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- Dec 17, 2018
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Kinda a two parter..
Someone mentioned this guy Chris Valentine in some other thread. Dude scored 30g 37a for 67 points in 60 games as a rookie in '81-'82. He then somehow played most of the next season in the AHL, torching that league and putting up 17 points in 23 games when he was called up. Next year, 11 points, 22 games, so definitely a bit of a slide but still seemingly serviceable, even if it was the high scoring '80s. Still spent most of that year in the AHL though. After that the dude shipped out to Germany and just wrecked house there for a decade (103 points in 45 games one year) before calling it quits.
So
1) Anyone know the story there? Was his D that bad? Problems with management? Crazy to me that he put up 95 points in his first 105 games and that wasn't good enough.
2) Any players you can think of that just didn't get a fair shake in the NHL? What about those dudes who torched the AHL but just couldn't quite play at the NHL level?
Only other name I can think of is Tim Kennedy. I liked his style in his first full season in the NHL, he seemed to slip off checks really well and I thought he could develop into a 20-20 guy. Instead he got into a contract dispute over a couple hundred K with management and was let go. Career just kinda nosedived after that, career journeyman and AHLer. So that's a case where he got his chance and seemingly just blew it.
Someone mentioned this guy Chris Valentine in some other thread. Dude scored 30g 37a for 67 points in 60 games as a rookie in '81-'82. He then somehow played most of the next season in the AHL, torching that league and putting up 17 points in 23 games when he was called up. Next year, 11 points, 22 games, so definitely a bit of a slide but still seemingly serviceable, even if it was the high scoring '80s. Still spent most of that year in the AHL though. After that the dude shipped out to Germany and just wrecked house there for a decade (103 points in 45 games one year) before calling it quits.
So
1) Anyone know the story there? Was his D that bad? Problems with management? Crazy to me that he put up 95 points in his first 105 games and that wasn't good enough.
2) Any players you can think of that just didn't get a fair shake in the NHL? What about those dudes who torched the AHL but just couldn't quite play at the NHL level?
Only other name I can think of is Tim Kennedy. I liked his style in his first full season in the NHL, he seemed to slip off checks really well and I thought he could develop into a 20-20 guy. Instead he got into a contract dispute over a couple hundred K with management and was let go. Career just kinda nosedived after that, career journeyman and AHLer. So that's a case where he got his chance and seemingly just blew it.