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2 minutes ago, canuckledraggin said:

Scores his 400th tonight.

Over 1500 games.

Over 1000 assists.

Hart trophy

Art Ross trophy

Olympic gold

Is he a Hall of Fame player?

Off course, he's almost a point per game guy in a lower scoring era of hockey.

 

Great back and forth, exchanging leads game. Potential WCF showdown!

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3 minutes ago, 6string said:

Off course, he's almost a point per game guy in a lower scoring era of hockey.

 

Great back and forth, exchanging leads game. Potential WCF showdown!

Amazing game vs. Nashville. That's the kind of game I want to watch in the playoffs and it's November. Rinne would have made a difference just by being there. San Jose is cheating with Burns and Karlsson.

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22 minutes ago, canuckledraggin said:

Scores his 400th tonight.

Over 1500 games.

Over 1000 assists.

Hart trophy

Art Ross trophy

Olympic gold

Is he a Hall of Fame player?

If there was a guy in the last 20 years who was a better playmaker than Hank Sedin???  LOL, they put more than one guy on Joe's line. Bumped up their valiue. And traded em for guys like Brent Burns. Unbelievable. 

 

Hank, in his 2 or 3 most dominant years was the best playmaker in the game. Joe still the most dominant playmaker of the last 20 years.

 

And yeah, 0.95 PPG over 20 years = first ballot, no brainer. 

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First ballot, no question. Not a huge fan of the guy, but he's one of the best playmakers in NHL history. No one has more than his 96 assists (2005-06) other than Mario, Bobby, Wayne, and Adam Oates. The 1000 assist mark is also an incredibly rare mark for any player to hit. Keep in mind that Hank never even hit 900.

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4 hours ago, RRypien37 said:

You know you're an elite set up man when Jonathan Cheechoo can get a 56 goal season sitting shot gun on your line. 

"Much of Cheechoo's success was augmented by the Sharks acquisition of superstar Joe Thornton in late November. Before the trade, Cheechoo had 15 points (7 goals and 8 assists) in 24 games. In the 57 games after the trade, Cheechoo had 78 points (49 goals and 29 assists)." o.O

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1 hour ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

Definitely.

 

He joins Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Mark Messier, Ron Francis, Marcel Dionne, Steve Yzerman, Joe Sakic and Ray Bourque as the only players in NHL history with 400 goals and 1000 assists.

Those are all Stanley cup winners!

I heard Gretzky say : they’re are a lot of players that win individual awards and scoring titles but what makes them great and what the ultimate goal is hoisting the Stanley cup. That is a list of “Great” players!

 I’m sure Thornton will find his way to the hall of fame. He might even have one last chance to belong on that list , but not yet.

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2 hours ago, MattJVD said:

No Question.

 

Also, he's the only player in the 4 major North American sports to be traded part way though a scoring titles winning season. 

And the return was Marco Sturm, Wayne Primeau and Brad Stuart. Luckily for Boston their drafting was impressive after that to boost them back.

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