Greatest one trick pony in Hockey History?

[GRob83]

Except Nash was also a great defensive player later in his career. Nash’s shot wasn’t even all that impressive, he had good hands and got quick, accurate shots off around the net.

Did you know that from 94/95 - 03/04 only Jagr scored more goals than Bondra and that Bondra had the most SHG in the league over the same span? It's not his fault nobody else on the team could be relied upon to put up goals. He was a major part of a record setting PK unit that was 89%

 

[Vector]

Bondra's career is fascinating. I just took a basic look at his goal scoring compared to his teammates for his entire career.

Bondra played 961 games with the Capitals and scored 472 goals. The next closest is Steve Konowalchuk at 693 games and 146 goals. Sergei Gonchar is next with 654 games and 144 goals.

Name : Goals : Games
Bondra : 472 : 961
Gonchar : 144 : 654
Konowalchuk : 146 : 693
Oates : 73 : 332
Juneau : 62 : 312
Johansson : 104 : 901
Hunter : 116 : 633
Khristich : 121 : 315
Ridley : 104 : 324
Pivonka: 120 : 552
Nikolishin : 93 : 628
Hatcher : 99 : 313
Iafrate: 58 : 256
Jones : 62 : 258

 

[ESH]

Did you know that from 94/95 - 03/04 only Jagr scored more goals than Bondra and that Bondra had the most SHG in the league over the same span? It's not his fault nobody else on the team could be relied upon to put up goals. He was a major part of a record setting PK unit that was 89%

Ok great, I didn’t even mention Bondra in my post

 

[iamjs]

The guy led an NHL team in scoring... how is he a one trick pony personified when his best asset is face-off taking?

His only good skill was winning face offs... yet he led and NHL team in scoring? Something doesn't add up.

I agree with you that he was more than a faceoff guy. Six Seven time 20+ goal scorer (almost let that split season between TOR and PHX in 2007-08 slip through) in 13 seasons. I'm obviously not including his first two seasons where he only played a combined 39 games, where he would have had to average more than a goal per game to get to 20 in one season and play at a 63 goal pace for the other. Most of those seasons were even in the 24-28 goal range.

But the point about leading a team in scoring? Ehhh. I mean yeah he did, but let's not act like there was a bunch of competition for that lead. You had Oleg Petrov and Richard Zednik, whose peaks were around 45-50 pts, and a 40ish year old Doug Gilmour who was on the very back of the back nine of his career.

 

[iamjs]

Brett Lindros.

He was good at being big.

6' 8" 270 lb Steve McKenna has joined the chat.

By all accounts a good guy, but just a big dude who was... well, big.

 

[dalewood12]

Paul Henderson.