What are the biggest "huh" seasons of all time?

[CokenoPepsi]

Players known for their strong play and consistency who just had one weird off season and then just continued on playing a high level again?

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[MadLuke]

was aging, but maybe 2004 Modano ?

PPG player every year from 92 to 2003, had a full Sundin-Sakic level of consistency aura to him, 14 goals-44 pts, -21, was still playing 20 minutes a night.

Back to a ppg in the easier to score 2006 and then was fully over 35 aging normally.

The first one that came to mind was regular season 1993 Roy but that sound silly with the playoff

 

[Hippasus]

Teemu Selanne's 03-04 season in Colorado where he was reunited with Kariya was a bit of a head-scratcher. I thought he was washed-up.

 

[MadLuke]

Could be misremembering and that will be a common thing during this thread, those 2 were quite injury related.

Bit cheating with more a pair of season than just one, but Ovechkin 11&12 ?

 

[connellc]

In terms of goals, Glenn Anderson 16 goal season in 1989 (which was a very high scoring era) was sandwiched between 38 and 34 goals. Rumer was, he was depressed after his friends passing.

In terms of points Martin St Louis 2006 season is extremely puzzling. In a low scoring era he gets 94 points (best for 1st place in the league) in the trap era. Scoring goes through the roof in the 2006 season, and he only gets 61 points, which is only good for 71st in the league. The year after in 2007 he finishes 5th. In short, while most players were feasting on lots of power plays and high scoring, St Louis had his worst year. It wasn't like he took off the lockout year, like some players either, so he wasn't completely rusty. Anyone have any news on this?

 

[Hockey Outsider]

was aging, but maybe 2004 Modano ?

PPG player every year from 92 to 2003, had a full Sundin-Sakic level of consistency aura to him, 14 goals-44 pts, -21, was still playing 20 minutes a night.

Back to a ppg in the easier to score 2006 and then was fully over 25 aging normally.

The first one that came to mind was regular season 1993 Roy but that sound silly with the playoff

There were rumours that Modano lost millions of dollars on bad investments. (I'm going from memory here, but I vaguely recall that he may have been betrayed by someone close to him). This one was due to off-ice distractions, rather than injuries.

 

[MadLuke]

There were rumours that Modano lost millions of dollars on bad investments. (I'm going from memory here, but I vaguely recall that he may have been betrayed by someone close to him). This one was due to off-ice distractions, rather than injuries.

quick google went back up to this message board, maybe I did read your message about it in the past:

Post-career NHL-ers who "M.C. Hammered" their money and lost it all

"You can't touch this!" Rapper M.C. Hammer is famous for two things: his 1990 Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em album, which sold 20 million copies, making Hammer (briefly) a superstar... and the fact that by 1996, he was $13 million in debt (he apparently spent something like $25 million...

forums.hfboards.com

And that could be why I had Modano having an off year come to mind, did not remember the money issues happening.

 

[Nerowoy nora tolad]

Bit cheating with more a pair of season than just one, but Ovechkin 11&12 ?

Capitals organization lost their minds after the Halakstrophe of 2010. Early 2011 season after the loss there were fully unironic media hit pieces claiming that the Capitals winning a game 3-2 was objectively better than winning 9-6. Ovies ability to do his obvious role suffered in that environment

 

[Brodeur]

Teemu Selanne's 03-04 season in Colorado where he was reunited with Kariya was a bit of a head-scratcher. I thought he was washed-up.

I definitely though Selanne and Kariya were going to put up video game numbers. Maybe in a pre-Twitter world we didn't know how bad Selanne's knee was. Both he and Kariya ended up on PP2. So instead of playing on PP1 with Sakic-Forsberg-Blake they had Konowalchuk-Morris-Liles on PP2.

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One sorta outlier season was Bill Guerin in 2005-06. Most guys had inflated numbers due to the sheer amount of power play time, but Guerin went the other way. Guerin later admitted that he didn't work out during the lockout and was in poor physical condition that season. He'd have a good 2006-07 season and then his numbers steadily dropped probably due to Father Time.

2000-01: 40 goals
2001-02: 41 goals
2002-03: 25 goals (64 games)
2003-04: 34 goals
2005-06: 13 goals (70 games)
2006-07: 36 goals