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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
I feel like the lockouts he's endured have affected his career stats a lot in terms of the greatest players conversations:
1. He'd have many more GP, especially with how durable he is.
2. He'd have had 15 consecutive 30-goal seasons, book-ended by seasons of 28,29,29. Jagr would have had the record with 16 (without the lockout), but impressive nonetheless. Iggy could have also had 19 seasons with 20 goals, and an outside chance to make it 20 this season. That's only 2 back of Gordie's record!
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Also, had there not been a full season lost to lockout, plus a season shortened due to lockout, Iginla would have scored ~50 more goals. That would put him around 665 goals currently, which would have him within reach of spot #8 (Messier - 694), spot #9 (Yzerman - 692) and spot #10 (Lemieux - 690). That is pretty damn impressive considering the most of his games, at least in his prime, were in a clutching and grabbing era where goals were down league-wide.