Lol what?? How much context is it even possible to ignore? Not only does Coffey’s slightly, and I repeat: slightly, higher production in those seasons, have to be partly addressed to his MUCH better teams and MUCH better supporting cast but he also has A LOT more healthy seasons to choose from. So funny, and worrying, how people think players somehow play and produce in a vacuum without being affected by the circumstances around them, like at all. If Coffey’s and Karlsson’s situations were somewhat similar it could be useful to compare their top seasons numbers straight up, and even then there’s not a huge separation, but as I posted earlier EK vs #77 is as much an apples vs oranges comparison as it gets in terms of their respective situations.
It’s a minor miracle that Karlsson can be that close to Coffey in terms of top 5 seasons production.
Coffey is the offensive Dman with the most beneficial situation to put up high point totals in the history of the NHL, and it’s not even particularly close. Playing with prime Gretzky, Kurri, Messier etc. etc. on arguably the best team in NHL history without a salary cap, fewer teams, much less even matchups both between the teams but also 1st line vs depth players etc. Then prime Lemieux, Jagr, Francis, Stevens etc etc, then Yzerman, Fedorov, Shanahan, Lidstrom, I mean this discussion is just getting ridiculous at this point. Someone help me out here.