This is partly because scoring has dropped leaguewide since that time. Nobody has scored as many goals in a season as Hull did that season in any year since. Oates was traded to Boston midway through the next season.īrett Hull came within 6 goals of breaking Wayne Gretzky's single season record of 92 goals and he did in in a time when scoring had dropped from when Gretzky set the record. In Hull's career which ended last season, he never again managed as many goals in a season, though it may be partly because he never had a full season with Adam Oates as his centreman. Oates finished second in assists behind Gretzky. Brett Hull was teamed with Adam Oates who was his setup man. Hull finished second in scoring in the NHL that season, finishing behind Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings, who had 163 points (due to a staggering 122 assists). Hull scored 68.6% more goals than his closest opponent. In second place was a three way tie between Theo Fleury of Calgary, Cam Neely of Boston and Steve Yzerman of Detroit who each scored 51 goals.

His lead in the goal scoring department was dramatic. He scored 86 goals, 45 assists for 131 points and won the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP. Is this result accurate?īrett Hull played 78 games that season. The top 10 single season adjusted goal scoring list produced by this method lists Brett Hull's 1990/91 86 goal season with the St Louis Blues as the best goal scoring season ever. Recently, I have written about the adjusting scoring from different eras to do player comparisons using a method devised by the hockey outsider (Peter Albert). It is important to check to make sure that we are not getting unintended results because of circumstances we did not properly take into consideration. Whenever we do sabermetrics it is important to ask ourselves if the results we get make sense.

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