there was and is a very simple and easy way to compare Frank and Steve, how did they score compared to their Canadian counterparts.
Steve in his 4 year peak demolished his counterparts, Frank was at least a distant 2nd to Bowie.
If you want to compare Stamkos to the larger world, ie Russins ect then you have to acknowledge the greater difficulty that Stamkos faced in his competition but somehow you are holding onto some other hidden notion here.
even against the world Stamkos just destroys all others in goal scoring in his 4 year peak
http://www.hockey-reference.com/pla...3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&order_by=goals
Both guys were basically goal scorers, we have a few quotes about Frank being this and that but we can't really put it into any type of context compared to Stamkos either who plays in a much more developed league where the game is coached beyond belief.
Frank played in a pretty carefree and vastly changing era which was highly unstructured and were the Rover who set up the plays was usually considered the best or most important player on the teams and goal scoring wasn't considered as important as it would later become.