Just to post what I have for the three older players not covered here:
Player | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 7YR | 10YR |
Bill Cook | 116 | 114 | 103 | 103 | 96 | 95 | 91 | 88 | 79 | 77 | 102.6 | 96.2 |
Newsy Lalonde | 109 | 108 | 100 | 94 | 92 | 90 | 80 | 72 | 71 | 66 | 96.1 | 88.2 |
Cyclone Taylor | 123 | 111 | 106 | 100 | 100 | 62 | 54 | 53 | 38 | 33 | 93.7 | 78 |
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Cyclone Taylor's numbers include 9 seasons he was a forward, and one where he played point (1911). The other seasons are 1918, 1914, 1919, 1915, 1916, 1913, 1917, 1920, and 1907 (IHL).
From these numbers, it's arguable that Taylor had a Guy Lafleur-like best 5 years - but so did Cook, and Cook's got so much better longevity beyond that.
Lalonde was not as dominant as Taylor offensively in his best seasons, but his 10th best season was better than Taylor's 6th.
Knowing everything we know about these players, I'm not sure how we can rank either Lalonde or Taylor over Cook. He's just better.
Lalonde vs. Taylor might come down to one's personal priorities.
(these VsY numbers - since a VsX snob once told me not to call it VsX - are manually calculated year-by-year, league-by-league. I imagine a fully consolidated hockey world, including prominent minor and european leagues, and manipulate benchmarks to create a realistic leaderboard for each season. Like post-1926 VsX, one player typically gets a score over 100, one earns 100, and everyone falls in from there. This allows me to judge each season case by case - does the PCHA have a more impressive leaderboard and dominant scoring leader, or does the NHA? Does that guy who led the OPHL by a drastic margin deserve consideration as a top-10 scorer? And so on.)