Ovechkin Wins Eighth Career Rocket Richard Trophy

[BallardEra]

Ovechkin: 46 goals (14 GR)
Draisaitl: 41 goals (14 GR)
P.Kane: 40 goals (14 GR)
Atkinson: 38 goals (14 GR)
Tavares: 38 goals (14 GR)
DeBrincat: 37 goals (14 GR)
Point: 37 goals (13 GR)
Skinner: 36 goals (14 GR)
Pavelski: 36 goals (14 GR)

 

[Absolut]

Laine will get Ovie next year (maybe...)

So we are getting one 50 goal scorer again?

 

[Sam Spade]

Laine will get Ovie next year (maybe...)

So we are getting one 50 goal scorer again?

Matthews will get Ovie next year (maybe...).

And I really hope so.

 

[BallardEra]

Laine will get Ovie next year (maybe...)

So we are getting one 50 goal scorer again?

I'll say two at least. Oilers are pretty much done. I can see Hitchcock pairing McDavid/Draisaitl together and telling them to go out there and just pile up the points.

I can really see McDavid doing his best to get Draisaitl 50 goals.

 

[BallardEra]

Ovechkin: 46 goals (13 GR)
Draisaitl: 42 goals (13 GR)
P.Kane: 41 goals (13 GR)
Atkinson: 38 goals (13 GR)
Tavares: 38 goals (13 GR)
DeBrincat: 37 goals (13 GR)
Point: 37 goals (12 GR)
Skinner: 36 goals (14 GR)
Pavelski: 36 goals (13 GR)

 

[48g90a138pts]

Ovechkin: 46 goals (13 GR)
Draisaitl: 42 goals (13 GR)
P.Kane: 41 goals (13 GR)
Atkinson: 38 goals (13 GR)
Tavares: 38 goals (13 GR)
DeBrincat: 37 goals (13 GR)
Point: 37 goals (12 GR)
Skinner: 36 goals (14 GR)
Pavelski: 36 goals (13 GR)

Kane and Dr Drai might actually make it a interesting finish this year.

So exciting

 

[PB12]

#47 for OV

 

[Jack Hammer]

Ovi is now the only player on pace for 50.. What happened to the huge leap in goal scoring this year...? Everyone seems to have slowed their pace..

 

[442]

48

 

[pezpunk]

#48 for Ovechkin.

 

[shtorm2005]

Ovi is now the only player on pace for 50.. What happened to the huge leap in goal scoring this year...? Everyone seems to have slowed their pace..

Goals aren't assists, it's hard to get even 50.

 

[BallardEra]

Ovechkin: 48 goals (10 GR)
Draisaitl: 43 goals (10 GR)
P.Kane: 41 goals (10 GR)
Tavares: 40 goals (10 GR)
Atkinson: 38 goals (10 GR)
DeBrincat: 38 goals (10 GR)
Point: 38 goals (9 GR)
Skinner: 37 goals (10 GR)
Pavelski: 37 goals (9 GR)

 

[Jack Hammer]

Goals aren't assists, it's hard to get even 50.

Umm... cool? What does that have to do with my point? I'm not making a case for goals being easy to score or that 50 is easy... We had a ton of players off to hot starts this year that cooled. That's the point.

Anyway, this was the pace earlier this year:
December 6th update

	Player	GP	G	Pace	G/GP	S%	S% Career	S% Growth
1	Laine	27	21	64	0.78	20.0	18.4	9%
2	Ovechkin	28	21	62	0.75	19.6	12.5	57%
3	Point	30	21	57	0.70	26.3	16.9	55%
4	Pastrnak	28	20	59	0.71	18.2	13.9	31%
5	Skinner	29	20	57	0.69	22.7	11.2	103%
6	Atkinson	27	19	57	0.70	18.6	11.8	58%
7	MacKinnon	29	19	54	0.66	15.6	10.0	56%
8	Pavelski	29	18	51	0.62	21.7	12.2	78%
9	Tavares	29	18	51	0.62	17.1	13.1	31%
-	Matthews	15	15	68	1.00	29.4	17.2	71%

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Half-season update

Player	GP	G	Pace	G/GP	S%	S% Career	S% Growth
1	Ovechkin	38	29	63	0.76	19.2	12.6	52%
2	Tavares	39	26	55	0.67	17.8	13.2	35%
3	Skinner	40	26	53	0.65	21.3	11.3	88%
4	Atkinson	38	24	51	0.63	15.9	11.8	35%
5	Laine	38	24	51	0.63	15.9	11.8	-1%
6	Matthews	25	25	52	0.76	24.1	17.1	41%

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Close

Player	GP	G	Pace	G/GP	S%	S% Career	S% Growth
7	Pastrnak	40	24	49	0.60	15.3	13.6	12%
8	Landeskog	41	24	48	0.59	19.5	11.4	70%
9	MacKinnon	41	24	48	0.59	12.9	9.9	31%

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

We now only have 1 on pace to make it..

 

[DFC]

Ovy's a monster.

 

[BallardEra]

Yep. On November 24th of last year with a quarter of the season done, we had 11 players on pace to score 50 goals:

Pastrnak
Skinner
Ovechkin
Point
Laine
Forsberg
Atkinson
Landeskog
Tavares
MacKinnon
Pettersson

These three were on pace for 49 goals:

Pavelski
Draisaitl
McDavid

 

[BallardEra]

Looking at Jack Hammer's post and I still don't get how Laine dropped off that hard. He looked like a lock for 50.

He went from 21 goals in his first 24 games to 8 goals in his last 47 games since then.

 

[Sam Spade]

Come on Ovechkin, two more goals for the (hopefully) 8/8 career.

 

[CartographerNo611]

Ovi is now the only player on pace for 50.. What happened to the huge leap in goal scoring this year...? Everyone seems to have slowed their pace..

Game really tightens up the closer we get to playoffs. Its why Laine disappears in the later half of the season.

 

[shtorm2005]

Umm... cool? What does that have to do with my point? I'm not making a case for goals being easy to score or that 50 is easy... We had a ton of players off to hot starts this year that cooled. That's the point.

Yeah, sorry didn't explain it well. It's obvious that goals are harder to get, but my point is about how hard is to reach 50. At the end of season goalscorers are covered better because everyone knows how many they've scored while playmakers still have tons of options on the ice. I'd say, after 35-40 goals, players deserved personal coverage. That's why close to the end goalscorers usually cooling off. IMO

 

[kugelbahn]

Yeah, scoring 50 is hard, in recent memory only one player decided to score 50 and did it - Sid the
Kid in 2010

 

[Demandedace]

Yeah, scoring 50 is hard, in recent memory only one player decided to score 50 and did it - Sid the
Kid in 2010

Not really sure what you’re trying to say in this post

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Ovechkin running away with it.
He looks like he’s not going to give up the crown for a couple of more years yet!

 

[third man in]

Yeah, scoring 50 is hard, in recent memory only one player decided to score 50 and did it - Sid the
Kid in 2010

Um you're forgetting that other guy that decided to score 50 goals a whole bunch of times and then did it. I forget his name but think he wears an 8.

 

[Sam Spade]

Not really sure what you’re trying to say in this post

I understand it. Poster is saying that IF Crosby wanted to score 50 goals every season he would. But so far he has only WANTED to do it that one time.

50 goals is not guaranteed for Ovechkin, I just hope he wants it bad enough.

 

[Sentinel]

Looking at Jack Hammer's post and I still don't get how Laine dropped off that hard. He looked like a lock for 50.

He went from 21 goals in his first 24 games to 8 goals in his last 47 games since then.

But Mulletman thinks he is better than Kurri, Fedorov, and Bondra.