due to the fact that he played for great teams, and therefore scored a lot in the playoffs, and won four Cups.
I get the then played a lot in the playoff and won a lot, but I am not sure how obvious scored a lot follow.
Forward not on Lafleur line did not score that much in the playoff during those 4 cups wins.
Lemaire-Shutt are good first line linemate, but anything special all-time level ? With the players (offensively) the Howe-Esposito-Bossy-Messier-Beliveau and other being compared to Lafleur ? Not sure Backstrom or Ron Francis are some downgrade here.
With the big 3 they are bound to be a good offensive team, but are they a great offensive team without Lafleur ?
In 80-81 when Lafleur played only 51 games, they scored 4.314 goal a game with him (top 3 in the league rate), down to 3.86 goal per game without him, just below the league average.
The 77 without Lafleur would have been better than the 1981 obviously, Savard-Lapointe were post prime, but still not sure how great of an offensive team Lafleur less habs would have been.