Maurice Richard Trophy Tournament (1995-Present) Round 1: 2015 Alexander Ovechkin vs 2012 Steven Stamkos

[blundluntman]

MATCHUP #7 (Round 1): Alexander Ovechkin (2015) vs Steven Stamkos (2012)

Alexander Ovechkin (2014-15):

Games Played	Goals	Even Strength Goals	Power Play Goals	League Wide Goals Per Game
81	53	28	25	2.73

Steven Stamkos (2011-12):

Games Played	Goals	Even Strength Goals	Power Play Goals	League Wide Goals Per Game
82	60	48	12	2.73

Round 1 Matchups
24 Matthews vs 97 Tkachuk Thread
23 McDavid vs 17 Crosby Thread
22 Matthews vs 06 Cheechoo Thread
21 Matthews vs 16 Ovechkin Thread
20 Pastrnak vs 20 Ovechkin Thread
19 Ovechkin vs 18 Ovechkin Thread
15 Ovechkin vs 12 Stamkos
14 Ovechkin vs 09 Ovechkin
13 Ovechkin vs 95 Bondra
11 Perry vs 00 Bure
10 Stamkos vs 10 Crosby
08 Ovechkin vs 01 Bure
07 Lecavalier vs 02 Iginla
04 Nash vs 04 Iginla vs 04 Kovalchuk
03 Hejduk vs 96 Lemieux
99 Selanne vs 98 Bondra

Note: Due to the Richard Trophy not having a tiebreaker, I will conduct one myself in the first round to avoid matchup complications in later rounds.

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[bobholly39]

Out of the list of seasons eligible in these polls - I have identified a favorite to win, and a tier 1 of a few seasons that are also contenders. I don't have Stamkos in that tier 1 group, but he's extremely close...

This is a typical Ovechkin season. Great for goal-scoring, consistent as always - but at the end of the day Stamkos is simply ahead. 7 more goals in a similar scoring year.

Is this Ovechkin's best goal-scoring season outside of his 3 year peak? It's probably close.

 

[Video Nasty]

Stamkos should sweep every last vote.

 

[tabness]

Stamkos I think has the best goal scoring year in the new NHL only Ovechkin 2007-2008 compares

 

[HeadLiceHatty]

48 esg is where you should have stopped posting this unheard of type shit, Stamkos landslide season, OV greatest goal scorer I’ve ever seen.

 

[filinski77]

This comparison is also a lot closer than just looking at raw and league-wide scoring. Top-players were actually scoring less in 2015 than they were in 2012.

When comparing Ovi/Stamkos vs. #2, #10, #20, #30, they are virtually equally dominant. I voted Stamkos and it's pretty much only due to a stronger performance vs 3rd and 5th.

Shame that these 2 seasons got put against each other in round 1, these are both likely top-5 to top-10 season in the whole poll.

Ovechkin	53​			Stamkos	60​
#2	43​	23%​		#2	50​	20%​
#3	42​	26%​		#3	41​	46%​
#5	37​	43%​		#5	38​	58%​
#10	33​	61%​		#10	36​	67%​
#20	28​	89%​		#20	31​	94%​
#30	27​	96%​		#30	30​	100%​

 

[Regal]

This comparison is also a lot closer than just looking at raw and league-wide scoring. Top-players were actually scoring less in 2015 than they were in 2012.

When comparing Ovi/Stamkos vs. #2, #10, #20, #30, they are virtually equally dominant. I voted Stamkos and it's pretty much only due to a stronger performance vs 3rd and 5th.

Shame that these 2 seasons got put against each other in round 1, these are both likely top-5 to top-10 season in the whole poll.

Ovechkin	53​			Stamkos	60​
#2	43​	23%​		#2	50​	20%​
#3	42​	26%​		#3	41​	46%​
#5	37​	43%​		#5	38​	58%​
#10	33​	61%​		#10	36​	67%​
#20	28​	89%​		#20	31​	94%​
#30	27​	96%​		#30	30​	100%​

An underrated goalscoring season for Ovechkin considering the low scoring environment. Kind of gets brushed aside as just another 50 goal year, but it’d be pushing of above 60 in some of the other years in question. The average of the 2-30 goalscorers were about 8.5% ahead in ‘12, which means roughly 57-58 goals for Ovechkin. Just a hair under Stammer.

Interestingly, despite the huge PP totals, Ovechkin didn’t stand out among forwards in PP ice time like he has in some of his post-peak seasons, such as the year before in ‘14 where he was 1st by almost 30 seconds and only 4 players were within a minute of him. He was still second, but 15 other forwards were within 30 seconds. It was just a really strong PP year.

 

[filinski77]

An underrated goalscoring season for Ovechkin considering the low scoring environment. Kind of gets brushed aside as just another 50 goal year, but it’d be pushing of above 60 in some of the other years in question. The average of the 2-30 goalscorers were about 8.5% ahead in ‘12, which means roughly 57-58 goals for Ovechkin. Just a hair under Stammer.

Interestingly, despite the huge PP totals, Ovechkin didn’t stand out among forwards in PP ice time like he has in some of his post-peak seasons, such as the year before in ‘14 where he was 1st by almost 30 seconds and only 4 players were within a minute of him. He was still second, but 15 other forwards were within 30 seconds. It was just a really strong PP year.

Exactly,

The answer to this poll is 100% Stamkos, but that does not take away this this Ovechkin's season here is one of the best goal scoring seasons of this generation.

 

[Johnny Tomala]

Stamkos 2011-12.