bambamcam4ever
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Power play percentage has increased since then, it's disingenuous to omit that.Another thing not to forget. Jagr benefitted from almost 2 more power play opportunities per game during his peak.
Could you imagine what current Kucherov would accomplish with ~1,5-2 more opportunities per game? As an example, he’s been scoring a point at a 20% rate per power play opportunity for the last 2 seasons. 130 more opportunities could give him approximately 26 more points per season based on those averages. He would obviously lose time at ES that way so it wouldn’t necessarily give him that much more points, but still an interesting fact to point out. That can be used to partially compensate the difference in overall scoring between eras.
But to answer the question Jagr was a much more dominant ES player while not being a complete cherrypicker