Fantomas
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Jacques Richard’s 1980-81 season makes no sense compared to the rest of his career.
Wasn't a bad player by any stretch. Had substance abuse problems.
Greatest season ever by a conventionally bad player?
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Wasn't a bad player by any stretch. Had substance abuse problems.
Wow. That's one of the most extreme examples I've seen
Jacques Richard’s 1980-81 season makes no sense compared to the rest of his career.
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Brian Savage. Mr. October - a nickname only good for baseball - had one good season, maybe one and a half. 96-97 he scored 60 points in 81 games. Followed it up with 43 in 64 in 97-98. Other than that, he was largely an October to November kinda player.
I read up on him. He was thought to be the player he showed that season when drafted and put up some absurd point totals in juniors of about 2 per game, but he had discipline issues, after getting benched for a game, actually walked out on his team and went home missing practices before returning.
Former teammates said he had drinking issues. He after retiring got arrested and sent to 7 years in prison for smuggling cocaine across the border, and eventually died in a car accident at 50 years old crashing his car into a culvert.
Sounds like he was talented but messed up.
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Has Jeff Schultz 2009-10 season with the Capitals been mentioned? A guy who was a career near-even +/- player (for all the flaws of +/-) suddenly has a +50 while riding coattails of the Caps Young Guns during one of the premier offensive seasons of any team in the Modern NHL? Yeah look at Schultz’s stats bookending that season and stretch of his career. He’s gotta at least be in contention.
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I wondered out loud about this on Page 9 of this thread only to go back and discover Post #2. Yeah suffice it to say Schultz is going to be hard to beat.
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Juneau was too historically good over multiple seasons to fit the bull here. In his 102PT season he was god-tier but he had several other seasons clearly above noob level.
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I was amazed this season to find that Matt Moulson still plays professionally in NA.
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An anomalous statistical achievement (esp for a bullshit stat like +/-) does not equal a “great season” in my opinion.
Gary Leeman had a 51G 95P season
Andy Delmore (NSH Dman) 18G in 71GP in the DPE (02-03)
Andy Delmore (NSH Dman) 18G in 71GP in the DPE (02-03)
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I think Raycroft is a better fit for this thread than Leclaire, because Leclaire had another solid year in 05-06, whereas Raycroft was excellent in just the one season (03-04) and was otherwise poor. Leclaire also had many injuries that hindered his development and led to an early retirement.
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PPG+ playoff run with Philly also. Few years later he was out of the league.
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Wasn't a bad player but actually a very talented one. Just didn't have what it takes mentally.
