Players with massive outlier seasons in their careers

[Moose Head]

Wayne Babych - 54 goal, 96 pt career year. Next best is 27 and 63. Never scored more than 20 again. Injuries derailed him.

 

[Peter Tosh]

- Donald Audette had an outlier season in 00-01, when scoring over 70 p.

- Patrick Eaves in 16-17, scoring more than 30 goals.

- Jiri Hudler in 14-15 had a 31-45-76 stat line

- D-man Sean Hill in 99-00, scoring 44 p

- Martin Straka, 95 p in 00-01

- Jason Williams, 58 p in 05-06

- Selänne’s Colorado season is also a massive outlier, but in a negative way

 

[frisco]

Although is was obscured by the fact it was a shortened season Zhamnov's 94-95 (65 points in 48 games) sticks out. Finished 3rd in the NHL in scoring. Never sniffed the top 10 again and career high was 72 points. His 30 goals in 94-95 are a career high even though it was in only 48 games.

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[sr edler]

- Selänne’s Colorado season is also a massive outlier, but in a negative way

It's not that massive of an outlier if you count his 01–02 season with the Sharks. He had 54 points (29 goals and Ovechkin-esque 25 assists) in 82 games and he was also –11 on a +49 team where no other regular was a minus player. That was a scoring-by-committee type of team coached by Darryl Sutter with six 20+ goals scorers (plus Ricci and Graves with 19 and 17).

Perhaps he was just miscast, though his 29 goals were still team leading (in front of Scott Thornton of all people, with 26). Then Nolan, Marleau, Sturm and Damphousse were all cranked in between 20–23 goals. They won the Pacific that year.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Kenny Hodge Jr., 30 goals in 70 games in 90-91.

9 goals in the remaining 72 games of his career.

 

[Normand Lacombe]

Here are two from 1985-86.

After the death of Pelle Lindbergh, Bob Froese led the NHL in wins (31), shutouts (5), SV% (.909) and GAA (2.55). No doubt the defense in front of him, led by the tremendous duo of Mark Howe and Brad McCrimmon, played a huge part in Froese's success. When Hextall won the starting spot the next year, an unhappy Froese was dealt to the Rangers. Unable to unseat Vanbiesbrouck, the man Froese finished 2nd behind for the Vezina in 85-86, Froese was relegated to backup duties again. Froese was out the league by 1990.

A fine player in his own right, Mats Naslund rang up 110 points during Montreal's Stanley Cup winning season. Naslund's first three years in the league featured point totals of 73, 64 and 79 points before his 110 point year. While Naslund never posted over 100 points again, he settled into a fine 80 point plus producer for the remainder of his stay in Montreal.

 

[ted2019]

Wayne Stephenson in the 75/76 season after Bernie Parent suffered a back injury in training camp. He had 40 wins, 10 losses, 14 ties. Only had 20 wins in only one other time in his career in 78/79 with 20 exactly.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

scott clemmenson

 

[Vujtek]

- Martin Straka, 95 p in 00-01

I don't think that counts a massive outlier season. Career season? Probably (although I think his 98-99 season was better as that Pens team had less top end talent, Straka had 27 point lead over third best Penguin and Straka led Pens in scoring over Jagr during playoffs that season). But an outlier? Not so. He had 83 points in that 98-99 season and was 11th in scoring that season vs. 6th in scoring on his 95 point season. Those are close enough point totals/scoring finishes that it doesn't count as an outlier. Also besides these two years Straka had a 76 and 70 point seasons in his career.

 

[GlitchMarner]

Troy Murray with 99 points. Played 14 seasons through the highest scoring era and failed to crack 40 points in half of them. Next highest season was 71 and then steep drops.

He also won the Selke that season and even finished tenth in Hart voting. He didn't receive a single Hart vote in any other season but received Selke votes consistently during his prime.

 

[Jim MacDonald]

Although is was obscured by the fact it was a shortened season Zhamnov's 94-95 (65 points in 48 games) sticks out. Finished 3rd in the NHL in scoring. Never sniffed the top 10 again and career high was 72 points. His 30 goals in 94-95 are a career high even though it was in only 48 games.

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Zhamnov a Winnipeg Jet at this point Frisco? Off the top of my head I want to say yes.

 

[Jim MacDonald]

2014-15 Andrew Hammond was pretty crazy, 20-1-2, 1.79 GAA, .941 sv%, and his 3 shutouts were all career highs he didn't come close to again. Earlier in the season he had been assigned to the Senators AHL affiliate in Binghamton and got called up when Craig Anderson tended to personal issues, and took the starter job when Robin Lehner was injured.

Yeah I remember the whole "Hamburglar" thing lol....what happened to Hammond? that must've been just a flash in the pan type thing and he wasn't good consistently?

 

[HawkNut]

Mike Green scored 31 goals one year as a defenseman, and his second career best is 19.

 

[Acallabeth]

Mike Green scored 31 goals one year as a defenseman, and his second career best is 19.

It wasn't a massive outlier though. He scored fewer goals, but more points as soon as next season, and then the Caps offense declined as a whole.

 

[HawkNut]

It wasn't a massive outlier though. He scored fewer goals, but more points as soon as next season, and then the Caps offense declined as a whole.

It does stand out.

I would also put Adam Graves during the Rangers Cup season. He had a solid career, but his numbers really jumped that year.

 

[VanIslander]

In his 16th season, Johnny Bucyk made a 50 point jump from his previous ever high 69 points to... 109 points, goals from 31 to... 51 goals. It was his only 1st all-star season.

The next season his points dropped by 33.

The following season he would rebound a little but still not over 40 goals and altogether 23 points shy of that single career year.



Before Bucyk's 51 goal season, only three NHLers had ever scored 50 goals: Rocket Richard, Boom Boom Geoffrion and Bobby Hull. And only Hull had scored more than Bucyk's 51.
(Now, this feat is overshadowed by the fact that his teammate Phil Esposito shattered the record books that very season with 76 goals!)

 

[The Panther]

In his 16th season, Johnny Bucyk made a 50 point jump from his previous ever high 69 points to... 109 points, goals from 31 to... 51 goals. It was his only 1st all-star season.

The next season his points dropped by 33.

The following season he would rebound a little but still not over 40 goals and altogether 23 points shy of that single career year.

This one is all about the expansion teams. Somebody broke it down once, and Bucyk scored something like 3 times more points-per-game vs. the new teams. (Legit answer, though!)

 

[Normand Lacombe]

Paul MacLean garnered 101 points on 41 goals and 60 assists during the 84-85 season with Winnipeg. MacLean's next best total was 79 points. Other than that 101 point season, MacLean could consistently be counted upon for over 70 points a season in his prime.

 

[sr edler]

I would also put Adam Graves during the Rangers Cup season. He had a solid career, but his numbers really jumped that year.

He got the most Hart votes on the Presidents’ Trophy winning team. Imagine if Cheechoo got more Hart votes than Thornton in 06.

 

[HawkNut]

He got the most Hart votes on the Presidents’ Trophy winning team. Imagine if Cheechoo got more Hart votes than Thornton in 06.

I think that probably shows you the game changed from 1994 to 2006.

 

[ES]

Any players with abnormally high penalty minutes in a season?

Crosby had 110 in his rookie season.

 

[alko]

Stan Mikita:
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Season 1963/1964 : 146 PIM
Season 1964/1965 : 154 PIM
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Season 1966/1967 : 12 PIM - Lady Byng Trophy + others very little know trophies like Art Ross and Hart
Season 1967/1968 : 14 PIM - again Lady Byng Trophy + Art Ross + Hart

 

[frisco]

Zhamnov a Winnipeg Jet at this point Frisco? Off the top of my head I want to say yes.

Yep.

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[iamjs]

Any players with abnormally high penalty minutes in a season?

I don't know if Theo Fleury fits the description for this or not. He hit triple digits regularly early in his career, including 8 of his first 9 full seasons going 100+ PIM or better. The season that he gets traded from Calgary to Colorado, his PIM drops from 197 to 86. He signs with the Rangers, and his PIM drops even further down to 68.

The next two seasons, his penalty minutes almost double, going from 68 to 122 to 216. I know his story, but it's not often you see PIM jump almost 60 min and then jump another 94 minutes the following season.

 

[blood gin]

Scott Bjugstad



Scoring Goals Assists Shots Ice Time
Season Age Tm Lg GP G A PTS +/- PIM EV PP SH GW EV PP SH S S% TOI ATOI Awards
1983-84 22 MNS NHL 5 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.0
1984-85 23 MNS NHL 72 11 4 15 -21 32 10 1 0 1 3 1 0 107 10.3
1985-86 24 MNS NHL 80 43 33 76 6 24 27 14 2 7 19 12 2 217 19.8 AS-8
1986-87 25 MNS NHL 39 4 9 13 -7 43 4 0 0 0 3 6 0 58 6.9
1987-88 26 MNS NHL 33 10 12 22 2 15 7 3 0 3 8 4 0 72 13.9
1988-89 27 PIT NHL 24 3 0 3 -12 4 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 21 14.3
1989-90 28 LAK NHL 11 1 2 3 2 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 10 10.0
1990-91 29 LAK NHL 31 2 4 6 -5 12 2 0 0 1 4 0 0 39 5.1
1991-92 30 LAK NHL 22 2 4 6 -1 10 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 25 8.0
5 yrs MNS NHL 229 68 58 126 -21 116 48 18 2 11 33 23 2 459 14.8
3 yrs LAK NHL 64 5 10 15 -4 24 5 0 0 2 10 0 0 74 6.8
1 yr PIT NHL 24 3 0 3 -12 4 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 21 14.3
Career 9 yrs NHL 317 76 68 144 -37 144 56 18 2 14 43 23 2 554 13.7