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Highest goal/assist differential

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I was reading through the "one-dimensional" thread and it got me thinking. I'm not good with researching these kind of things, what player has had the highest goal - assist differential in their career? Or even a season? As in, a really high amount of goals and a comparatively lower amount of assists.

And for amusement purposes, I always found Rick Nash's 41g - 16a season to be hilarious.
 
Pavel Bure's 59G 33A season has a differential of 26. Not the worst ratio, but a ridiculous season nonetheless (29.5% of the teams goals). 26 differential beats Nash and Bondra's 25 differential. Anyone better in the modern era?
 
What about guys like Gomez who rack up assists but can't score to save their life? Or PMDs who rack up assists? Just brainstorming... or did you mean exclusively G > A guys?
 
Brett Hull had a few years where he especially enjoyed setting up the one timer on the powerplay in st. louis
89-90: 72 goals 41 helpers
90-91: 86 goals 45 assists
91-92: 70 goals 39 assists

Oates:
89-90:23 goals 79 helpers
90-91:25 goals 90 assists- in only 61 GP
91-92:10 goals 59 assists- 54 GP
 
ya if we go the other way then Henrik sedin had 16 G and 75A for a differential of 59 which is a bit ridiculous
 
Among players with 150+ goals... here are the top-20:

CLARK, WENDEL
SUTTER, DARRYL
STOUGHTON, BLAINE
LEACH, REGGIE
NEELY, CAM
DAZE, ERIC
BONDRA, PETER
BURE, PAVEL
VAIVE, RICK
BEREZIN, SERGEI
PARRISH, MARK
CHEECHOO, JONATHAN
HUNTER, MARK
SECORD, AL
KERR, TIM
MARTIN, RICK
KLIMA, PETR
REDMOND, MICKEY
TURGEON, SYLVAIN
SHEPPARD, RAY

lowest ratio among 150+ goal forwards:

SEDIN, HENRIK
OATES, ADAM
GOMEZ, SCOTT
JANNEY, CRAIG
LARIONOV, IGOR
WEIGHT, DOUG
JUNEAU, JOE
CASSELS, ANDREW
FORSBERG, PETER
STUMPEL, JOZEF
SAVARD, MARC
CLARKE, BOBBY
APPS, SYL
PIVONKA, MICHAL
HEXTALL, DENNIS
KOIVU, SAKU
FRANCIS, RON
THORNTON, JOE
NYLANDER, MICHAEL
RICHARDS, BRAD

highest ratio among 150+ goal defensemen:

HATCHER, KEVIN
IAFRATE, AL
LARSON, REED
BLAKE, ROB
DUCHESNE, STEVE
SCHNEIDER, MATHIEU
OZOLINSH, SANDIS
POTVIN, DENIS
ORR, BOBBY
GONCHAR, SERGEI

centers typically have a much lower G:A ratio. here are the highest ratios among centers:

CARTER, JEFF
TAMBELLINI, STEVE
UNGER, GARRY
NIEUWENDYK, JOE
GARDNER, PAUL
CARSON, JIMMY
BULLARD, MIKE
LAROUCHE, PIERRE
PERREAULT, YANIC
FISHER, MIKE

wingers typically have a much lower G:A ratio. Here are the lowest ratios among wingers (eliminated 50/50 kind of guys like Andre Boudrias)

HEXTALL, DENNIS
FLATLEY, PATRICK
PROSPAL, VACLAV
O'REILLY, TERRY
CASHMAN, WAYNE
CRAVEN, MURRAY
KEANE, MIKE
STRAKA, MARTIN
BRUNETTE, ANDREW
WHITNEY, RAY
DRAKE, DALLAS
 
seventieslord said:
Among players with 150+ goals... here are the top-20:

CLARK, WENDEL
SUTTER, DARRYL
STOUGHTON, BLAINE
LEACH, REGGIE
NEELY, CAM
DAZE, ERIC
BONDRA, PETER
BURE, PAVEL
VAIVE, RICK
BEREZIN, SERGEI
PARRISH, MARK
CHEECHOO, JONATHAN
HUNTER, MARK
SECORD, AL
KERR, TIM
MARTIN, RICK
KLIMA, PETR
REDMOND, MICKEY
TURGEON, SYLVAIN
SHEPPARD, RAY

lowest ratio among 150+ goal forwards:

SEDIN, HENRIK
OATES, ADAM
GOMEZ, SCOTT
JANNEY, CRAIG
LARIONOV, IGOR
WEIGHT, DOUG
JUNEAU, JOE
CASSELS, ANDREW
FORSBERG, PETER
STUMPEL, JOZEF
SAVARD, MARC
CLARKE, BOBBY
APPS, SYL
PIVONKA, MICHAL
HEXTALL, DENNIS
KOIVU, SAKU
FRANCIS, RON
THORNTON, JOE
NYLANDER, MICHAEL
RICHARDS, BRAD

highest ratio among 150+ goal defensemen:

HATCHER, KEVIN
IAFRATE, AL
LARSON, REED
BLAKE, ROB
DUCHESNE, STEVE
SCHNEIDER, MATHIEU
OZOLINSH, SANDIS
POTVIN, DENIS
ORR, BOBBY
GONCHAR, SERGEI

centers typically have a much lower G:A ratio. here are the highest ratios among centers:

CARTER, JEFF
TAMBELLINI, STEVE
UNGER, GARRY
NIEUWENDYK, JOE
GARDNER, PAUL
CARSON, JIMMY
BULLARD, MIKE
LAROUCHE, PIERRE
PERREAULT, YANIC
FISHER, MIKE

wingers typically have a much lower G:A ratio. Here are the lowest ratios among wingers (eliminated 50/50 kind of guys like Andre Boudrias)

HEXTALL, DENNIS
FLATLEY, PATRICK
PROSPAL, VACLAV
O'REILLY, TERRY
CASHMAN, WAYNE
CRAVEN, MURRAY
KEANE, MIKE
STRAKA, MARTIN
BRUNETTE, ANDREW
WHITNEY, RAY
DRAKE, DALLAS
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And this is why I asked for the thread to be moved to the history board.

Do you have easy access to actual stats of these guys that you can cut and paste?
 
TheDevilMadeMe said:
And this is why I asked for the thread to be moved to the history board.

Do you have easy access to actual stats of these guys that you can cut and paste?
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I just did some quick calculations using overpass' adjusted +/- sheet which has the career stats of anyone who started post-expansion, and at least the post-expansion statas of anyone who pre-dates that.

I should have noted, this is post-expansion only.
 
The thing that surprises me there is Yanic Perreault. Thinking about it, I do remember him as a guy scoring 25-30 goals but only getting about 50 points, but from watching him and the way he played the game, a small soft player with magician hands who liked to play on the perimeter and frequently shared the ice with Sergei Berezin in Toronto, having a high G:A ratio just seems weird.

That being said, Berezin wasn't so much a triggerman for a playmaker as a guy who played like he was all alone on a frozen pond.
 
deckercky said:
Pavel Bure's 59G 33A season has a differential of 26. Not the worst ratio, but a ridiculous season nonetheless (29.5% of the teams goals). 26 differential beats Nash and Bondra's 25 differential. Anyone better in the modern era?
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brett hull 72|41 = 31
brett hull 86|45 = 41
brett hull 70|39 = 31

tim kerr 58|26 = 32
 
seventieslord said:
It is, but you probably can't. Over a larger sample size, anomalies will start to regress to the mean.
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For sure. Unfortunately the season was cut short so we'll never really know, but only 9 assists in half a season while putting up 30+ goals in the same time frame is a strong candidate for the "Cy Young" of hockey haha.
 
I think the winner might be Lanny McDonald's 66 goal season in 1982-83 (after Nash of course): 66 Goals / 32 Assists
 
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