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Originally Posted by GioforPM
If PPG = elite, then a whole lot of teams that haven't won have had elite centres.
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A PPG was elite for a very long time.
Backstrom was easily a top 10 C in the NHL. From the time he entered the league in 2007-08 until WSH won the cup in 2017-18 Backstrom had the 5th most points in the NHL! He was only behind Ovechkin, Crosby, Malkin, and Kane! He had 799 points in 815 games, and was +118.
In that time period he is the 8th best C in terms of points per game with 0.95P/GP. He was only behind Crosby, McDavid, Malkin, Barzal(84GP), Stamkos, Datsyuk, and Getzlaf. He was ahead of Thorton, Tavares, Sedin, Kopitar, Zetterberg, Spezza, Seguin, Toews etc.
You can also go year by year among centers:
2007-08(rookie): 23rd in points ,29th P/GP
2008-09: 6th in points, 6th P/GP
2009-10: 3rd in points, 3rd P/GP
2010-11: 20th in points, 23rd P/GP
2011-12: 49th in points, 5th P/GP
2012-13: 8th in points, 10th P/GP
2013-14: 5th in points, 10th in P/GP
2014-15: 3rd in points, 8th in P/GP
2015-16: 7th in points, 8th in P/GP
2016-17: 3rd in points, 5th in P/GP
2017-18: 16th in points, 23rd in P/GP
Kuznetsov
2017-18: 9th in points, 8th in P/GP