Quiet breakout players this season

[P10p]

Rossi or Middleton for the Wild.

 

[Mike C]

Stolarz and Holmstrom

 

[PlayMakers]

Haven't heard much of Lane Hutson but he seemed pretty good when I watched him

I don't think that's quiet. He's been great and Montreal fans are loud.

 

[Jack Spider]

I have to vote for Kovacevic.

He's a fun player to watch live at the arena. 6ft5 and to see him skate the blue line or backwards at that speed. He executes the techniques very well. Beauty in simplicity. Just a player in the show. Miss him in MTL.

 

[majormajor]

Walman is the Sharks player who I think broke out the most year over year. He has really taken the opportunity presented to him and ran with it. 9th in D scoring across the league (eclipsed his point total from all of last season in only 27 games) and is a +6 on a not very good Sharks team while playing almost 23 minutes a night in all situations.

It's the weirdest one because Walman was listed on threads like this as a Red Wing, when he unexpectedly was excellent for them after St. Louis gave up on him. And then to the surprise of everyone around the league the Red Wings paid to get rid of him. Apparently he did have a rough few months last Spring but nonetheless it was a strange turn of events. And here he is again on these lists, having an even better (much better) season.

He's a fun player to watch live at the arena. 6ft5 and to see him skate the blue line or backwards at that speed. He executes the techniques very well. Beauty in simplicity. Just a player in the show. Miss him in MTL.

Kovacevic is another one that's almost like Walman to me.

When he came up in Winnipeg he looked good and people said good things about him. But in the numbers game they chose to waive him. Then in Montreal he looked even better, but in the numbers game they thought he was the one to give up. And now in New Jersey he looks better than any D on the Habs. Are D-men that weird or are teams just bad at this?

 

[Jack Spider]

Not much breakout in the nhl atm, maybe more in other leagues ?

 

[Puckstuff]

Knies and Joseph Woll for the Leafs.

Not like stars or anything but just two very solid players developing.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Everyone's looking at Laferriere and rightly so but the answer for LA for this thread is Turcotte

 

[Plgilbert89]

I was looking at him, and kind of recall at the time of the trade the advanced stat people loving it for Tampa sating Moser is more or less just as good but ar a much smaller cap hit.

Moser is quite mobile too and he's good defensively but he can't log the kind of minutes Sergy does and be the PP QB. I think it was a good trade for both teams to be fair !

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Feel like McMichael and Protas have gotten their flowers. My other Caps pick is Sandin. Quietly having maybe the best season out of every non top pair defenseman in the league. Absolutely crushing his minutes at 5v5 and contributing a fair number of points too. He had a nice stretch right after they acquired him but it was mostly on the PP and he looked pretty rough last year, so I'm definitely surprised to see him look this good.

This….Protas, CMM, Sandin….

 

[BonMorrison]

Kent Johnson and Matt Coronato.

 

[Theodore450]

It's the weirdest one because Walman was listed on threads like this as a Red Wing, when he unexpectedly was excellent for them after St. Louis gave up on him. And then to the surprise of everyone around the league the Red Wings paid to get rid of him. Apparently he did have a rough few months last Spring but nonetheless it was a strange turn of events. And here he is again on these lists, having an even better (much better) season.



Kovacevic is another one that's almost like Walman to me.

When he came up in Winnipeg he looked good and people said good things about him. But in the numbers game they chose to waive him. Then in Montreal he looked even better, but in the numbers game they thought he was the one to give up. And now in New Jersey he looks better than any D on the Habs. Are D-men that weird or are teams just bad at this?

For kova it was poor pro scouting or not understanding the internal league value of scarce guys like him