Yeah...if I'd wanted to select Dave Taylor's seven best seasons playing with Dionne or somesuch, I could make him look better, too (hell, I included his rookie year in the original analysis), but I'm confident that the point is already made.
It would have been cherry picking if I had randomly picked the best seasons Krutov had throughout his career. What I do is discount the pre-prime seasons (stat-wise) of Krutov since no pre-prime seasons of Makarov figure in the comparison either and compare consecutive seasons when both players were in their prime. The original comparison was distorted in favour of Makarov.
No different from the pre-war NHL, really.
It shouldn't be assumed pre-war NHL scoring stats alone give us anything close to a full picture either.
For all intents and purposes, bandy died as an organized sport. The major sporting clubs, all organs of the communist party in some shape or form (factory teams, military, etc.), were ordered to convert their bandy programs to ice hockey programs. Though the sport was never "officially" banned within the Soviet Union, the only organizations which could have played it in an organized manner would have been private, and private organizations (especially in the Stalin era) in the Soviet Union were essentially nonexistent.
You got that wrong, bandy did not die as an organized sport. There was a Cup tournament that continued into the 1950s and there was a national championship beginning in the 1950s and continuing right up to 1992. On top of that, there were republican championships (Russian SS Republic etc) and city championships. And of course the Soviet Union had a bandy national team (in fact they won the first eleven editions of the world championships starting in 1957). A guy like
Vladimir Yelizarov played bandy (Burevistnik Moscow 1945-47) before switching to hockey (Lokomotiv Moscow 1947-48 and CSKA [then CDKA] Moscow 1949-1953, won the domestic championship with the latter team in 1950), then switched back to bandy (CSKA 1953-55, won two domestic championships with them in 1954 and 1955) and finally returned to hockey (CSKA 1955-59, three domestic championships, played for the Soviet national team at the 1958 World Championship).
Organized bandy, elite level:
1946-1947 Cup final: Dinamo Moscow - Dinamo Leningrad 4-1
1947-1948 Cup final: Dinamo Moscow - Spartak Moscow 4-0
1948-1949 Cup final: Dinamo Moscow - Metrostroy Moscow 4-0
1949-1950:
-Championship: 1) ODO Sverdlovsk, 2) Dinamo Moscow, 3) Spartak Moscow
-Cup final: Dinamo Moscow - Traktor Krasnoyarsk 1-0
1950-1951:
-Championship: 1) Dinamo Moscow, 2) ODO Sverdlovsk, 3) Spartak Moscow
-Cup final: Dinamo Moscow - IFV Leningrad 2-1
1951-1952:
-Championship: 1) Dinamo Moscow, 2) KVIFK Leningrad, 3) ODO Sverdlovsk
-Cup final: Dinamo Moscow - IFV Leningrad 2-1
1952-1953:
-Championship: 1) ODO Sverdlovsk, 2) ODO Riga, 3) Traktor Krasnoyarsk
-Cup final: Dinamo Moscow - ODO Sverdlovsk 1-1, 2-1
1953-1954:
-Championship: 1) CSDA Moscow, 2) Dinamo Moscow, 3) Burevestnik Moscow
-Cup final: Dinamo Moscow - ODO Kharabovsk 2-1
1954-1955 Championship: 1) CSK MO Moscow, 2) ODO Sverdlovsk, 3) ODO Khabarovsk
etc