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Originally Posted by Tinordi
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.
Infact in 1995-96 goals per game was a high outlier in goals per game 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 |
1996 was absolutely the dead puck era. It wasn't the middle of it but you're going to find far more people refer to the dead puck era starting in 1995 than 1998. And I've also used 1996 and 2006 as benchmarks. 1996, with Lemieux and Jagr, had 6.2 goals per game, 2006 has 6.1 goals per game, based on the last website I looked. Not exactly a crazy difference.