Actually this isnt true at all. Maroon had 30+ points once in his career prior to last season. 42 points in 2016/17 was a career season for him and the goals were more than double what he historically gets.
Letestu had 11 PP goals last season...is that likely to happen again?
The last 4 seasons Patrick Maroon has had ppg of:
0.47
0.48
0.38
0.52
So yes. Maroon has scored at similar rates in the past. I already pointed out his goal numbers sky rocketed, but his point production is relatively in line with a large portion of his playing career.
Letestu put up 0.45ppg this year. He has had 4 other seasons with a ppg of at least .40.
Both of these players performed at reasonable rates considering the offensive opportunities they had. Will Letestu score 11 power play goals again? Who knows. But whoever is the right shot on that unit probably will. Draisaitl/McDavid are too good at passing for whoever is in that slot not to score a lot of goals.
Yes they are both young players but that doesnt negate the fact that last season was their best season to date. Can they duplicate that...maybe...maybe not.
Of course maybe, maybe not. But you make it seem like it's unlikely. The season before Klefbom put up a 32 point pace. Put up 38 this season. And Draisaitl was scoring at a similar rate for the first half of the season prior before he and Hall hit a bit of a wall. It's not at all unreasonable to expect a similar level of production out of these guys this upcoming season.
As for Talbot....he had the best numbers of his career (S/O...sv%) and led the NHL in games played and wins.
I expect him to be solid but that will be a difficult feat to pull off again.
No... he didn't have the best numbers of his career. He started the most games of his career and thus had the best games played related stats of his career (wins, shut outs etc). He didn't post his best personal numbers though. Both of his seasons with the Rangers saw him post a better save percentage and GAA than he did this past season. Talbot was very good this year. He's given no indication that he overperformed though.
I will give you RNH...his scoring was down a bit (down to .52 ppg from an avg of .67ppg) but Lucic was right on par with a .61 ppg.
So Lucic delivered pretty much what he always does.
This might be all Lucic is, but he's definitely had better seasons than he just had.
The point being that there were not many under performing players last season. Far more players over performed.
The team will be hard pressed to match their point total from last season especially with the defence being worse.
Patrick Maroon over performed in terms of goal production. Other than that I'm not sure it's safe to say anyone definitively over performed on the roster.
The team might be worse next season. I think Sekera missing time and downgrading from Eberle to Strome will hurt the team. But I'm not sure I agree with much else of what you're saying.