Prettyisland
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In his best season, he peaked at 10th in points and 5th in goals as a 27 year old.
He only has a single top 10 point finish and 3 top goal finishes (3, 5, 7)
He was never really a true contender for any major awards. Even his 3rd place goalscoring finish, he is 9 goals behind Malkin and 19 behind Stamkos.
You could argue a healthy Gaborik has more top 10 goal finishes, and maybe point finishes. But at best that makes him a very borderline case. I think realistically he would just be in a higher tier of "hall of very good" players.
Players like Theo Fleury, Zigmund Palffy, Markus Naslund, John Leclair all have better top 10 stat finishes, and none of them are in the HHOF.
Strongly disagree, unless hockey turns into a dangling trick shot competition. IMO Gaborik was as dominant a player as any in his prime.Eh, maybe? "Talent" is so vague. Rob Schremp could've had a HHOF talent.
Strongly disagree, unless hockey turns into a dangling trick shot competition. IMO Gaborik was as dominant a player as any in his prime.
People seem to forget how low scoring the DPE was, and MINN was the poster child for the DPE. If you replaced Bure on the Panthers with healthy Gaborik how much fall of do you have?
Top 3 fairly recent players I would have loved to see what they could have done if healthy: Gaborik, Havlat, Stamkos
he was absolute $ in the 2014 playoff. 14 goals in 26 games. Especially round 2 against the ducksno.
Here is some of my criteria
1) 50 goal seasons? No
2) 100 pts seasons? Non
3) 500 goals/1000pts? No
4) Any hardware? No
While he won the cup with LA--he was brought in at the 11th hour to join the team.
For me he is the hall of very good.
No, probably has a gold toiletDoes then pope shit in the woods?