I'm always amazed how people only rate how a player should stand up over time to the number of rings or championships they have won. I'll take career stats over trophy cabinet any day of the week.
Take Ray Bourque. Played twenty-one classy years in Boston and didn't even get CLOSE to winning the Stanley Cup. Only in his forties did he move to a stacked Colorado team and play a small role that really didn't make much of a difference anyways. Does that mean Ray played his best year in Colorado? Or he'd be any worse a player if he had just retired in Boston? Hell no.