Do you mean 7th round pick (206th OA) Joe Pavelski? I think that at 38 he is pretty much living up to his expected career progression given his draft position.
Joe Pavelski: 72 points at age 38
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The funny thing is he even had a dry spell this season of 19 games where he didn't score a goal and still ends up with a very good season overall
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Players who are active during the 20 year span will evolve and adapt *with* the game. It's not like the game gets 100% faster and harder to keep up with from one year to the next, the changes are gradual.But... I've been told that the game has changed too much and that players from 20+years ago wouldn't be able to compete today...
Congrats to Pavelski!
Let's say the change is 5% each year. One year means almost nothing, but 10, 15, 20 years after you hang your skates up, will.mean a huge difference.
Watch a recent clip from Chicklets youtube where two former NHL:ers talk about this. They both openly admit that they wouldn't be able to play in today's NHL.
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huh? You're talking about Pavelski who started the same year as Sidney Crosby but sure go on with your narrative.
Yeah no shit eh, it's almost like if they didn't they'd be out of the league already but some people don't really use their brains when they post.
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There’s no use in denying it; this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
I think 40 is even crazier
1. Howe 103 pts
2. Bucyk 83
3. Selanne 80
4. Delvecchio 71
5 Lidstrom 62
Anyway. Pavs was one of the few Sharks I truly considered myself a fan of.
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Pfft. Now, if he gets 38 points when he's 72, colour me interested!!
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No, it's just for that age (38) while Selanne would get credit for those points at age 40.
It’s more like what they put in the brownies.
Aging, and aging out, is so hard to predict in hockey. In general, yeah, guys in their 30’s decline, but who could’ve foreseen that this guy, who wasn’t blessed with great speed in the first place, would still be so effective. The very epitome of a “right place, right time” player.
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Rather self-explanatory, yes. Also very dumb. At that point being even older is a handicap and should be included — older players in that list deserve to be lauded.Well, that would be an "age 40" season then, wouldn't it?
"Age 38" season pretty self-explanatory.
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And they are, for doing what they did at age 40.
Pavs isn't 40 yet.
He's 38, and what he's doing as a 38 year old - in his "age 38" season - is noteworthy to most.
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I’m calling it right now, Draisaitl will break it. A chance he still plays with a so somewhat younger 97 at the PP then and he was amazing on one leg last playoffs.
I thought he was done when he signed in Dallas and it was the single worst hockey take I have ever had
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I am not convinced at all about that. Today’s offense is so much about making east west passes and deception to beat the goalies - seems like 99 would have some capacity in that regard. (And let’s be clear, today he would come to the league with skating lessons from an Olympic figure skater and skills clinics run by Adam Oates 10 times a week since he was 3 at the latest. Having your own backyard rink is nothing
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Aha
Guess it should’ve been obvious - just saw these types of discussions a few days ago.
We're one year away from the Sharks finally re-signing him to 3 years/7.5 per.
