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Quinn Hughes became the third fastest defenseman ever to 300 assists. That's wild. I just think that's pretty crazy, right? Yes. I'm bringing up all-time scoring leader's defenseman.

We're starting to see it more and more because scoring is up compared to where it was, I don't know, 5, 10, 15 years ago. So many of the records are... I mean, it's nearly... The scoring Three record books are very heavily catered towards dudes who played in the '80s and early '90s. So it's nice that some of those records are... I didn't break a record. He's third. But he's in the conversation. It feels like we went through a very big swath of hockey history without anyone ever becoming close.

Now, 300 assists is not even enough to put you in the top 100. So there's still a significant amount of time to go.

Yeah, that makes sense. He just started.

Yeah, but I think it's an incredible achievement. And I'm like, oh, sorry. That's points. What am I saying? Adam. What's going on? One hockey with all their-What's going on? All these things. It's still not enough to put you in the top 100. But I'm looking at him. He and Justin Falk, who also just passed the mark. See, Quin Hughes did it in 367 games. Justin Falk, for anybody paying attention, did it in 915 games.

And he's a pretty decent offensive defenseman. He's had a very good career.

Another defenseman that you would know that would be on this list that's still playing, a couple of them, Ryan McDonah, 941 games he's played. He's got 317 assists. Seth Jones is 322. He's played 811. I'm just trying to... Nick Letty, 1,015 games, 338 assists. So you're talking about... And here's a guy who was known for some scoring for a while. Jeff Petrie doesn't even have 300 in 946 games. He has 283. So that gives you some context about how incredible this is. Yes.

No, Quin Hughes is... I mean, it's an embarrassment of riches across the board. A lot of guys haven't done the best recently. Obviously, McDavid's had a struggle to start the season. Matthews.

Ovie's doing okay.

Ovie is doing okay.

We're glad I have him on my fantasy.

To have Quinn Hughes and Kael McCart in the League at the same time, rules. And Adam Fox. Rules and Adam Fox. The fact that Adam Fox is like, we look at him and we're like, That's a Bronze medal.

Maybe Maybe he doesn't win a Norris again. He might not.

He might not. He might not. You know how many guys went through the '80s and '90s that maybe could have? It's part of the reason why the Hall of Fame discussion with some guys is so difficult, and it feels unfair. Okay, he never even won a league MVP or a scoring title. Right. Unfortunately, it says here his career span from 1979 to 1999. So good luck with that. That's Gretzky's entire career, the prime of Lemu, the prime of Jogger, most of the prime of Jogger. And even that trickled it. What was the record? It was for For 20 years or something like that, the scoring title was held by three different men. Yeah. That's it? Yeah. I know that's not defense, but I don't like records or conversations that last forever. There needs to be a chase.

Oh, it's way more exciting watching Ovi chase Gretsky than saying, Can't be beat. And that's what we said for a long time. Stop watching hockey.

It's done now.

It'll never be better. To be fair to those people that said it, though, during the Trap era, it seemed impossible.

It seemed completely... Yeah. Jamie Ben, that wasn't even the trap era, led the league with 86 points.

That's boring. That sucks.

It's boring and sucks and boo. Yeah. No, it was crap. Yeah.

It Did you have the guys who got 300 assists faster than him?

I do not have that.

It's got to be Bobby Orr. Steve, you want to play? I don't even know how to look that up. Both of you can play guessing games with that one. Bobby Orr, free space, correct. Fastest to 300 assists.

I'm going to say... So how many... He's the third one, so there's two.

Third fastest, yeah. Only two men ever have got 300 assists. I'm going to say, for me, it's either Paul Koffie or Larry Murphy.

But I'll go with Paul Koffie because the oilers were bonzo.

Ray Adam was close. Koffie's in fourth place.

He's faster than Paul Koffie's wild.

That is crazy.

Hold on.

Let me make sure that- Because Paul Koffie didn't really play defense. He was mostly a fourth forward. That was the criticism of his whole career.

Second fastest defenseman ever to 300 career assists, Brian Leach. Damn. Wow. Who did it in 368 games. Brian Leach rules. Bobby Orr did it in 346 and Quin Hughes 376. He beat Paul Koffie by one game who did it in 377 games.

Bork not being there at all is crazy.

Brian Leach, favorite non-leaps defenseman until he was a leaf. Always loved him. I wish we got that extra season out of him.

That's a huge what-if. To even be that close to Bobby Ork.

Yeah. No, he's not. He's been in 30 games.

He's not crazy. No, it's in theory... Okay, so here's a question. Is Kael Mccar on pace to be better than this? Faster than this?

Because I feel like they're roughly the same. He's played 328, and he only has 268 assists, so no.

Wow. Yeah, that doesn't map.

Unless he gets 40 assists in the next 10 games, which is possible.

I don't know if you've seen his numbers.

I have him on my fantasy team. I'm a lucky bastard. I got him on both of them in the first round. He's so good.

Yeah.

He's so dispensive. Yeah, he's going to be up there. Yeah, he's going to be up there. Yeah, which isn't insignificant. He's going to be one of the fastest.

He has His goal numbers must be higher. He has 18 assists in 13 games just this year alone, Kael Mccar.

Yeah, Mccar last year had 21 goals. He doesn't have those goal numbers. No. He had 17 last year, actually. Which is actually extremely good. Only four off. He does have those goal numbers.

To have Two of them is crazy. Then also Adam Fox. Dude, there's a bunch of really good players. There's a lot to complain about with the NHL. We talk about it all the time. In terms of talent, it's an embarrassment of riches today, and it's never been better.

Sorry, go ahead, Jesse.

No, I forgot Kael Mccar's '21, '22 season. He almost scored 30 goals. He hit 28. I completely forgot that was the thing that happened.

Was it John Carlson the only one to hit 30 in the modern era?

I don't know if John Carlson ever hit 30. It was Mike Green and Sheldon Sourya.

It was Mike Green. That's who it was. Mike Green. I always think Washington defenseman.

That's one of the... Remember bloggy Salming? Yeah. Bloggy Salming and Down Goes Brown, when they made videos together. And he did the Team Canada disrap for the Vancouver Olympics. And he's like, Wait, Mike Green's not on this team? Holy fuck, we're stacked. Mike Green with 30 goals didn't make Team Canada. Oh, yeah.

There's only been 17 defensemen all time that have scored 30 goals in a season.

So Mike Green is one of them.

Eighteen of them are Bobby Orr.

Sorry. It's 17 30 goal seasons by a defenseman, not all time.

Yes. Okay. So obviously, can we go through some of this? Bobby Orr? Yep.

How many? Paul Koffie has the record. He has most goals in the season. He had five, didn't he? He had 48 goals in one season. Yeah. So he did 30 goals. One, two, three.

That's Bia Pro. He's not back checking for nobody.

That might be a tough one to beat.

Three times.

Three times? Yeah. Bobby Orr, how many, Jesse?

Bobby Orr is on this list. He's in the top 17. One, two, three, four, five, five times. In the 129 goal season.

Bork has to be in there.

Ray Bork is...Nope.What?

What about Lawrence Murphy? Larry Murphy? Nope.

Wow.

Larry was a big-time scorer. That's crazy.

Ray Bork, I found him. 31 goal season, 15. There you go. In the 83, 84 season, he scored 31 goals. Wow. There you.