Crosby 20 straight ppg+ vs Howe 20 straight top 5 in pts?

[Nadal On Clay]

Howe’s streak is more impressive, but I would change my vote if Crosby has 5 more seasons playing at a PPG pace (unlikely). 20 straight top 5 scoring finishes is absolutely incredible.

 

[nowhereman]

Haven’t averaged them all up, but doesn’t look like that is true.

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Actually, when I crunched the numbers based on the seasons they actually played in the NHL (removing Howe's retirement years and his WHA seasons), you're right. The average GPG during Crosby's era was 2.85 compared to Howe's era of 2.82. So pretty much a wash.

But, in that case, it makes the PPG aspect fairly easy to compare, since they largely played in comparable scoring environments.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Actually, when I crunched the numbers based on the seasons they actually played in the NHL (removing Howe's retirement years and his WHA seasons), you're right. The average GPG during Crosby's era was 2.85 compared to Howe's era of 2.82. So pretty much a wash.

But, in that case, it makes the PPG aspect fairly easy to compare, since they largely played in comparable scoring environments.

Thanks for doing that, I thought it looked close, on inspection, but was lazy (well also a little busy).
Ya his last year, when Hartford joined the NHL, looks like was his highest at 51/52 years old.

 

[Sasso09]

Bad argument, when the 6 teams expanded a lot of the league was watered down and expansion teams were punching bags for good players for a good period of time. So that top 27 forwards comment is ridiculous.

Nah it's not, his argument makes perfect sense and is supported analytically. I understand what you're trying to say and that it makes sense in your head but it's just false. You could revert the league back to 6 teams today and cut 80+% of the league and that 80% would now be considered "watered down" by the same parallel standard you're using.

 

[Midnight Judges]

Nah it's not, his argument makes perfect sense and is supported analytically. I understand what you're trying to say and that it makes sense in your head but it's just false. You could revert the league back to 6 teams today and cut 80+% of the league and that 80% would now be considered "watered down" by the same parallel standard you're using.

The overall talent pool is what matters most and it is multiple times larger today than it was back when 97% of the players were born in one country with a population of 14 million people.