TheGuiminator
I’ll be damned King, I’ll be damned
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The 2012-13 Crosby obviously had the scoring title locked up, with a bow on top, if he'd just played a couple more games. No doubt about that one.
But 2010-11...? Meh. I really hesitate to assume anything when a guy played 50% of the games. A lot of stuff can happen in those other 41 games.
Here were the NHL scoring leaders after Crosby went down on Jan. 5th, 2011:
1. Crosby -- 66 points in 41 games
2. Stamkos -- 56 points in 41 games
3. St.Louis -- 51 points in 41 games
Then, these were the leaders after that point until the end of the regular season:
1. Perry -- 54 points in 39 games
2. D. Sedin -- 54 points in 43 games
3. Iginla -- 51 points in 41 games
Daniel Sedin was the Ross winner with 104 points. So, Crosby would have needed 39 points in his last 41 games to clinch the Art Ross. Would he probably have done that? Of course. Would he certainly have done that? I'm not sure. In the second half, players like Kane, Tavares, and Kovalchuk were scoring at a pace that Crosby would have needed to better in order to win that Ross.
Just saying, it's hard to award a guy things when he missed half the time.
At that point of his career, Crosby NEVER had a stretch of 41 games were he averaged less than a point per game. So it’s more than probably that he wins the Art Ross that year, I could’ve bet my house quite honestly. At the very worse, his pacing would had drop at a 90 pts pace, that still gives him 111 points, good enough for the Art Ross.