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This season will be a critical season for Ovechkin to score goals, as scoring 40 goals as a year old is a rare feat.
However, based on his past productivity, 40 goals is not outside the realm of possibility. Last season, he would have likely exceeded 40 goals had it been a full, game season. There is just one year old player in the history of the NHL who scored 40 goals, that being Johnny Bucyk with A further 18 players scored at least 25; Bucyk holds the record for scoring as a year old and scored 32 as a year old. The best scorers from ages 36 through 37 were Esposito with 76, Bucyk with 72, Hull and Shanahan both with 69, Sakic with 68, Gartner with 67, Norm Ullman with 65, Beliveau with 64, and Bill Cook with Selanne only had 12 goals as a year old, during an injury-plagued season, but his goal total between ages was Gordie Howe, while not among the leaders at either 36 or 37, had 58 goals.
Jean Ratelle also had 58 goals between ages No player has topped 40 goals as a year old and just three have topped 30 goals. Those three, stand-alone players were Hull, Bucyk, and Martin St. Mike Gartner scored 12 goals as a year old and then retired. Sakic dropped off greatly at age 38, scoring just 13 goals and just two more goals for the remainder of his career after that.
In order to pass Gretzky, age 38 will be a critical year for Ovechkin to get at least 20 goals given that three high goal scorers through age 37, Esposito, Gartner, and Sakic flamed out. At age 39, Gordie Howe is the only player to top 30 goals, with There were 17 others who scored 20 or more, which includes Bucyk, Selanne, and Hull. The best production from ages 36 through 39 were: Bucyk with , Hull with , Selanne with , Jean Ratelle with , Howe with , Jean Beliveau with , and Bill Guerin with Shanahan only scored six goals in a partial season at age 39 and retired after the season.
Hockey analysis, history and humor. New content most days during the season. NHL scoring dropped dramatically after the league outlawed the lens flare stick. Teemu Selanne will be wearing an away jersey tonight in Winnipeg, but he won't be hearing many boos. In fact, Jets fans are likely to give him a hero's welcome. It's been over 15 years since Selanne last played an game in Winnipeg, but fans there haven't forgotten the magic moments he created as a Jet in the early 90s.
Once the NHL announced the return of a franchise to Winnipeg, fans circled tonight's game on their calendar for what's sure to be an emotional reunion. So as Winnipeg prepares to give Selanne a long-awaited ovation, let's take a look back at the career of one of hockey's most beloved superstars. October 8, - Veteran Jets defenceman Randy Carlyle refuses Selanne's request for his jersey number 8, then wonders why the rookie is walking away mumbling something about "payback" and "revenge" and "Bruce Boudreau in 20 years".
March 2, - Selanne breaks Mike Bossy's rookie goal-scoring record and then famously mimes shooting his glove out of the air, while a young Artem Anisimov watching at home imagines how everyone would probably think it was really cool if he did something like that too someday.
June 17, - After finishing the season with 76 goals and points, Selanne wins the Calder Trophy for top rookie in a close vote over the other two finalists, "Ha ha ha" and "No seriously, Teemu Selanne had 76 goals and points this year, why are we even voting on this?
Mussolini" in a moment that I wish I was making up. February 7, -Selanne is traded to the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, which devastated Winnipeg Jets fans assume will be the worst thing to happen to them all year. January 18, - Selanne scores a hat trick and is named MVP of the All-Star Game, finally putting to rest the old stereotype that Europeans just don't want to win badly enough when it comes to intolerably dull corporate shill-fests.
March 5, - The Mighty Ducks trade Selanne to San Jose Sharks, but hold open the possibility that he could always return to the franchise in four or five years as a consultant or an assistant scout or a dominant first-line winger.
July 3, - Selanne signs a heavily discounted free agent deal to join the Colorado Avalanche for one season that nobody remembers because it never happened. September 15, - A slumping and aging Selanne returns to his native Finland to undergo knee surgery during the NHL lockout, since having all your internal organs replaced with titanium cyborg parts is apparently now called "knee surgery" in Finland. June 6, - Even during his most triumphant moment the classy Selanne insists on sharing the credit with those who made it all possible, which makes it kind of awkward when he goes to hand the Stanley Cup to Chris Phillips.
January 28, - Selanne announces that he will return to the Ducks for one final season, on the condition that everyone agree to act surprised when he makes the exact same announcement every offseason for the rest of his life.
February 20, - An assist in Finland's win over Germany makes Selanne the all-time scoring leader in Olympic hockey, although the record is broken a few days later by every single Canadian player who gets a shift against Evgeni Nabakov.
March 28, - Selanne becomes the oldest player in NHL history to score on a penalty shot, then regales his younger teammates with stories of days long ago when penalty shots were still considered exciting back before Gary Bettman brought in the shootout and ruined them.
December 17, - As the heartfelt pre-game ovation swelling around him grows louder by the moment with no signs of letting up, Teemu Selanne begins to get the vague feeling that he may have been in this city before and should possibly remember who any of these people are. Let us know how Mrs. DGB responds when she sees this or somebody shows it to her. Not just hockey. I don't remember at all. But I do have an unreasonable dislike for Tony Granato for some reason.
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