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Gretzky's Difficulties In Scoring Goals Against Good Defenses, After The Mid-1980s.

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McPoyle said:
But you did say that in your original comment, where you stated that Gretzky was never once the best scorer at any point in his career.

That is quite the statement and you should probably do more work to show how you conclude that.
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Did I? I have two posts in this particular thread. One says, "anyone can count" and the other one says, "counting isn't talent evaluation, even if the count is high".
 
He simply became more focused on playmaking as he got older. When he was a young gun he was going to the net alot more. He mellowed with age probably to self preserve, amd focused more and more playmaking which was his biggest strength.
 
Sheppy said:
I also think it helped that the goalies weren't all 5'7'' as well. Seemed like being 6 foot in the 80's put you at giant status.
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One thing I could never figure out was why goalies were generally short-to-mid-sized in the 1970s-to-mid(?)-1980s. But I guess it was just hard to find big men who had the reflexes to play goal. There was Pete Peeters and Ron Hextall... any other biggies?

But, you know, did size of goalies really affect Gretzky much? I would say no. From 1988-89 to 1990-91, his shooting percentage is still higher than Fleury, Sakic, Lafontaine, Yzerman, etc, and equal to Brett Hull's.
 
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