It's amazing what one season can do for a hockey player.
We see it all the time: Good players have one bad season and end up undervalued. Devan Dubnyk is a great recent example of this.
Dubnyk entered 2013-14 as the Edmonton Oilers' starting goalie, a position he earned through years of good work in a tandem with Nikolai Khabibulin behind one of the league's worst defences. He struggled, and badly, eventually finding himself in the minors after a series of trades.
Arizona picked Dubnyk up on a cheap, one-year deal and got good play from him and then a draft pick for his rights. Minnesota, the team that gave up the pick, did even better; Dubnyk almost single-handedly carried them into the playoffs. He ended up with significant votes as both the NHL's best goalie and the league MVP.
So when looking at the following list, the right way to consider it is not as a group of underachievers coming off a bad year. Instead, it's a group of players whose track records offer reasons to believe they could have real value if they can find their form of past seasons.
For each player on the following list, we consider his stats line for l ...
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