Kin
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Just something I was thinking about when I was looking over Jaromir Jagr's numbers. Jagr is one of the very few players in the NHL who will miss roughly two full NHL seasons to the three NHL lockouts. The reason it jumped out at me was because of where Jagr is on the all-time list of NHL points leaders and where he very well might be absent any labour shortages.
Right now, Jagr ranks 8th all time with 1671 points in 1378 games, a PPG average that's only bettered among the top 25 scorers by Dionne, Lemieux and Gretzky. So if we give him the 150 games he missed due to lockouts, where would he rank? Well, assuming he'd score in those games at his career ppg average(not entirely unfair as two of his top 3 point totals of all time were in the years after a lockout) he'd be at 1854 points, good for third all-time behind only Messier and Gretzky.
That doesn't even take into account three years in the KHL, absent which he'd almost certainly be firmly in the #2 spot with well over 2000 points. I know it's not exactly news to point out that Jagr is a great scorer or anything but, all things considered, I think he probably now has to be talked about as being really only behind Gretzky and Lemieux as probably the third best offensive player to ever play.
Right now, Jagr ranks 8th all time with 1671 points in 1378 games, a PPG average that's only bettered among the top 25 scorers by Dionne, Lemieux and Gretzky. So if we give him the 150 games he missed due to lockouts, where would he rank? Well, assuming he'd score in those games at his career ppg average(not entirely unfair as two of his top 3 point totals of all time were in the years after a lockout) he'd be at 1854 points, good for third all-time behind only Messier and Gretzky.
That doesn't even take into account three years in the KHL, absent which he'd almost certainly be firmly in the #2 spot with well over 2000 points. I know it's not exactly news to point out that Jagr is a great scorer or anything but, all things considered, I think he probably now has to be talked about as being really only behind Gretzky and Lemieux as probably the third best offensive player to ever play.