Sure, but again, that's a lot of selection bias going on. Lemieux retires at 31 after seasons of back trouble and cancer, and his G/GP is way higher than Ovechkin's. Now, Richard's saying we have to ignore that because of era and numbers. Okay. I'll play along.
But if we're going to award Ovechkin weight for scoring in the modern era, we have to do the same for all players that played IN the modern era or dead puck era. So, Jagr's totals go up, Gretzky's sometimes go down. Fair enough. But we also have to adjust for players like Howe who spent a large part of their careers playing in eras before expansion where goals per game are way lower than even today's (around 4.79 to the modern era's 5.5)
So, if someone's gonna claim the numbers prove it, I wanna see the math.