Top 5 Players in P/G Each Decade

[pezpunk]

great post OP

shows how much better Crosby is than Ovechkin

lol, pens fans' insecurity and pain is manifesting itself in such hilarious ways. i love this, keep it up.

 

[vuvuzela]

If only Ovechkin could cash in on the elusive "Secondary Goal"

 

[pezpunk]

dumbest thread in quite some time.

 

[Pengwins]

lol, pens fans' insecurity and pain is manifesting itself in such hilarious ways. i love this, keep it up.

so u think Ovechkin is better than Crosby? lmao. caps fans' insecurity is hilarious

 

[snag]

This is one of those it is summer time...there is no hockey...need to stroke something kinda threads...

 

[Varan]

2010s

1) Sidney Crosby- 1.237 points per game
2) Connor Mcdavid- 1.225 points per game
3) Evgeni Malkin- 1.15 points per game
4) Steven Stamkos- 1.04 points per game
5) Patrick Kane- 1.03 points per game

2000s

1) Sidney Crosby- 1.364 points per game
2) Mario Lemieux- 1.34 points per game (39 years old)
3) Alex Ovechkin- 1.33 points per game
4) Peter Foresberg- 1.25 points per game
5) Evgeni Malkin- 1.23 points per game

1990s

1) Mario Lemieux- 2.063 points per game
2) Wayne Gretzky- 1.37 points per game
3) Eric Lindros- 1.35 points per game
4) Jaromir Jagr- 1.33 points per game
5) Pat Lafontaine- 1.29 points per game

1980s

1) Wayne Gretzky- 2.398 points per game
2) Mario Lemieux- 1.96 points per game
3) Mike Bossy- 1.55 points per game
4) Peter Stastny- 1.41 points per game
5) Jari Kurri- 1.38 points per game


-Interesting trends

-Really shows who is the best player in the league on a consistent basis over time. Really shows how dominant Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux really are. A broken down old Lemieux still put up better stats then a rookie made Ovechkin in his prime in the 2000s. Sidney Crosby the only player to hold the top spot, and, still holding the top spot in points per game over Mcdavid. Mario Lemieux had the biggest stretch of dominance over anyone in the 1990s over any other #1 player in any other decade, beating every other player by an insane 1.26 points per game for an entire decade. Not even Wayne did that in the 80s.

-Cream always rises to the top to win the Cup. Easy to see who the stars really are without the homer glasses on.

how are you in your prime when you are a rookie? LMFAO

 

[PenguinSpeed]

how are you in your prime when you are a rookie? LMFAO

-Look at his stats. Rookie season was one of his best, Ovi's stats went straight downhill after 5 years in the NHL. His best stats were from 2005-2010. He wasnt even in the dead puck era and still couldnt beat Lemieux, lol

 

[Romang67]

I took the liberty of changing the click bait title to what the OP is actually about. When you create a thread, at least attempt to have the title be somewhat representative of what the OP is on. This isn't BuzzFeed.

 

[Varan]

-Look at his stats. Rookie season was one of his best, Ovi's stats went straight downhill after 5 years in the NHL. His best stats were from 2005-2010. He wasnt even in the dead puck era and still couldnt beat Lemieux, lol

Ahh the PPG argument,

It helps your PPG when you have only 170 games played over a 6 year span compared to someone who played 396 over 5 years. 226 MORE games played and yet his PPG is ONLY 0.01 LESS! Are you kidding me?

Ovechkin had more GOALS SCORED (269) than Lemieux had POINTS (227)

 

[PenguinSpeed]

Ahh the PPG argument,

It helps your PPG when you have only 170 games played over a 6 year span compared to someone who played 396 over 5 years. 226 MORE games played and yet his PPG is ONLY 0.01 LESS! Are you kidding me?

Ovechkin had more GOALS SCORED (269) than Lemieux had POINTS (227)

-Not really kidding as I posted the stats. And Lemieux was 39 years old. Take off 20 years and oh baby...

 

[Romang67]

-Not really kidding as I posted the stats. And Lemieux was 39 years old. Take off 20 years and oh baby...

Are you arguing that prime Lemieux was better than prime Ovechkin?

Really rocking the boat there.

 

[Varan]

-Not really kidding as I posted the stats. And Lemieux was 39 years old. Take off 20 years and oh baby...

wait why are you bringing up 20 years ago? you said Mario was better than OV in the 2000's, don't shy away from that because I exposed you. we all know Mario > OV all-time. but in the 2000's like YOU MENTIONED, he was not better than OV.

 

[PenguinSpeed]

wait why are you bringing up 20 years ago? you said Mario was better than OV in the 2000's, don't shy away from that because I exposed you. we all know Mario > OV all-time. but in the 2000's like YOU MENTIONED, he was not better than OV.

-The point of the thread was point per game numbers, the most valuable stat there is. And in point per game numbers he certainly was. I wonder how many people would know what these numbers would have looked like without me posting them. Most people thought Mcdavid was on top. Wrong

 

[Romang67]

-The point of the thread was point per game numbers, the most valuable stat there is. And in point per game numbers he certainly was. I wonder how many people would know what these numbers would have looked like without me posting them. Most people thought Mcdavid was on top. Wrong

Based on your conjecture in the following sentence, I'd guess that less than 50% of people knew what these numbers would have looked like without your posting them.

 

[ColbyChaos]

lol, pens fans' insecurity and pain is manifesting itself in such hilarious ways. i love this, keep it up.

They already made a thread begging for applause and validation when they got eliminated by washington who knows what will happen next

 

[Romang67]

Of course, there is an argument to be made that the current decade actually started in 2011, as we'd otherwise have a decade that only consists of 9 years in the AD years (year 0 didn't exist). In which case McDavid would be ahead of Crosby.

 

[Koized]

Goals >>>>>>> Secondary Assist.

 

[stl76]

-The point of the thread was point per game numbers, the most valuable stat there is. And in point per game numbers he certainly was. I wonder how many people would know what these numbers would have looked like without me posting them. Most people thought Mcdavid was on top. Wrong

This whole thread is priceless. Games played matter, and no stat is the most valuable stat is a vacuum.

 

[shtorm2005]

would be better to count only primary points per game.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The bolded is just a 100% lie. Where the hell are you getting that Mario scored 1.26 ppg more than anyone else during the 90s?

What OP has done here is take Lemieux’s PPG from what amounts to 4 full seasons in the early 90s when scoring was way up, and compare it to guys who played the entire decade including the Dead Puck Era.

I’m all for an opportunity to talk about how jaw-droppingly great he was with the puck, but this was a really bad way to do it.

 

[AKL]

This feels like a thread to praise Crosby, Malkin and Lemieux, while throwing dirt at Ovechkin. Also doesn't help that OP has Penguin in his name.

Who knows though, maybe that article I looked at earlier about conspiracy theories is getting in my head.

 

[StoneHands]

What OP has done here is take Lemieux’s PPG from what amounts to 4 full seasons in the early 90s when scoring was way up, and compare it to guys who played the entire decade including the Dead Puck Era.

I’m all for an opportunity to talk about how jaw-droppingly great he was with the puck, but this was a really bad way to do it.

Regardless, Lemieux scored at a 2.06 PPG pace and Gretzky scored at a 1.37 PPG pace. That's a .69 PPG difference, not close to the 1.26 PPG gap that he made up. Not to mention, Gretzky played more than twice as many games as Lemieux in the 90s and as you mentioned, that includes the dead puck era.

 

[StoneHands]

2010s

1) Sidney Crosby- 1.237 points per game
2) Connor Mcdavid- 1.225 points per game
3) Evgeni Malkin- 1.15 points per game
4) Steven Stamkos- 1.04 points per game
5) Patrick Kane- 1.03 points per game

2000s

1) Sidney Crosby- 1.364 points per game
2) Mario Lemieux- 1.34 points per game (39 years old)
3) Alex Ovechkin- 1.33 points per game
4) Peter Foresberg- 1.25 points per game
5) Evgeni Malkin- 1.23 points per game

1990s

1) Mario Lemieux- 2.063 points per game
2) Wayne Gretzky- 1.37 points per game
3) Eric Lindros- 1.35 points per game
4) Jaromir Jagr- 1.33 points per game
5) Pat Lafontaine- 1.29 points per game

1980s

1) Wayne Gretzky- 2.398 points per game
2) Mario Lemieux- 1.96 points per game
3) Mike Bossy- 1.55 points per game
4) Peter Stastny- 1.41 points per game
5) Jari Kurri- 1.38 points per game


-Interesting trends

-Really shows who is the best player in the league on a consistent basis over time. Really shows how dominant Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux really are. A broken down old Lemieux still put up better stats then a rookie made Ovechkin in his prime in the 2000s. Sidney Crosby the only player to hold the top spot, and, still holding the top spot in points per game over Mcdavid. Mario Lemieux had the biggest stretch of dominance over anyone in the 1990s over any other #1 player in any other decade, beating every other player by an insane 1.26 points per game for an entire decade. Not even Wayne did that in the 80s.

-Cream always rises to the top to win the Cup. Easy to see who the stars really are without the homer glasses on.

It seems just a tad disingenuous to use numbers from guys that only played a couple years in an entire decade as opposed to players that played some of their early years or past prime years in that decade. For example, how can you have Lemieux in the 2000's when he only played 170 of a possible 700+ games in that decade but someone like Thornton is left off the list but played well over 600 games.

Here's a list of the top 5 PPG players in each decade while playing at least half the available games in each decade.

80's
Gretzky
Lemieux
Bossy
Stastny
Kurri

90's
Gretzky
Lindros
Jagr
LaFontaine
Selanne

2000's
Crosby
Ovechkin
Thornton
Jagr
Sakic

2010s
Crosby
Malkin
Stamkos
Kane
Giroux

 

[Asheville]

Bossy, Lafontaine, Malkin, Crosby and Lemieux.....

Sample size, sample size, sample size