That year was a different beast, but you could be right. The NHL was calling all sorts of penalties all year so scoring was inflated over today's standards.
No, the scenario where a person with 50s era training is dropped directly in to the current model of physical fitness/athleticism without any sort of preparation is FICTION. What I'm talking about is trying to compare apples to apples; admittedly impossible with players from bygone eras, but it's completely irrational to believe that they would stay the same physically with today's regimens.
and put up 50% more points than anyone else? Come on really? Where is the logic here?
Your analogy is flawed.
People lack the mental capacity or simply biased to objectively observe how quick the game has progressed. It's changed since 5 years ago, let alone 1 or 2 or 3 decades ago. Theres such an insane amount of variables that each era is pretty much incompatible for comparison. I would bet my money that a large portion of people saying these things are from the same generation as these players and like I said earlier we will get another portion of a generation in 2040 saying that McDavid or the Blackhawks' or Penguins' teams playing in 2040 would destroy rather than simply keeping them in their respective era's and understanding the impossibility of comparison. You almost get the sense that for some of these people it's more about them saying their generation is the best rather than simply acknowledging the natural progression of their sport. To actually address the OP he would more than likely be a generational talent but some of the logic here is just flat out nonsense. There's this guy named Ovechkin that might ring a bell with literally the same exact build but I'm not entirely sure how teams figure out a way to stop him. This is a league now where the parity between high end players is almost nonexistent, the last few seasons being no more than 10 points, yet Jagr is going to come in with a build that has never been seen before
A good comparison because it's similar and incredibly obvious to see it's progressing at an absurd rate is the UFC in particular the woman's division. Ronda Rousey looked like a monster in a developing market where overall skill was not yet very high and in just a few years from strikeforce to the ufc went from unstoppable, with Rogan even saying she could fight in the men's division (which he later said was silly of him) , to facing 2 well rounded strikers making her look silly. In almost 5 years the overall skill level has skyrocketed and in 10 years Ronda might still be regarded as the best female fighter ever but the overall talent and parity will not be remotely comparable to her time period.
To sum it up, keep it in their respective eras.
