If you're going to argue about how great Lemieux was based on the dead puck era you should at least have your facts straight.
The height of the dead puck era wasn't 1996 it basically started was between 1998 and 2003 declining every year from that period.
The 1995-96 goals per game was a high outlier at 3.14. Infact last year the goals per game was 2.74 which is right in the range of the dead puck era.
http://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/stats.html