Leading team in scoring by 50+ points

[BraveCanadian]

I’m not sure but I think this Gretzky guy was pretty good at hockey.

 

[Dingo]

2023 update: nobody led their team in scoring by 50+ points this year.

The closest were David Pastrnak (46 points), Erik Karlsson (34 - as a defenseman), Jason Robertson (31), and Matthew Tkachuk (31).

Impressive year from Pastrnak that is somewhat getting lost in McDavid and Karlsson’s feats.
34 by a dman must be close to the top?

 

[MadLuke]

Impressive year from Pastrnak that is somewhat getting lost in McDavid and Karlsson’s feats.
34 by a dman must be close to the top?

Obviously quite dependant of who you compete with on your team, but I have an hard time finding more than 23 points lead (Bourque 1987 over Cam Neely, 95 pts to 72).

Looking at the Bruins D core that year, Bourque must have played a lot

 

[MS]

Obviously quite dependant of who you compete with on your team, but I have an hard time finding more than 23 points lead (Bourque 1987 over Cam Neely, 95 pts to 72).

Looking at the Bruins D core that year, Bourque must have played a lot

Wow, you aren't joking.

This was the Bruins' D for their playoff series against Montreal :

Bourque
Reed Larson
Allan Pederson
Mike Milbury
Wade Campbell
Frank Simonetti

Larson was in steep decline approaching PP specialist status (although he played a lot that year) and Milbury was in his last season having previously retired and then come back.

Gord Kluzak missed that entire season and Michael Thelvin was injured mid-season. Both guys were absolutely made of glass.

The following year Thelven and Kluzak were both miraculously healthy and they added Glen Wesley and went to the Finals.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Obviously quite dependant of who you compete with on your team, but I have an hard time finding more than 23 points lead (Bourque 1987 over Cam Neely, 95 pts to 72).

Looking at the Bruins D core that year, Bourque must have played a lot

Nice understatement.

 

[MadLuke]

Bourque playing that much getting only 36 minute of penalty, +44 on that team, those 2 first place votes over Gretzky "down season, not even 190pts meh" where maybe serious.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Not to downplay it, but it looks like he beat out a guy who had *gasp* average averaging stats in Mike Liut and a missed-20-games Mario on a non-playoff team...

Liut's season, incidentally, would make an interesting case study. 2nd team AS, 2nd in Vezina, 3rd for Hart. 9th in GAA, 15th in save pct., 2nd in wins but only a 9 point improvement in the standings. Might be worth going back and reviewing that season in terms of film work...

 

[MadLuke]

Not to downplay it, but it looks like he beat out a guy who had *gasp* average averaging stats in Mike Liut and a missed-20-games Mario on a non-playoff team...

And a certain 26 years old Wayne Gretzky playing 79 games (when talking about the 2 first place vote), if they were serious (and not just throwing a bone knowing he would not really win) that some of the highest bar for the Hart ever.

 

[Staniowski]

'86-'87 was the season that Bourque made the most significant jump in his career....into a higher level of superstardom. He had really improved his defensive game, and looked so dominant on the ice. I remember my high school math teacher (I think he was a big fan of Bourque) that year comparing him to both Potvin and Orr, saying Potvin was never as good as '87 Bourque.

Going into the '87 Canada Cup, Bourque and Messier were really big....Coffey too but, as always, there were big differences of opinion about him.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Obviously quite dependant of who you compete with on your team, but I have an hard time finding more than 23 points lead (Bourque 1987 over Cam Neely, 95 pts to 72).

Looking at the Bruins D core that year, Bourque must have played a lot

i think in that respect, 1995 coffey is extremely impressive

on pace for 101 pts over 82, with the next highest guy on pace for 90.476 pts (you can decide whether to round up or down there).

but that next guy was peak fedorov, and coffey is also beating healthy seasons by yzerman, ciccarelli, peak ray sheppard, and primeau on pace to match his career high.

 

[BraveCanadian]

i think in that respect, 1995 coffey is extremely impressive

on pace for 101 pts over 82, with the next highest guy on pace for 90.476 pts (you can decide whether to round up or down there).

but that next guy was peak fedorov, and coffey is also beating healthy seasons by yzerman, ciccarelli, peak ray sheppard, and primeau on pace to match his career high.

Not to mention the consensus is he played a lot better defensively that season by being more conservative too.

 

[Hockey Outsider]

This thread has been updated. Nikita Kucherov led Tampa Bay by 54 points. This is the first time someone has been added to this table in 23 years!

Obviously, there are many ways to measure how much a player contributed to his team's offense. Looking just at first vs second place can be misleading. (For example, who had more help this year? Kucherov, who had teammates with 90, 81, 76 and 75 point? Or MacKinnon, who had teammates with 104 and 90 points, but nobody else over 60?).

As is often the case, I'm not necessarily making an argument, but I'm presenting data so that we (collectively) can interpret it.