Fantomas
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And I can’t understand why either of you get so upset about the idea of Bossy being among the greatest goal scorers ever.
Forget the raw totals, forget the abundance of 50 goal seasons, forget the so-called shitshow that a player has no control over playing when they do.
During the time frame of Bossy’s career, he scored the most goals among any player. Now of course, Gretzky didn’t play in those first two seasons, yet only trailed by 30 goals while playing 120 fewer games.
Bossy scored 24.3%, 51.6%, and 55.3% more than the next closest competitors.
If we want to get really weird about it, during the 22 straight seasons that the average GPG was 3.20 or higher (1972-1973 through 1993-1994), Bossy scored the 4th most goals among all players. He didn’t play the first 5 seasons and final 7 seasons of that stretch and played 300-500 fewer games than the three players ahead of him.
How is one of the 5-10 greatest goal scorers in a 100+ year old league not a generational one? Both of you getting likes for these comments is really sad.
Ovechkin is chasing down the all-time record. Really sick of the weird desire to pull down Bossy in the meantime.
No one's denying that Bossy is a great goalscorer. You're not really engaging with what I'm saying.
Bossy is a great scorer in the same way Stamkos and Iginla are great goal scorers. But not in the same way Gretzky, Ovechkin and Lemieux are great goal scorers.
It's that simple.