There is a majority of dumbasses on HFboards who have convinced themselves that Ovi scoring 65 goals was better than Matthews this season. It's absolutely bonkers.
I get that they are just hating but it's still sad.
Look man, we all love Matthews but we should try to be reasonable too.
Ovi scored 65 goals in 82 games in 2008.
Matthews has 68 goals so far in 78 games, 79 for the team.
The top team in 2008 had a total of 262 goals and Ovi was on an average team with 242 goals.
The Leafs lead the league this season with 293 already. The top scoring team in 2008 would barely make the playoffs this season based on GF.
In 2008 they had 4 on 4 OT but not 3 on 3 OT.
The next most goals on Ovi's team was 26 and 21. Ovi had 112 points, the next best on his team was 69.
There were 10 40 goal or more goal scorers in 2008.
There are already 16 and will probably 18 this season.
One site (hockey-reference) that attempts to adjust scoring for eras has Ovi at 72 and Matthews at 70 so far. Take that for what it's worth.
We'll never be able to adjust stats for eras especially considering teammates, goalie equipment, health and ice time etc., but shirley you can see that scoring overall is definitely up and that there exists a legitimate argument that Ovi had a better or at least close to equal goal scoring season in 2008.
Either way it's pretty close, the rest is trolling.