Think of all the owners who have reached for players like Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Damien Brunner or Fernando Pisani after successful playoffs. At the same time, some go to the other extreme and will sour on a player based on a postseason failure.

Here, we look at the 10 most disappointing players this postseason. These guys may now be available in your keeper leagues for cheaper than what they were pre-postseason. The best time to target playoff duds is right after their team is eliminated and their owners are panicking a little more. The price on a player who had a horrible first round may be higher now than it was five weeks ago. Timing is everything.

For some of these guys, their stocks were already freefalling before the playoffs began. For others, it began right with the playoffs. And for one guy, he didn't even play a postseason game and still made the list.

10. Andrew Hammond

The Sens were supposed to be a team of destiny, led by the Hamburgler himself. After all, he did have a 20-1-2 record with a .941 save percentage, 1.79 goals against average and three shutouts in the regular season. But Hammond didn't have the same amount of success to start his playoff career. He let in four goals in the opening game (he had only done that twice in the regular season), and then let in three, including a weak game-winner, in 3-2 overtime loss in Game 2. He never saw another second of ice time in the playoffs, putting a disappointing end to a great season.

9. Jonathan Drouin

Drouin's stock just keeps falling. Many thought he was going to crack the Lightning roster right after being drafted, but he was sent to junior. Then when he made the team this season, he was underwhelming, playing third-line minutes, and scoring just four goals and 32 points. In the playoffs, it's been worse. Despite the Lightning already playing 20 games, Drouin has only seen game action in three of them, where he's been pointless and a minus-four. Ouch. This may be your best opportunity to get the former second overall pick.

8. Anders Lee

Lee was probably a dark horse pick for a lot of playoff poolies, especially after he put up 25 goals and 41 points in the regular season and was often playing on a line with John Tavares. But Lee was brutal in his playoff action. He had just one assist in five games, and the Islanders made him a healthy scratch for Games 6 and 7 against the Capitals, despite the fact the Islanders scored just four goals combined in Games 3 to 5.

7. Tomas Plekanec

Plekanec is one of those players that no one really seems to know if they should love or hate. He tries hard, battles at faceoffs, and scores 20-plus goals a year. But he has a tendency to go on really bad pointless streaks, and he isn't a number one centre despite getting plenty of ice time. Things looked good for Pleks at the start of the postseason, as he scored in the first game in round one against the Senators. But in 11 games after that, Plekanec had just three assists. This despite Plekanec averaging more ice time than any other forward on Montreal, being on the top power-play unit, and getting to play with Max Pacioretty.

6. James Wisniewski

It may be weird seeing a player on this list who didn't play a single game, but that's precisely why Wisniewski is listed. Wisniewski was brought to help the ailing power play, but it didn't work. So instead of hoping he could improve, the Ducks decided to make him a healthy scratch for all 16 of the Ducks' playoff games. It's been a strange few months for Wisniewski: The Blue Jackets told him they were going to trade him, and he tried to make it difficult, listing only teams that didn't have the cap room. The Jackets traded him anyway, despite needing defencemen. Then the Ducks made him a healthy scratch for the entire playoffs. This has to be a huge red flag for any fantasy GM.

5. Bobby Ryan

The soon-to-be $7 million man had a frustrating playoffs. The guy who was expected to lead the Sens finished with a paltry two goals and no assists as he was held pointless in five of the Sens' six playoff games. His average time on ice was 15:17 per game, the eighth highest for Sens forwards, despite the fact the Sens needed offence (they scored two goals or less in four of the six games). It may have been the last straw for owners who saw him go through a one-goal-in-20-game streak to end the regular season.

4. Mike Green

It was becoming apparent during the regular season that Mike Green was losing his power-play job to John Carlson, but Green pretty much lost everything to everyone during the playoffs. In 14 games, he had just two assists. He averaged just 1:11 on the power play, and wound up on the third defensive pairing. He's an unrestricted free agent, and he probably lost quite a bit of money with that playoff. Lesson learned: It's not easy being Green.

3. David Backes

Truthfully, this space could be taken by almost anyone wearing a Blues jersey, but Backes is the captain and has a history of not stepping up in the playoffs, so he takes the brunt. Backes had just one goal and one assist in the Blues' first round upset loss to the Minnesota Wild, and both of those came in Game 4. In 29 career playoff games, he has just five goals and 13 points. Another disappointing postseason from a disappointing postseason player.

2. Martin St. Louis

Maybe the Rangers thought the philosophy was actually "if it's broke, don't bother fixing it." There's no other reason why they kept drudging St. Louis out on the power play time after time. St. Louis had just seven points in 19 playoff games, and only one of those seven points was a goal. Despite his trouble scoring, St. Louis averaged 2:51 on the power play this postseason, tied for fourth on the team among forwards, and half a minute more than Rick Nash.

1. Evgeni Malkin

Maybe he came back from an injury too early. But the level of frustration for Malkin owners reached a peak after the first round of the playoffs. He missed 10-plus games, thereby missing a lot of fantasy playoffs and championships. Upon returning, he had zero points in four games, and followed that up with an awful zero points in five playoff games. Fantasy owners were obviously very frustrated, and many may have had enough of the oft-injured superstar.

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