One Trick Pony players. Amazing at one thing.

[Realgud]

The Leafs have a few players that are amazing at disappearing in the playoffs.

elite handshakers

 

[Zenos]

For a guy with over 900 NHL GP, Kris "Cowboy" Russel was a pretty meh defenceman. But man could he block a shot. He was some combination of fearless / tough as nails / just plain dumb.

 

[John Garretts KD]

Players with a good shot who are primarily PP specialists like Hoffman, Sprong, Olofsson, and Kubalik.

 

[Craig Ludwig]

Daniel Sprong is the most one dimensional player in the NHL today, pretty good numbers but pretty horific in the defensive zone.

 

[Sheppy]

Michael Ryder had a dynamite wrist shot from the circles, but was pretty meh at everything else.

 

[Static]

Zenon Konopka, faceoff ace.

 

[vandymeer13]

Brandon Bollig.

Expert fist-bumper as the team left the ice.

Useless at everything else.

Bollig had a legit wrister. And was in a class by himself throwing thunderous body checks missing the opposing player and rattling the boards with the best of them.

 

[Spearmint Rhino]

Matt Cooke was an elite douechbag

 

[JaegerDice]

Bollig had a legit wrister. And was in a class by himself throwing thunderous body checks missing the opposing player and rattling the boards with the best of them.

His shot was heavy, but it took him roughly 30 seconds to get it off, rendering it useless in actual practice.

 

[VaporTrail]

John Scott - winning MVPs at All Star games

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

Corey Perry - making the SCF but then losing

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Phil Kessel can be a good playmaker at times, but his snap/wrist shot is really his his one trick. I'd love to see the percentage of his career goals that were scored that way.

Since they began recording it in 2009-10 up until his final season, he scored 310 of his 347 goals with a snap shot or wrist shot (89.3%). No other in the top 100 of total wrist shot or snap shot goals had more than 85%, so it's definitely notable:

 

[NJ DevLolz]

JS Giguere and having large equipment

 

[Midnight Judges]

Stamkos deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as any and all all-time players when it comes to one timers. Otherwise he is quite the prize pony. He is alright and good at other stuff but my God is he freaking elite the big blast

He was a pretty good skater before the injury IIRC.

Also, 64 assists in a season, how bad of a passer could he be?

Matt Cooke was an elite douechbag

Possibly even generational in that regard, but he wasn't a bad player.

 

[ReggiesLemons]

Jonathan Cheechoo was pretty good at shooting/scoring whilst playing along side Big Joe. He was awful otherwise and had a pretty quick shelf life.

 

[wej20]

Phil Kessel can be a good playmaker at times, but his snap/wrist shot is really his his one trick. I'd love to see the percentage of his career goals that were scored that way.

Kessel was a really good playmaker, good speed and IQ. He may have only scored goals one way but he was far from a one trick pony.

 

[NyQuil]

It’s a weird one, but I was impressed at how Chris Neil could clear the zone without icing the puck. Just a high loft that also didn’t leave the ice surface.

Seems dumb but when you see other guys accidentally ice the puck you appreciate it.

Michael Grabner and breakaways? He had a ton of them, unfortunately his conversion rate was probably 10%....

Connor Brown was this with Ottawa as well.

It got to the point where we didn’t get out of our seats once we realized who it was.

Still, I liked him with Ottawa - good work ethic and underrated playmaker.

 

[Prairie Habs]

Pricer at stoppa da puck

 

[Mattilaus]

Tim Kerr scoring garbage goals, he was a master. Same, to a much lesser extent, could be said about Brendan Gallagher.

On this note. Olofsson is fantastic at scoring when it doesn't matter anymore.

 

[Statto]

Frk. An absolute cannon of a shot but not much else.

Wagner. Skated like the wind but no finish

 

[Mattilaus]

For a guy with over 900 NHL GP, Kris "Cowboy" Russel was a pretty meh defenceman. But man could he block a shot. He was some combination of fearless / tough as nails / just plain dumb.

Based on what I could find, he had a total of 2,044 blocked shots in his career and had career earnings of about $32,600,000.

That means he was paid $15,950 per blocked shot. Doesn't sound dumb to me. Sounds like a smart but underskilled player who found a way to make his paper imo.

 

[Ianturnedbull]

Randy Carlyle and toasters

 

[TheBeard]

Mike Sillinger was elite at getting traded.

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

Tim Kerr …

But you are correct. Used to kill the Pens.

 

[mel]

Hal Gill and holding onto Jagr to stop him