Lots of guys had career years as scoring overall hasn't been that high in 25 years.
Kadri was almost certainly the biggest jump of any established player. 0.66ppg over 617 games going back to his career high year in 2012-13 (0.92 in that shortened year; his next highest year was 0.74)...jumped to 1.23 ppg this year.
Schenn's career highs were 0.85 and 0.82 - 0.69 avg over same time frame as Kadri above - he jumped to 0.94 this year, which is only marginally more than his previous career high when corrected for scoring that season.
This is a total tangent, but the 2016 off season of terrible UFA deals (Lucic, Eriksson, Okposo, Ladd) came after the lowest scoring year (2.71) since the cancelled season...I wondered if a bump in scoring might have contributed to those deals, but nope. 4 other years were 2.72-2.74; last year was 3.14.
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