Players who had career years in their rookie season

[Regal]

Selanne had better seasons in lower scoring years

 

[LamorielloAndSon]

Trent hunter put up 25 goals and 51 points his rookie season and only came with in 5 goals or 10 points of that one other time in his career

 

[Kale Hulls]

Jiri Dopita
Jason Krog
Sergei Makarov

 

[IWantSakicAsMyGM]

Marek svatos and Petr prucha

Svatos was my first thought too. 32 goals, 50 pts in 61 games, 5th in Calder voting at a rookie. But, his struggles were due to repeated injuries, so I'm not sure he really fits in with the examples provided in the OP, or the spirit of the thread.

 

[Mickey Marner]

Petr Prucha in 05. He had Jagr when he should have been MVP setting him up on the power play. Next year Rangers brought Shannahan in, who took Prucha's place on the power play and that was pretty much it for him.

In one of the least egregious statements he's ever made, Stan Fischler claimed Prucha would be better than Crosby.

 

[DownGoesMcDavid]

Jason King got to play with the Sedin Twins during King's rookie year. Was even named rookie of the month.

King- Twins. They were called the "matress line "

Lockout happened after and King never really became an NHL regular after that.

 

[kylbaz]

He the **** has Tyler Myers 11 seasons under his belt?

I still remember like it was yesterday how he was a "promising prospect". God.. time flies

Still feels like it lol

 

[Captain Bowie]

Matthew Barzal.

 

[Chili]

Don Murdoch scored 15 goals in his first 15 games, including a 5 goal game.

He may still hold the Rangers record for goals as a rookie (32)?

Alot of off ice problems after that

Don Murdoch - What could have been?

 

[Canada4Gold]

Connor Brown

 

[thewall]

Matt Murray.. ???? won 2 cups before he was a ROOKIE. Murray seems average now and often injured.

 

[DanyHeatley]

andrew hammond

 

[BleedBlue14]

Patrik Berglunds rookie and third year are pretty noticeable outliers from the rest of his career

 

[serp]

Fabian Brunnström . Had 29 Points in 55 games with Dallas including a Hattrick in his first game.

 

[ES]

Ian Laperriere.

 

[ThreeLeftSkates]

Matthew Barzal.

Might as well waive him now.

 

[Beauner]

he's eclipsed his point totals since his first year, but Jordan Staal has never scored more goals in a season than the 29 he had as a rookie

 

[Kranix]

Andrew Raycroft

 

[AngelDuck]

People saying Selanne are wrong in my opinion. He had a season with the Ducks where he put up 50+ goals and 85+ points while Kariya only played like 20 games that year. Just dominant

Seriously check out how awful this team was outside of Teemu:

Anaheim Mighty Ducks 1997-98 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

 

[biotk]

Jimmy Carson?

Carson had a great rookie season, but season 2 and 3 were significantly better.

 

[Laminator]

Michael Del Zotto

 

[biotk]

People saying Selanne are wrong in my opinion. He had a season with the Ducks where he put up 50+ goals and 85+ points while Kariya only played like 20 games that year. Just dominant

Seriously check out how awful this team was outside of Teemu:

Anaheim Mighty Ducks 1997-98 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

I understand what you are saying, but watching Selanne's rookie season was magical - although his rookie goal record was kind of the product of Tie Domi.

 

[KoozNetsOff 92]

Selanne had better seasons in 97-99.

 

[AngelDuck]

I understand what you are saying, but watching Selanne's rookie season was magical - although his rookie goal record was kind of the product of Tie Domi.

It was magical but playing on a garbage team and still putting up over 50 goals is even more impressive to me.

 

[crackdown44]

Svatos was my first thought too. 32 goals, 50 pts in 61 games, 5th in Calder voting at a rookie. But, his struggles were due to repeated injuries, so I'm not sure he really fits in with the examples provided in the OP, or the spirit of the thread.

Svatos was so fast in NHL 2004. Always traded for him