Best player in franchise history-Pittsburgh Penguins

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

Malkin was far more important to the Penguins than jagr. Who won individual awards n was a selfish guy

 

[IcedCapp]

So 5 super Crosby fans and 3 super Jagr fans voted for them. The vote for Letang is clearly missclick by someone who wanted to vote for Lemieux.

Or there is clearly one answer here and people are memeing

 

[Dessloch]

Malkin was far more important to the Penguins than jagr. Who won individual awards n was a selfish guy

What? Jaromir Jagr won 2 Stanley cups with the Pens tallying 37 points in 45 games including a couple of OT game winners in these playoffs, one of them in the cup final.

And then saved the franchise from relocating by dragging a shit team to the playoffs every season when Mario retired while dominating the league like nobody else except Mario and 99 had done before. Without Jagr Crosby and Malkin would have played their careers elsewhere than Pittsburgh.

The day Jaromir Jagr (probably) saved the Penguins

Let us take a look back at one of Jaromir Jagr's greatest performances in the NHL.

nhl.nbcsports.com

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Malkin was far more important to the Penguins than jagr. Who won individual awards n was a selfish guy

I couldn't disagree more.

 

[M2Beezy]

Pronovist or Lemieux. Coin flip really

 

[wetcoast]

I think the wording of these is hurting to some degree along with obvious recency bias. For the Flyers for example, I think you can make a case that Lindros was a better player than Clarke in terms of ability, which could satisfy the poll question “best player in franchise history”, but if it’s for best Flyer in terms of play, achievements, longevity, legacy, etc, it’s obviously not close.



I’d say 3 and 4 are debatable. Jagr has the better regular season prime, individual awards and durability on his side, but Malkin has longevity, playoffs and team success on his side and they’re not far apart in peak play.

If one is taking "best" literally then sure it's Mario and his video game stats but better player and career overall Crosby has a case (the strength of it is open for debate but Mario wasn't anything special as an all around player at ES) but those voting MAF?

 

[Stealth JD]

Mario
Crosby
Jagr
Malkin
Coffey

 

[WarriorofTime]

didn't see the Rob Scuderi option