filinski77
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I'm just adding some other viewpoint other than raw points since he came into the league, which of course leaves out many other factors.Your contradicting yourself by changing the standard games played to 600, which obviously will hurt Zetterberg....so the context doesn’t make sense.
That’s a pretty inaccurate observation. The guy has a .89 PPG.....that’s really good. And like I stated, with 1000 games, he sits 4th in PPG. That’s not a product of playing so long, he was still very much productive for having played so many games. He’s also 8th in goals and 3rd in assists with at least 1000 games. Once again, showing production.
For example: points/gp from 2002/2003 (his first year) to 2013/2014 (last season he put up a point/gp, therefore giving him the advantage of shaving off his decline years), he is 15th in p/gp for players with over 400 games in that span. Looking at it this way takes his 18-32 year old potential prime age of health, and compares it with other players, who also may have had decline years in this time frame.
Or for ex/ Since his first year in the league up until 2013/2014 (again, his last year going p/gp), his 92 points season (his career high) is the 54th on a list of top point producing players. His second best (which was 85) falls to 92nd.
Or looking at his direct points/goal finishes, points = 6/8 and goals = 5th. Not many elite seasons from a points perspective.
To finish this up, I just want to clarify I'm not saying he wasn't an elite player or a great player, he was a stud 2 way centre who played very defensively responsible. But he was never an elite point producer over his career, regardless of "x points since x season"