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82/83 Season
Yvan Cournoyer overtakes Gordie Howe for most points in the NHL in the first week of the season, has over 3050 in 1800 games! He's just been a phenom with Gretzky level stats 16 straight years of 140 points, many over 150 and 1 at 200, his max being 203. Will post his stats once he retires.
The changing of the guard with the Cournoyer-Unger-Redmond line taken off the 1st line and not first choice pp, and Lanny McDonald traded, means we take a hit in our goalscored, the 4 wha teams are now stronger and scoroing 10 goals a game agianst them is rarer.
Minnesota start off hot and despite a 5 game wobble, they are just 4 losses behind me at the halfway stage. Come end of season, we finish on 138 points, 9 clear of Minnesota having gone 2-1-1 in regular season. Really hope we match up in the Stanley Cup final.
We end up with 511, goals for the season, a lot lower than 601 2 season ago, and some 70 goals off the average we've had for the Cournoyer years.
Lukowich, Gardner Derlago, Cloutier and Rusotlainen all get 100 points, but our max is 128. Rest of the team is solid, but we really miss a top tier center. For the league 35 100 point players, and 17 50 goal scorers. Gretzky got 180, his lack of teammates really hurting him. No one else in detroit got even half his points! He won the art ross and was top goalscorer with Bossy on 71.
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