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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Counting the Dead Puck Era as 1994-95 to present...
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Joe Jarome
GP 726 1240
G 271 530
A 289 580
Pts 569 1110
GPG 0.37 0.43
PPG 0.77 0.90
Notes:
-The dead puck era is generally considered to have begun with the 1994-95 season and ascendancy of the Devils. The average NHL team still scored 3.24GPG that season. Removing this season would reduce Nieuwendyk's averages
- I counted to present day because scoring averages simply never recovered. The new rules in 2005-06 had only a momentary blip before settling back to the traditional ranges of the last 20 years.
- As with previous arguments, Niewuendyk had the benefit of being a support player on stacked teams and almost certainly facing lesser defencemen while playing with superior linemates, yet still falls behind Iginla as the only threat on abysmal offensive teams. |
A poster posited that Iginla was the greatest goalscorer of the Dead Puck Era, a position I disagreed on. I argued that Nieuwendyk likely has a similar goals total over that same amount of time (the aforementioned 'Dead Puck Era') and likely had a higher goals per game.
You've compared Iginla's entire career to that of Joe's waning offensive days, and the comparison doesn't look that great.
Even with crediting Iginla with his most fruitful offensive seasons compared to Nieuwendyk's offensive decline, Nieuwendyk is still only
.06 off of Iginla's Career goals per game total? This is somehow a dominant statistic?
Is the argument really that Iginla's entire goal scoring career is only .06 better than Nieuwendyk's declining offensive years during the lowest scoring period in hockey? At 37, Nieuwendyk put up 22 goals in 64 games when a Prime Iginla was scoring 41 in 81.
In 2005-2006, Nieuwendyk at 39 and utterly broken down scored 9 less goals than Iginla in 17 less games.