Players who had career years in their rookie season

[Moose Head]

Kjell Dahlin on the 85-86 Habs. Still holds some Habs rookie scoring records. Did squat after a fantastic first 40 games in the nhl.

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

No he didn't... he won 1 cup. The second came in his first year as a starter.

Dryden on the other hand won the freaking Smythe after playing in only 6 regular season games... yes the team was stacked but to win MVP on a team like that means a lot.

I prefer to say that he won the Smythe before he won the Calder.

It's even more amazing.

Thanks Bruins.

 

[Sombastate]

Slightly off topic, but i wonder if there's any evidence of a player clearly on some sort of PED (whether caught or not), where they have one season completely balloon and trump the rest of their career. Like stuff you'd see in baseball.

 

[DFF]

Sam Bennett (not a career year but his best year so far)

 

[koyvoo]

Joe Juneau hockey statistics and profile at hockeydb.com

 

[DFF]

Jiri Dopita
Jason Krog
Sergei Makarov

lol Makarov career year was BEFORE he joined the NHL

 

[Cellee]

76 goals is pretty lofty

 

[Cellee]

Selanne had better seasons in lower scoring years

Is that right?

 

[Hughes86Hischier13]

jordan staal

 

[JerseyMike34]

Joe Juneau

Holy shit - this.

The younger crowd will have no idea what dumb luck this guy had and how it basically made his career.

You do kinda have to wonder what happens if he never gets traded.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Aaron Ekblad.

I'm sure that'll change in the coming years though.

 

[Cellee]

Joe Juneau hockey statistics and profile at hockeydb.com

Crazy! I had no idea he never reached half as many goals in any season after his rookie year.

Wasn't he an all-star in Washington at least once? Maybe not.

He played with Bondra, how the hell did he not get assists?

 

[koyvoo]

Crazy! I had no idea he never reached half as many goals in any season after his rookie year.

Wasn't he an all-star in Washington at least once? Maybe not.

He played with Bondra, how the hell did he not get assists?

Check out his (and Bondra’s) first full (strike shortened) seasons in Washington.

Washington Capitals 1994-95 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

 

[Howie Hodge]

Barry Beck and Don "Murder" Murdoch looked like stars in the making based on rookie years.

(May have not been an immediate decline, but they did after at least a couple seasons...)

 

[Cellee]

Check out his (and Bondra’s) first full (strike shortened) seasons in Washington.

Washington Capitals 1994-95 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

Haha! Hilarious

 

[JerseyMike34]

Check out his (and Bondra’s) first full (strike shortened) seasons in Washington.

Washington Capitals 1994-95 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

Pretty sure I posted something about Bondra that season last week...
It's the biggest goals to assist margin for a 30 goal scorer, if I'm not mistaken. Something like that anyways.

Edit: Since the 1920's

 

[JerseyMike34]

76 goals is pretty lofty

That 1992-93 season was a statistical anomaly.
He did score 50 twice.
and scored 40 thrice.

 

[Cellee]

That 1992-93 season was a statistical anomaly.
He did score 50 twice.
and scored 40 thrice.

Well yeah, I can't remember when Hull and Mogilny went over 70 but I don't think it was after.

 

[Bub]

Gilbert Dionne
Steve Penney
Warren Young

fun from the 80s!

 

[Regal]

Is that right?

Um, yes? That's pretty much the general consensus

 

[Cellee]

Um, yes? That's pretty much the general consensus

Compelling argument.

You managed to take something quantifiable and tried to replace it with something completely subjective.

 

[goeb]

Crazy! I had no idea he never reached half as many goals in any season after his rookie year.

Wasn't he an all-star in Washington at least once? Maybe not.

He played with Bondra, how the hell did he not get assists?

Juneau was decent in Washington. He definitely left on good terms after his spectacular performance in the 1997-98 playoffs in which the Capitals made a surprising run to the finals. He was on a line reunited with Oates (I believe) and Brian Bellows.

 

[Regal]

Compelling argument.

You managed to take something quantifiable and tried to replace it with something completely subjective.

There's plenty of info comparing his seasons out there. I'm not going to bother rehashing it here because people continue to cream themselves over totals without context. It's an old argument that doesn't interest me. I'm just pointing out that he doesn't fit the thread. People can check out why for themselves

 

[Cellee]

There's plenty of info comparing his seasons out there. I'm not going to bother rehashing it here because people continue to cream themselves over totals without context. It's an old argument that doesn't interest me. I'm just pointing out that he doesn't fit the thread. People can check out why for themselves

Nah

 

[Regal]

Nah

Ignorance is bliss anyway