Players Who Scored A Large Percentage of Their Career Totals in One Season...
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Hockey Outsider
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Retired players who scored the highest percentage of their career points in one season (min 500 points)
Retired players who scored the highest percentage of their career goals in one season (min 200 goals):
Retired players who scored the highest percentage of their career assists in one season (min 300 assists):
Two notes applicable to all three tables - first, if you don't filter out active players, the list would heavily feature McDavid, Matthews, Rantanen, Pastrnak, etc. Second, there may be errors, let me know if anything looks off.
| Player | High | Total | Percentage |
| Mike Rogers | 105 | 519 | 20.2% |
| John Cullen | 110 | 550 | 20.0% |
| Kent Nilsson | 131 | 686 | 19.1% |
| Jimmy Carson | 107 | 561 | 19.1% |
| Daniel Briere | 95 | 501 | 19.0% |
| Bob MacMillan | 108 | 577 | 18.7% |
| Guy Chouinard | 107 | 575 | 18.6% |
| Joe Juneau | 102 | 572 | 17.8% |
| Barry Pederson | 116 | 654 | 17.7% |
| Tim Young | 95 | 536 | 17.7% |
Retired players who scored the highest percentage of their career goals in one season (min 200 goals):
| Player | High | Total | Percentage |
| Guy Chouinard | 50 | 205 | 24.4% |
| Craig Simpson | 56 | 247 | 22.7% |
| Mickey Redmond | 52 | 233 | 22.3% |
| Mike Rogers | 44 | 202 | 21.8% |
| Blaine Stoughton | 56 | 258 | 21.7% |
| Bill Flett | 43 | 202 | 21.3% |
| Errol Thompson | 43 | 208 | 20.7% |
| Mark Hunter | 44 | 213 | 20.7% |
| Brad Boyes | 43 | 211 | 20.4% |
| Jimmy Carson | 55 | 275 | 20.0% |
Retired players who scored the highest percentage of their career assists in one season (min 300 assists):
| Player | High | Total | Percentage |
| Mike Rogers | 65 | 317 | 20.5% |
| Bob MacMillan | 71 | 349 | 20.3% |
| John Cullen | 71 | 363 | 19.6% |
| Kent Nilsson | 82 | 422 | 19.4% |
| Tim Young | 66 | 341 | 19.4% |
| Craig Hartsburg | 60 | 315 | 19.0% |
| Barry Pederson | 77 | 416 | 18.5% |
| Bob Murdoch | 56 | 303 | 18.5% |
| Andre Boudrias | 62 | 340 | 18.2% |
| Ian Turnbull | 57 | 317 | 18.0% |
Two notes applicable to all three tables - first, if you don't filter out active players, the list would heavily feature McDavid, Matthews, Rantanen, Pastrnak, etc. Second, there may be errors, let me know if anything looks off.
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Vujtek
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Briere's point totals looked off at first sight and indeed he scored 696 points in his career.
First thing I noticed too and was about to comment on. To be honest, even 696 is lower than I expected.
696 regular season points to 116 playoff points, pretty high ratio
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Good catch - I'll update the table later on (when I see who Briere would get replaced with).
EDIT - the revised table would be:
| Player | High | Total | Percentage |
| Mike Rogers | 105 | 519 | 20.2% |
| John Cullen | 110 | 550 | 20.0% |
| Kent Nilsson | 131 | 686 | 19.1% |
| Jimmy Carson | 107 | 561 | 19.1% |
| Bob MacMillan | 108 | 577 | 18.7% |
| Guy Chouinard | 107 | 575 | 18.6% |
| Joe Juneau | 102 | 572 | 17.8% |
| Barry Pederson | 116 | 654 | 17.7% |
| Tim Young | 95 | 536 | 17.7% |
| Mats Naslund | 110 | 634 | 17.4% |
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Morris Lukowich falls one goal short of the 200 goal minimium, but had 43 of them (21.6%) in one season (81-82).
BigBadBruins7708
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Cheechoo had 32.9% of his career goals in 1 season (56 of 170)
Michael Farkas
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Weird where we see these seasons accumulate around...so unpredictably and randomly weird. *fake cough*
mrhockey193195
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Does meet @Hockey Outsider 's criteria to be included in those tables, but Petr Prucha is the first name that comes to mind for me. 30 goal rookie year in 05-06, followed by 22 goals in a decent but disappointing sophomore year, and then 26 more goals in 199 games before going back to Europe and retiring shortly after. His rookie year was 30/78 == 38% of his career goals. I really thought the Rangers had a young, homegrown superstar on their hands.
I'm sure there are plenty of other examples of players with great rookie seasons who tailed off very quickly, so the lists above with some minimum G/A/P is a more interesting way to look at it.
Not his rookie year, but Brian Bradley is another interesting one. 42 goals in 92-93, and scored 182 in his 651 game career. 23.1% in one season.
I'm sure there are plenty of other examples of players with great rookie seasons who tailed off very quickly, so the lists above with some minimum G/A/P is a more interesting way to look at it.
Not his rookie year, but Brian Bradley is another interesting one. 42 goals in 92-93, and scored 182 in his 651 game career. 23.1% in one season.
MadLuke
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For some it is not 100% fair, they entered the league old, Mike Rogers has 2 others 100 pts seasons and another over a ppg season, he simply entered the nhl "old", reached the 30 years old mark fast in nhl game played.
Rogers: either 1981 or 1980
john cullen: 1991
Nilson: 1981
Carson: 1988
MacMillan: 1979
Chouinard: 1979
Juneau: 1993
Bederson: 1984
Young: 1977
I imagine achieving to play 500, retired, having play in a league that scoring when significantly up or down are all factor that could push them in that late 70s to early 90s window, but it seem to be some pattern yes.
WHA help as well, you can have someone that would have been in the nhl accumulating career point, that enter pass 24, just at the end but not yet the end of his peak, while young enough to reach 500 games, making that list.
A league where the kind of player if they can play wide open hockey who care on the Atlanta Flames in the 80s can score 100 on the first line and first PP unit but would not have necessarily be good enough to play 500 games on the third line montreal Canadian in the 06 in that role.
Rogers: either 1981 or 1980
john cullen: 1991
Nilson: 1981
Carson: 1988
MacMillan: 1979
Chouinard: 1979
Juneau: 1993
Bederson: 1984
Young: 1977
I imagine achieving to play 500, retired, having play in a league that scoring when significantly up or down are all factor that could push them in that late 70s to early 90s window, but it seem to be some pattern yes.
WHA help as well, you can have someone that would have been in the nhl accumulating career point, that enter pass 24, just at the end but not yet the end of his peak, while young enough to reach 500 games, making that list.
A league where the kind of player if they can play wide open hockey who care on the Atlanta Flames in the 80s can score 100 on the first line and first PP unit but would not have necessarily be good enough to play 500 games on the third line montreal Canadian in the 06 in that role.
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Mandar
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I remember that Ron Sedlbauer had one big goal scoring season….but I don’t think he had 200 career goals
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Jacques Richard scored 52 of his total of 160 goals and 103 of his 347 points total in 80/81. Basically scored a third of his goals and points spanning over a career of 556 games in one lone season of 78 games.
From what I've read he was a talented player but had issues off ice. I guess playing with the Stastny brothers helped.
From what I've read he was a talented player but had issues off ice. I guess playing with the Stastny brothers helped.
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No doubt it helped, but if you go back to check the scoring logs, a surprisingly low number of Richard's points were helped (directly anyway) by the Stastnys.
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On the list that @Hockey Outsider provided, it's clear that Mike Rogers and Kent Nilsson are there because of WHA duty in their primes overlapping with (consequently) shortened primes in the NHL.
And Jimmy Carson actually had three great seasons (awesome rookie year as an 18 year old, and then superstar-like 19- and 20-year old seasons) before declining quickly. In his case, just a short career.
The guy who always stood out to me in this regard is John Cullen. His offense is a bit Joe Juneau-like, in that he actually had two or three big seasons but we mainly remember the one -- 1990-91 in his case.
With Lemieux mostly out, and over 65 games with Pittsburgh that season, Cullen was pacing for 116 points, which would have placed him third in scoring (behind Gretzky and Hull). He still ended up 5th (after a decent finish with Hartford), so quite a season.
He had a point-per-game season the next year in Hartford. So, very Rob Brown-like, except in Cullen's case he was doing the damage without Lemieux.
(I have no memory of his being with Toronto or Tampa later in his career.)
And Jimmy Carson actually had three great seasons (awesome rookie year as an 18 year old, and then superstar-like 19- and 20-year old seasons) before declining quickly. In his case, just a short career.
The guy who always stood out to me in this regard is John Cullen. His offense is a bit Joe Juneau-like, in that he actually had two or three big seasons but we mainly remember the one -- 1990-91 in his case.
With Lemieux mostly out, and over 65 games with Pittsburgh that season, Cullen was pacing for 116 points, which would have placed him third in scoring (behind Gretzky and Hull). He still ended up 5th (after a decent finish with Hartford), so quite a season.
He had a point-per-game season the next year in Hartford. So, very Rob Brown-like, except in Cullen's case he was doing the damage without Lemieux.
(I have no memory of his being with Toronto or Tampa later in his career.)
Michael Farkas
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Kent Nilsson only played his 21 and 22 year old seasons in the WHA. He had just turned 23 about a month before his first NHL career began.
Mike Rogers was on the tail end of his prime, but he was done in the WHA at age 24.
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Michael Farkas
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Ooh, improv...
Though you were quoted, I was really just adding a touch of context to, I guess, every other person except you...especially when it comes to matters of the WHA and early 80's NHL...
The Panther
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I actually already added context before you, when I pointed out that each player (Rogers and Nilsson) had played part of his early prime in the WHA. In Nilsson's case, he also left the NHL early. These two points drive each player higher up into the list of players with a high percentage of points in one season.
In short, neither would be on the list if he hadn't played in the WHA.
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I know far below the min requirements, but Warren Young had 40 of his career 72 goals (in 236 GP) in 84-85, which accounts for 55% of his total.
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MadLuke
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1977 to 1993 in term of their big season, but the Min 500 pts could play a bit of a distorting factor to get people from the highest scoring era ever.
From 1946 to 1976, only 57 people scored 500 points during that window and it was hard to have a 100 pts special season to reach it fast, no one was having those before the expansion, kind of needed to be a long slow burn.
From 77 to 93 (just 16 years instead of 30), you have 134 players reaching 500 during that windows, from 1996 to 2012 you needed to be Crosby-Malkin to do it in Mike Rodgers pace in that scoring environment.
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Rob Brown was the first player to come to mind. He scored 115 of his 438 career points in one season while playing just 68 games.
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