Make it 2000 assists and I wouldn’t know what to answer
On the goal list you have Ciccalerri, Anderchyuk, Selanne, Robitialle, and Shanahan. All very good players, but never an argument at being the best at their position.
Like I said, I wouldn’t know what to pick. They’re both great milestones.For a player to hit 894 goals in a 20 year career - he'd have to average 44.7 goals per game. Let's round up to 45. Aside from Gretzky, in the whole history of the NHL, this has been done 310 times in a season.
In contrast - to hit 2000 assists in 20 years, you'd have to average 100 assists in a season, easy math. Only 2x in the history of the NHL has a player not named Gretzky surpassed 100 assists in a season - and their names were Orr and Lemieux.
More impressive: 1000 assists or 894 goals?
For a player to hit 894 goals in a 20 year career - he'd have to average 44.7 goals per game. Let's round up to 45.
Even if you round it up for an 44 goals per game, that's pretty hard to achieve.
Right!Even if you round it up for an 44 goals per game, that's pretty hard to achieve.
Especially in this era ehYeah, that's a lot of goals per game, eh?
Even if you round it up for an 44 goals per game, that's pretty hard to achieve.
Even if you round it up for an 44 goals per game, that's pretty hard to achieve.
Even if you round it up for an 44 goals per game, that's pretty hard to achieve.
And yet it's hit every single year, how often are 100 assist seasons occurring?
I have been watching hockey from late 80's but i have never seen anything close to 3690 goals in full season from single player.
Just break it down to a year long timeline. What do you think we will/would see first and more often going forward, a 60 goal season, or a 100 assist season?Its tough to pick but I go with the 600 goals since I'm being asked this in 2020. Goal scoring is a bit tougher to come across in this era than it was for most of the guys in the 600 club who got to spend a good amount of their career in the high flying 80s and early 90s. I think that should be considered when talking about which one is rarer.
Plus 600 goals seems more like a personal accomplishment than 1000 assists considering you're the one finishing the job. Not to mention most 1000 assist players have a much bigger gap between goals and assists than vice versa, I think that shows its easier to rack up assists than goals if you can stay relatively healthy.
Just break it down to a year long timeline. What do you think we will/would see first and more often going forward, a 60 goal season, or a 100 assist season?
Worded poorly or not that makes no sense call Thornton an outlier in that assist category, he's one of the top playmakers the game as ever seen, not sure why that's so hard to comprehend? His totals are amazing given the era he played in, weird not to say Messier, Howe, or Jagr aren't "compliers" by the same logic, considering they took nearly the same amount of games Thornton did to break 1000 while playing in much more higher scoring years.
All this does is show why 1000 assists is much more impressive, the "bottom tier" players in the 1000 assist group are significantly better than the ones in the 600 goal club.