Players with massive outlier seasons in their careers

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Jacques Richard, 1980-81 playing in Quebec with Peter and Anton Stastny, scored 52 goals.

His best season prior was 27 goals, and his second best season after that 27 goal season was 17 goals I believe....
 
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Jacques Richard, 1980-81 playing in Quebec with Peter and Anton Stastny, scored 52 goals.

His best season prior was 27 goals, and his second best season after that 27 goal season was 17 goals I believe....
This I believe is the biggest or most apparent one I’ve seen.

Best season 103 pts, next best sseason 43 pts.
 
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sr edler

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Looking like William Karlsson.

43 + 35 = 78 last season.
On pace for 25 + 25 = 50.

Karlsson is 26 and in his second season as a first liner. Not sure why we're discussing him on the history board, and with the pace argument. If that line with Marchessault gets hot again he can score 60 points this season and/or 70 points next season. We simply don't know. No one thought he would become a regular 40 goal scorer, by the way. Most people said 25 goals.
 

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Greg Gilbert 1983-84 with the Islanders 79-31-35-66 +49 set career highs. Never again had 20+ goals, 30+ assists, and his next best +/- was +27 with the '89-90 Blackhawks. I know it's not a massive outlier, but Gilbert had a great season that year and not someone you think of as being a 30 goal scorer. Solid defensive player and great near the boards and corners.
 

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Joe Juneau’s rookie year. 32-70-102 line. Never approached those numbers again with 85 points being his next best total.
 

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Cheechoo in his Rocket Richard Trophy year

BJ MacDonald in his first NHL year on the Oilers. More than twice as many goals (46) playing with Gretzky than he ever got in other years in the NHL.

What about goalies? Steve Penney might be a good example there.
 
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Two guys I think of from 92-93:

Bob Kudelski, 40+30=70 in 86 games with two teams. Had a few other seasons in the low 40's for point totals with 26 goals as a high.

Kevin Hatcher, 34 goals. While he always scored goals in double figures, he only topped 20 one other time with 26.
 
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It wasn't really a massive season but Devin Setoguchi's 65 points in his sophomore season was pretty impressive. I thought for sure that he would be a long time Shark and have a long career in the NHL. His next highest season was 41 points.
 

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Is Mats Sundin's (92/93) 114 point season considered an outlier? His next highest season was 94 points so a 20 point differential does seem massive. However that season (92/93) had a really high goals per game and Mat Sundin wasnt even top 10 in scoring. The year he scored 94 points (96/97) he was 7th in the league in points.

In 01/02 he was 4th in league scoring with 80 points in a year where goals per game was 1.01 lower than 92/93.
 

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Fedorov.

Sergei had never scored 40 goals or had any kind of 1st/2nd all star season, or Hart finalist recognition...except the one in which he scored 56 goals, was a 1st team all star and won the Hart.

Take that outlier out, and his career barely is HHOF worthy.
 
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In terms of playoffs,...

Keith Primeau had scored just 9 goals in 110 playoff games until his very last postseason in which he was suddenly an offensive beast with 9 goals in the 18 playoff games.
 
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1987-88 Bob Probert..
74-29-33-62 5 game winners, +16 and 398 penalty established career highs in each of those ('91-92 he was +16)
3rd on the Detroit Red Wings in points, 4th in goals, and for 5th in assists.
16-8-13-21 in the playoffs, +8, 51 penalty minutes
He led the Wings in points, was tied for 2nd in both playoff goals and assists.
Probert had at least a point in 12 of those 16 games. Not bad.
 
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Any players with abnormally high penalty minutes in a season?
I remember Rod Niedermayer as mild mannered as a Panther, never getting more than 54 PIMs in his first 12 NHL seasons except for 1996 when as a 21 year old he had 107 PIMs. That I used to think of as an outlier. But then after the lockout in 2006 he as a Duck was scrappy and the next year led the playoffs in penalties as Anaheim won the cup.
 
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