Considerably better is an exaggeration. Maybe better. Graves had 4 30+ goal seasons including his 50 goal outlier. Kreider only has the one ridiculous outlier. Ppg are similar though Kreider has the lead.
Graves played in s higher scoring era than Kreider.
Or at least the earlier part of his career definitely was. Like when he scored those 52 goals in 93-94. He was only 25 that season, whereas Kreider was already 30 last season.
He was starting to drop off quite a bit by 26 or 27. Maybe the later years of his career weren’t high scoring years in the league, but his scoring also dropped right with it.
Looking at Krieder’s entire career, he probably isn’t a ton better than Graves or maybe not even considerably better, but I still think he’s better.
Graves was also pretty much already toast or close enough to it by about the age Kreider is now.