200 goals is an amazing accomplishment. He might hit 400 in roughly 950 games if he can maintain his current career pace. That would put him in the top 100 goal scorers of all time, based on raw numbers rather than rate. A few other guys who are slightly above the 400-mark are Marian Gaborik, Paul Kariya, Shane Doan, Anze Kopitar, and John Ogrodnick. Dave Keon, Boom-Boom Geoffrion, Daniel Sedin, Marcus Naslund, and Marty St. Louis are a few
players who were close to missing. It wouldn’t be bad to keep him as company, and there’s no guarantee he would stop at 400. To put into perspective what a unique goal scorer DeBrincat is.
The future direction of the league is always interesting. While this piece doesn’t do much to go in-depth about what conversations will be had, it does at least give us an idea of what’s going to come up – money, money management, how further expansion could bring in more money, and risk to current money forecasts if players are injured in international play.
All sarcasm and cynicism aside, these are important topics and a proper path forward absolutely impacts the success and failure of the League as a whole. The salary cap, international play and that weird 4-nation thing they wanna do, and even expansion are all critical items to discuss and either iron out (gimme 36 teams please!) or scrap and try again (like a mid-season 4-nation tourney). If you’re interested in the long-game, this will be something to keep an eye on.
