double digit leads, off the top of my head:
1970 orr: 21 pts (esposito)
1975 potvin: 15 pts (billy harris)
1985 bourque: 10 pts (middleton)
1987 bourque: 23 pts (neely)
1991 leetch: 15 pts (nicholls)
1992 housley: 21 pts (ed olczyk)
1993 maciver: 15 pts (jamie baker)
1995 coffey: 8 pts (fedorov)*
2016 karlsson: 21 pts (stone)
2017 karlsson: 10 pts (hoffman)
2020 josi: 17 pts (forsberg)**
2022 josi: 10 pts (duchene)
2023 karlsson: 34 pts (couture)
* 48 game season
** 71 game season
in the last decade, burns and carlson have come close to double digit leads, but not quite. but who am i missing on this list?
predictably, i’m curious because currently quinn hughes is 23 pts up on jt miller for team lead in points. the team is at the 50 game mark (and just squeaked back into the 8 seed last night), hughes missed four games with injury so he’s at 46 games played, miller had his personal leave so he’s only played 40, and the next cluster of canucks is hovering around 30–33 pts, so a 25–28 pt gap from hughes. two of them have missed some time (boeser and pettersson), the other two have played the full 50 (garland and debrusk).
at the 50 game mark, 2023 karlsson was 16 pts up on meier at #2 on the sharks, 1992 housley had 15 on olczyk, orr in 1970 was 13 pts up on esposito at game 50, and 1987 bourque’s lead was 8 on charlie simmer. this late into the season, i don’t think any of these other guys would be close to 23 right?
this isn’t really supposed to be a quinn hughes thread but maybe it is... last year i asked this out loud:
Farthest into a season a modern dman not named Orr has led the league in scoring
so oops sorry for a homer thread (now i know how pittsburgh fans feel) but i do feel like he is doing things that are unprecedented, or at the very least in historical company
