Obscure sports trivia

Name the four players to score 100 points or more in each of their three first NHL seasons?

 

George Brunet is one of the original .45sd/Pilots. The other was catcher Merritt Ranew.

Runnels was from Texas and wanted to return there. And the Red Sox got Dick Stuart from Pittsburgh the week before, making Runnels expendable.

 

Mike Bossy? Sydney Crosby? Gretzky?

 

Fair enough. All good here.

Jeff Pearlman outlined how Herschel Walker was hounded into signing by the Generals during the Dawgs' bowl game that season. Figures that ownership would think themselves above the rules. That trend has obviously continued.

 

Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby

(The guess here is the shoulder injury that ate up Connor McDavid's rookie season was the only thing to keep him from being No. 5 on the list ... )

 

Gretzky and Lemieux are correct. Hints on the other two: one is a European player who is now in the Hall. Other is obscure, and played for two teams during those three seasons, Hartford and the Rangers.

 

First three seasons or first four seasons? Either way, I’m going to guess the other two are Peter Stastny and Mike Rogers (who I would not have guessed without your hint).

 

Ugh, meant three, but yes Stastny and Rogers, who is definitely the odd one out of the foursome. One of the few WHL guys whose numbers got better in the NHL, and the was done essentially by age 30.

 

Who are the four players who scored 50 goals or more during their rookie season in the NHL?

 

I know who Rogers is but I was too young to know him as a player (I was five during his first year in the NHL). I always wondered why the Whalers traded him after two 100-point seasons. After just now looking at what they got for him, I’m still wondering.

 

I was curious about that as well. I found an article that according to him, the whalers management wanted to promote Ron Francis as a star and didn’t think he and Rogers would make a good fit on the same team. It doesn’t make a lot of sense.

 

Since 1947, only one NL player has led the league in home runs with 35 or less in a non-strike season. Who was it?