Coming into this year, New York Islanders fans had high expectations for Brock Nelson. At age 22, in his rookie NHL year, Brock had what was considered by many to be a fantastic year. For one, he was a big possession driver in his rookie year - basically every player on the team had a better Corsi with Nelson than without, as the below chart from February of 2014 (so not the full season) showed:
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In addition, Brock put up 26 points and 14 goals despite spending a large amount of his time on ice with mediocre scoring linemates - his most-common linemate in 2013-14 was hot shooter Cal Clutterbuck.