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Is Peter Forsberg the best forward that never scored more than 30 goals?
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Eh this thread is a bit cherry picking, his career gpg amounts to about 28 goals a season. P damn close to averaging 30 a season. yeah sure he never officially scored over 30 goals but he was definitely capable. Hank Sedins gpg over his career is 15 goals. A potential hall of fame forward who averaged 15 goals a season for his career.
Sure...... Thats why he has 11 rings and was voted as the 30th best player of all time in 1998. Forsberg had a better peak and may be viewed as better if he didn't break down, but a major reason he broke down was his style of play. Its an insane feat to be a top 6 player on Stanley cups 20 years apart.Forsberg is most definitely better than Henri Rchard
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I think throwing the best around is quite a bit. But he certainly top 10? People that hate on Forsberg never watched him play. Guy was a freaking force.
ummm, think you forgot a certain Flyer with missing teeth........ or even guys like Messier, Trottier and Fedorov.
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No one could contain him, it's true his playing style was unsustainable on the human body for multiple years but when he was on his game, he was the living embodiment of what the ultimate, true, theoretical, perfect hockey player would be/look like.
No one ive ever witnessed was as dominating, as creative, as enjoying and effective in all aspects of the game than Forsberg. I think the only 2 things he wasn't elite in was faceoffs and fighting or something lol but he still was not bad in those too.
Maybe Hasek, who i consider best player of all-time.
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I spent 5-10 minutes checking, and the only forwards who never scored more than 30 goals who I would take over Forsberg are Syl Apps, Henri Richard, and possibly Frank Boucher.
Henri Richard peaked when the NHL season was 70 games long. Apps and Boucher played when it was much shorter than 70 games.
So I would say that Forsberg is the best forward to play 80+ game seasons who never scored more than 30 goals. (I was kind of surprised to see that Bobby Clarke broke 30 a few times).
Henri Richard peaked when the NHL season was 70 games long. Apps and Boucher played when it was much shorter than 70 games.
So I would say that Forsberg is the best forward to play 80+ game seasons who never scored more than 30 goals. (I was kind of surprised to see that Bobby Clarke broke 30 a few times).
I never got the privilege to see him play a whole lot. But from what I heard, he was a beauty. Oddly enough, he looks like my uncle haha
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I don't know how old you are but if you have seen Forsberg you must have seen this guy Mario Lemieux play. How on god's name was Foppa more creative and more dominating than Lemieux.
I mean I loved Foppa back in the day. But this is the exact reason why he is so overrated. He is not that good.
Only argument is Lemieux lack of defensive ability, but I'd easily take 94 Fedorov over Forsberg for all-around play, not as physical, but a better defensive player, goal scorer, and skater.
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Love Foppa, but he wasn't even the best forward on his own team.
As for the question, Henri was better.
As for the question, Henri was better.
i wouldn't either, but he's saying all around play, otherwise its 99 and 66 without question. A guy like Lemieux was never a Selke level defender, its very hard to pinpoint what people mean by All-around, does it just mean good at everything or is there some off-setting balancing.
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Being great all around is way overrated in these boards when you talk about players like Lemieux whom was a super human player offensively and players like Forsberg who was "just" one of the best of his generation with great two way play. Sure Lemieux was lazy at defending but the fact of a matter was he was so good offensively that puck was in the other end most of the time. No amount of defensive play from Foppa will ever close the humongous cap between their offenses. So even all around Mario is better than Forsberg because what short comings he had defensively he more than makes up offensively.
Peter's goalscoring isn't an issue. Not for his coaches anyways. Not for his teammates thru out the career. Important thing is that the TEAM scored goals and he always helped the TEAM scoring goals. He even prevented other team from scoring goals because he worked hard and was active without the puck. What his coaches expected from him was not goals but an overall game with gifted playmaking. Of course they were on his back to shoot more, but that was because they knew he could shoot better than his unselfish mind thought.
But to knock on a player of that caliber for not scoring more than 30 goals is not right.
But to knock on a player of that caliber for not scoring more than 30 goals is not right.
