The biggest single-year leaps to a new career high: each season's VAL minus the player's best season before it. A return from an injury-shortened year is not a breakout here — the baseline is the career best, not last year.
Rankings as of 2026-09-30, as declared by the corpus that produced them.
Largest Career-High Leaps
VAL over prior best
Requires a season in the immediately preceding year.
Showing 30 of 150 ranked entries.
1Rick MacLeishSkater · 1973 · VAL 18.9 (prior best 1.8)17.1
2Joe JuneauSkater · 1993 · VAL 19.4 (prior best 3.6)15.8
3Filip ForsbergSkater · 2015 · VAL 16.4 (prior best 1.1)15.3
4Tony EspositoGoalie · 1970 · VAL 17.5 (prior best 2.6)14.9
5Ondrej PalatSkater · 2014 · VAL 16.2 (prior best 1.5)14.7