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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.

To add to this Yzerman and Sakic were playing on pre-cap powerhouses. They were the true veteran leaders on teams that you couldn't put together right now with the salary cap.