Steven Stamkos career

[rmartin65]

	Bure	Stamkos
Goals (G/GP), Lead	3 (1)	2 (2)
Goals (G/GP), Top 2	3 (3)	5 (3)
Goals (G/GP), Top 3	4 (4)	5 (6)
Goals (G/GP), Top 4	4 (4)	6 (6)
Goals (G/GP), Top 5	5 (4)	6 (6)
Points (P/GP), Lead	0 (0)	0 (0)
Points (P/GP), Top 2	1 (0)	2 (0)
Points (P/GP), Top 3	2 (1)	2 (2)
Points (P/GP), Top 4	2 (1)	2 (2)
Points (P/GP), Top 5	3 (1)	4 (2)
AS-1	1	0
AS-2	2	2
AS-3	2	2
Hart, Lead	0	0
Hart, Top 2	0	1
Hart, Top 3	1	1
Hart, Top 4	1	1
Hart, Top 5	1	1

Both dealt with injuries that likely cost them a couple awards. Both dealt with solid competition for awards at their position (Bure against Jagr and Selanne; Stamkos against Crosby and Malkin).

 

[Voight]

Unless you are a team insider or you regularly travel / eat / bus with the team, you are entirely incapable of determining whether the given player "deserved" to be captain or not.

Yea, never understood how people can outright claim a player isn't a good captain or doesn't deserve to be captain. They arent with the team so they have zero idea.

 

[MadLuke]

Well, no fantasies about future.
When TBL missed postseason in 2017 many people connected it with Stamkos missing nearly entire season. Maybe those people didn`t want to see, that TBL had the same number of points with western SC finalist NSH and ignore how raw TBL made postseason with Stamkos missing 60% of regular season 2013/14.

I mean again that seem to start with the conclusion, Stamkos miss nearly an entire season, his team miss the playoff, but they did in 2013/2014

When Stamkos played in 2014 they went 24W-9L-4OT a 115 pts pace, when they did not a 22-18-5 pace (89 pts pace out of the playoff), what should we conclude by that 2014 season ?

I think there is a bit of motivated reasoning, one could spin all of this the other way around when looking at 2014, how good they were with someone scoring at a 55 goal per 82 pace in the very low scoring 2014 nhl, enough to push them in the playoff despite a mediocre performance without him.