Players, who were getting worse and worse after their first [successful] NHL season

[Stamkos4life]

Finishing 2nd in goals as a rookie, only to not be even close for the next 2 seasons has to fit the bill.

 

[MoeTheHobo]

Selänne

 

[voxel]

Luke Schenn

Him and Sbisa. The hype those two had in their first/second/third years was insane.

 

[Dynamite Time]

John Scott

 

[Morgs]

Nylander is gonna score 75pts this year. He looked great against Montreal

Plus he actually improved between his first and second season. Although he scored the same amount of points, he drove play better and scored 14 more 5v5 points.

Not only that, his underlying stats were the best by far in season three, and he's looking his best overall this season so far. Guy looks like a man possessed.

Trash choice.

 

[Elvs]

Jared Cowen and Brandon McMillan also comes to mind.

 

[Sasso09]

Nylander is gonna score 75pts this year. He looked great against Montreal

Sure... Leafs will have 5 PPGish players.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Sure... Leafs will have 5 PPGish players.

Who is the 5th?

Last year they had 4 over 70.

 

[Necrobutcher]

Selänne

Scored 80 points in 73 games as a 40 year old. Also scored 90 points after a 32p season.

 

[ijuka]

Puljujarvi definitely did not have a successful first season.

Still his best seson.

 

[The90]

William Nylander.

Mr November and ‘I’m the best, at being second best’, Patrik Laine

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

And after all the **** he took on here, and continues to take, he has been the Leafs most consistent forward so far this year with 4 points in 4 games, including this beauty the other night.



Eventually, like all of these nonsense things, people will slowly stop saying it and then pretend the narrative was never that he was a bust and a cap dump, and then just move on to someone else (Like Marner after calling him the Leafs best player all summer)

It's really a chicken and egg thing with Leafs fans- they can be obnoxious/overbearing/whatever, so people troll them. I don't know/care which one happened first, but the Nylander/Matthews posts in this thread are just stupid. It's not true, people posting it know it's not true, and it's clearly not what OP was looking for. Thanks to all those who contributed nothing to this thread except tired jokes, you're really providing original chirps and elevating the discourse.

Real answer is Laine lolol got'em!

 

[maroon 6]

Peter Mueller

 

[ElLeetch]

Anybody remember Marek Svatos?

Him and Prucha, both rookies the same year were neck and neck in scoring, and both faded away after that season.

 

[Fixxer]

Peter Mueller (due to concussions)

 

[Fixxer]

Jimmy Carson
Sylvain Turgeon
Bobby Carpenter

I don't know about Bobby Carpenter but I'd argue over Turgeon and Carson.
But yeah, they declined after a few first great seasons. One due to an abdominal injury and the other one being traded for the Great One and having his mind into business stuff and hockey unrelated interests.

 

[Fixxer]

John Scott

I don't know, he made the All-Star team later on in his career...

 

[Bonzo111]

Alex Daigle

 

[Ryan Michaels]

Selänne

This bum never even broke 70 goals again.

 

[kp61c]

lehtera, bennett

 

[pucksakes666]

Steve Mason, won the calder in 09 now he can't even get signed as a back up goalie

 

[JuJu Mobb]

Alex Daigle

While it is true, it's crazy that he had his best season with the Wild in 2003-2004.

 

[zharkenby]

Miles Wood...

I cant even fathom how this plug scored 20. so uncoordinated, no skill, just a fast skater (also seems to have lost a step)

 

[b1e9a8r5s]

Teemu Selanne

 

[Sheppy]

Andrew Raycroft