Under Rated Performances This Season?

[NeverForget06]

Who are some players who you feel didn't get the recognition they deserved based on their play this season?

As a bored Oilers fan who is in pain watching this year's playoffs, I looked around at some of the league's best underrated stats this season. Add yours! Doesn't have to be stats-based. I did a quick look over the Atlantic to get it started.

Johnson 29-18-47
Gallagher 33-19-52
Debrusk 27-15-43
Larkin 32-41-73
Huberdeau 30-62-92
Hoffman 36-34-70

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[holy]

Andrew Shaw surprised the hell out of me down the stretch. Guy was beasting.

 

[Kcb12345]

Esa Lindell

11 goals, 32 points:
2 shorthanded goals (led the Stars)

4 powerplay goals (5th on the team while only averaging 1:10 per game of powerplay time)

5 even strength goals

7th in the NHL in total TOI, 5th in shorthanded TOI per game

Completely dominant season defensively. Often times kills the full 2 minutes of a penalty. Ex: in Game 1 he played 7 of the 8 PK minutes that the Stars had

 

[ConnorMcMullet]

Tobias Rieder

Zero goals is a really tough task.

 

[Kcb12345]

Tobias Rieder

Zero goals is a really tough task.

Nichushkin beat him out. 0 goals AND 0 penalty minutes

 

[ConnorMcMullet]

Nichushkin beat him out. 0 goals AND 0 penalty minutes

Lol

Rieder played 10 more games though. And he got opportunity with both McDavid and Draisaitl.

 

[Kcb12345]

I also think Roman Polak is worthy of a mention in this thread. Played top 4 minutes all season long on the 2nd best defensive team in the NHL (with Heiskanen as his partner but still impressive that he was able to last). Who would've thought?

Went from almost having Erik Karlsson in our top 4 to having to play Roman Polak there

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

Hischier scored at a slighty higher pace than last year (47 in 69) with 77% of that being ES production - all of this with Hall out 49 games, an abysmal season and roster most of the year, and yet managed a +/- of 0 on a team with a goal differential of -53

 

[Artorius Horus T]

I'm probably repeating myself here (again), but just bear (or cat) with me

Alex DeBrincat probably didn't get too much of recognition from his really strong sophomore season
41 goals and 76 points, led all sophomores in goals, points & ppg.

Had the fewest of ice time per game (17 and change) from 30,40,50 goal scorers.
(played about 5 minutes less per game what Patrick Kane)

Broke some Hawks franchise records, passed several Hawks legends,
had the shot of becoming the first Hawk in franchise history to lead the team in goals
as a rookie and as a sophomore.

Alex is not even 4 months over 21 years of age, he started the season as a 20 year old.

2nd shortest (Alex is 5 foot 7) player ever to score 40+ goals in the NHL
- shortest is Theo Fleury (5 foot 6), his single season record is/was 51 goals, next season ya?

 

[nobody]

John Tavares put up 47 goals.

 

[jetsforever]

I feel like Trouba isn't really thought of as an offensive guy, but he put up 50 points.

 

[Prsut18]

Mrazek

 

[beowulf]

Tobias Rieder

Zero goals is a really tough task.

Pffft Mete beats that with 0 goals in two seasons.


And so what that is what's expected of him with the Leafs lineup.

John Tavares put up 47 goals.

 

[SniperOnTheWing]

Andrei Svechnikov's underlying numbers were off the charts. If had gotten substantial PP time and hadn't been relegated to the third line most of the season the Calder conversation could be very different right now.

 

[VoluntaryDom]

no to johnson, he was carried by point and kucherov all season

for tampa id mention anthony cirelli, our best defensive forward and nearly scored 20 goals (0 on PP)

 

[BeingTheThunder]

no to johnson, he was carried by point and kucherov all season

for tampa id mention anthony cirelli, our best defensive forward and nearly scored 20 goals (0 on PP)

I second Cirelli. He's been a penalty killing dynamo in addition to scoring 19 goals. I think 5 or 6 of his goals were shorties.

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

Holy *************

Huberdeau HAD 92 POINTS?!!??!?!?!?

 

[EdJovanovski]

Anthony DeAngelo 30pts in 61gp, first even half season he’s played in his career. Leading scoring dman on the Rangers, and the best defensively as well. Undefeated in several fights, leads team in PIM, leads team dmen in +/-, 12th in points in the NHL among dmen U24, and the rangers generate more high danger scoring chances when he’s on the ice than any other team in the league does with any defensemen. So for example the Rangers generate more high danger scoring chances with DeAngelo on the ice, than San Jose (a much superior team) does with Karlsson.

 

[Esq]

Holy *************

Huberdeau HAD 92 POINTS?!!??!?!?!?

I had the same reaction. Holy ****.

 

[Unspecified]

Radulov had 29 goals and 42 assists making him a PPG player.

 

[BonMorrison]

Yo but Brett Connolly. 22g, 24a on the third line.

Also Carl Soderberg, Blake Coleman, and Kevin Labanc.

 

[Broad Street Buddies]

Pierre-Luc Dubois scoring 27 goals as a 1C in his second season.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Kyle Clifford doubled his production AND won a couple fights.

 

[snipes]

Darnell Nurse had 41 points

 

[Royal Thunder]

Sam Reinhart had a very quiet 65 points