Players Whose Rookie Years Were Their Best

[SI90]

Trent Hunter 25 goals 50+pts Rookie year

13 year old me was ready for our next great power forward/sniper on Long Island

 

[Sheppy]

Andrew Raycroft

 

[wolfgaze]

Wow thats a good one, was he playing with Jagr?

Not at even strength as the top line was Straka, Nylander, and Jagr.

 

[L4br3cqu3]

Pat Falloon

 

[swiftwin]

Colin White is a recent example.

 

[seafoam]

Mathew Barzal. /thread

 

[1989]

List of players who played only one game in the NHL - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Kevinsane]

Peter Mueller. Solid rookie year of 56 points. Not much after that.

Vasily Podkolzin, while not lighting the world on fire, had 26 points and was a +7 his rookie year of 2021-22. Nothing since from this first round pick.

 

[Bgav]

I am too lazy to look it up, but how about Wojtek Wolski?

 

[tarheelhockey]

Jeff Skinner was a rock star his rookie year. Never really got better.

 

[NVious]

Jeff Skinner was a rock star his rookie year. Never really got better.

He got away from what was working for him (practicing figure skating) and started dabbling in the dark arts (playing Hockey), he was never the same after that.

 

[LemonSauceD]

Alexei Zhitnik

 

[1989]

Peter Mueller. Solid rookie year of 56 points. Not much after that.

Vasily Podkolzin, while not lighting the world on fire, had 26 points and was a +7 his rookie year of 2021-22. Nothing since from this first round pick.

I remember always trading for Mueller and Svatos because they were crazy speedsters and would net easy goals all the time in NHL 04 or some such.