Playoffs but one has 2 Cups and an amazing assist on the game winning ot goal to win the cup...
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Paul Pidotti, who's stuff I posted in the other thread and does the era adjusted stuff for the HOF basically has Elias and Roenick as the same guy just in different eras (he has them in the same era, but frankly Roenick did enough of his damage, including 3 straight 100 point seasons prior to the dead puck era that it's hard to fully classify them as the same era imo)
Era adjusted, they are both 30 goals / 82. Elias slightly higher in assists on 82 game average. Elias all time rank 67, Roenick 69, though Roenick has the superior 3 year stretch.
With regards to the playoffs, not only did Elias have one of the most easily recognizable assists in stanley cup history, but he also scored both goals in a game 7, 2-1 win in the ECF. That's not nothing.
Also, Roenick playoff performances may be skewed by era. From 89-93, he put up 51 points in 48 playoff games. However those 4 years pre-date the dead puck era; The league average goals scored per game was sometimes a full goal greater than when Elias was making his deep runs in the playoffs.
The other reason that Elias should get in is that his career is basically the same as Daniel Sedin's and they largely overlapped in the same era.
Sedin -
Regular Season - 1306 gp. 393 goals (.3/g),
648 assists (.496),
1041 points (.8). +147. 123.1 Hockey reference PS.
86 GWG.
Playoffs - 102 gp. 25 goales (.245 / g), 46 assists (.451 / g), 71 points (.696 / g).
Elias -
Regular season - 1240 gp.
408 goals (.33/g), 617 assists
(.498 / g), 1025 points (
.827 / g). +172. 124.7 hockey reference PS. 80 GWG.
Playoffs - 162 GP.
45 G (.278 / g), 80 assists (.494 / g), 125 points (.77 / g).
Now, if you switch these to per 60 stats, some will flip, and that's worth noting. Elias averaged more time per game over his career (hockey reference appears to have a miscalculation on his ATOI though. From what I can tell, should be closer to a little over 18 minutes per game -- not counting first two seasons of 18 games total and Sedin was right at 17 minutes). Elias had a couple of more years in the dead puck era so he has a slightly smaller league scoring rate, but only by like .05 goals / g. So these careers are pretty crazy comparable.
Sedin got the post season award love, and his peak season as 2nd in Hart / 1st Pearson, three top 3 All star team voting is worth something.
But nobody will tell me that those awards makes one of these guys a first ballot hall of famer and the other guy not worthy of the hall. That's insane to me.