Where does Selanne rank as a goal scorer?

[Ogopogo*]

Finally, a voice of reason!

Why 'Ogopogo', do you believe all these peons so stubbornly persist on using goal totals to somehow indicate players' goal scoring prowess? As you stated, it is a wholly 'worthless' statistic. Especially when we're talking about 'goal scoring'!

Please continue to do what you do here. It's truly rare to find one who can buck the conventional wisdom and succeed in bringing common sense to a discussion.

Using raw goal totals, one could conclude that Dave Andreychuk and Joe Nieuwendyk were greater goal scorers than Rocket Richard. That is an absolutely absurd conclusion.

Number of games on the schedule, era and level of overall scoring in each era greatly skew the raw totals to give false conclusions.

Level of impact must be measured to correctly compare across eras. Raw goal totals are very misleading.