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Up to four careers on one chart — points per game, season by career season, so a sophomore's arc lines up against a legend's. Flip on era adjustment to translate every season to today's scoring and find out whether the kid really is trending like Gretzky.
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How this works. Each line is one player's NHL career, regular seasons only, from the NHL's public API. "Season 1" is a player's first season with at least 20 games played; seasons under 20 games (injury years, late call-ups) are skipped and don't advance the count, so every dot is a real sample — hover any dot for the actual year, team and stat line. Split seasons (trades) are summed across clubs. Era-adjusted multiplies each season by ( ÷ that season's league average goals per team-game) — translating, say, the 1985-86 league where teams scored 3.97 a game into today's tighter game, so eras can argue on level ice. Goals-per-game adjusts the same way. This is a league-average adjustment: it rescales by how much the whole league scored, not by how much the top scorers scored, so read it as a fair translation between eras rather than a precise one. We deliberately don't adjust for roster size or schedule length — every number here is a per-game rate computed from published NHL season totals, so you can rebuild the whole chart yourself from two public endpoints. Dot size follows games played, and a season under 40 games is drawn hollow — a 22-game injury year is a thinner sample than an 82-game season, and the chart should say so. One limit the adjustment can't fix: the wartime seasons (1942-45) ran short of NHL-calibre players, so scoring rose for reasons no era adjustment can undo. Nothing here is estimated: the league averages are computed from the NHL's published season totals, and a season the API doesn't publish (2004-05 lockout) simply doesn't exist on the chart. The built-in pool covers the latest season's top scorers, every team's leading scorers, and a starter set of legends — and any other player, past or present, is fetched live from the NHL API when you type his name.