John Tavares: HOF?

[ZBBM]

The stat they showed tonight — that Tavares just became only the second player ever, after Messier, to score 250+ goals with two teams — was impressive. OTOH, it makes sense that there are so few; not many elite scorers switch teams mid-career. Another thing that weighs against him for the HOF is his team's lack of playoff success. But — OTOH again — I think that shouldn't count for quite as much as it once did, now that we have a 32-team league.

I think he's got a pretty good case but I could also see people saying it's not the Hall of the Very Very Good.

Any thoughts?

 

[Guilt Trip]

He's a HOFamer.
~5th in OHL scoring history
~1st in Goals with 215 in 247 games.
~2 Gold Medals, U20 World Juniors
~1 Olympic Gold Medal
~1 World Championship Gold.
If he plays for the next 3 years he probably reaches 600 goals, 1350pts...inside top 30 all time. He's not far off the top50 right now. Pretty impressive career.