pts​

(1st in goals by a mile and 1st in pts by 5)​

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2002 bertuzzi, second half: 26 goals, 60 pts, +25​

(1st in goals, 1st in pts by 7, -1 behind the leader in +/-)​

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2007 luongo, second half: 25-7-5, 2.13 GAA, .928 SV%​

(1st in wins, 3rd in GAA, 4th in SV% on this team)​

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2010 henrik, second half: 49 assists, 59 pts, 45 ES pts​

(1st in assists by a mile, 2 pts behind peak crosby, 1st in ES pts)​

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2024 hughes, first half: 40 assists, 51 pts, +32​

(2nd in assists, 9th in pts, 1st in +/-, 1st in dman stats)​

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(HM 1992 linden, first half: 49 pts)​

 

[tyhee]

Feels kind of odd to vote for anybody other than Henrik, who won the Art Ross and Hart, for "best regular season by a player". How can anybody have a better season when Henrik is the only one that was voted as league wide MVP?

But it is hard to not pick Hughes this year or Luongo in 07 either. Tough choice.

It never ceases to amaze me how little respect Daniel gets in this market. Daniel in 2011 had a wider margin over the 2nd place finisher in the league scoring race than Henrik did in 2010, won not only the Art Ross but the Pearson as most outstanding player in the league as voted by the players (who one might consider more knowledgeable than the Hart voters who don't actually play against any of the candidates.)

Further, in case anyone wants to refer to fancy stats, Daniel's CF%, CF%Rel, FF% FF%Rel and point shares in 2010-2011 were all better than Henrik's in 2009-2010 (cf Hockey-Reference). In case anyone wants to refer to team success, the Canucks had more success (both regular season and playoffs) in 2010-2011 (Daniel's most outstanding player season) then they did in 2009-2010 (Henrik's mvp season.)

Yet nobody asked "How can anybody have a better season when" Daniel "is the only one that was voted as league wide" most outstanding "player?"