Indrid Cold
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- Oct 24, 2022
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Who were the best 'one trick pony' players in NHL history? Players that were incredible at one thing, and below average at everything else.
Chaos GiraffeTyler Myers and Taking Penalties
This dude was a menaceTomas Holmstrom in front of your net
Patric Hornqvist as wellTomas Holmstrom in front of your net
Konstantin Koltsov is one of the top 5 fastest players I've ever seen, quite possibly the fastest, and that includes having seen guys like Sanderson, Bure, Kapanen, McDavid, Necas, etc. If the guy had literally any other skill that was at league average for the AHL, yet alone the NHL, he would have had a 500+ game NHL career easily.
yep, I think he got another season's worth of games in because he was a former top 10 pick. similarly useless outside of being REALLY friggin fast.Wasn't Rico Fata another guy who was only good at skating fast?
As someone who got to see Erik Christensen and Petteri Nummelin both doing that within a few years of each other for the Wild, I give the edge to Nummelin, but both were cut from that same cloth. Both had just incredible skill if given time and space.Erik Christensen and shootouts.
Christensen was hand-tailored for the shootout. He legit had world-class skill with the puck on his stick, in a vacuum.
He wasn't a good player in-game, because he wasn't a great skater, didn't process the game well, and didn't have the strength to handle any of the physical aspect of the game, but if you just put the puck on his stick with nothing around him, he was Patrick Kane.
Carl Hagelin also wasn't really good at anything, to be honest. He actually was a very good player in his day because he was faster than everyone else and played with a ton of grit, but literally all he could do was skate fast.