Greatest season ever by a conventionally bad player?

[Richard]

Warren Young Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com



Heres your answer...... literal 30 year old AHL then 40 goal scorer....

 

[HansonBro]

Darren McCarty's 96-97 season is up there. Greatest goal ever scored by a clubber

 

[These Are The Days]

Maybe a Minnesotan who was there can explain to me what the hell happened with Scott Bjugstad

 

[Inflict]

Probably not the worst, but Devin Setoguchi had a 30 goal, 65 point season. In reality, he was at best bottom 6 forward with PP upside.

 

[Buff15Sabres]

Brad Boyes should be up there

 

[_vivelequebec_]

Joé Juneau 1992-1993

Joe Juneau Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

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[The Andrew Peeke Fan]

Fabian Brunnstrom, as far as being a top-6 forward in the NHL, at least.

 

[Paper]

Brad Boyes should be up there

Which year? The one he had his career high 72 points? His rookie year when he had 69 points? Or the season he got 43 goals (and 65 points)?

When you can't differentiate what his greatest season ever was, it's probably a sign he doesn't deserve to be in this thread. Now if you wanted an inconsistent player, he's up there.

 

[ryerockarola]

The thing about Richard is the question wasn't, "How did he score 50"?, but rather, "How does a guy with his talent not score at least 35+ a year"?

My Best-Carey

He was drafted 2nd overall and had the talent to be a superstar. Unfortunately he had off-ice difficulties and eventually died way too young driving home from celebrating his 50th birthday.

 

[Yog S'loth]

People keep saying Rob Brown and that's annoying. He was an elite player that continued to produce at a high clip after he was dealt to Hartford for god's sake. His story is more one of what was going on between his ears than what was going on with his hands.

But if you want to talk the Mario effect, it's unquestionably Warren Young.

It's not just that 40 goal season, it's the fact that he did it with only 131 shots... a shooting percentage of 30.5%!

He only managed 32 other goals the rest of his career.

 

[tom leafers]

Kulemin wasn't 'conventionally' bad or bad at all though, in fact he was actually a very solid player. To be honest, I think he got pigeonholed into a defensive specialist by Carlyle once Ron Wilson was fired as he used him exclusively for matching up on defensive assignments, but he had a lethal wrist shot and if he had been pushed into more offensive roles he could've become a consistent 20 goal guy IMO.

i loved Kulemin. That year him, Grabo and Kessel all pretty much scored 30 goals was the best year as a leafs fan in quite a while lol. overall he was a pretty average player though

 

[Hatfield]

Jeff Schultz +50 year.

It wasn’t that good though. Anyone who watched him (besides George McPhee, maybe) could see that he had very little skill.

 

[Confused Turnip]

Jonathan Cheechoo.

Came in to say this. Don't see how it can be disputable. 50 goals is one of the pinnacle NHL achievements that many superstars can only dream of, and this plug somehow gets there randomly.

 

[Hatfield]

Joé Juneau 1992-1993

Joe Juneau Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

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Juneau was a good player.

 

[_vivelequebec_]

Juneau was a good player.

True, he’s not a one season wonder.

But you can divide his career in two.

 

[Confused Turnip]

Kulemin wasn't 'conventionally' bad or bad at all though, in fact he was actually a very solid player. To be honest, I think he got pigeonholed into a defensive specialist by Carlyle once Ron Wilson was fired as he used him exclusively for matching up on defensive assignments, but he had a lethal wrist shot and if he had been pushed into more offensive roles he could've become a consistent 20 goal guy IMO.

Kulemin was pretty much the perfect complementary top 6 winger that could produce reasonable goals and play responsibly in all situations. Ironically he's a guy the Leafs could really use today.

 

[chauron]

Jacques Richard’s 1980-81 season makes no sense compared to the rest of his career.

this one, the guy really peaked during that season.

 

[Shaman464]

Wayne Babych

519 games played, 11 seasons, 192 goals. 27% (his only 50 goal season, and never got beyond 20 goals after) of them came in the 80-81 season.

 

[Streetsamurai]

When Guillaume Latendresse was traded for Pouliot, he scored like 25 goals in 55 games for the wild (37G pace) and Pouliot scored 15 in 35, or like a 31 goal pace. Pouliot never scored over 19 goals in any other season, and was generally pretty awful, while Latendresse scored 14 total goals for the remainder of his career (3 seasons), and hadn’t scored over 18 any years prior.

Both of these guys were even worse than their stats showed too.

Pouliot was a weird one. After his first gew games with the Habs i was sure he was going to be an elite player. Seems to have size, speed and skills. Never.panned out

 

[Bandit]

Man tried to ratio you but ended up ratioing himself. Sad. Jeff Schultz a Capitals legend!

Like hell. He’s a Kings legend.

 

[OvermanKingGainer]

Imagine losing out on the biggest draft lottery in a decade because of this:

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

Wanted to say Rob Brown, who I think was kind of a Drouin-type who played with Mario and put up absolute video game numbers (49G, 66A in 68 games), but he had more than just the one good season.

Robbie Brown was good except for skating. He won an MVP and scoring titles in the IHL. Warren Young would be the pick for “plug elevated to greatness by Mario”.

 

[LokiDog]

Doesn’t actually fit the thread but Jacob Trouba makes 8M a year for 6 more years. He hit exactly 50 points one season. His next career high is 33 and otherwise he’s never broken 30, though he paced for it a couple of times.

 

[Fig]

Probably not the worst, but Devin Setoguchi had a 30 goal, 65 point season. In reality, he was at best bottom 6 forward with PP upside.

I don't think he should count. Setoguchi's downfall was due to issues he had with alcohol.

Devin Setoguchi rises from rock bottom to earn another shot at the NHL

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Imagine losing out on the biggest draft lottery in a decade because of this:

..there’s a 26 minute highlight video from one dude I’ve never heard of, whoa. All from one season too? Weird.