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Maurice Richard Trophy Tournament (1995-Present) Round 1: 2015 Alexander Ovechkin vs 2012 Steven Stamkos
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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.
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.
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Stamkos I think has the best goal scoring year in the new NHL only Ovechkin 2007-2008 compares
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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.
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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.
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.
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filinski77
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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.
