Players Who Are "Boring" But Very Good/Effective?

[HabzSauce]

I go danault.

BEAST shutdown defensive center. Was so underrated with the Habs and I think he's still underrated because he's not flashy at all.

 

[Horvat1C]

Blueger

 

[Mike C]

David Perron, Beck Malenstyn, Cal Clutterbuck

From days of yore--Stefan Persson

 

[Stive Morgan]

Phil Danault is a great choice. Never flashy but 50-ish points from a player of his defensive calibre is fantastic.

 

[featherhawk]

jacob slavin

 

[Reality Czech]

For the Blues I nominate Colton Parayko

 

[Norwegianoiler]

Who remembers Jan Hejda? Exactly, but damn that man was quietly just doing a good job without turning up on anything else than the box score name list.

 

[Chainshot]

Dave Andreychuk was always a very good NHL player, but I never found him overly flashy. Very average skater that scored a bunch of goals in the league, but always found the bland way of doing it.

Andy wasn't even an average skater - he lumbered. But once he got somewhere, he was difficult to move and he made a career around the net (and in the faceoff dot). Smart, well-positioned... but if you lined up the distance of all of his NHL goals, it likely doesn't reach center ice.

 

[bleedgreen]

I put Aho here. He doesn’t dangle or do anything fancy. I think he’s only beat dmen one on one maybe three times in his career and twice it was TDA. He always seems like he could do more of that but he really keeps it simple. Might sound like a weird pick with him being the top center on the team but for the amount of points he gets and quality ice time he received in offensive situations he’s actually pretty tame with the skill.

 

[Diamonddog01]

I think I saw his name mentioned earlier but for me the player that epitomizes this is Brodin.

 

[Team_Spirit]

Evan Bouchard 82 pts for being there that's crazy

 

[ujju2]

Adam Larsson

Adam Larsson is very fun to watch, are you kidding me? Love watching a nasty physical Dman.

Surprised JEE hasn't been mentioned (as far as I've seen).

David Perron, Beck Malenstyn, Cal Clutterbuck

From days of yore--Stefan Persson

Perron is fun to watch.

 

[Mirka the Turka]

Sidney Crosby

 

[loosemoose]

I appreciate boring, positionally sound goalies who rarely have to make flashy saves, yet somehow post elite numbers regularly. Someone like Swayman comes from that school of goaltending.

 

[SlavinAway]

This thread is made for Chanandler Stephenson.

I'm afraid the TV guide comes to Chanandler Bong

 

[TS Quint]

Adam Lowry. Match him against anyone's lines 1-4 and the result his the same. Nothing happens. Great defense, physically, down low etc. Not much offense but he helps other lines to get better match ups.

 

[Trash Panda]

Phil Danault has no NHL-caliber skills outside of his hockey IQ (and he skates well enough), but he consistently just plays solid hockey.

Dude is nails, in spite of his talent level.

 

[Ciao]

Chris Tanev

 

[MilkofthePoppy]

One guy from the past that did this was Martin Gelinas.

 

[Forge]

Tyler Toffoli

 

[Mattilaus]

Ryan Callahan came to mind for me. He was a good player but I struggle to recall anything that really stood out for me.

 

[Bouboumaster]

Tyler Toffoli

Toffoli is super fun to watch IMO

 

[Marlowe Syn]

Jonas Brodin. I'm not sure if you would call his style boring or efficient. Either way love his game.

 

[Felidae]

Trocheck

Certainly not the case at least based on his Panthers days.

If anything, he was guilty of trying to do too much at times, especially with his neutral zone entries.

Maybe that part of his game has changed as a NYR though.

 

[Machinehead]

Certainly not the case at least based on his Panthers days.

If anything, he was guilty of trying to do too much at times, especially with his neutral zone entries.

Maybe that part of his game has changed as a NYR though.

Yeah, playing with Panarin, I think he has adapted to a more "right place, right time" type of role where he's content to let Panarin carry the puck.