Mike Gartner played 19 seasons (1980–1998) for Washington Capitals, Minnesota North Stars, New York Rangers and 2 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 708 goals and 627 assists (1,335 points) in 1,432 games. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1985. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2001.

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within NHL
Cross-sport prominence: 99.2th percentile among NHL careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NHL Age Milestones — Youngest to 100 Goals, 500 Points, 50 Goals and 100 PointsNHL Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNHL Career Arc TypesNHL Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNHL Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Stanley Cup PlayoffsNHL Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNHL Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Rosters, bio, draft details, and season/career totals come directly from the NHL's own official public API.
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Rate Mike Gartner — All-Time
19 seasons · peak 15.1 in 1985
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NHL season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
54.8 career wins over 19 seasons · 1 win = 3.52 VAL
Best season · 1985 · +4.3 wins
Latest season · 1998 · +0.7 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NHL player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Mike Gartner led or placed top-ten on a NHL season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 3 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1985, 19 rated seasons.
Season boards
3
top-ten finishes across the NHL season boards
The season chip above measures Mike Gartner's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 17 seasons (1980–1996) — a true nomad. The crest trail: