Steven Stamkos career

[TheBig08]

What if Tim Kerr was never injured? Or Mario Lemieux? Or Mike Bossy?

great question maybe you or someone else can answer it.

 

[Crosby2010]

not saying he's a bad player and that he wouldn't have slowed down i'm just saying what his career look like if didn't get injured, for example would he be more likely to end his carrer with close to or at 800 goals?

I don't know. 800 is a heck of a lot. Three players in NHL history did it. Phil Esposito didn't do it. Marcel Dionne didn't do it and Dionne had a regular diet of 50+ goals for a while. He aged well and sustained his goal scoring for a while and was STILL 70 goals away from 800. Esposito led the NHL in goals 6 times and was more than 80 goals away. Bossy was still 227 goals away from 800. Selanne finished with 684. I don't know if I'd say Stamkos was a better goal scorer than Selanne, it is close, but it just goes to show you that he too was miles away. Gretzky, Howe and Ovechkin cracked 800 and I think there is a reason for it. Stamkos is a great all-time goal scorer but even without injuries are we willing to say he was better than the ones mentioned who were not close to 800 and had full careers (minus Bossy)?

 

[MadLuke]

More than 50% chance of reaching 800 goals for no major leg injury stamkos....

He still has the lock-out, still has covid short season, still play most of his prime in the low scoring 2009-2017 hockey.

Give him a very nice 25 mores goals in 2014 and an other 40 in 2017, give him a nice 40 others extra goals spread around, that still 670.

And that generous 2x 50 goals seasons in there add around 5 goals per season elsewhere turning 3 others season in 50 goals one, he would have had like 6-7 of them.

A lot, but the next 130 goals getting close to 35 years old (at his current funk it could mean 125 goals past 35) is a lot. Brett Hull scored 25 as a 39 years old, a master at scoring that aged really well, scored 155 of those, not getting his 750 goal mark.

Obviously quite possible for him to do it, quite possible not.