Players you thought were overrated. But aren't

[PensBandwagonerNo272*]

Vasilevskiy

 

[King Weber]

Martin Jones. That Nashville series changed my mind about him.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

O'reilly and tanev forsure

 

[DyerMaker66*]

Shea Weber, because I liked Suter.

 

[Little Bobby Boo]

Hamonic for me. Guy is just so responsible, there's never a time when he's on the ice when I would ever hope he would make a dumb error

 

[FinlandPanther]

Yikes at the people saying Crawford. Stralman for me. Guy is incredible.

 

[NyQuil]

I'll also put a vote in for Ryan O'Reilly.

 

[tade]

Yikes at the people saying Crawford. Stralman for me. Guy is incredible.

Yeah, definitely Stralman for me, too.

 

[Wendelstache]

Prime Datsyuk ...

After watching his play, he instantly became one of my favorites. LOL

 

[Samcanadian]

Johnny Toews. Incredible two way forward.

 

[TLEH]

Yikes at the people saying Crawford. Stralman for me. Guy is incredible.

So you think Crawford is overrated..??

 

[Got One Cup]

Thought Pavelski was overrated and just put up points due to Jumbo Joe. He killed that train of thought this yr, guys is as good as advertised.

 

[DyerMaker66*]

So you think Crawford is overrated..??

I took it that way too, at first.

 

[GordieHoweHatTrick]

Given how much flack Kessel has taken on this board I'm surprised the ratio of Kessel to others is as low as it is. I expected every other poster to be eating crow about Phil.

 

[SLAPSHOT723]

Given how much flack Kessel has taken on this board I'm surprised the ratio of Kessel to others is as low as it is. I expected every other poster to be eating crow about Phil.

Even though he's had a monster playoffs, he didn't exactly light the world on fire in the regular season.

 

[bert]

Jason Spezza is one of the most underrated players I'm the last 15 years.

If it wasn't for the lockout in 2005 or some injuries he'd be close to 1000 points now. He still has a decent shot at it.

His vision is godly and what pisses me off is that people keep saying "if only he shot more."

Umm.. Jason has hit 30+ goals like 5 or 6 times in his career including last season and over his career he has averaged over 29 goals per 82 games.

Stud.

Most sens are until they leave. The ugly step sister of the leafs and habs just gets in the way of their coverage. Atleast thats how it feels when TSN or Sportsnet attempts to cover them nationally.

 

[bert]

Spezza was career ppg before he came to Dallas. How was he overrated? Im not a fan of ottawa or dallas btw

Well as sens fans we all got ripped to shreds when we thought he was worth more than a 4th round pick and a cap dump.

 

[darglor]

Pittsburgh fans will say Kessel
Ottawa fans will say Phaneuf
The rest of the league is getting there, the Leafs stench has yet to fade.

Why would Ottawa fans say Phaneuf? We got exactly what we expected out of that deal. The problem was that Leafs fans hyped him as a true #1, which he wasn't. He was overrated by that vocal minority.

We expected, and got, someone to anchor our 2nd pairing.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Corey Crawford.

I always viewed him as a passenger. He's legitimately good.

This verbatim.

 

[Addison Rae]

Anyway, another one for me is Chris Tanev. I still dont think he's as good as some Nucks fans portray him as. But he's a solid #2/3 Dman I have come to realize. I struggled to even consider him a Top 4 before the World Championships

There's clearly something wrong if you failed to consider him a top 4 guy before the world championships. We're talking about a guy that plays really tough minutes, extremely tough zone starts yet was still able to be the best relative to team shot suppressing dman in the league, by a good margin. He probably even had a better year in 2014/2015 too. i simply can't fathom how someone could not consider him a top 4 dman.

 

[Beerfish]

Jeff Carter until a few years ago. I was against him being on the Canadian olympics team. He was amazing in the tourney and dominant in the 2nd cup run. Every time I watch him, I'm thinking of how wrong I was. He is one of my favorite players now.

I totally agree with this one.

 

[Albus Dumbledore]

Even though he's had a monster playoffs, he didn't exactly light the world on fire in the regular season.

Would you rather him put 90 points reg season and flake out in the playoffs?
at the end of the day hes delivering when it MATTERS. Give him time he will probably be back to 70+ points next year.

ROR for me

 

[SmellOfVictory]

ryan o'reilly

Him for sure, from an offensive standpoint. Figured he was a good possession player who would end up putting up moderate scoring numbers (slightly better than Backlund, for example), and he just blew the doors off. During his first contract dispute I thought "nah, he's overvaluing himself at 5 million a year", then when he signed his second contract I thought "nah, his contract is going to look a pretty bloated when all is said and done."

And his contract is still not a discount by any means, but he looks like he's providing fair value on the dollar for it.

 

[PensandCaps]

Brad marchand

 

[Rufus]

Derrick Brassard
Jakub Voracek