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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
He's showing overall goals per game to normalize for the fact that there were just more goals period in Gretzky's era. Which means the fact that their goals per game, is identical, is even more impressive for AO.
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I mean … it depends on whether you give Wayne any credit for his 1963 assists which is, you know, over 1200 more than Ovechkin
Ovechkin shoots, rarely passes. So with a primary focus on shooting, he caught the guy whose first priority was passing
If you’re correcting for era, why not consider play style
Either way, very impressive by Ovechkin. I don’t think many people expected that record to fall