Points or goals. Either way.
Those old North Stars numbers all happened back before the NHL had real goalies. Seguin probably can't catch Bobby Smith's point total, but even Smith's monster season only saw him finish 8th in scoring that season. To compare guys to their contemporaries, Seguin's last season was already more impressive when he finished 4th in scoring.
Not necessarily true. Did Seguin compete with Wayne Gretzky and Mike Bossy and Bryan Trottier and Peter Stastny and Marcel Dionne?
I mean you really have to look at the competition, and then compare that, and that's tough to do. So it's not necessarily how high you finish, 4th vs 8th etc.
You can't take guys who were beaten by players like Wayne and Mario in the 80s and 90s, or Jagr in the last couple decades, and just ignore that fact and pretend all things are equal. I mean Steve Yzerman finished 3rd in scoring in 1988-89 with 155 points. That's an Art Ross if not for Mario and Wayne putting up 199 and 168, respectively. I would consider that season by Yzerman better than probably most Art Ross finishes lately, even if it was only 3rd overall.
And I'm not going to call an 84 point season today more impressive than a 114 point season back then. They're 30 points apart. Seguin doesn't make that up, let alone make that up + some.
I know 107 points today is more than 107 points yesterday, obviously, but it's tough to say just how many more. And if you want to talk about placing in league scoring, then you have to compare competition and that's where it gets dicey. Today's game I don't believe has the players the game had back then, let alone Gretzky. If he hits 100+ though I would rank it right up there with Smith's. Maybe it would be better, but maybe not, it's just hard to say. I wouldn't say that it's "by far" better in the points category. That's where I take exception.
If he continues his goal pace though, even close and finishes with 60+, then absolutely. He will have flat out beat both Bellows and Ciccarelli, in a lower scoring era, and likely will have led the league in that department to boot.