http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=7...d=nhl:topheads
I know I'll continue to get beat up for choosing Ovi over Price for the Hart, but the quote below is another reason that I think Ovi deserves it more. He is in a league of his own when it comes to scoring goals. I know the Hart is obviously for single season performance and not a 10-year aggregate, but what the quote shows is that his goal scoring (in my opinion) is a bigger feat this year than Price's outstanding numbers.
Not only that, but 11 GWG's is just incredible.
(Interesting tid-bit: Iggy has 93 career GWG, and Gretzky has 91. Jagr has 128)
Quote:
It isn't just Ovechkin's ability to dominate in an otherwise offensively-challenged era. It is also the separation between him and his peers.
As Jon Press of Japers' Rink wrote Tuesday, Ovechkin's dominance compared to the next-best goal scorer of the past 10 years, Jarome Iginla, is among the best in League history. Ovechkin has 472 goals since he entered the NHL in 2005-06, which is 136 more than Iginla has in that span.
Ovechkin has averaged 0.63 goals per game since 2005-06. Two other players with at least 200 games played have averaged at least 0.5 per game, Stamkos and Ilya Kovalchuk
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