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The Pens in Crosby's rookie season hardly had much to play with. Unless people think about 25 games of an old Lemieux and half a season of Palffy is stacked.
For a lot of the season, Crosby had Colby Armstrong and Michel Oullett on his line. Not exactly the type of linemates that can help a guy jump from 40-50 points (which was the discussion point) to 100+ points like Crosby got.
I agree. I still want to see how he translates to the NHL level first, so I think (right now) he'll be a slight notch below those two. But every thread, every article, I read about him talks about him as the next "generational" prospect, so if that's the case then he should be held to that type of standard.
You're right in that Crosby's rookie season the Pens didn't have a very talented team. But it looks like pretty decent compared to the corpse of what Chicago is left with Chicago Blackhawks 2022-23 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com
Leading scorer returning is Andreas Athanasiou with 40 points.