Would Max Pacioretty be a perennial 50 goals scorer in the 90s?

[Riddum]

In the past 7 years, he had 206 goals, which places him at #9 in that span. Needless to say, he is an elite goal scorer.

NHL Player Stats in Last 7 Seasons

People seem to believe that Crosby would have pretty much scored 60 goals every year in the 90s. So, would Max be a multiple times 50 goals scorer in that era?

Edit: Spelling mistake in perennial*

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[IceNeophyte]

Nope, not at 12 years old

 

[quoipourquoi]

I’m not sure what we mean by 1990s. In one half of the decade, you needed 60-80 goals to compete for the goal scoring title; in the back-half, those 70+ goal scorers were hitting 45-55 goals.

No one is hitting 50 or 60 every year.

 

[Spirit of 67]

Which half of the 90's?

 

[DitchMarner]

Dead puck era or prior?

 

[JackSlater]

Pacioretty has only been among the top ten goal scorers in a given season three times with placements of 4, 5 and 8. These are the goal totals for the fourth place goal scorer in each season during the 1990s:

1990: 55
1991: 51
1992: 53
1993: 63
1994: 53
1995: 30 (lockout season) or 51 goals in an 82 game season
1996: 52
1997: 50
1998: 51
1999: 44

If we assume that the goal scoring competition is the same (I suspect that the 90s had more difficult competition among goal scorers but who knows) then a healthy Pacioretty might break 50 goals during a good year. I highly doubt that he would be a perennial 50 goal scorer though as it would entail being a top five goal scorer perennially and Pacioretty hasn't shown that ability in his career.

 

[Riddum]

Dead puck era or prior?

Prior

Which half of the 90's?

First Half

 

[Spirit of 67]

Prior

First Half

Perennial may be a bit of a strong word. It was still not that easy to score 50.

But I thnk it's safe to say he'd have had some 50+ goal seasons.

 

[sr edler]

Sure he could have hit 50 once, Adam Graves and Ray Sheppard did. But both those players floated on a wave of highly effective teammates (Zubov, Leetch, Messier as for Graves; Fedorov in Sheppard's case).

Closest perennial 50 goal scorers in the 90s were probably Bure and Selänne. But both were injured quite some time too.

 

[Thenameless]

I don't think so. Early 90's while still in the high scoring era, he maybe gets there once. And once the dead puck era starts, no way. A perennial 50 goal scorer? No.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Starting in 1990-91 and ending in 1994-95, here are the players with the most 50+ goal seasons:

Brett Hull (4)
Dave Andreychuk (2)
Pavel Bure (2)
Cam Neely (2)
Jeremy Roenick (2)
Brendan Shanahan (2)
Kevin Stevens (2)
Steve Yzerman (2)


Would Pacioretty belong on this list?

Does 2 seasons out of 5 qualify as "perennial" in the first place?

My inclination is that both answers are "no".

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

I think he might've in 92-93. Besides that, no.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Current search:
For single seasons, from 1990-91 to 1999-00, in the regular season, playing skater, requiring Goals >= 50, sorted by most seasons matching criteria .

Rk	Player	G	From	To	Tm	Lg	Count
1	Pavel Bure*		1993	2000	TOT	NHL	4
2	Brett Hull*		1991	1994	STL	NHL	4
3	John LeClair		1996	1998	PHI	NHL	3
4	Mario Lemieux*		1993	1997	PIT	NHL	3
5	Teemu Selanne*		1993	1998	TOT	NHL	3
6	Dave Andreychuk*		1993	1994	TOT	NHL	2
7	Peter Bondra		1996	1998	WSH	NHL	2
8	Alexander Mogilny		1993	1996	TOT	NHL	2
9	Cam Neely*		1991	1994	BOS	NHL	2
10	Jeremy Roenick		1992	1993	CHI	NHL	2
11	Brendan Shanahan*		1993	1994	STL	NHL	2
12	Kevin Stevens		1992	1993	PIT	NHL	2
13	Keith Tkachuk		1996	1997	TOT	NHL	2
14	Steve Yzerman*		1991	1993	DET	NHL	2
15	Sergei Fedorov*		1994	1994	DET	NHL	1
16	Theoren Fleury		1991	1991	CGY	NHL	1
17	Adam Graves		1994	1994	NYR	NHL	1
18	Jaromir Jagr		1996	1996	PIT	NHL	1
19	Paul Kariya*		1996	1996	MDA	NHL	1
20	Pat LaFontaine*		1993	1993	BUF	NHL	1
21	Mike Modano*		1994	1994	DAL	NHL	1
22	Mark Recchi*		1993	1993	PHI	NHL	1
23	Gary Roberts		1992	1992	CGY	NHL	1
24	Luc Robitaille*		1993	1993	LAK	NHL	1
25	Joe Sakic*		1996	1996	COL	NHL	1
26	Ray Sheppard		1994	1994	DET	NHL	1
27	Pierre Turgeon		1993	1993	NYI	NHL	1

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so how far down that list do you have to go before you would say, yeah max pac is as good of a goal scorer as that guy?

 

[tarheelhockey]

so how far down that list do you have to go before you would say, yeah max pac is as good of a goal scorer as that guy?

Far enough that the answer to the question is definitively "no".