Can anyone match Mario being in on 57.3% of his team's goals from 1989?

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

I wonder how many points Lemieux would have had in 87/88 if Coffey was with the pens the entire season instead of just half.

 

[authentic]

That stats is almost pure trivia, not sure it is fair to consider a player season significantly any worst or better because of what their teams did when they were not in the ice.

It has some MVP consideration to it, but not much of an absolute good season to it.

Take the Colorado first liner, would one member of that line have scored has many point with them playing separately all year, he is having a better season but would end up with a lower % of point share on is team goal.

Yeah I agree. Funny how Lemieux didn't even win the Hart that season though.

 

[The Panther]

How much stock would you personally put into these stats? Obviously it favours players on worse teams but do you think this makes Lemieux's season 1989 season
better than any of Gretzky's?

Well, let's put it this way: do you consider Petr Bondra's 1995 goal-scoring more impressive than Mario in 1988-89?

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

A crazy stat - it speaks to both how good a 37 year old Lemieux was, and how awful those Penguins were.

If Lemieux's back wasn't completely FUBAR by that time, he would've had a legitimate chance at the Art Ross that year. Finished 15 points behind Forsberg (who, admittedly, also missed seven games himself, surprise surprise) and recored 91 points in only 67 games, on a truly terrible Penguins team. Though, come to think of it, it was probably a combination of his deteriorating back and the Kovalev trade, and even if he had been able to play another 5-10 games post-Kovalev trade it might not have been enough. Simply not enough to work with.

 

[authentic]

Well, let's put it this way: do you consider Petr Bondra's 1995 goal-scoring more impressive than Mario in 1988-89?

No, but that's a little different than peak Lemieux vs peak Gretzky.

 

[The Panther]

No, but that's a little different than peak Lemieux vs peak Gretzky.

Well, to answer your question, I don't put much stock in it.

The "ideal" situation for this kind of stat is a superb, uniquely talented player in his prime on a so-so team (good enough to score a bit, but maybe bad defensively) with little depth (so the top guy plays 2 minutes on every PP, for example).

It's the formula of Mario on the 80s' Pens.