Someone save this post please. as close as he is...he's still so far away. 259 goals away. He would need a pace of 37 goals a year for the next 7 years realistically. All it takes is one injury to ruin a career. Although if he can remain this consistent, then he deserves to be the greatest goal scorer of all time, which he basically already is, beyond holding the record.
Rarely does a player do all the work leading up to a goal. This isn't the NBA where you just give the star the ball and get out of the way.
So why don't we count 3rd assists, 4th...etc..., The point is that stopping at 2 is completely arbitrary. I can pull up 20 clips where Kane cycles and dominates for 20 seconds but wouldn't receive an assist on the subsequent goal.
No. Literally always a goal doesn’t happen without the ply of the secondary assister.
I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly but if you're saying that every goal happens because of a second assister, that's not always true. Some come from individual efforts where the scorer caused a takeaway or benefited off a turnover and scored on his own.
I was just being overly literal. If there’s a play with two assists, it doesn’t technically happen if the first guy doesn’t make the pass. Even if it’s the simplest, easiest hockey play imaginable.
