One Trick Pony players. Amazing at one thing.

[Marlowe Syn]

Ovechkin's one timer from the left circle.

I stand by this opinion. I will be taking questions and comments, but will also be pretty much ignoring them.

 

[DaveG]

Wasn't Emerson Etem in a similar mould?

not sure, actually never got to see him play though wouldn't shock me

 

[SheldonJPlankton]

Matthews dropping his pants, bending over and grabbing his buttocks.

Biggest NHL one-trick pony event of the 21st century.

 

[Riggins]

Alexander Semin - Wrist shot.

I'll remember him as more of an enforcer than goal scorer

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Brandon Pirri’s shot is a thing of beauty

 

[syz]

I remember my Canucks playing the Oilers in the late 2000s with Mathieu Garon in net.

He wasn't a great goaltender overall, but he was insanely flexible. Just absolutely elastic legs. He'd bust out the full-splits at least one per game.

This lead to him being insane in shootouts, iirc.

Speaking of shootouts: Rob Schremp.

A lot of guys who really fit the "one-trick pony" bill probably don't end up spending a lot of time in the NHL. Maybe somebody like Alexandre Giroux. Had a couple of years where he was scoring almost a goal per game in the AHL, but still couldn't crack an NHL roster.

How close do guys like Ryan Smyth or Tomas Holmstrom get?

 

[CraigBillington]

I'll remember him as more of an enforcer than goal scorer

He had a pretty good slapper

 

[rielledup]

Ovechkin's one timer from the left circle.

I stand by this opinion. I will be taking questions and comments, but will also be pretty much ignoring them.

In his prime ovie was creative and a good playmaker.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

Vitali Kravtsov and being aesthetically pleasing

Ed. .. just move to Russia already.

 

[Plural]

Not sure how amazing he is, but Laine is barely an NHL player without his shot.

 

[danny90]

Matthews dropping his pants, bending over and grabbing his buttocks.

Biggest NHL one-trick pony event of the 21st century.

SheldonJPlankton and posting about the leafs.
Dude can’t stop talking about them.

 

[CashMash]

Antti Pihlström

A lot of speedsters seem to have issues with knowing what to do with that speed.

 

[Sadekuuro]

How close do guys like Ryan Smyth or Tomas Holmstrom get?

Holmstrom doesn't belong, he was great on the boards and at making subtle little plays to facilitate the cycle. He was just an ugly skater.

 

[cowboy82nd]

Ovechkin's one timer from the left circle.

I stand by this opinion. I will be taking questions and comments, but will also be pretty much ignoring them.

Ovechkin can also score on empty nets. That's a two trick pony.

 

[Section88]

Kyle wellwood had some real nice hands and not much else from what I remember.

 

[Andre Palot]

Luke Glendening and faceoffs.

David Steckel and faceoffs.

Jacob Josefson and shootouts.

 

[sabremike]

Chaos Giraffe

 

[njdevils1982]

steven tyler's nightmare...

 

[TageGod]

I am sure his name has popped up somewhere but, Olofssons shot.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Pierre-Luc Dubois and zone entries, believe it or not. Totally uncanny.

Trevor Lewis and being friends with Drew Doughty

Someone already mentioned Austin Wagner and yeah his straight line speed...watched him beat Karlsson and McDavid in particular by like half a stick length starting from behind them, it's insane. But then he skates right past the puck and to the locker room.

 

[KevinFinnerty]

Zibanejad- whiffing on One timers and losing control of the puck when trying to deke

 

[Craig Ludwig]

Zibanejad- whiffing on One timers and losing control of the puck when trying to deke

he's been a PPG player for the last 6 years, and a key player for the Rangers, doesn't belong in the One Trick Pony category...

 

[knuck]

He was probably trying to parlay it into a coaching gig but sanity was finally somewhat restored when Bylsma was fired half a decade too late.

Now he has to slave away managing hedge funds. Everything about that guy screamed pompous d-bag. It’s no wonder he was known as the locker room narc.

I have no idea what you guys are referring to. I tried googling it and the only relevant result was this thread

 

[Fig]

My memory might be incorrect, but IIRC, Matt Bartkowski was inexplicably good at either zone entries or skating the puck out of the dzone into the neutral zone(?). He was unable to tie any other skills to that one skill. He was passable in the dzone but he'd get brutally lost after entering the ozone. I seem to recall he was really good at zone entries which added to the frustration with him. He might have been borderline second pairing if he did tie any other skills to that one damn good skill?

256 games and 48 points is still pretty damn good for a 7 rounder though.

 

[TMLeafer]

I seem to remember Chad Kilger had a wicked shot.