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Which one will be regarded as the better player? Considering career, prime and peak.
Edit: I am talking about Sergei Fedorov.
Edit: I am talking about Sergei Fedorov.
Career: Selanne
Prime: Selanne
Peak: Fedorov - very few players had better season than him
I'm honestly curious and eager to read your case.I would even debate that 76 goal season Selanne had was better than that 1994 season Federov had.
I'm honestly curious and eager to read your case.
Feds for everything, except aging.
I see you won't back up your statement about "best season ever" even when I mention at least 20 players off the top of my head. Tell me, can you back up your claim?!?!?!?
76g-56a 132p +8 is pretty damn impressive and still a rookie record for most goals. 76 goals shattered the previous record of 53 for a rookie, that is no mere feat and overall only topped by Mario, Wayne and B Hull for goals in a season. Good for a .905 goals per game to go with a 1.57 points per game. His 24 power play goals that season is good for 5th all time too. The Jets I would not say were a fabulous team either but as a rookie he more than dominated in every category and teammate beating Housely by 35 total points and Tkachuk/Davydov by an astounding 48 goals. Somehow he pulled off a +8 when the rest of his team were all negative but that will happen when your goalies give up an average 3.5 and 4.3 goals a game and save less than 90%.
You are looking at probably an unbreakable record, we most likely will never see a 76 goal season never mind a 132 point season and Teemu did this during the so called dead puck era. Joe Thornton's 125 points is the closet a player has come and this during a higher scoring era. Nevermind it was done by a rookie when it is least likely to happen.
Much on that popcorn.
'93 was many things, but being in the 'dead puck era' was not one of them.
Teemu did this during the so called dead puck era.
Somehow he pulled off a +8 when the rest of his team were all negative
You are looking at probably an unbreakable record, we most likely will never see a 76 goal season never mind a 132 point season and Teemu did this during the so called dead puck era. Joe Thornton's 125 points is the closet a player has come and this during a higher scoring era. Nevermind it was done by a rookie when it is least likely to happen.
I guess it is just before but it is the clutch and grab era and defensive oriented teams.
You are looking at probably an unbreakable record, we most likely will never see a 76 goal season never mind a 132 point season and Teemu did this during the so called dead puck era. Joe Thornton's 125 points is the closet a player has come and this during a higher scoring era. Nevermind it was done by a rookie when it is least likely to happen.
Much on that popcorn.
92-93 was one of the highest scoring seasons in the history of the NHL. 10 players scored more than 120 points. The opposite of the "dead puck era".
You realize that Selänne was fifth in scoring in 92-93? While Fyodorov was second in 93-94. So Fyodorov was the better scorer and at the same time he played Selke calibre defence. It's not even a contest, Fyodorov 93-94 >> Selänne 92-93.
I said debatable. Go read first post, I still believe it is debatable, mostly because we are looking at an unbreakable record of 76 goals and 132 points as a rookie.
The better player overall is Fedorov.
He could score, was great playmaker, was ~almost~ as fast a skater as Selanne, had one of the hardest slapshots in the league, and just for kicks was a Selke forward to boot. I personally think he's one of the most purely talented players the league has ever seen.
BTW 5th as a freaking rookie, don't belittle it.
No one is. But for example Ovechkin's rookie season is perhaps better than Selänne's. 3rd in league points on an awful Caps. Housley, Zhamnov, Tkachuk, Numminen is a lot better support than Zubrus, Halpern, Clark and Jamie Heward. And defensively the two players are a wash. Ovechkin was 20 years old, Selänne 23.
Tkachuk wasn't Tkachuk yet only his first full season (only 17 games season prior), Zhamov's rookie campaign also.
So a team of Housley and Numminen....that can be compared to that 2005/06 Caps team.
So, Selanne lead in goals and 5th in a league that had Gretzky, Robitalle, Hull, Yzerman, Murphey, Bourque, Sakic, Coffey, Gilmour, Gartner, Oates, Messier, Hawerchuk and probable HOFers in LaFontaine, Bure, Recchi, Shannahan, Sundin, Francis. You really think the league is going to have that many HoFers that played during Ovie's 2005/06 season?