Greatest season ever by a conventionally bad player?

[benedictTavares]

Blaine Lacher?

 

[Panda Bear]

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

Definitely not.

His 07-08 season was even better, but then he got a shoulder injury that he never fully recovered from.

 

[Sens With Benefits]

Zack Smith scored 25 goals in 2015/16.

Joe Juneau scored 102 points in 92/93. His second year. He never got close to that again.

 

[DeluzioN]

I dunno why people are saying Jeff Schultz based on a +/- stat, he was +50 in a year where the Caps were +90 overall .

05-06 or 06-07 Sens similar comparison. Sens +103 for the year. Tom Preissing +40 , Chris Schubert +30 playing only 10 minutes a night. Both out of the league with no contract offers within 3 years lol .

 

[The Panther]

Joe Juneau scored 102 points in 92/93. His second year. He never got close to that again.

Not really. He scored 102 points in 84 games that 'rookie' (aged 24-25) season, but the very next season (when NHL scoring wasn't as crazy) he scored 85 in 74 (and that, including being traded at the deadline). So, the PPG of the two seasons is:
1.21
1.15
which is barely even statistically significant (4 or 5 points over 82 games).

There was definitely a thing in Boston, though, from Bobby Orr (late 60s) through Ray Bourque (late 90s) of players who over-achieved statistically in Boston. There's a long list of such players, from John Bucyk in the latter half of his career to Barry Pederson to Cam Neely to Joey Juneau. Even Adam Oates fell off the cliff, offensively, after Boston.

 

[Samsquanch]

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

Obviously the winner.

If he wasnt a 2nd OV pick this would be mind blowing. But he obviously had some skills at some point in time, so it's more digestible I guess

 

[caufieldbeerman]

andrew raycroft calder

 

[JianYang]

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.

I bet pouliot scored most of those goals during a big hotstreak after the trade. There was a stretch where he just couldn't seem to miss.

Latendresse was never going to be a 30 plus goal guy, but I really think concussions cut his career short. He had some soft hands, and he was a truck when he wanted to. I think he got less physical though towards the end, which I suspect is because he was concerned about his concussion history.

 

[JianYang]

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

That 21 goal season by nilan was sandwiched between his 16 and 19 goal seasons though, so it's wasn't necessarily an anomaly.

 

[crobro]

the Cheech

cheechoo Train

 

[crobro]

Adam graves fifty goal season

 

[cliffclaven]

Erik Gustafsson scoring 60 points one year still makes no sense.

It’s a lot easier to score when you don’t play defense lol

 

[vanarchy]

Jonathan Cheechoo.

Today I learned that he's from MOOSE FACTORY, ONTARIO. So thank you for that.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Rene Bourque had a pair of 27 goal 50+pt seasons for the Flames and then never scored 15 goals or 20pts again. Injuries took their toll but he was also never really that good.

 

[KevinFinnerty]

Benoit Pouliot

 

[Siamese Dream]

Brian Boyle in 2010-11

Brandon Prust also had a career year way better than any of his others, on that same team.

I think these are the sort of players the OP is looking for

 

[TheBeard]

Zack Smith scored 25 goals in 2015/16.

Joe Juneau scored 102 points in 92/93. His second year. He never got close to that again.

It was his first season really as he was runner up to Teemu for the Calder. And also, that's not true. His next season he hit 85 points in 11 less games meaning he would have been on pace for 100 over 82 or close to it. The year after he was 43 in 44 games. Injuries and trades did him in.

 

[pucksakes666]

Shayne Gostisbehere got 65 points only couple years ago now they flyers couldn’t wait to get rid of him till they finally did.

 

[ItWasJustified]

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

Contract year?

 

[The Panther]

Adam graves fifty goal season

Graves had seasons of 38, 36, and 33 goals besides the 50+ season. Hardly a "bad" player -- quite the opposite.

 

[Fixxer]

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

Yep. Also, if you have a look at his tumultuous life outside the rink, one can understand why it went the way it did. The talent was there, but there's much more to it on being an NHL talent.

Coolopolis: Goals and cocaine: Jacques Richard - the 50 goal scorer who aimed to become a drug kingpin

 

[Fig]

Rene Bourque had a pair of 27 goal 50+pt seasons for the Flames and then never scored 15 goals or 20pts again. Injuries took their toll but he was also never really that good.

I was wondering if Gio counts.

He broke the 50 points only twice. 56 points in 82 games in 15/16 and then his Norris season where he scored 74 points in 78 games in 18/19. He had random short seasons where he was in the .700s points per game range and was nearly PPG in his Norris season at age 35?

He's not really conventionally bad though. Just pedestrian for a typical 1D.

 

[HasbeenHallzy]

Chris Clark had a 152 game span where he scored 50 goals and 43 assists for 93Pts. The rest of his career equals 454GP 53G 68A for 121Pts. He wasn't bad however

 

[holy]

Yep. Also, if you have a look at his tumultuous life outside the rink, one can understand why it went the way it did. The talent was there, but there's much more to it on being an NHL talent.

Coolopolis: Goals and cocaine: Jacques Richard - the 50 goal scorer who aimed to become a drug kingpin

Loool they should make a movie about this guy. That’s a captivating headline to say that least.

 

[lowol]

I thought of Ian Laperrière but apparently his career has two blips:

First off you have the bizarre rookie season where he scored at triple the clip from the next two, and then a 21 goal season with the Avs as a clear result of being strapped to Alex Tanguay after the salary cap depleted the team's forward depth.