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 oilfan94
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| Pseudoreality wrote on Sat, 15 December 2018 00:41 |
| oilfan94 wrote on Fri, 14 December 2018 21:54 |
Anyone else notice that Draisatl is low key on pace to hit 100 points?
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Yup, it was discussed in another thread. To be fair though, there are like 15 other players that are also "on pace" to hit or exceed 100 points. We are not going to have that many 100+ point players at the end of the year. I'd be shocked if it turns out more than 5 players crack 100 points. God, and people who bother to look it up, knows when that last happened.
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Good point, but it's still great to see.
Since I had a few minutes I looked it up. There are 15 guys on pace for 100 right now (good guess) with all of them being not too unexpected except for maybe Brayden Point and Mikko Rantanen.
In 1996 there were 12 100 point scorers, with 7 others within 5 points (Florida getting to the Final with the trap really did wreck the offence in the league). Before then it was in 1993 when 21 players hit 100 points (including guys like Craig Janney, Rick Tocchet, and Joe Juneau). Even through the 80s you didn't see it getting up to 15 much, maybe just a couple of times. Really makes it more impressive that Gretzky was able to get to 200 so many times. It's not like everybody was hitting 100 every year back then, just looks that way when your an Oilers fan because their guys always seemed to get there.
Once you get back to the 70s, it's the same guys and same teams with players getting to 100 points most years, Boston, Montreal, Philadelphia, and the New York teams.
Kind of surprised that 1993 is when there was the most. Not the year I would have guessed, especially with Gretzky injured that year and not even making it on the list. Also, of those 21 guys in 1993, 15 of them had their best season that year.
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