daver
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I posted the home/road splits earlier as well, and from what I can tell it doesn't seem like the away trips explain the differences, as there is a significant dropoff in the home stats as well. Still, I don't think too much consideration should be put into this since it could very well be a sample size issue and the same analysis hasn't been made for other post-lockout scorers.
I'm not sure if this scoring breakdown has been done for every comparable centre, but feel free to do it. The more context we have, the better. I posted the breakdown for Yzerman earlier in the thread.
At this point there are two 70/80 game samples that are in contradiction to each other. And since the other centres didn't play in the Eastern Conference from 2005 - 2016 or at the same the breakdown of East and West, not sure how applicable the stats will be.
And again, if Crosby has torched his team's immediate rivals in the standings, isn't that a good thing?
Seems like a lot of nitpicking here and I still would like to hear how a hypothetical change in conferences would affect his resume (or not) vs. him playing more full seasons of hockey if he hypothetically didn't get as injured by playing on a different team. Or perhaps having more playoff team success by playing on a different team. Seems like the best centres in the West have played on better teams than the East.