Go back to my post where I compared their playoff numbers. Crosby missed the playoffs in his first season. Jagr was a rookie who's team made it to the Finals and so he played 24 games but only scored 13 Pts, take away his rookie playoff run and his numbers are 80 games, 47 goals, 47 assists and 94 Pts which is not every much less impressive than 105 Pts in 82 games ( I don't call that size able).
That's a 1.24 PPG to 1.175 PPG difference), or 105 Pts to 96 Pts difference in 82 games.
You are only going to use raw numbers and no actual context like the numbers are the same for both eras?
Sid has been the face and focal point form day 1 on his Pens team, Jagr was a secondary player who scored some points on a stacked offensive team for at least up until 95-96.
No one is seriously going to rate Jagrs playoffs over his first 8 seasons ahead of Sid.
Sid leads the NHL playoffs in assists and points one year and goals in the next (along with an all time great of 31 points)
his 2 best playoffs wash out like this
20-6-21-27 (leads Pitt and NHL)
24-15-16-31 (2nd in NHL and team)
Here are Jagr's 2 best years in his first 8
21-11-13-24 (4th on his team)
18-11-12-23 (2nd on his team)
Both years Mario is the leader on his team in scoring and their is an Orr affect on Jagr's numbers, Sid isn't riding along anyone's coat tails in his 2 years.
In fact he is drawing the heavy match up against Detroit, which allows Malkin to score early in the series and after Dats comes back Malkin is stifled as well.
Just to put Jagr's 2 best offensive playoffs into context point wise they were the 23rd and 27th best playoffs in his 1st 8 years compared to his peers
http://www.hockey-reference.com/pla...val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&order_by=points
sids were 2nd and 7th, his 3rd best playoffs was 34th, Jagrs 3rd best wasn't in the top 100.
So don't try to mislead us that Sid and Jagr are close in the playoff resume in their 1st 8 years, they aren't.
Jagr BTW never does become an "elite" playoff performer in the sense that Sid has already done 2 times in his first 8 seasons.