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Originally Posted by belsarius
The first two "exceptions" that I think of are St Louis and Iginla. Both had a first 200-250 games that were no where indicative of their career numbers. They both went from mid 40 point players around 250 games played and ended their careers as 70 point players.
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Iginla's first season he got 50 points. By his third he scored 28 goals, good enough to be a top 30 goal scorer in the league at the time. And his fourth season (pro-rated) saw him score 67 points. He had a very common sophomore slump, but other than that had continuously improved his game and it's hard to draw any type of comparison between a 21 year old who scored 28 goals (on a team who's top player scored 30), and a 21 year old who scored 26 points.
There's no doubt that St. Louis was a late bloomer, so we got to give you that one, but even he entered the 2003 season with exactly 200 games under his belt. He scored 70 points in the following 82 games.