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Evan Rodrigues and the one season wonders

No one can get enough of Evan Rodrigues right now, and he is crafting quite the story this season. At 28 years old, Rodrigues was an undrafted player who put up a ton of points at Boston University with Jack Eichel.

Sensing that combination, the Buffalo Sabres signed Rodrigues as a collegiate free agent, but he never really found traction there, spending the majority of his first two professional seasons in 2015-16 and 2016-17 playing more games with AHL Rochester than NHL Buffalo. After that came some flashes of promise, Rodrigues combined to score 54 points in the two years from 2017-19 (16G+38A).