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Originally Posted by blankall
You're not counting the year he spent in the minor after his draft year and ignoring the 29 point he had in sophomore NHL season. The scoring leader in Iginla's rookie year had 122 points vs. 108 now. Both years had 9 players with 90 or more points. That dead puck era, was very similar in scoring to now. There were 2.92 goals/year in Iginla's rookie year vs. 2.97 now.
I'm not making the point that Bennett will be as good as Iginla, just pointing out how the best player for the Flames ever took a few years to adjust.
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Iginla didn't play game in the minors. He came to Calgary from junior, during the POs. Then he started with the Flames the next year. I'm not ignoring his sophomore jinx (in which he had 32 points in 70 games, not 29 points) I'm saying that in three of his first four years he was great.
BTW, That scoring leader in 1996-97 was Mario Lemieux, who had a 13 point gap over the next guy, some dude named Selanne, who in turn had 10 points over some guy named Kariya. In other words, only two guys over 100 points. The next year the winner was Jagr with 102 points, the only guy over 100. Only 4 players were over 90 that year. The next year was a bit bett but after that there was no one even over 100. Dead puck era.