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[Vic Rattlehead18]

My Rangers friend decided to declare a 16 goal campaign for Parise under Lemaire (sarcastic obviously but the point is there). So I compared Rangers GFs with Wild and Devils. Then I decided to look at the comparison of GF's and GA's since the Devils first season.


Devils GF GA Rangers GF GA
1982–83 230 338 1982–83 306 287
1983–84 231 350 1983–84 314 304
1984–85 264 346 1984–85 295 345
1985–86 300 374 1985–86 280 276
1986–87 293 368 1986–87 307 323
1987–88 295 296 1987–88 300 283
1988–89 281 325 1988–89 310 307
1989–90 295 288 1989–90 279 267
1990–91 272 264 1990–91 297 265
1991–92 289 259 1991–92 321 246
1992–93 308 299 1992–93 304 308
1993–94 306 220 1993–94 299 231
1994–95 136 121 1994–95 139 134
1995–96 215 202 1995–96 272 237
1996–97 231 182 1996–97 258 231
1997–98 225 166 1997–98 197 231
1998–99 248 196 1998–99 217 227
1999–00 251 203 1999–00 218 246
2000–01 295 195 2000–01 250 290
2001–02 205 187 2001–02 227 258
2002–03 216 166 2002–03 210 231
2003–04 213 164 2003–04 206 250
2004–05 N/A N/A 2004–05 N/A N/A
2005–06 242 229 2005–06 257 215
2006–07 216 201 2006–07 242 216
2007–08 206 197 2007–08 213 199
2008–09 244 209 2008–09 210 218


Devils grand totals are:
6507 / 6345

And Rangers totals are:
6728 / 6625


Rangers obviously did better than us scoring 221 more goals. But also let up 280 more goals.
Devils scored 162 more goals than they gave up. Rangers scored only 103 more goals than they gave up.
That's a difference of 59 between the two. It is a small difference, but given the Ranger fans' long history of excuses of minuscule statistics. I think this stacks up pretty good. Not to mention only being away by 221 goals isn't all that much either.

Keep in mind, Devils won 3 cups and missed the playoffs 7 times in their history.
Rangers won the cup once and missed the playoffs 9 times in this time period.

[Rangerfans]

All I'm going to say is your Ranger friend might be legally retarded.

Do I feel that Parise's scoring will decline? Absolutely. However, there is no disputing his natural talent and abilities as an extremely lethal offensive juggernaut.

So while I DO feel his numbers will be less, I believe that his natural talent and abilities alone will be enough to score and obtain an great amount of points...regardless of your system.

Parise is sick.