What player disappointed you the most this season?

[CartographerNo611]

Entire Oilers team outside of McDavid/Draistl, couple of 3rd liners and a bunch of AHL scrubs surround him.

 

[triggrman]

Rinne in the playoffs

 

[pown]

Anderson, just terrible pretty much every night, hes the reason ottawa was so bad last year .898 % save percentage

 

[ESH]

TJ Brodie had an even rougher season than last year

 

[Romkey]

Lmao, William Nylander disappointing.

Just doesn't get old.

It's not that he didn't play well, I just had higher expectations for him. When Matthews got hurt, Nylander couldn't carry a line. I always compared him to marner, and marner really outplayed him

 

[MessierII]

Milan Lucic, not even freaking close.

Brought in to at LEAST fill the 1LW void, completely fell off a cliff production wise past Christmas.

Really? Oscar Klefbom and Cam Talbot were way more instrumental to the oilers failures this year.

 

[Garbage Goal]

Jonathan Drouin has to be one of the most disappointing players this season. Klefbom in Edmonton is up there too.

I mean, he’s a winger being forced to play center on a team where he doesn’t have much help so I’m not sure how people can set expectations very high with him.

 

[Machinehead]

Without peer, Brendan Smith.

 

[koyvoo]

Hossa

 

[Section88]

Saad

 

[Aceboogie]

Really? Oscar Klefbom and Cam Talbot were way more instrumental to the oilers failures this year.

Both were better easily but more disappointing because of how good they were last season. Lucic was terrible last year and terrible again. So hes not disappointing because people just expect terribleness from him

 

[Elias Pettersson]

Nikita Kucherov

yeah almost winning art ross sure is diappointing....

 

[Varan]

Matthews in the playoffs, Laine in the playoffs, stamkos in the playoffs

 

[bukwas]

Saad

Yeah.
There has been some good nominees but Saad did it in a big way.

 

[USMC607]

Tanner Glass. After his post season last year, really thought he was going to have a break out year with Calgary.

If this was sarcasm, this was a very underrated post.

If you're serious, well.... still a very funny post.

 

[Deku]

Without peer, Brendan Smith.

Dunno why anyone expected much from him off that small sample size

 

[Machinehead]

Dunno why anyone expected much from him off that small sample size

I liked him his whole career before 17-18

 

[VoluntaryDom]

yeah almost winning art ross sure is diappointing....

He phoned it in since New Years. Really wasn’t the dominant force he was for all of the 2017 calendar year.

 

[MessierII]

Both were better easily but more disappointing because of how good they were last season. Lucic was terrible last year and terrible again. So hes not disappointing because people just expect terribleness from him

Both were better what? Lucic had 23 goals last year. Terrible. Talbot was one of the worst starters in the league rivaled only by Darling and Klefbom was barely an nhl defensemen.

 

[TheBradyBunch]

Fredrik Claesson, utter trash after a good showing last season + playoffs

Also both Anderson & Condon

As someone who never really had faith in Claesson, even I was disappointed by how terrible he was this year. I finally started to see him as a bottom pairing DMan and not a fringe player and then he flipped it back and reversed it on me. Such a bad year from him.

Burrows was also brutal, he looked like a serviceable player last year but didn't belong in the lineup this year.

Smith was also disappointing although it's hard to tell how much of that was injury.

All that said, the skater who disappointed me most? Pageau. He was nowhere near as impactful in any facet of the game as he has been the past few years. Less energy, less defensively committed, less dangerous offensively... I really thought he would take a bit of a step forward in terms of consistency but the exact opposite occurred.

 

[Pens x]

Matt Murray wasn’t good this year

 

[Howie Hodge]

Robin Lehner and Chad Johnson.

Although in retrospect.......

 

[Grub]

Matthews in the playoffs, Laine in the playoffs, stamkos in the playoffs

Jake Virtanen in the golf course.

 

[Johnny Hoxville]

Drouin, Bennett and Domi.

 

[The GM]

Greg mckegg, thought for sure he was going to make it as the pens third line centre