Was Mike Gartner underrated?

[Yozhik v tumane]

How many other players have their career rank in a major category (goals - 8th all time) higher than all but one single season finish (5th, 9th, 9th, 9th, 10th are best finishes).

That would have to be extremely rare and make a clear comparable difficult.

Had a look at Dave Andreychuk. Currently sits at 15th in goals scored all-time, however he retired 11th. Has seasons finishing 4th, 9th and 12th in league goal scoring, so he clears it.

Edit: Shanahan, Selänne, Jagr and Ovechkin are the players who’ve surpassed Andreychuk since.

 

[sr edler]

None of that is relevant to his consistency in goal scoring.

Gartner has more 40 goal seasons, than Bure has 20 goal seasons for comparison.

Bure's got point scoring finishes that reads 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 7th, in the league, two of those while missing a bunch of games. I don't know what Gartner's best point scoring finish is, but apparently his best goal scoring finishes are 5th, 9th, 9th, 9th and 10th? Bure's 1st, 1st, 1st. He also had a 1st in the best-on-best 1998 Olympics, voted best forward. He scored 16 (1st) in the playoffs once, where he also had a 16-game point streak which is the longest of all-time outside of Gartner's high-flying 80s (only behind Trottier and MacInnis).

I don't know why we're even doing this, comparing Bure and Gartner, outside of wasting this site's precious bandwidth (perhaps forcing yet another one of its many software updates?). vadim asked up-thread "why señor?" and I agree with him. This is a highly pointless discussion because Gartner vs Pacioretty really is a much more valid comparison.

 

[MadLuke]

Did not follow the plot but is seem to be that some strawman is going on.

Has anyone suggested that through their respective career Bure was more consistant at scoring a total amount of goal during that season ?

Gartner could be a top 3 most consistent goal scorer of all time (with Bossy and few that would compete), about all is season are around 35 adjusted goals +/- 8 type except the last one and a lock-out year.

I doubt there some people the other side of that debate.

 

[sr edler]

At least no-one's called Gartner "the Ned Flanders of hockey" in the thread yet, which happened in OP's prior Gartner thread here on HOH, some 2+ years ago.

How good was Mike Gartner?