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Originally Posted by FanIn80
I don’t really get the reason why people want to include WHA stats in an NHL record. They were competing leagues. Howe started in the NHL, went to the WHA and then back to the NHL. Should we include Jagr’s KHL stats?
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Yes.
The thing is, when you're talking about these historical stats is that its brutally subjective. You've got various leagues, eras, rule changes, equipment changes, goaltenders, sticks, training and nutrition, forecasting due to injuries and lockouts.....it goes on and on.
None of the stats are purely comparable to anything else which makes them effectively meaningless, but a bit of fun.
Frankly you just have to find what you're comfortable with and go from there. For instance, all else aside I would pose that the best Pure Goal Scorer the NHL has ever seen is likely Ovechkin regardless of what all the historical stats might indicate.