At his best, he looked like a promising young scorer. Unfortunately, Fehr never realized his potential here in Washington. This was supposed to be a good season for Fehr, as he broke the 20-goal threshold the previous year and then put on some solid muscle during the off-season. Not only did Fehr not score enough, but as a big-bodied power forward right wing, he did not do well in puck battles along the board, failed to get the puck out of the zone on too many occasions and did not fare well (no pun intended) in front of the net. Despite the fact that he was skating with well-developing star playmaking center, Marcus Johansson, for a lot of the season, Fehr was not able to perform his duties well. Fehr only had 10 goals and 10 assists.Įveryone's numbers dropped in the Nation's Capital last year, but Fehr just didn't look like he did the previous season. Of course, the Caps' offensively-starved season came this last year and Fehr's numbers dropped in production. He looked like he was finally developing into the scorer he was supposed to be. In the '09-'10 campaign, Fehr broke that all-important threshold with 21 goals, 39 points and a plus-18 that season. Then came Fehr's one-and-only 20-goal season. 16 for the Capitals was good for 12 goals and 25 points that season. When Bruce Boudreau assumed the head-coaching position in the 2007-2008 season, Fehr saw a bit more NHL action as Bruce was familiar with Fehr, who played for Bruce in Hershey. In the next campaign, he saw action in 14 NHL games and posted two goals and one assist. In his time in the Show, he amassed exactly zero points. Although he had one 20-goal season, Fehr is not a proven scorer.įehr first saw NHL action when he played 11 games in the 2005-2006 regular season. When he is on his game, he can be deadly, but he is not on his game very often. Fehr is a guy who puts a lot of shots on net but just can't seem to finish. The problems with Eric Fehr are that, as a first-round pick who showed great potential-he scored 50 goals and 84 points for the Brandon Wheat Kings of the WHL through 71 games in the 2003-2004 season-he has never really come into his own and consistently under-performs.Īnd that great wrist shot? Well, it never goes in. The 25-year-old Manitoba native is good in front of the net and has a hard and fairly accurate wrist shot.Īlso, weighing in at 212 pounds (if memory serves me correctly, this stat is no longer correct as he put on about 12-15 pounds during the 2010 offseason) and standing at 6'4" tall, he has a body that can be thrown around well. Fehr is something of a sniper, power-forward hybrid. Eric Fehr is a former first-round draft pick and a one-time 20-goal scorer.
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