The most overrated player in hockey is?

    Got a question for those hockey fans, of the two players I’m about to discuss who is more overpaid, lazy and closer to being out of the NHL?   

Dany Heatley

    At one point he was a poster boy for the NHL, less than 10 years later he’s become a second line millionaire. Shockingly he’s 10th in the NHL making an average cap hit of 7.5 million per year. Who are we referring to? One of if not they most overrated player today in the NHL, Minnesota Wild forward Dany Heatley.

    Early in his career, he was the leagues top sniper. Over the past five years, his offensive numbers have steadily declined. The former 2nd overall pick from 2000 had back to back 50 goal seasons in 05-06 & 06-07. Since then he’s been a 40 goal scorer one time. The past two seasons he’s scored 50 goals (26 & 24) thrown in with a career low 64 & 53 points while playing 162 games during that period of time. In todays NHL there is no Craig Janney like playmaker that the Wild could acquire; so Heatley’s days of scoring 35 or more are over.

    At one point he was known as a decent two player, nowadays he’s a defensive liability. Back-checking is not in his repertoire. What his hometown fans get most annoyed with is his care free attitude, almost like “I’m a millionaire and your not.”

    Equate his 8 million dollar salary and his 24 goals last year, that means he got $333,333 per goal scored. The one last damming statistic is this. What’s the biggest grind during a hockey season? The playoffs of course, in his past 36 playoff games he was 5 goals and 21 points and is a –14. I rest my case.

Scott Gomez

    How many times over the past 15 years have the New York Rangers given a free agent a blank cheque and said “how much would you like today”. Wade Redden, Bobby Holik, Theo Fleury, and Chris Drury. As we all know we can add Scott Gomez to that list.

    Gomez during the first eight years of he was considered to be the leagues top playmaking center getting 388 assists in his first 629 games.

When looking further at this statistics, I was quite stunned to see the Alaska native only has been a point a game player once in his career. In 2005-06 he accumulated 84 points, and the same season scored 33 goals. Other than the 33 goal season, he’s not scored more than 16 goals in any other season.

    Very similar to Heatley, Gomez and his career has gone completely down over the past two years. In total he has got 9 goals and 49 points in his last 118 games. During the 2011-12 season he scored 2 times; with 9 assists in 38 games. At the same time he’s been injured often over that period. But it’s almost a forgone conclusion that the Montreal Canadiens (who acquired him in 2009) will either buy him out of his contract or bury him in the AHL.

Is there anyone more overrated in sports?

    Some of you might say there is others in the NHL that are just as if not more overrated. Others will make the argument that he could the most overrated in all  sports today. You take the salaries in question and the lack of production and it’s easy to conclude they’re overpaid and not worth half their wage.