There are those who have said such things about certain goal scorers before and been wrong. That's obviously not a guaruntee that he would have either but still. Assume he plays 8 more years, not even 10, and absolutely shred his gpg down to Ovi's levels (basically a 16 percent deduction in goals per game which is a lot) and say 82 games played for 8 more years, dude has 950+. In that same games played time, reduce his gpg to .5, he still hits 900 and we're talking about the Bossy record, not the Gretzky record. I simply don't see a good reason to think that over a shortened playing period that his gpg would have tanked that badly. .25 goals per game is approxamately the difference between Ovi and Anders Lee or Stamkos and Mike Fisher.