No, I'm counting the 82 games lost to the 2004-05 lockout, the 34 games lost to the 2012-13 lockout and the 14 games lost to Covid, which totals about 130 games.
130 games at a rate of 1.10 PPG = 143 additional points
130 games at a rate of 0.61 GPG - 79 additional goals.
So Ovechkin would be looking at a career regular season stats line of 1282 GP 785 636 A 1421 PTS in a fantasy world. That already puts him 3rd in career goals and 17th in points with a few seasons left in the tank.
Ah, I follow. Frankly, I don't believe in projecting either way. Injuries. Lockouts. Missed seasons. Any of it. You judge based on what happened.
BUT, this thread asks you to teleport back to when each one of them was 18. Doing that, I see two 'groups' in terms of how I'd look at them
as 18 year olds, which implies you're to discount what they did thereafter. OV, Malkin, and Federov are in one group, and Datsyuk, Bure, and Mogilny are in the other. OV was the cream of the group (Malkin was good enough that a few scouts said they'd have been tempted to take him over OV . . . nobody would have, obviously, but it's a comment on Malkin's stock), and it's hard to fathom how highly touted a 18 year old Sergei Federov would've been touted in the 2004 draft). The other group . . . Bure is the best of that lot.
Anyway, IF I'm building with one group with them as 18 year olds, I'm going OV, Malkin, Datsyuk. The best scoring winger and two centers (one an elite prospect) over one elite C prospect and two winger prospects ranking below OV.