Best Non-Big Four Offensive Season Since 1967 Expansion - #6

[bobholly39]

Kuch 24

add Iginla 02.... Art Ross winner with only 52G 96P but at a 5.24 GPG avg playing with Craig Conroy (peak DPE)

won the Rocket by 11 goals too

I don't think Iginila 02 would make the top 50 in such a list. There's a bunch more seasons to add first. Some McDavid, Crosby, Ovechkin seasons, for starters.

 

[Coffees]

Kuch 24

add Iginla 02.... Art Ross winner with only 52G 96P but at a 5.24 GPG avg playing with Craig Conroy (peak DPE)

won the Rocket by 11 goals too

Agreed

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Gr8 8 in 08

 

[norrisnick]

McDavid put up 124 primary points (118 HR adjusted) in 2023, leading the league in both goals and assists. The highest total, whether in raw points, HRef adjusted, VsX, or any other adjusted method, since Lemieux 1996. The only non Big Four influenced time someone lead in both goals and assists since the merger. By any reasonable adjustment method it is the best offensive performance over a full season outside the Big Four all time.

But the usual suspect still picked Ovechkin 2008 over McDavid 2023.

Partly because two members of the Big Four were active and in their prime in 1989...

It's wild how much the presence of Wayne and Mario still impacts Yzerman's peak even in a series of threads explicitly trying to exclude their influence.

 

[SillyRabbit]

Surprised at the lack of Jagr 1996 votes. Even adjusting for scoring rates, his season was dominant.

62 goals and 87 assists, more balanced than Kucherov's 2024 campaign IMO.

I guess some are knocking him for playing with Lemieux? Which isn't totally unreasonable.

 

[TheGuiminator]

Kucherov 2024
Mackinnon 2024
Kucherov 2019
Jagr 1996

All better seasons than Ovechkin's 2008

 

[Midnight Judges]

Kucherov 2024
Mackinnon 2024
Kucherov 2019
Jagr 1996

All better seasons than Ovechkin's 2008

Yeah it's amazing how much better all the players suddenly become when the scoring environment is easier. Helluva coincidence how that always happens without fail.