Canadiens1958
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Zubov and Gonchar. Each was slightly better than Andrei Markov. NOT a HHOF level.Fern Flaman was 3-6th amongst NHL defencemen for app 10 years.Zubov had a stretch of < 28 games playing just over 30 minutes per game including overtime. Fern Flaman played first pairing minutes, 28-35 minutes per game, 70 game schedule for app 10 seasons.
Your own calculations show that the talent pool is shallow. Four HHOF inductees over an elite player's career, usually at least 15 seasons, represents app 60 HHOF quality elite players during any given season. NHL features 30 teams so roughly 2 per teams. O6 era even with 30 elite HHOF players any given season yields an average of 5 per team. Five per team represents more depth than two two per team.
My point was about "Worth Keeping" players. NHL is talking about an expansion to 32 teams. Possible NHL expansion draft scenarios:
http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/expansion-draft-2017-which-players-might-get-shipped-to-vegas/
Regardless of the scenario or the calculation the existing 30 NHL teams do not want at least half of their veteran players nor do they want 25% of their Salary Cap. Over 50% of the NHL team roster of 23 is not "Worth Keeping". Never so low in the history of NHL competition. Maybe enough for a solid 14 team NHL. Hardly a sign of the depth you claim exists.
In fact if the talent pool was as deep as you claim it is would an NHL expansion draft be necessary for the upcoming expansion?
They typically induct 4 players per year now. In the mid to late 90's they cut that down for a few years because they inducted so many prior, as if they ran out of worthy players. Flaman being inducted in '90, which was 30 years after he retired points to this. If he took 30 years to induct then why do you feel Zubov and/or Gonchar will never be inducted?
You know the pace was far slower during Flaman's era and the shifts were far longer as well. Only top defenseman with extreme endurance can handle 30 minutes a game in the modern era and those playoff runs proved Zubov and Gonchar were defensively responsible.
The talent stream is not shallow in the modern era, it is several times larger than the 06 at least. This is a fact you will have to come to grips with eventually. "Not worth keeping" players, as you state, just shows there are always new waves of players coming up. More than the O6 era because it's not just central Canada feeding the NHL anymore, is it?
Zubov and Gonchar. Each was slightly better than Andrei Markov. NOT a HHOF level.Fern Flaman was 3-6th amongst NHL defencemen for app 10 years.Zubov had a stretch of < 28 games playing just over 30 minutes per game including overtime. Fern Flaman played first pairing minutes, 28-35 minutes per game, 70 game schedule for app 10 seasons.
Your own calculations show that the talent pool is shallow. Four HHOF inductees over an elite player's career, usually at least 15 seasons, represents app 60 HHOF quality elite players during any given season. NHL features 30 teams so roughly 2 per teams. O6 era even with 30 elite HHOF players any given season yields an average of 5 per team. Five per team represents more depth than two two per team.
My point was about "Worth Keeping" players. NHL is talking about an expansion to 32 teams. Possible NHL expansion draft scenarios:
http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/expansion-draft-2017-which-players-might-get-shipped-to-vegas/
Regardless of the scenario or the calculation the existing 30 NHL teams do not want at least half of their veteran players nor do they want 25% of their Salary Cap. Over 50% of the NHL team roster of 23 is not "Worth Keeping". Never so low in the history of NHL competition. Maybe enough for a solid 14 team NHL. Hardly a sign of the depth you claim exists.
In fact if the talent pool was as deep as you claim it is would an NHL expansion draft be necessary for the upcoming expansion?