Saku Koivu
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Wehave hates Brisebois the way I hate 55.
You're totally right... not sure why I added Breezeby.
And thank you for pointing out that Lemieux wasn't on the 93 team. You'd think someone would have mentioned it by now.
GrandWazoo
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Brisebois should be in the HHOF.
XPOFAN
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As their travel agent.
worm
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worm
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On closer inspection these are loafers.
Dear God this parachute is a knapsack.
GrandWazoo
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Not quite, in his years with the Habs, Devils and Avs (I'm excluded his older years on purpose), he had 9 good years, 4 bad ones and 2 average ones.
BKerr
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So you excluded the years where he had less ppg in the playoffs than the regular season... why?
Im not expecting a 36 year old to produce like a 25 year old... but if he truly is a "playoff god" like so many claim... what happened at that age that caused him to score more in the regular season than playoffs (and by wide margins in phoenix and dallas where he was a 40 pt guy and 20 pt guy those two years and 0 pts and 1 pt in playoffs).
He should still be able to elevate jn the playoffs at least to regular season level he achievs at the same age.
But he didnt.
Why? As bill simmons would say... there is no such thing as clutch... just random luck of a good player getting hot at the right time.
Overall his playoff ppg is barely better than the regular season. Not much difference at all.
Im not expecting a 36 year old to produce like a 25 year old... but if he truly is a "playoff god" like so many claim... what happened at that age that caused him to score more in the regular season than playoffs (and by wide margins in phoenix and dallas where he was a 40 pt guy and 20 pt guy those two years and 0 pts and 1 pt in playoffs).
He should still be able to elevate jn the playoffs at least to regular season level he achievs at the same age.
But he didnt.
Why? As bill simmons would say... there is no such thing as clutch... just random luck of a good player getting hot at the right time.
Overall his playoff ppg is barely better than the regular season. Not much difference at all.
GrandWazoo
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Yeah, I weight his prime years higher than his later years. It fits my rationale. Just like including his 38 years old seasons fits yours.
I don't know if he was clutch or not but what I know is that he was definitely a playoff performer. Like I said before, given that scoring is generally way down in the playoffs than in the regular season, anyone who scores at a higher PPG in the playoffs than he does in the regular season, especially over the course of a career, is a playoff performer.
I understand the rationale of not expecting a 35-38 year old to be as good as they were when they were younger, but if he was scoring at a certain pace in the regular season at that age, should he as a playoff performer be able to step it up in the playoffs?
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Tony Romo agrees.
Dr.Phibes
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Of course he would.
GrandWazoo
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That depends. If could give you the year with Phoenix when he had 41 points during the season and 0 during 5 playoffs games, even though it was a very small sample of game and the whole team didn't score that year.
But should we really count the season with Dallas where he had 20 points in the season on a 4th line and 1 points in 7 games in the playoffs on a 4th line? I kinda prefer looking at the years that he was being a top 6 players and a major contributor to the team instead of merely a support player.