Every NHL Team’s Most Disappointing Player During the 2022-23 Season
Boston Bruins: Taylor Hall
This is really reaching, because how many disappointing players do you actually have when you set an NHL record for wins in a season and only lose 12 games in regulation?
If anything, most players on Boston’s roster exceeded expectations.
But if we had to pick one prominent player that maybe didn’t meet expectations, you could probably point to Hall who missed 20 games because of injury and had the worst point-per-game average (0.59) of his career.
Even then, it’s not really all that bad. He is just maybe one of the few players on the roster that did not actually overachieve this season.
The Sabres did not make the postseason, extending their playoff drought to a 12th season. However, make no mistake—they are back, and they are ready to contend next season.
Buffalo has one of the most exciting young teams in the league with a dynamic offense that can score with almost anybody.
But Krebs, one of the key players acquired in last year’s Jack Eichel trade, didn’t perform up to expectations. He managed just nine goals and 26 total points in 74 games and saw a lot of young players on the roster jump over him in terms of production.
There were some expectation that Krebs could flourish this season, but he really did not shine as much as some of the other young players on the roster.
He still very well might in the future, but it did not happen for him this season.
With the sixth overall pick in the 2018 draft, Zadina was expected to be a key component of the Red Wings’ impending rebuild. He had the potential to be an NHL top-line scorer and was thought to be among the finest pure goal-scorers in his draft class.
That is not how things have turned out at all.
He has only scored 28 goals in 190 games overall as of the completion of the 2022–2023 season, including just three goals in 30 games this year.
Next year, he will begin his age-24 season, which is when you expect players to be approaching their prime scoring years in the NHL.
However, at this moment,
