Eye of Ra
Grandmaster General of the International boards
Just as a fine wine, he gets better the older he gets
Him, O’Reilly and Forsberg have silently and very timid put some villages on fire this season.wow didn't know he had that good of a season, probably the most under the radar season this year.
He didn't from what I recall. Datysuk and Zetterberg initially played with Holmstrom and later with Abelkader. Nyquist played with Tatar, sometimes Franzen and a revolving door of centers like Richards, Weiss, Nielsen, etc.amazing having a career year at the end of your career. Chemistry is an amazing thing considering that he used to play with Zetterberg. ...and Datsyuk.
I remember Nyquist coming into the league with a tear. His hype and goal scoring performance was about what Cole Caufield's is/was. I honestly think the Wings wasted his prime years and may have screwed up his development. He didn't get a full season until 2014-15 when he would have been 25. He spent what could have his best years in Grand Rapids because Holland and the organization were too stubborn to move on from aging vets. His first seasons are still his highest goal outputs, his 28 goals in 57 games in 2013-14 is still his career high, followed by 27 in 82 the next year (his first full one as I mentioned).
PP1 time always helps, kinda like a baseball player getting more ABs to get more RBIs.
2014-15: 3:01 PP TOI/game (24 PP points)
2015-16: 2:47 (12 PP points)
2016-17: 2:49 (10 PP points)
2017-18: 2:27 (8 PP points)
2018-19: 2:08 (12 PP points)
2019-20: 2:35 (9 PP points)
2021-22: 1:50 (10 PP points)
2022-23: 1:39 (1 PP point)
2023-24: 3:02 (24 PP points)
amazing having a career year at the end of your career. Chemistry is an amazing thing considering that he used to play with Zetterberg. ...and Datsyuk.
I think lots of players are having big years now because the scoring is way up. Hard to judge off raw point totals.
We have what nine 100 point players this year? And we are seeing guys hit 140, it's extremely high to me if you look at 2008 or even just 10 years ago. Jamie Benn top scorer with 87 points compared to now is absolutely up by a lot.Scoring is not up that much.
I think lots of players are having big years now because the scoring is way up. Hard to judge off raw point totals.
Nyquist played tons with Zetterberg over his years in Detroit. Not all that much with Datsyuk.He didn't from what I recall. Datysuk and Zetterberg initially played with Holmstrom and later with Abelkader. Nyquist played with Tatar, sometimes Franzen and a revolving door of centers like Richards, Weiss, Nielsen, etc.
I remember Nyquist coming into the league with a tear. His hype and goal scoring performance was about what Cole Caufield's is/was. I honestly think the Wings wasted his prime years and may have screwed up his development. He didn't get a full season until 2014-15 when he would have been 25. He spent what could have his best years in Grand Rapids because Holland and the organization were too stubborn to move on from aging vets. His first seasons are still his highest goal outputs, his 28 goals in 57 games in 2013-14 is still his career high, followed by 27 in 82 the next year (his first full one as I mentioned).
SV% also was lower than it was the past 2 seasons. Still it may be slightly lower than the last 2 seasons, but it’s still way up from what it was before that. You have to go back to the early 90s to find scoring rates at the level they have been the past 3 years, and that was when teams had 1-2 more PPs and per game.Scoring went down this season. It was higher each of the past two seasons.