Biggest Two Hit Wonders

[Kennedys]

Daniel Marois

Danny Gare

Mickey Redmond

Walt Poddubny

Not sure what Gare, Redmond and Poddubny are doing in this thread. Congratz on Marois though

 

[CharlestownChiefsESC]

Petr Prucha 30 goal season in 05-06,followed by 22 in 06-07. Pretty much fell off the radar after that.

 

[brachyrynchos]

Defenseman Tapio Levo.
'81-82 Colorado Rockies: 34-9-13-22. Despite missing 46 games due to injury (leg?), Levo finished tied for 11th on a weak team, 38 points behind leader Brent Ashton. Tapio also finished 2nd in points for the Rockies' defensemen, 20 points behind Rob Ramage (80-13-29-42).
'82-83' New Jersey Devils: 73-7-40-47. Still on a bad team, Levo had the most assists, and had the 4th most points (only by 8, Aaron Broten's 55), and was the top point getter (by 28) among the d-men.
He only played those 2 seasons in North America, returned to SM 1 Ässät, where it looks like he had a stellar career. Originally drafted by Pittsburgh 139th overall (8th rd) 1975, 6'1 200lbs, don't know much about him, and his name is rarely brought up. Perhaps he belongs in the "They played in the wrong era" thread.

 

[WingsFan95]

For recent times I think of:

Lecavalier: 06-08 is substantially ahead in his resume. Only time he was Top 10 in points, got his Rocket and 2 of 4 All-Star game selections, his 09 clearly coming off the steam he generated from 06-08. I think he fits pretty well in here.

Corey Perry: Again, this is not a terrible player who got lucky twice but he's had 2 seasons clearly stand out for him. 2011 & 2014. He made First Team honors both seasons and no others with a total 4 All-Star teams played. These two seasons were the only ones he finished Top 5 in goals and Top 10 in points.

Now those are solid guys who just happened to have 2 seasons seemingly above the rest of their careers. Now I'll go with the lower tier.

Alexei Yashin: This is my go to in the last 20 years of a guy who basically had a couple pretty great seasons but otherwise was underwhelming. What makes it even more impressive is after his first big season he held out and missed an entire season, came back and backed up it up then folded like a cheap suit after being traded. It's hard to think about now but the man played 12 seasons in the NHL which had him come in at age 20 and lose 2 seasons, one to hold-out and another to lock-out. For all intends and purposes the man had a pretty full career in the league. Now let's analyze his 2 big seasons 99 & 01 in comparison. Well first off they were 2 of only 4 with a positive one ice rating. 99 saw his only team honors (2nd), Top 10 finish in points and Top 5 finish in goals. 00-01 saw him finish 10th in goals at 40 and score 88 points, his next best was 79. Now 01 just happened to have 3 guys finish with 41 goals so it was much better than his other Top 10 finish in that department in 97. Outside of these 2 seasons he wasn't all that special of a player. But he was able to convert those 2 years into the biggest payday at the time.

Alexei Kovalev: Here's an unpopular opinion, Kovalev was a very nice complimentary piece but lived up to his potential in only 2 seasons. 01 with the Penguins and 08 with the Habs. There's a big reason these 2 stand out and not just as his 2 highest point totals in the regular season (95 & 84 above 77 in 03). They were 2 of his few positive rated seasons as point totals 65 to 77 were all in the negative while also inflated due to the teams he was on. Furthermore his 08 playoffs were the most productive of his career and that was the only year he made the year end All-Star team (2nd). While 01 was his only Top 10 point finish at 4th.

 

[Albatros]

Defenseman Tapio Levo.
'81-82 Colorado Rockies: 34-9-13-22. Despite missing 46 games due to injury (leg?), Levo finished tied for 11th on a weak team, 38 points behind leader Brent Ashton. Tapio also finished 2nd in points for the Rockies' defensemen, 20 points behind Rob Ramage (80-13-29-42).
'82-83' New Jersey Devils: 73-7-40-47. Still on a bad team, Levo had the most assists, and had the 4th most points (only by 8, Aaron Broten's 55), and was the top point getter (by 28) among the d-men.
He only played those 2 seasons in North America, returned to SM 1 Ässät, where it looks like he had a stellar career. Originally drafted by Pittsburgh 139th overall (8th rd) 1975, 6'1 200lbs, don't know much about him, and his name is rarely brought up. Perhaps he belongs in the "They played in the wrong era" thread.

Levo's rookie season was fifth among all defensemen in the league in goals per game in fact, better than Ray Bourque for example.

 

[sharkhawk]

No one has mentioned rob brown. 115 points than 80, after that one season of 58 and after that spent his time bouncing between nhl and the minors

 

[koyvoo]

No one has mentioned rob brown. 115 points than 80, after that one season of 58 and after that spent his time bouncing between nhl and the minors

Rob Brown was mentioned in the very first post.

 

[The Panther]

Rob Brown's first three NHL seasons: 239 points in 199 games played (+25).

The rest of Rob Brown's NHL career: 199 points in 344 games played (-48).

 

[Merya]

Awesome music stuff

I up the ante with a band you know (or don't) from exactly two songs.

I give you Alphaville

 

[Ralph Malfredsson]

Mixing RS and playoffs but:
Joe Juneau - 102 pts in his first full season (albeit the scoring heaving 92/93) and then led the Caps in their 98 finals run with 17 points, tied with Oates.

 

[wetcoast]

Dickie Moore

 

[Ivo]

Robert Reichel had two 40 goal seasons in a row and his next best season he scored 26.
Marek Svatos scored 32 goals in 61 games and 26 goals in 62 games, next best was 15.