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gretzky stats make me :mjlol: man what the fukk :mjlol: its like dude broke the arcade machine and entered fake stats to be top player :mjlol:



























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gretzky stats make me :mjlol: man what the fukk :mjlol: its like dude broke the arcade machine and entered fake stats to be top player :mjlol:



























:mindblown:
Only lemeiux could match Gretzky

Gretzky and his 200 point seasons :banderas:
This is why Chris Jericho has an entire chapter in his first book to talk about when he met the guy and got to hold the trophy. Chapter was called Canadian Jesus. The broken arcade game score is dead on.
 

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I couldn't even match Gretzky's stats when I played videogames

Crazy thing that whole team was eating, Coffey was scoring like 40 goals as a dman, kurri was scoring like 60, messier like 50, Anderson like 40 goals

And Gretzky was the gawd
He was only like 6 feet 170lbs, didn't even skate fast. Didn't have a hard shot or the Brett hull wrist.

Even a flabby n sick Gretzky was a ppg player

His last season was his worst and he had 60 points in 70 games




This is why Chris Jericho has an entire chapter in his first book to talk about when he met the guy and got to hold the trophy. Chapter was called Canadian Jesus. The broken arcade game score is dead on.
 

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I couldn't even match Gretzky's stats when I played videogames

Crazy thing that whole team was eating, Coffey was scoring like 40 goals as a dman, kurri was scoring like 60, messier like 50, Anderson like 40 goals

And Gretzky was the gawd
He was only like 6 feet 170lbs, didn't even skate fast. Didn't have a hard shot or the Brett hull wrist.

Even a flabby n sick Gretzky was a ppg player

His last season was his worst and he had 60 points in 70 games
The craziest Gretzky stat to me is that if you take away his goals he'd still have the most points all-time based on assists alone.
Makes a pretty compelling argument for greatest pro athlete ever, especially when you consider how hard it is to get good at hockey. My cousins played when they were little through some college and they can say first hand the ones who become great basically leave the crib as a baby with skates on. Takes an insane amount of work. Just :damn: at the all time points even minus all his goals. I forgot about that. It's as absurd as Babe Ruth's numbers next to his contemporaries, and he was hitting more homers than most teams were on his own.
 

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Most career points: 2,857
Consider this: The last player to have more than 140 points in one season was Mario Lemieux, who put up 160 in 1995-96. Twenty seasons of averaging 140 points wouldn't be enough to catch Gretzky's career record.

Most career assists: 1,963
The NHL has never seen the likes of Gretzky as a playmaker, and it may never see one again. It often seemed like No. 99 had eyes in the back of his head -- that's how good he was at finding teammates for what turned into easy goals. His assist total is 714 more than runner-up Ron Francis -- and he has more assists than any other player has points.


The craziest Gretzky stat to me is that if you take away his goals he'd still have the most points all-time based on assists alone.
 

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Most career points: 2,857
Consider this: The last player to have more than 140 points in one season was Mario Lemieux, who put up 160 in 1995-96. Twenty seasons of averaging 140 points wouldn't be enough to catch Gretzky's career record.

Most career assists: 1,963
The NHL has never seen the likes of Gretzky as a playmaker, and it may never see one again. It often seemed like No. 99 had eyes in the back of his head -- that's how good he was at finding teammates for what turned into easy goals. His assist total is 714 more than runner-up Ron Francis -- and he has more assists than any other player has points.


Imagine being an Oilers fan back then shyt had to be epic to witness live straight dream team for real
 

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Fewest games needed to score 50 goals: 39


Most goals in the first 50 games of a season: 61

Longest streak with at least one point: 51


Most points in a season: 215
If 1981-82 and 1983-84 weren't Gretzky's best seasons, maybe 1985-86 was. The Great One broke his own record of 212 points in '81-82 by scoring or assisting on 215 of Edmonton's 426 goals. It was the fourth and final 200-point season of his career; he's the only player to get that many in a season. Of the 13 seasons in which a player had 160 or more points in a season, nine belong to Gretzky and the other four to Lemieux, including a 199-point effort in 1988-89.



Most assists in a season: 163
Setting up teammates was what Gretzky did best, and he was never better at it than 1985-86, when he piled up a record 163 assists, breaking the mark of 135 he had set the previous season. In fact, Gretzky owns the seven highest single-season assist totals in NHL history (a record in its own right).


Most consecutive 100-point seasons: 13
A back injury that limited Gretzky to 45 games (and 65 points) in 1992-93 ended his streak (though ironically, that was the season he led the Kings to their only Stanley Cup Final). Bobby Orr is next in consecutive triple-digit seasons with six.



Most career games with three or more goals: 50
Gretzky was great at scoring in bunches -- he had 37 three-goal games, nine games in which he scored four times and four in which he scored five times. Lemieux is next with 40 hat tricks, one more than Bossy;Teemu Selanne's 22 is tops among players active in 2010-11. A player would have to average three hat tricks a season for 17 seasons to top Gretzky's mark.

Most games with three or more goals in one season: 10
Imagine what it must have been like to be an Oilers fan in 1981-82 -- you had a one-in-eight chance of seeing Gretzky get a hat trick. The same was true in 1983-84, when he matched his own record. Bossy and Lemieux each have nine; no one sinceAlexander Mogilny in 1992-93 has more than seven in one season.



Fewest games to reach 500 goals: 575
The 500-goal mark is an elite achievement by an NHL player -- just 41 have reached it during their careers. Gretzky did it when he was just 25, scoring his 500th goal on Nov. 22, 1986
 

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the blackhawks starting 5 though...



back when hockey was on espn so they would actually spend a fair amount of time on NHL rather than talk about lebron and now steph curry ad nauseum



change the regulations against goalies wearing pads that cover the whole dam net...its a new game nowadays tho so im not sure that would even boost someone past. the talent is just too great now and deep (and that goes across all sports) as well.


Its more than just the equipment,its the coaching philosophy now in the game will make it impossible to ever go back to an offensive minded game...

Teams in the 80s were trying to win,now the philosophy especially late in the season is to not lose and play for the single point and OT...

Teams rigth now in 2016 will score a goal in the 1st period and play a defensive trap for the rest of the game,no changing of equipment can fix THAT.
 
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