Hypothetical mega star: how would the league deal with this?

[GrandmaCookie]

Premature off season thread maybe, but the thought popped a couple of times in my mind and I wanted to gather the opinions of you guys.

What would happen if the NHL witnessed the coming of a mega star, I’m talking about the guy who racks up 8-10 points a night, 7 feet tall 280 behemoth that can’t be hurt by the opposition so you can’t stop him. The type of monster you created in EA NHL when you first started playing. After 5 Stanley Cup in a row won exclusively because of him, would the league intervene to nerf this guy?

Your opinion is crucial on this.

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[GeeoffBrown]

Torts would definitely hate this guy for hot dogging

 

[Devilsfan118]

You would see about 15 teams tank for the chance to draft him.

 

[agent082]

He would try NFL after 5 cups.

 

[AvroArrow]

NHL would allow open season on his knees and it call "tough physical hockey"

 

[Dr Quincy]

Fans of Team X here would offer a 2nd+cap dump+mediocre prospect for him.

 

[Dog]

If Frankenstein's monster knows how to skate and can score then sure.

 

[FissionFire]

This is the most ridiculous topic ever here, and that’s saying something. Players don’t even score at that rate in juniors. Maybe peewee but nothing over that are you seeing a player average 8-10 points per game. The entire premise here is stupid. It’s like asking what the NFL would do with an indestructible running back who can’t be tackled and scores 10 TDs per game. The premise is so absurd it’s not even worth entertaining.

 

[mr figgles]

Such a player would drive ticket sales and viewership numbers. People that don‘t even like hockey would be tuning in just to see them dominate. The league wouldn‘t nerf them one bit. They would be getting them in as many national games as humanly possible and roll around in the piles of cash they bring in.

 

[norrisnick]

An athlete like that certainly wouldn't be wasting their time playing for NHL paychecks.

 

[behemolari]

Premature off season thread maybe, but the thought popped a couple of times in my mind and I wanted to gather the opinions of you guys.

What would happen if the NHL witnessed the coming of a mega star, I’m talking about the guy who racks up 8-10 points a night, 7 feet tall 280 behemoth that can’t be hurt by the opposition so you can’t stop him. The type of monster you created in EA NHL when you first started playing. After 5 Stanley Cup in a row won exclusively because of him, would the league intervene to nerf this guy?

Your opinion is crucial on this.

There is already Barkov so..

 

[behemolari]

Premature off season thread maybe, but the thought popped a couple of times in my mind and I wanted to gather the opinions of you guys.

What would happen if the NHL witnessed the coming of a mega star, I’m talking about the guy who racks up 8-10 points a night, 7 feet tall 280 behemoth that can’t be hurt by the opposition so you can’t stop him. The type of monster you created in EA NHL when you first started playing. After 5 Stanley Cup in a row won exclusively because of him, would the league intervene to nerf this guy?

Your opinion is crucial on this.

imagine if there was opponent preventing every other starplayer scoring

 

[Goose]

You do realize 8-10 points per night is 700-800 point season?

It’s not remotely plausible.

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

They'd probably change the rules like college basketball did with Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) when they banned dunking.

Edit: Or the NHL did making PPs end after a goal is scored cause the Oilers PP was so dominant.

Edit x2: Oops misremembered, it was in response to the Canadiens, the Oilers rule change was creating off-setting penalties so it was 5 on 5 and not 4 on 4 hockey in the case of each team getting a minor penalty.

 

[Roksta]

You could have said 250 pts a season or something, now this is just an absurd scenario

 

[TS Quint]

Fans of Team X here would offer a 2nd+cap dump+mediocre prospect for him.

Dvorak, Harris/Struble and the Jets 1st.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

We’ll see what the league does with Juraj Slafkovsky after this season for your answer

 

[GrandmaCookie]

You do realize 8-10 points per night is 700-800 point season?

It’s not remotely plausible.

No I didn’t realized that. Thanks for pointing out the obvious for anyone who passed elementary level math course.

Fs some of you can be dense. The point of this thread is to be an out of ordinary scenario.

 

[Montreal Shadow]

Considering that this mega star wouldn’t be human, they would be very popular because people would pay a lot of money to see an alien or lab creation destroy men.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

 

[Goose]

No I didn’t realized that. Thanks for pointing out the obvious for anyone who passed elementary level math course.

Fs some of you can be dense. The point of this thread is to be an out of ordinary scenario.

This isn’t out of the ordinary, this is patently ridiculous, if it was some sort of philosophic thought exercise with a purpose, sure, but it’s pure ridiculous fantasy, not “out of the ordinary.”

Gretzky didn’t even average 2 points per game, you’re saying to 4x or 5x the greatest player in history.

You call me dense for pointing out the absurdity of your scenario, but you don’t seem to understand you’re not pitching something that could possibly happen in reality.

Do you actually think something like this is possible, or you simply want people to join you in a pure fantasy scenario?

 

[GrandmaCookie]

This isn’t out of the ordinary, this is patently ridiculous, if it was some sort of philosophic thought exercise with a purpose, sure, but it’s pure ridiculous fantasy, not “out of the ordinary.”

Gretzky didn’t even average 2 points per game, you’re saying to 4x or 5x the greatest player in history.

You call me dense for pointing out the absurdity of your scenario, but you don’t seem to understand you’re not pitching something that could possibly happen in reality.

Do you actually think something like this is possible, or you simply want people to join you in a pure fantasy scenario?

Obviously more the later, as I prefaced it was just a premature off season kind of thread. But I taught it was an interesting scenario nonetheless and wondered what would happen if such a player came by miracle to the league.

You were free to not play police and just ignore the thread if you felt it was beneath the quality you expect for a thread around here or even report it.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

How could a 7 foot tall, 280 lb. player put up that many points in a night??

I feel like they’d be slow as hell…

 

[hockeyfish]

Lol, that guy would be QB for the Dallas Cowboys making 50 million a year on top of hundreds of millions in endorsments.

 

[Craft Beer Lover]

We’ll see what the league does with Juraj Slafkovsky after this season for your answer

Low IQ.