1) In the salary capped NHL with the increased pressure on teams' to get as much production from as few a dollar spent as possible we at Faux rumors thought we'd do a little retrospective evaluation of players production verses their salaries through the years. Not only of today's players, but also those of the recent past. (Going back to 1989)2) Keeping in mind several factors making it difficult/impossible to make a decisive proclamation concerning each player. Such differences include eras. The scoring vs the dead puck era. The pre-vs post salary capped eras, etc. However with those provisos in mind he is our abridged list of players, their total points (or wins for goalies), their total salary earned for their careers, and the average $/point (or win). Admittedly it's a MUCH more difficult thing to assess defensemen as it is goalies/forwards where points and wins are clear cut numbers to weigh. We also will NOT be counting the current season and will try to avoid players who have played less than 5 seasons where the rookie cap will affect their numbers
3) At first we were going to do all this in 1 post. However after compiling the data we figured this all would be so much easier to read/digest if we separated the information into 2 different posts. One for skaters and one for goalies. First we'll look at some of today's star non goalies. First number will be total points in their careers, followed by total income earned through 2010-2011, then the average $$/point/million. Then we'll look at some star players from the recent past (post 1985)
- Ryan Getzlaf: 417 pts 11.8 mil 35.3 pts/mil
- Evgeny Malkin: 422 pts 12 mil 35.2 pts/mil
- Patrick Sharp: 321 pts 9.3 mil 34.5 pts/mil
- Henrik Sedin: 673 points. 21.7 mil. 31 pts/mil.
- Daniel Sedin: 658 pts. 21.7 mil. 30 pts/million
- Alex Ovechkin: 617 pts 21.0 mil 29.4 pts/mil
- Cory Perry: 371 pts. 12.8mil 29.0 pts/mil
- Alex Semin: 359 pts. 12.7 mil 28.2 pts/mil
- Henrik Zetterberg: 556 pts 19.8 mil 28.1 pts/mil
4) Next we will look back a bit at some of the best players from the past 25 years and see where they stack up with regard to the same criteria:
- Wayne Gretzky: 2857 pts. 48 mil 59.5 pts/mil
- Adam Oats: 1420 pts. 25 mil 56.8 pts/mil
- Luc Robitaille: 1394 pts 34.8 mil 40 pts/mil
- Mario Lemieux: 1723 pts. 54 mil 31.9 pts/mil
- Mark Recchi: 1533 pts 49.9 mil 30.7 pts/mil
- Mark Messier: 1887 pts. 64 mil 29.5/mil
- Brett Hull: 1391 pts. 52.5 mil 26.5 pts/mil
- Pierre Turgeon: 1327 pts 52.3 mil 25.4 pts/mil
- Jeremy Roenick: 1216 pts. 54 mil 22.5 pts/mil
- Brendan Shanahan: 1354 pts. 61 mil 22.2 pts/mil
- Doug Weight: 1033 pts. 58.1 mil 17.8 pts/mil
- Joe Sakic: 1641 pts 93.2 mil 17.6 pts/mil
- Mats Sundin: 1349 pts. 79.7 mil. 16.9 pts/mil
- Jaromir Jagr: 1603 pts 98 mil 16.4 pts/mil
- Alex Yashin: 781 pts. 53.9 mil 14.5 pts/mil
- Peter Forsberg: 885 pts 65.4 mil 13.5 pts/mil
- Keith Tkachuk: 1065 pts 80.5 mil 13.2 pts/mil
- Pavel Bure: 779 pts 66.4 mil 11.7 pts/mil
Today again we will look at the forwards:
5) So what do we take from this? You can say that players from the early/mid 80's were either vastly under paid or their bretheren a decade later were vastly OVER paid. It seems star players from the early 90's to early 2000's were compensated well beyond the predesessors and probably quite a bit better than today. What would Gretzky have made if his prime was 10 years later? How could a Keith Tkachuk rake in 80+ mil, 30 mil more than TGO who had almost 3 times as many points?
Look for our post concerning goalies up coming soon.
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