Greatest season ever by a conventionally bad player?

[Leaf Rocket]

Jason Blake? 50 goal season

 

[mattihp]

Jason Blake? 50 goal season

Not really a bad player.

 

[Dingo]

Was it the Stastny effect, like Gretzky had on Blair "the Fire Hydrant" MacDonald?

it actually wasnt. the HOH board had me looking into game by game stats. He clearly benefitted from the stastnys on the pp, but was also clearly on the second line... i think with Goulet, but i cant remember.

 

[BWJM]

Jacques Richard's career is pretty sad for the talent he had.. not to mention how he died.

 

[Dingo]

Jason Blake? 50 goal season

i see a 40 goal season in his stats...

 

[Rick Rocket]

AN$ON

 

[PDX Flyer]

Dave Shultz somehow scored 20 goals in a season

 

[SwedishFire]

Kjell Dahlin. 32 goals and 71 points in 85-86 as a rookie, most of them in the first half. And then he was pretty much done.

He got injured in the season from what I recLl. Nice to see people remembering him. Would sure had been a great goalscorer.

 

[UncleOscar]

Ville Leino had 21 points in 19 playoff games in 09-10 when the Flyers went to the cup, then put up 53 points the next year. After signing with Buffalo he forgot how to play hockey and never had higher than 25 points.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Maybe someone like Andrew Raycroft. Won the Calder and then...nothing.

 

[YoSoyLalo]

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.

Didn’t lattendresse have an array of injuries that ruined him?

 

[PaulD]

Jonathan Cheechoo.

First player that came to mind

Rob Brown runner up

 

[PaulD]

Assuming goalies are included I think it's Andrew Hammond.

And Steve Penney

 

[Nemesis Prime]

Cam Ward

 

[PaulD]

Toronto Zamboni guy went undefeated last season. Pretty damn good NHL season for a guy against who most of us could pot a couple of G's on in a beer league....

Winner !!!

 

[PaulD]

Alexander Goodenyuk

 

[Satire]

Shawn Horcoff? Dunno if I'd qualify him as a bad players but his 05-06 was certainly one heck of an outlier.

 

[Bruhin]

Raycroft

 

[Bronson]

Chris Simon scored 29 goals in a season.

 

[Reality Czech]

Brad Boyes should be up there

Was waiting for this comment. Still not sure how he got 43 goals that one year. But perhaps the fact that he got 33 goals and 72 points the following year takes him out of the running for this thread. He's more of a two-hit wonder.

 

[varano]

Leo Komarovs all star season

 

[David Bruce Banner]

Dave Shultz somehow scored 20 goals in a season

And Probert a 29 goal season... Nilan 21... and Tiger Williams a 35 goal season.

 

[JP Mick]

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

Wow! That’s nuts

 

[HabsQC]

Does Yakupov qualify ?

 

[FrozenJagrt]

Leo Komarovs all star season

It wasn't even a very good season. He went to the All Star game by virtue of being a top six forward on an absolutely putrid roster.