Who, quietly, had a very impressive season?

[Lexicon]

Mike Hoffman career high in points (70) and goals (36).

 

[Passchendaele]

Ryan Dzingel

I mean he's 27, came out of nowhere, and had 56 points this season.

 

[BlueBaron]

Dahlin. Fantastic rookie season for a defensemen. If he played on a better team or was canadian he would be talked about every day on this board. Buffalo have an amazing player in him already, he does everything at a top level.

Btw i just hope NYR can get an elite talent on their roster soon. Makes everything more fun when you have that top player/talent on your team and its been a long time since we had that. Im jealous of all the teams with elite forwards/defensemen....

You really don't know what quietly means do you? The #1 pick and a Calder race leader (in a hockey mad market) all year does not do anything quietly.

 

[TheWayToRefJose]

Hertl, as others have said. He played at a solid 1C level this year.

Pavelski as well. If he wouldn’t have missed 7 games, it’s likely he gets 40 goals as he had 38.

 

[The Macho King]

Not a lot of chatter about Anthony Cirelli, understandably due to who he plays behind. 19 goals, 39 points as a rookie with practically zero PP time. Leads all forwards in the NHL in shorthand time on ice on the #1 PK in the league. And seems to piss off the other team on a nightly basis.

Yup - I think we found another stud in the third round.

 

[CanadienShark]

Tomas Hertl

77GP - 35G - 39A - 74P

Dominant on both ends of the ice.

 

[HansonBro]

D Sanheim for PHI. 9g 26a 35pts

 

[koyvoo]

Jeff Petry

 

[Pestilence]

Erik Gustaffson easily has the most surprising statline of 2018-2019.

17-43-60 in 79 games.

Yeah, he isn't talked about much and no one saw this coming. Sixth in scoring for defensemen, in his first full season in the league, at the age of 27.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

No one ever mentions Blake Wheeler but he belongs here. 2nd straight 91 point season and you barely ever hear about him.

You hear about him a lot

 

[Masch78]

Silfverberg, John Gibson and Nick Ritchie.

 

[La Bamba]

Darnell Nurse

10 goals, 41 pts, and averaged almost 24 mins a game. Normally a 24 year old D man would get more praise after a season like that.

 

[VoluntaryDom]

tomas tatar, andrew shaw, oliver bjorkstrand, brett connolly, austin wagner, mathieu joseph. all of those guys had higher p1/60 than guys like toews mackinnon and kuznetsov.

 

[vshun]

Erik Gustaffson easily has the most surprising statline of 2018-2019.

17-43-60 in 79 games.

Gustafson does not belong here. Everyone who watches and roots for Blawkhawks knows he is power play specialist but total defensive liability in his own end and as its best 6th/7th defenseman on a decent team.

 

[LemonSauceD]

Alex Edler 10 goals and 34 pts in 55 games. Had he played a full season would have had a career year.

It's funny how he's starting to become the defenseman we wished he had become 7-8 years ago in his 30's.

 

[JianYang]

Shea weber missed nearly a calendar year after surgery, came back mid season with no training camp, and did not miss a beat whatsoever.

33 points in 58 games. Extrapolated over a full season, he was looking at 21 goals, despite a non existent power play.

These numbers are typically right in Weber's wheelhouse, but the quiet element was that he had seemingly no rust issues after that massive layoff.

 

[Bounces R Way]

For the Flames Rasmus Andersson has quietly had a very solid rookie season. 5th in rookie scoring for defenseman averaging the least TOI of anyone in the top 10. Really like his offensive instincts, and has been pretty decent in his own zone too. He likes to mix it up a bit in scrums and has laid some big hits. Moves really well for a guy his size.

Around the league Huberdeau, Teravainen, Hertl, Meier, Tatar are all good answers. Toews and OEL had good years. Guentzel scoring 40 goals kind of blows my mind tbh, did not see that kind of progression with him.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Keith Yandle. Just realized that Yandle scored 62 points this season, his career high.

Scored 4th most assists of all d-men, #1 pp d-man in the NHL: 7 pp goals, 33 pp assists, 40 pp points,
7 more what 2nd best, Carlsson.

Kucherov: 48 pp points, Stamkos 40 pp points, Yandle 40 pp points.

 

[God King Fudge]

No one ever mentions Blake Wheeler but he belongs here. 2nd straight 91 point season and you barely ever hear about him.

I'll second that. Wheeler is great. I don't really see any of the Jets get talked about besides Laine, TBH.

 

[Howboutthempanthers]

Yeah this is Huberdeau. All day every day.

 

[Jacob]

That freakin' Labanc guy in San Jose.

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

Not as impressive offensively as the rest, but if you watched Lindell play in 2016/17 and then watched him play this year you wouldn’t believe that they were the same player. He is far more offensive now (11G, 32P), plays physically, great shut down defence. He stepped it up offensively while Klingberg was out. Like I said 32P is not overly impressive, but everyone besides him, Seguin, and Radulov had down years offensively.

 

[PullHard]

Compared to players who scored similar totals:

Marchand
Barkov
Huberdeau
Wheeler
Giroux
Monahan
Toews
DeBrincat
Guentzel
Teravainen
Radulov

 

[Howard Beale]

D Sanheim for PHI. 9g 26a 35pts

Does he have a shot at becoming the #1 PP QB for the Flyers, or is Ghost locked into that?

 

[tucker3434]

For the Avs, it’s Soderberg. Only 49 points, but 23 were goals and they always seemed to be big ones.

Not very impressive, but quietly impressive for sure.