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ijuka said:
4 seasons in a row he was well above a point per game, not sure what you're trying to say with this.
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Exactly what I said. In his thirteen season (including the present one) in the NHL, Johathan Huberdeau has surpassed 70 points only three times. With those numbers, I would say that he's really not a 70 point player since he only hit it 3 out of 13 times.
 
The Pale King said:
I dunno, he only played 37 games for them and he managed to outscore Sabres legend Taro Tsujimoto by two goals, so that's kind of impressive.

I jest; Taylor Hall's Buffalo stint is posterchild for this thread. Some fun stats from that miserable half-season: Hall scores a goal in his first game (a 6-4 loss to Washington). He'd score just one goal in the next 36 games before getting traded. He actually had a promising start in Buffalo, with 6 points in his first three games. That means he had just 11 in his next 34.

When he got traded to the Bruins mid-season, his first game as a Bruin was against the Sabres. That gave Hall the opportunity to match or pass his Buffalo goal total against them, in one game. That would have been an all-time hilarious stat but of course he ruins it and goes pointless instead. But Hall did play against the Sabres 4 more times, finishing the season with 5 points in 5 games (1 goal and 4 assists) against Buffalo. Roughly double his per-game production against the team that was paying him.

Speaking of paying him, Buffalo paid Hall $8 million dollars with a $1 million dollar signing bonus for him to shoot 2.3% for them. For reference, the lowest career shooting percentage in NHL history (I'm assuming with some sort of minimum games threshold) is Bert Marshall's* 1.5%. Hall's 2.3% would rank third lowest if he'd done that over his career. Hall's career SH% is 10.3. Hall's 2.3SH% was the lowest of any of the 26 Buffalo Sabres to score a goal that year.

Hall scored points in 5 Sabres wins over the course of his time there. He had zero goals in Buffalo wins.

Last bit of weirdness: Both of Hall's goals during his time in blue and gold were in road losses against goalies named Ilya (Sorokin and Samsonov). Basically, if you wanted to shut out Hall that year, start anyone not named Ilya and you were golden.

That's it for now. Far more effort than that absolute all-time trash tier half-season by Hall was worth but hopefully you got some amusement out of it.

*No shade on Bert Marshall, he stuck around for close to 1000 games and he wasn't there for his offence. He was a rugged stay-at-home type defenseman in the 60s and 70s.

Also not too sure what happened here. Not quite the Taylor Hall I remember...
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Wasn’t really helping in Chicago and got benched towards the end there, now looks better with the Canes.

Dude ain’t a leader, rebuilding teams should take note.
 
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NVious said:
Matthews, Marner, Nylander, John Tavares, Morgan Rielly (soon Knies)
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I don't see it with Nylander, to be honest.

If anything, he outperformed his previous contract. This year, his production is a bit down from last year, but he is second in the League in goals and has been scoring a lot of points down the stretch.
 
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koyvoo said:
He’s declined and checked out too much to reach that level again.
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I wouldn't even say declined, more that 80+ point part was already peak (4 years he played at ppg in his career) topped off with the 115 point year where everything went perfect for him.

Watching the Flames and seeing a bunch of the behind the scenes stuff, Huberdeau really doesn't seem like he's checked out. He's taking on an active and vocal leadership role, has started mentoring guys (including helping give advice to a couple of the guys on the farm team since they also play/practice in the same arena) and has adjusted his game to a style he's never really played which took some time. He's already tied his highest goal totals in his career (27), and is on pace to hit 30, as well as on pace for his 4th highest point totals in his career kind of shows he didn't check out. His last 20 games he has 8 goals and 21 points as well, so it's not just the "oh he had a heater at the start of the season and has done nothing since" either.
 
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duckpuck said:
Dustin Penner.
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Pronger told a story about how Penner went on an absolute tear in Anaheim his rookie year. Got to 20 goals pretty quickly. Then he took his foot off the gas. Pronger said Penner would literally take nights off and didn't compete (which I definitely recall). It wasn't until Marchant reminded Penner that he got a bonus if he scored 30 goals by the end of the year. Penner finished with 29 goals. He was great that year and it's always fun to wonder what could've been if we had been able to keep that kid line together, but in hindsight I'm glad edmonton gave him that offer sheet. He was a bit of a bright spot when we signed him in 2013-14. But as before, he'd take nights off. Talk about a guy who could've and should've been a lot better if he had the right work ethic.
 
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Face Of Bear said:
Sean Couturier
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Dude missed an entire year and a half with a back injury eyeing down the wrong side of 30. Then came back to a coach who gave him the C and immediately yo-yoed him up and down and in and out of the lineup.

He shouldn't have been re-signed, but his decline has jack all to do with effort.
 
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Strawberry Fields said:
Dude missed an entire year and a half with a back injury eyeing down the wrong side of 30. Then came back to a coach who gave him the C and immediately yo-yoed him up and down and in and out of the lineup.

He shouldn't have been re-signed, but his decline has jack all to do with effort.
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He's played basically 2 full seasons now since coming back from that injury, you don't get to use that as an excuse forever.

You're telling me that his version of trying as hard as he can, leaving it all on the ice, is a 40-45 point center? That is dire.
 
Duchene? He wanted to cut an album of guitar music in Nashville. He already had a job playing for the Preds. Why not confine that to an off season hobby?
 
banks said:
Taylor Hall with Buffalo.

Hall clearly never wanted to play for the Sabres. But they offered a big money deal for one year, and he knew he'd get traded to a contender at the deadline. So he took the money (8 million, he never got over 6 any other year in his career) and totally checked out.

37 games played. 2 goals. 17 assists. Hall looked like garbage and contributed nothing while the team hit the league's all-time longest losing streak. He checked out harder than any player I've ever seen.

You can tell it wasn't just that he got too old or had a decline, because he picked it back up after he was traded. 14 points in 16 games with Boston.
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Another factor adding to this is he originally wanted that big contract, but nobody offered it. Which is why he signed with Buffalo in the first place. They were literally his "well, guess I'll just money for a year" option.

Guy was playing with fire though, and very likely burned quite a bit of money playing as horribly as he did.
 
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