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Originally Posted by Buff
Selanne.... did he just catch Lightning in a bottle in his rookie year or did his injury really hurt him that much?
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1992-93 was a statistical outlier, far and away the highest scoring season in the last 30 years. Over 20 players had 100 or more points, and a bunch set career highs that year that they'd never come close to reaching again. E.g. Joe Juneau, Craig Janney, Alex Mogilny, Doug Gilmour, Rick Tocchet, Mark Recchi, Pierre Turgeon, Adam Oates, Pat Lafontaine.
Selanne was still a very impressive scorer in the late '90s with the Ducks. The fact he cracked 100 points at all later in the decade was impressive, i.e. in '96-'97 the only players with 100+ points were Selanne and Lemieux, and in '98-'99 the only ones were Selanne, Jagr and Kariya. In fact those were the only players to have 100+ points in a season from 1997 to 2000.