{"id":209934,"date":"2025-10-13T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209934\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:14:12","slug":"7-nhl-players-that-will-likely-disappoint-during-the-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209934\/","title":{"rendered":"7 NHL Players That Will Likely Disappoint During the 2025-26 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Before the 2024-25 season, Morgan Geekie had been primarily used in a checking-line role with the Carolina Hurricanes, Seattle Kraken, and during his first season with the Boston Bruins in 2023-24. However, he moved up the ranks as that season progressed, finishing with 17 goals and 39 points in 76 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Moved to the Bruins&#8217; top line last season, Geekie had a career-best performance, finishing second among <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/bruins\/stats\/20242025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">their leading scorers<\/a> with 33 goals and 57 points. His shooting percentage soared from 13.1 in 2023-24 to a team-leading 22.0, sitting second among <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/stats\/skaters?reportType=season&amp;seasonFrom=20242025&amp;seasonTo=20242025&amp;gameType=2&amp;filter=gamesPlayed,gte,50&amp;sort=shootingPct&amp;page=0&amp;pageSize=50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">all NHL skaters<\/a> with at least 50 games played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A restricted free agent with arbitration rights at season&#8217;s end, the 27-year-old Geekie leveraged that performance into a lucrative new contract. On June 29, he signed a <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/player\/morgan-geekie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">six-year deal<\/a> with the Bruins worth an average annual value of $5.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">That will raise expectations for Geekie to exceed last season&#8217;s production. However, it&#8217;s unlikely that he&#8217;ll be able to maintain that high shooting percentage for a second straight season. That could reduce his goals to between 20 and 25, and his points to between 45 and 50 for 2025-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the 2024-25 season, Morgan Geekie had been primarily used in a checking-line role with the Carolina Hurricanes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-209934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}