Yeah I don't quite get it either. The guy can definitely skate his ass off from what I remember and he lit up the Swiss league on more than one occasion. One of them was thanks to playing with Thornton, but even away from him he was still relatively productive. Given the dearth of talent we had at the time (I mean Jiri Tlusty was our #1 LW for a couple years) you'd think he would be willing to take the chance, especially as at a certain point the ELC would have only been for one year.
Nah, his best seasons were
way after playing in Davos with Thornton in that 12-13 lockout season.
He really took off in the 17-18 season in Lugano, where after his best regular season ever (it was his first time he went above 20 goals in a regular season), he had a monster playoffs where he scored 14 goals in 18 games played (21 points total).
In 18-19, he improved to 30 goals and 51 points in 50 games. In 19-20, he was almost ppg (47 points in 50 regular season games), and this season last I checked he has 16 g / 20 a in 32 games. Since 17-18, his ppg is much higher than that season with Thornton, getting closer to almost twice.
Hofmann is a goal scorer, that's his thing. One of the purest Swiss goal scorers I can remember.