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Originally Posted by Krazee Eyez Killa
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.
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I absolutely agree. However, you can't deny that statistically speaking, the case could be made that if Yzerman had stayed healthy, he would have had a shot at being in the same realm as Gretzky when it came to goal scoring. I'm not saying he would have done it, but I'm saying that based on his performance, he could have.
Also, Gretzky played over 74 games a season on average. If you redo my calculations based upon Yzerman playing the same amount of games a season he would have ended up with 804 goals. That would be 3 goals ahead of Gordie Howe in 2nd place behind Gretzky's 893.