MacKinnon has 150 points in his last 82 games

[T REX]

you're misunderstanding the point of the post. I literally say at the beginning the reason he's not unanimaously considered on the crosby/jagr tier is BECAUSE he hasn't played full 82 game seasons. He plays/performs at that tier based on the pace he's played each season but without actually completing/doing it for full seasons is the reason it's not cemented.

in terms of your last question, you're literally on a forum where it's supposed to encourage hypotheticals and discussion, if you can't handle the discussion that includes pace then i dont know what this forum is for. Points per game is literally a stat used to create discussion (e.g. Lemieux's career totals IF he had played the same amount of games as Gretz, etc) for hypotheticals.


my post in here earlier does sort of that, it looks at the last 8 (including this one) seasons to compare

It shouldn't be used to assume that any given player would have achieved a particular number over an 82 game season.

It didn't happen. Injuries are a part of every sport. PPG is completely different then taking that number and trying to say that player X would have done so in 82 games in any given year. It doesn't work like that. That's my point.

It keeps happening at least in part because you’ve got seasons like 2020 and 2021 which were shortened, so you need some other way of representing how everyone played in those seasons. It wouldn’t be very helpful to say 2019 Kucherov > 2020 Draisaitl > 2021 McDavid just because their point totals were 128, 110 and 105 respectively.

The same principle holds when a player gets injured. Does anyone actually think Jamie Benn was the better scorer than Crosby when he won his scoring title?

It doesn't matter. Availability is the best ability. You can't score if you're injured. Having a higher PPG doesn't win you scoring title in the NHL. I'd like the NBA to change theirs to total points scored rather than avg. Playing every game should matter.

 

[olli]

What does this mean? The other poster is claiming Mac would be in the best player in the world discussion vs. a peak Jagr and a peak Crosby i.e. he would be matching them in points and/or PPG.

Do you agree?

It just means I am expressing my love for Crosby’s number 1 fan

 

[psycat]

Sort of like saying Ovechkin lessened the generational impact of Crosby. Kind of, but not really.

McDavid has been the MVP and face of the NHL since he first stepped onto the ice. If anything the contrast between him and other guys whose peaks come and go is exactly what solidifies him as a generational player.

Certainly Ovi have an impact on Crosby's legacy since a strong case can be made that he was better at their respective bests and got the more impressive career resumé to boot. If Ovi wouldn't exist most, if not everyone, would agree Crosby was the clear cut best player in the league for an extended period of time, injuries and all.

In the same vein Jagr, in my opinion, get's shafted for directly trailing Lemieux and Gretzky. Or imagine a world without Gretzky, Lemieux would look(even more) alien.

 

[PuckG]

Unreal player…but as per the HFBoards code of conduct, he plays in front of Makar so we have to deduct some number of points to equate for Makar’s impact. Or wait, is it the other way around?

I don’t even know…

 

[Three On Zero]

The product of a gluten/dairy free diet with a side of Fortnite

 

[tarheelhockey]

It doesn't matter. Availability is the best ability. You can't score if you're injured. Having a higher PPG doesn't win you scoring title in the NHL. I'd like the NBA to change theirs to total points scored rather than avg. Playing every game should matter.

But there still had to be a way to express the level at which the players are performing when they’re on the ice.

There has to be a way to show that a guy who scores 60 points in a lockout shortened 48 game season was playing better hockey than a guy who scored 70 during a full season. Simply saying “availability is the best ability” doesn’t make sense, they can’t be available for games which aren’t being held.

 

[PaulD]

It’s his bad luck that he happened to come into the league at around the same time as McDavid. There was a long stretch of years where anyone putting up this kind of offensive performance would have stood out as the top scoring threat in the world (even if you adjust it for lower scoring and call it say 130 points).

I don't sense any bad luck when I think of Nate Mackinnon.
Mario and Wayne.
Sid and OV
Mack and McDavid ....throw Kuch in there
plenty of spot light to around