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Originally Posted by wingfanjim
Yzerman averaged .45 goals a game and missed 18.4 games a year. That works out to 8.28 "lost" goals a year. Multiply that by his 23 year career and you get an additional 193 goals to add to his 692 career goals for a total of 885 goals. Gretzky finished with 894. Pretty damn close if you ask me.
Yzerman wouldn't have come close to Gretzky in assists or points though. Even if you added the 305 "lost" assists that Yzerman missed out on due to injuries and added them to his 1063 assists he actually had in his career it would have paled in comparison to Gretzky's 1963 career assists.
Obviously, Yzerman would never have been iron man and played every single possible game of his career, but it does go to show you how close he could have gotten if he'd been more durable.
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I've never seen the game of hockey played with a calculator before. I believe you would be called a 'stat rat.'
Gretzky had some injuries as well so you would have to factor that into it.
Stevie Y had a great career but a lot more goes into than calculating goals per game and 'lost' games.