Huberdeau and the ‘Drop Off’ record
Hunerdeau is currently 4 points away from the all time biggest drop off in points in NHL history. (I.E. if he doesn’t score at least 4 points in the next two games he has the record. Threshold is set at 70 games and here’s the current list:
|**Player**|**1st year**|**2nd year**|**1st points**|**2nd points**|**Drop**|
:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|Bill Barber|1976|1977|112|55|-57|
|Dennis Maruk|1982|1983|136|81|-55|
|Bob MacMillan|1979|1980|108|61|-47|
|Reggie Leach|1976|1977|91|46|-45|
|Chuck Lefley|1976|1977|85|41|-44|
|Phil Esposito|1975|1976|127|83|-44|
|Sergei Fedorov|1996|1997|107|63|-44|
|Mats Naslund|1989|1990|84|41|-43|
|Pete Mahovlich|1976|1977|105|62|-43|
|Vaclav Nedomansky|1980|1981|74|32|-42|
|Wayne Gretzky|1991|1992|163|121|-42|
|Joe Mullen|1989|1990|110|69|-41|
|Mike Modano|2003|2004|85|44|-41|
|Andre Boudrias|1975|1976|78|38|-40|
|Brian MacLellan|1985|1986|85|45|-40
Edit: gotta give some love to the Win Column! https://thewincolumn.ca/2023/02/14/jonathan-huberdeau-is-on-pace-to-break-an-unfortunate-nhl-record-this-season/
by jessemadnote
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What a bust. Between him and markstrom. Horrendous season.
Ain’t easy to adjust to Sutter’s systems. He’s also been performing pretty well in the last 20 some games.
Its awesome that his ice time is down 2 and half minutes a game so that we can play Lucic more
Plus he’s back on his “natural” wing.
This link explains quite a bit about his poor season.
https://thewincolumn.ca/2023/04/07/jonathan-huberdeau-has-played-much-better-since-being-placed-back-on-the-left-wing/
Also doesn’t help when your coach plays you on your off-wing
Gretzky is on this list can’t be too bad
Sutter needs to go
This a bogus statistic. Huberdeau has averaged 55 points a season for 9 years. His 115 points of last season is the anomaly here, not the 54 he’s gotten so far this season. It’s almost bang on the average of the 9 seasons before the 115 jump. He’s normally not a 100 point player. Don’t expect him to get anywhere near that again.
I’m fully convinced he can get back to 80-90 point range under a new coach. Absolutely not a fit under Sutter especially when he plays him 16min a night. I have no idea why Sutter has completely avoided playing him with Lindholm and Toffoli since the beginning of the season. Makes absolutely 0 sense.
It’ll also help when the Flames have a competent powerplay. Using a player with Huberdeau’s strengths as a net front presence in absurd.
Yeah 163points to only 121. What a loser
Source of data: https://thewincolumn.ca/2023/02/14/jonathan-huberdeau-is-on-pace-to-break-an-unfortunate-nhl-record-this-season/
We’re just getting all kinds of records this year. None of the good ones though
He spent a decade with the same team. Got blindsided by a trade across the globe to a Canadian market with huge expectations before he even got here.
Then played on his off wing all season.
From what I’ve seen in the few games on his natural wing I’m not worried. Inject some youth into the roster next year and good things could happen.
So he’s on the list with Gret, Modano, and Barber? Not the worst thing in the world.
And Hub went from a sunny place with palm trees, music, laughter, and cosmopolitans to a snowy, cold, dark, and empty place so not a surprise at all now that I think about it. And he’s coached by a stiff.
Poopberdeau took too many nights off
Who is this Gretzky guy?
Pain
He was doomed the day he was exposed for needing to take a shit