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It took him 17 years, actually until 2012-13, he was well above PPG, of course playing in a deep playoff run at age 41 on a new team with no chemistry helped to lower his career playoff PPG to below PPG.
Jagr's PPG was not as high due to also being a 19 year old rookie playing on the 4th line in a long playoff run to start his career.
Take away his rookie season and his last season in the playoffs and his PPG is just as impressive. He played in 156 playoffs games outside of his first and last playoffs and registered 176 Pts. Of course I will be accused of cherry picking stats but you cannot compare a player playing 1st line minutes to a player playing 3rd and 4th line minutes.
Jagr's PPG in the playoffs never started to drop until he was past his 30's. Crosby is not near 30 years old and already his PPG is dropping while having played less games in the same timeframe.
Over the past 4 playoff runs when Crosby is supposed to be in his prime, he's scored 49 Pts in 42 games. I bet if we were to look at Jagr's PPG in the playoffs during his prime, things would look a lot more impressive for # 68.
Once again this is a bad stretch for him?
See how he stacks up maybe, his 1.17 PPG leads everyone who matters.
What 4 year consecutive period of AO, or heck even Jagr stacks up to that?
easy answer pretty much none.