sr edler
gold is not reality
- Mar 20, 2010
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Fedorov.
Sergei had never scored 40 goals or had any kind of 1st/2nd all star season, or Hart finalist recognition...except the one in which he scored 56 goals, was a 1st team all star and won the Hart.
Take that outlier out, and his career barely is HHOF worthy.
Did you ever notice, by looking at his stats, Sergei Fedorov scored at a higher point per game clip in the playoffs than he did in the regular season, over his whole career? 0.94 PPG (1179 points in 1248 games) in the regular season and 0.96 PPG (176 points in 183 games) in the playoffs. 176 points in 183 playoff games from a player with an elite upper echelon defensive game? With 3 Cups? But that player is barely HHOF worthy without his outlier season?
Fedorov's 94–95 and 95–96 were excellent seasons, by the way, earning him another Selke and chasing away Patrick Roy from Montreal in a memorable game during a regular season where Fedorov's unit (The Russian Five) just slashed the league to pieces.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you really high on players like Patrick Marleau and Phil Housley?
Fancy regular season numbers are nice to look at (Marleau hardly has fancy regular season stats on a season-to-season basis though), but it's easy as a plain day to see the context why Fedorov took the foot off the regular season gas pedal, between 1997–2002. It's probably spelt Scotty Bowman, or saving your best fireworks for when they actually matter, or something crazy like that.
Fedorov past age 30 had four (4) 30+ goals season in the NHL (and paced for a 5th one, with 27 goals in 68 games in 99–00). That's exactly one less than king of consistency aged like a fine ass wine Mats Sundin.
I'm sorry, but if Fedorov's "barely HHOF worthy" without 1993–94 then I guess we'll have to take out Mats Sundin too. And Mike Modano while we're at it. But Housley and Andreychuk can stay. And Ciccarelli too. And then we'll put in Patrick Marleau.
Just makes all the sense in the world.