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Art Gagne

Career

NHL: 1926-32; 6 seasons, 2 quality[1. By modern standards of PPG]
67G, 33A for 100P in 228 games; 22.4 PS
Era: Gagne is 21st in Goals, 19th in GPG, 24th in PPG, 23rd in OPS and 39th in Games[2. Of the 53 players to play in at least 200 games between 1926 and 1932]
82-game average: 24G, 11A for 36P
3-year peak (1926-29): 44-game average of 14G, 5A for 19P
Playoffs: 2G, 1A for 3P in 11 games
Adjusted: 132G, 165A for 297P
Adjusted 82-game average: 47G, 59A for 107P
Traded four times in his prime, and multiple times outside of the NHL.

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Marty Barry’s Career

NHL: 1927-28; 1929-40; 12 seasons, 10 quality[1. By modern PPG standards)]
Totals:
- 195G (11th All Time at his retirement),
- 192A (4th) for
- 387P (6th) in
- 509 games (22nd);
- 57.6 PS (15th)
At his retirement, Barry was 10th All Time in GPG, 4th in APG and 8th in PPG[2. Minimum 300 games]
At his retirement, Barry was 8th All Time in Offensive Point Shares
Era: Barry is 3rd in Goals and OPS, 2nd in GPG, Points and PPG, 1st in Assists and APG, 5th in PS and 12th in Games[3. Of the 14 players to play in at least 500 games between 1927 and 1940]
82-game average: 31G, 31A for 62P
3-year peak (1934-37): 44 game average of 18G, 20A for 38P
Playoffs: 15G, 18A for 33P in 43 games
Adjusted:
- Hockey-Reference:
  - 339G, 445A for 784P
  - Adjusted 82-game average: 55G, 72A for 126P
  - Per Game:
- VsX:
Traded once, left unprotected once.

Billy Boucher

Career

NHL: 1921-28; 7 seasons, 4 quality[1. By modern standards of PPG]
93G (13th All Time at his retirement), 38A (18th) for 131P (14th) in 213 games (12th); 21.8 PS (22nd)
At his retirement, Boucher was 24th All Time in GPG and 25th in PPG
At his retirement, Boucher was 15th All Time in Offensive Point Shares
Era: Boucher is 2nd in Goals, GPG, Points and PPG, 7th in Assists and APG, 3rd in OPS, 5th in PS and 6th in Games[2. Among the 8 players to play in a least 200 games between 1921 and 1928]
82-game average: 36G, 15A for 51P
3-year peak (1922-25): 24-game average of 18G, 8A for 26P
NHL Playoffs: 3G for 3P in 14 games
Adjusted: 159G, 208A for 367P
Adjusted 82-game average: 61G, 80A for 141P
If the qualifier is 82 games, Boucher is 24th All Time in Adjusted PPG
Traded twice at the end of his career.

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Aurele Joliat’s Career

NHL: 1922-1938; 16 seasons, 12 quality (by modern standards of PPG)
Totals:
- 270G (3rd All Time at his retirement),
- 190A (4th) for
- 460P (3rd) in
- 655 games (1st);
- 87.6 PS (5th)
Per Game:
- Few players qualified for the PG leaderboards when Joliat retired. (He was 7th of 7 qualifying players in GPG at his retirement and didn’t qualify for the other two.) However, if the qualifier is set at 300 Games Played instead, at his retirement, Joliat was
  - 9th in GPG,
  - 22nd in APG and
  - 11th in PPG
- If the qualifier is raised to 500 games, he was
  - 3rd in GPG
  - 5th in APG and
  - 4th in PPG
Joliat held the record for career games played from the 1936-37 season until the 1939-40 season
At his retirement, Joliat was 3rd All Time in Offensive Point Shares
Era: Of the 16 players to play in at least 500 games between 1922 and 1938, Joliat is
- 3rd in Goals, GPG, Points and OPS,
- 4th in Assists, PPG and PS,
- 5th in APG and
- 1st in Games
82-game average: 34G, 24A for 57P
3-year peak (1922-25): 30-game average of 23G, 10A for 34P
Playoffs: 9G, 13A for 22P in 25 games
Adjusted:
- Hockey-Reference:
  - 489G, 694A for 1183P
  - Adjusted 82-game average: 61G, 87A for 148P
  - Joliat is 7th All Time in GPG but does not qualify for APG or PPG
    - However, if the qualifier is set at 82 games, Joliat is 21st All Time in Adjusted PPG and if the qualifier is raised to300 games, he is 8th All Time; when it is raised to 500 games he is 3rd All Time
- VsX:
  - 406G, 508A for 830P [Numbers are adjusted separately)
  - 82-game average*: 51G, 64A for 104P
  - Per Game: Crazy as it may seem, Joliat is not in the Top 25 of any PG leader-board
Traded into the NHL.

Career

NHL: 1923-1937; 14 seasons, all quality
Totals:
- 271G (2nd All Time at his career-ending injury),
- 201A (2nd) for
- 472P (1st) in
- 550 games (4th);
- 100.8 PS (2nd)
Morenz was the career leader in goals at the end of the 1933-34 season[1. However, Morenz relinquished the career lead during his final season]
Morenz became the career leader in points during the 1931-32 season[2. Morenz held the record until the 1938-39 season]
At his career-ending injury, Morenz was 13th All Time in GPG, 12th in APG and 9th in PPG, if the qualifier is set to 82 games[3. i.e. The qualifier is low enough to include a player like Newsy Lalonde. However, if the qualifier is raised to 300 games (slightly less than 7 seasons in the ’30s NHL), Morenz was 4th in GPG, 7th in APG and 3rd in PPG at his retirement. With modern qualifiers, Morenz is 25th All Time in GPG]
At his career-ending injury, Morenz was the career leader in Offensive Point Shares
Era: Morenz is 2nd in Goals, GPG, Assists, APG and PS, 1st in Points, PPG and OPS, and 4th in Games[4. 14 players played in at least 500 games between 1923 and 1937]
82-game average: 40G, 30A for 71P
3-year peak (1929-32): 44-game average of 31G, 20A for 51P
Playoffs: 13G, 9A for 22P in 39 games
Adjusted:
- Hockey-Reference:
  - 501G, 728A for 1229P
  - Adjusted 82-game average: 75G, 109A for 183P
  - Morenz is 7th All Time in Adjusted PPG with an 82-game qualifier[5. If the qualifier is raised to 500 games, Morenz is 1st All Time]
- VsX:
Never traded.

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Art Gagne

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Aurele Joliat’s Career

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