Most average player in the NHL?

[Tutu to]

Someone with no elite standout skill but still a solid player.

Who would you guys nominate?

 

[The Blunder Years]

He’s done playing but Lee Stempniak was the first guy that came to mind.

 

[Buck Nasty]

All Time: Matthew Cullen

He spent 20 years in condition beige.

Ignore the above average career length.

 

[Barry Amsterdam]

vladislav namestnikov

 

[DanyHeatley]

Chris Phillips

 

[Fledgemyhedge]

Chris higgins

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

Most of the names so far I'd consider below-average.

To be an average NHL forward is a 2nd line/3rd line tweener for their entire career.

Derrick Brassard? Peaked on the top line, has been down on the 4th line, spent most of his career as a middle-6 player.

 

[Fig]

He’s done playing but Lee Stempniak was the first guy that came to mind.

Stajan came to mind for me as a guy who no longer plays. Stajan was a centre though. Stempniak a winger.

 

[SoftDumpNtheCorner88]

Tim Connelly?

 

[kingsholygrail]

Brad Richardson.

 

[Black Kevin]

Marcus Johansson

 

[JoeSakic13]

Mike Sillinger

 

[LGB]

Brandon Saad. Probably a little bit better than average, but fits the description as far as being a player that is decent at pretty much everything with no standout skills.

 

[Grampy Bone]

Calle Järnkrok

 

[nowhereman]

Sean Monahan is pure vanilla, averageness personified.

 

[KrisLeturnover]

He’s done playing but Lee Stempniak was the first guy that came to mind.

I remember when he was one of Crosby's wingers. Oh man.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

The correct answer is Tanner Pearson

 

[SotasicA]

Ryan Dzingel.

 

[Nona Di Giuseppe]

Chris higgins

this is the answer

not good at anything

not bad at anything

 

[Nona Di Giuseppe]

The correct answer is Tanner Pearson

currently playing, he IS the beigest beige in a field or biege

 

[Nona Di Giuseppe]

Most of the names so far I'd consider below-average.

To be an average NHL forward is a 2nd line/3rd line tweener for their entire career.

Derrick Brassard? Peaked on the top line, has been down on the 4th line, spent most of his career as a middle-6 player.

Higgins

second line on a bad team

third line on a good team

 

[orby]

I remember someone producing some kind of statistic about this about 6 or 7 years ago, and iirc they determined the answer was Scottie Upshall.

 

[SallyBalls]

Radek Faksa

 

[Islay1989]

Radek Faksa

Dude is a borderline elite matchup center. Weird pick.

 

[Legionnaire11]

Craig Smith, he even has the name for it.