Dennis Maruk's 50 and 60-goal seasons are interesting here.
if we're talking about two hit wonders, that's an artist or band who only had two memorable songs. sometimes that's a band that had a brief period of success, fell off that form and were unable to get it back, and then broke up/retired/disappeared; musical example would be arrested development.
in 1992 they put out an album with two smash hits. by '94, they were gone.
He averaged 30 wins over a 6-season stretch.
Yeah, he had two 1st team all-star seasons, but the year after the second one he was 5th in NHL wins and he was 4th in save percentage the season before his first all-star selection, and 7th in save % two years before that, and he went to four all-star games.
He played in 426 NHL games and has the 6th best career save percentage in NHL history!
That is no "two-hit wonder".
He's more like Elton John than Wham.
he played a total 426 nhl games and had 2 seasons above .930.
he has more years where he was a below average goalie than an above average goalie.
he has a 2.52 gaa despite having a .920 sv%, and played for multiple playoff boston bruins teams during that time.
he's a 2 hit wonder in terms of being an elite goalie, he had a great album in terms of being a great goalie, but his overall career is mediocre. you're more likely to get below average than above from him
You forgot about....
Though that version wasn't on the album
A better two hit wonder would be
Daniel Marois
Danny Gare
Mickey Redmond
Walt Poddubny
Jonathan Cheechoo had two pretty nice seasons, one of which saw him winning a Richard. Nils Ekman was another guy who had 2 pretty good years, then nothing.
Edit: looks like Cheechoo had 4 pretty good years. So I'll stick with Ekman.
He probably wasn't mentioned because he doesn't really apply.Jimmy Carson, and I can't believe I'm the first to mention him.
Not "very good", he was a semi star like anyone scoring 50 points today. Then one year worth 85 points today.He did also have other seasons of 90 and 81 points, though, and finished with 356 career goals and 878 career points. That 136 point season does stick out ... but he was a very good offensive player for all of the late '70s/early '80s
Not "very good", he was a semi star like anyone scoring 50 points today. Then one year worth 85 points today.
Chris Gratton scored 62 points in both '97 and '98 and never hit the 50 point mark in any other season. He also never hit the 20 goal mark in any other season.