I often see people refer to young players on sub par teams and how many points they could rack up if they were on a team loaded with offensive weapons.
This is not necessarily the case in my opinion. I'll use a couple of examples of younger players that seem to get mentioned alot on this site that have played on struggling clubs- Anze Kopitar and Alexander Semin. Put them on one of last year's best offensive clubs, I think Ottawa and Buffalo were the highest scoring teams last year. So, would they have had more points with one of these teams? Last year, Kopitar had 61 pts (29 on the PP) and Semin had 73 pts (38 on the PP).
I personally think not. Firstly, they would not be getting the PP time that they did with their current teams. Secondly, they would not be getting the ice time that they did. Consider that Kopitar averaged over 20 and a half minutes of ice time per game and Jason Spezza averaged just over 19 minutes per game. Just an observation. Better team=better stats???
2007-09-20
13:43:04
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Bob Loblaw
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