DitchMarner
It's time.
Fedorov has to be one of the best examples of a player significantly better than his scoring stats suggest.
Who are some players that the opposite is true about?
Who are some players that the opposite is true about?
Housley and Esposito are worse than their numbers would indicate. Excluding players who were defensive specialists, and so not really judged by numbers anyway, Henri Richard and Dave Keon are better than their numbers indicate.
That Leafs dynasty team in the 60s had some players that deserve more recognition than their numbers suggest...Keon kind of gets his due, but Pulford, Armstrong, Horton, and Stanley do not relative to what you see on the ice from them...
I don't think Fedorov was better than his numbers (which were fantastic, by the way).
Modano.
Perhaps cheating to name a defensive D, but Hjlamarsson is exceedingly impressive when you watch him every game for a few years.
OP probably not talking about 93–96 stretch but those 4 years thereafter when he didn't hit 70 points.
Was Keon really better than his numbers? This is a loaded question (I have done some research into the underlying numbers), but compare Dave Keon's pre-expansion numbers (so 60-61 through 66-67) to Nicklas Backstrom's post-lockout numbers (so 13-14 through 18-19). Ignoring playoff results for the moment, so you're basing this entirely off regular season results/stats, which player had the better stretch? If you look at just raw numbers, Keon had 378 points in 472 games, compared to Backstrom's 458 points in 482 games, but obviously Backstrom has many more points on the power play compared to Keon, and there are a few more factors in Keon's favor as well.
Raw numbers aren't everything, but instead of/before I post the 5-6 paragraphs of analysis I performed on Keon/Backstrom, I thought I'd leave it open to the community, to solicit their opinion on both the Leafs/Capitals as well as Keon/Backstrom. What factors would lead you to say Keon was better, or are they close in value? I think it is fair to say that you can draw some fairly accurate conclusions, given that Toronto played 490 games over the seven seasons, and Washington played 492 over their six seasons.
Fedorov was a chain smoker?
Because he usually played on very offensively minded teams. When needed be, he was at least competent defensively. It did take him a long time to learn to perform under pressure though.Kovalchuk was significantly worse than his numbers. Massive icetime, especially on the PP, on teams that tended to feed him the puck.