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Originally Posted by theTrumanShow
The league has totally changed with much more scoring. Jarome never had a winger like Johnny. Monny is half the player Iggy was at best.
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The game is stylistically very different, but the actual numbers are pretty similar. Here are the league-wide goals per game stats during each player's first six years.
Iggy:
96-97: 2.92 Goals per game
97-98: 2.64
98-99: 2.63
99-00: 2.75
00-01: 2.76
01-02: 2.62
Monahan:
13-14: 2.74
14-15: 2.73
15-16: 2.71
16-17: 2.77
17-18: 2.97
18-19: 3.01
That's not vastly different.
Iggy never had a player like Johnny, but he also didn't have to play centre. You can argue about how good a centre Monahan is, but he's been used as this team's #1C since virtually Day 1 of his 2nd season. And he's still as productive as he is.