Let’s start at the top; the Sedin’s are just incomparable. The connection those two shared on the ice is something hockey fans won’t see again. Here’s a look at the 2010-2011 and 2023-2024 top seven forwards in scoring.

As you can see, there are some clear similarities. In both years, each team’s top two point-getters were nearly identical. Daniel and Henrik Sedin had 54 points, amounting to 108 points. 13 years later, J.T. Miller had 55 points, and Elias Pettersson had 53 points, amounting to 108 points. Each team’s leading goal scorer had 25 goals, with one more player with 20+ goals.

While there are glaring similarities between J.T. Miller and Ryan Kesler that go beyond the stats, each era’s power forward stuck out with nearly the exact same stat lines. Raffi Torres and Dakota Joshua had 11 goals and eight assists, with Joshua (119) edging out Torres (54) in hits.

The more bizarre comparison between these forwards is if you were to add up all the point totals from each year, the 2010-2011 forwards amount to 234 points. The 2023-2024 forwards amount to 233 points.

You can’t get much closer than one a point difference.

Here is where we see our biggest discrepancy: his name is Quinn Hughes.

The 2023-2024 Quinn Hughes season is an outlier, as he’s on pace to shatter every single Canuck single-season defencemen record, which he set just last year. Making him impossible to compare to previous seasons.

While the 2010-2011 top four defencemen heavily trail the 2023-2024 in points (by 35), as a group they lead in both shots (by 47) and hits (by 72).

The only category in which these groups were remotely close was goals scored. Hughes leads the way with 11, five more than any other defenceman, but collectively, each group has 18 goals scored.