The NHL's 2014-15 season has not been a banner year for superstar scorers.
With less than two weeks remaining in the regular schedule, the league's top scorer, Sidney Crosby, became the first player to crack the 80-point plateau this season with his 26th goal on Wednesday night.
At this rate, the 2014-15 Art Ross Trophy winner could finish with 90 points or less—the lowest non-lockout total since Stan Mikita's 87 points earned him the honor in the 74-game 1967-68 season.
But here's the funny thing—overall, scoring is not down compared to recent seasons. It's just more spread out. Parity is playing a big part in the death of the 100-point scorer.
According to Hockey Reference, teams are averaging 2.74 goals per game so far in 2014-15. That's exactly the same number as in 2013-14 and a shade higher than the two years before that.
It's well above the low point of 2.57 goals per game that we saw in 2003-04, right before the lockout that brought an end to the "Dead Puck Era" and introduced us to two generational scoring stars in Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby.
This year, Crosby and Ovechkin are leading ...
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