Actually that's not true. Crosby and Malkin both ended the 3rd round in '09 with 28 points. The next highest scoring person after 4 rounds was Zetterberg with 24 points. Same with 2017 when they ended round 3 with 24 points for Malkin, and 20 points for Crosby. The next highest scoring player after 4 rounds was Getzlaf with 19. Nobody on Nashville was particularly close.
Difference of course is that their team's won.
Forsberg leading the playoffs in scoring after 3 rounds is a cool trivia fact, but that's about all the weight it holds for me.
The problem with the cool trivia in this case is that is that it's backed by numbers in any measurable way.
Malkin in 09 factored in on 43% of his teams goals through 3 rounds, 46% through 4 rounds.
Forsberg in 02 factored in on 50% through 3 rounds, and 44% through 3 rounds in 1999.
Forsberg factored in on 35% of his teams goals through his Avs tenure while missing 17 out of 150 games.
Malkin factored in on 32% of his teams goals through till today while missing 11 out of 169 games.
Forsberg in the playoffs has greater ppg, raw or relative, greater apg, raw or relative, greater gpg, raw or relative, greater per/time stats since it was available, raw or relative, while also being greater in other aspects of the game.
Do you believe Penguins have been a deeper team 07-19, than Avs were 95-04?