NCREDiBLE wrote on Thu, 21 April 2022 14:28

On NHL 14 I once scored 76 goals with Shawn Horcoff on be a gm mode Seriously tho, can Ovechkin hit 50 again next year and hold the record to himself? Kind of shocked with how Bossy & Gretzky owned the league that they didn't get 50 over 10 times. Imagine if Lemieux was healthy too I'm sure he would have had some hard numbers to break.

I think the biggest thing is health for all those players.

Bossy only played 10 seasons and only missed scoring 50 in the last one - even there, he had 38 in 63 games so pretty solid pace, even with his body breaking down.

Gretzky, despite being a pass-first player, scored over 50 his first eight seasons, and he too missed finally because of injury. He had 40 goals in 64 games in Season Nine (his last with Edmonton). Up until that point he's extremely durable and misses virtually no time - just 8 games in 8 seasons. After that, he never played a full season again until 1996-97. He was always a great player in his career, but Gary Suter did him significant damage with the dirty hit in the 1991 Canada Cup and he wasn't really the same after that. Still a brilliant playmaker, but the scoring numbers drop and don't recover. Gary Suter was the worst.

Mario, well, obviously, he had cancer and back issues. Just six 50 goal campaigns and missed 50 in his first two seasons which I'm definitely pointing out to my "Mario-is-the-best-scorer-ever" friends next time this comes up...

Also, completely unrelated sidenote from looking this stuff up on hockeydb. Saw this on the side of the screen and it made me laugh:

Quote:

Similar Players Not the Wayne Gretzky you're looking for? We have one other player with a similar name. Wayne Grotski (AJHL) [1974-1978]

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