Players on Whom Public Opinion Has Changed Drastically Since Retirement...

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It's a team sport.

You can say that Lafontaine's stats were inflated by Mogilny who converted a lot of his passes into assists.


Ok and that's fine, and obviously Mogilny had an incredible season that year. However people are comparing him to Selanne's 76 goal season without the context of their linemates.
 
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Maurice Richard maybe ? Not so sure where the general public is too, those with an opinion is maybe similar to the 1960 public opinion, but that one where the romance, spectacle, overtime playoff clutch moments, winning could have influenced the opinion quite a bit and die off over time.
In the early 00’s the hockey news had Rocket ranked #5 all time, I don’t think he’d even be the first hab anymore, most rankings I’ve seen have at least Harvey and Beliveau sometimes Lafleur ahead of him.
 
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Not sure how teammate dependant Selanne was as a player, he was quite the line driver-playmaker-making things happen.

No Kariya in 1998, 52 goals, Kariya in 1999 all year scoring 100 pts, he has 47 of them, affected his assist total obviously. But Housley/Olausson/Numminen-Zhamnov that maybe good enough for him to score goals nearly has much as he will outside an Gretzky-Lemieux situation.
 

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