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Originally Posted by getbak
Using Points per Game...
JAGR- Won the Cup in his first two seasons, at ages 19 and 20.
- The Cup wins came in his 21st and 14th highest scoring seasons.
- His highest-scoring season was when he was 23.
- Of his 10 highest-scoring seasons, all were after his Cup wins.
YZERMAN- Won the Cup at ages 31, 32, and 36.
- The Cup wins came in his 12th, 17th and 16th highest scoring seasons.
- His highest-scoring season was when he was 23.
- Of his 10 highest-scoring seasons, all were before his first Cup win.
SAKIC- Won the Cup at ages 26 and 31.
- His Cup winning years were also the two highest scoring seasons of his career.
- Of his 10 highest-scoring seasons, 5 were before his first Cup win, 2 were between the Cup wins, and 1 was after his Cup wins.
LEMIEUX- Won the Cup at ages 24 and 25.
- The Cup wins came in his 9th and 6th highest scoring seasons.
- The highest-scoring season of his career was the year after the back-to-back Cups, when he was 26.
- Of his 10 highest-scoring seasons, 5 were before he won the Cup and 3 were after.
GRETZKY- Won the Cup at ages 22, 23, 25 and 26.
- The Cup wins came in his 1st, 4th, 7th, and 6th highest scoring seasons.
- Of his 10 highest-scoring seasons, 3 were before he won the Cup, 1 was in the year between Cups, and 2 were after.
Of the 13 Cups won by these players, only 4 were won by the players when they were older than McDavid and Draisaitl will be next season. 3 of those were won by Yzerman after he completely re-invented his game to be less focused on scoring. Too bad the Oilers hired Stan Bowman and not Scotty. |
The salary cap changes things. Before, if you drafted what turns out to be a high-value player, you could pay to fill a team around that player.
Salary Cap came in the 05-06 season:
Jagr won the cup in 91 & 92
Yzerman won the cup in 97, 98, and 02
Sakic won it in 96 & 01
Gretzky won in 84, 85, 87, & 88
All of these players won cups pre-salary cap.
Now, if you have a higher value player, you have less money to spend on the rest of your team. Having an amazing talent is helpful ofcourse, but I feel there is a lot more to it now, and McD & Drai will be eating up a lot of that salary.