Really unfortunate news. Bossy's career was originally cut short by a bad back, and looks like he'll be taken well before he should have as well.
His goals per game average is one record that might just stand the test of time.
Currently he's at 0.762 goals per game with 573 in only 752 games.
The shorter career helps that number for sure. But he was a top notch goal scorer every season he played. 9 straight 50 goal seasons to start his career, I'll be slobberknocked if I see that happen again in my life time.
Can you imagine taking a guy 15th overall, and 2 years later, this guy has 122 goals scored for your team nowadays? Talk about a different era.
yeah for sure, on the other hand- even for a 'different era' he was one special goal scorer- (I know you aren't implying anything differently)
of course players were drafted at 20 back then, but look at his first season
first off its remarkable that the top 9 goal scorers had 8 HOFers- and this is a group of guys in their PRIMES and he just steps in and smokes (pun intended?) all of them except Lafleur
Really unfortunate news. Bossy's career was originally cut short by a bad back, and looks like he'll be taken well before he should have as well.
His goals per game average is one record that might just stand the test of time.
Currently he's at 0.762 goals per game with 573 in only 752 games.
The shorter career helps that number for sure. But he was a top notch goal scorer every season he played. 9 straight 50 goal seasons to start his career, I'll be slobberknocked if I see that happen again in my life time.
Can you imagine taking a guy 15th overall, and 2 years later, this guy has 122 goals scored for your team nowadays? Talk about a different era.
Not only nine straight 50-goal seasons to start his career, but he only played ten years. And even in that injury-shortened final year, broken back and all, he scored 38 goals in 63 games; still a 48-goal pace over a full season.
And not only nine straight 50-goal seasons, but three straight 60-goal seasons and five 60-goal seasons overall. Think about that for a second: year-over-year he scored more than 60 goals per season for half his career. His career average goals-per-season was 57.3. Gretzky's average was 44.7 (although his average in his first ten years was a preposterous 63.7...). Ovechkin's career average is 45.6, and averaged 47.5 in his first (best) ten years. It was "a different era", for sure, but Bossy was still scoring about 60 goals a year, every single year, year after year, for a decade. It was like clockwork.
Only 20 men have ever scored 60 or more goals in a season, and only eight of them have done it more than once: Jari Kurri, Steve Yzerman and Pavel Bure each did twice; Brett Hull did it three times, Phil Esposito and Mario Lemieux did it four times, and only two men have ever scored 60 or more five times in their careers: Wayne Gretzky...
... and Mike Bossy.
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Sad day indeed. One of my first favorite players. #22 is my birthday number (October) so yeah. R.I.P. Mr. Bossy. My thoughts and prayers to your family and friends.
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one of the most amazing goals ever scored was in the Stanley Cup finals vs the Canucks. Bossy is knock over. While falling and in mid-air, he stickhandles the puck to his backhand and roofs a shot short-side over Brodeur. The greatest goal scorer of all time, imo
