Best Playoff Performances Post 2000

[NVious]

If you had to make a top 10 or 20 or 50 list (however many you want), how would you rank single playoff season (doesn't have to be to the cup necessarily) performances for post 2000 players?

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[RoyIsALegend]

Easy one for me.

Peter Forsberg having his spleen removed in 2001, missing the entire regular season of 2001-02, then returning for the playoffs and scoring 27 points in 20 games to lead all playoff scorers despite not even making it to the SCF.

 

[nbwingsfan]

1. Giguere - that was unbelievable what he did
2. Malkin
3. McDavid
4. Thomas
5. Zetterberg

 

[Kingfan1967]

top 3 for me
2012 J Quick SA% .946 GAA% 1.41 - 16-4 - Cup and Conn Smyth (best SA%, best GAA%, fewest losses)
2003 JS Giguere SA% .945 GAA% 1.62 - 15-6 -no cup but won the Conn Smyth (one of the few times the losing team won the Smyth)
2010 Tim Thomas SA% .940 GAA% 1.98 - 16-9 Cup and Conn Smyth

 

[super6646]

Brady Skjei 2016-17

Single-handedly lead New York to victory against Montreal and would've ensured a 5 game thumping of the Sens if not for the incompetence of AV and Marc Staal

 

[Letsdothis]

McDavid 2022 was ridiculous. Better than 2024.

 

[Il Stugotz]

My submission:
2015 Duncan Keith
GP: 23 ATOI: 31:07 G: 3 A: 18 P: 21 +16

 

[Sasha Orlov]

McDavid 2024
McDavid 2022
Draisaitl 2022

The rest

 

[TT1]

Cam Ward 05-06, without him they're out in the 1st round

 

[Rebels57]

Not that ALL-TIME BEST, but my submission:

Daniel Briere for Philadelphia in the 2010 Playoffs

12 Goals, 30 Points, in 23 games with 4 GWG...and scoring in 2010 isn't what it is today.

So much clutch moments from him that run to the Finals.

 

[dalewood12]

Halak in 2010.

 

[Horvat1C]

Erik Karlsson in 2017
McDavid in 2022
Draisaitl in 2022
Keith in 2015
Kucherov in 2021

 

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[CallMeShaft]

McDavid's recent performance comes to mind instantly. Point scoring in seemingly every playoff game for that stretch too.

But I gotta be a homer and mention how amazing Keith was in 2015. Best Hawks player in any of those cup runs. Best performance of his career. And he did it in honor of a friend (who had worked for the team) that committed suicide a few months before the playoffs.

 

[Esq]

My submission:
2015 Duncan Keith
GP: 23 ATOI: 31:07 G: 3 A: 18 P: 21 +16

This is it for me. Heavy, heavy minutes.

 

[Three On Zero]

Giguere
Thomas
Malkin
McDavid
Keith

 

[HFpapi]

03 Ducks might be the least talented team to ever make the finals. 03 Red Wings might be the most talented team to ever lose in the 1st round.

It's disgusting what Giguere did, inflated pads or not.

Knocked off the top two cup contenders in the west in Detroit/Dallas making literally 60+ saves some nights and then allowed 1 single goal in a 4 game sweep of the Wild in the WCF for the cherry on top.

A poor finals performance is the only thing keeping this from being the GOAT playoff run in history and he might have the title anyways if they won game 7.

 

[GhostfaceWu]

Mcdavid broke the assist record this last year there's no way it isn't top three and his 2022 was even better.