So advanced statistics have only really been tracked at least in a significant way since the mid-2000’s and even then anything before the mid-2010s is sketchy at best so the metrics just don’t really exist to compare them across other eras, the increasing offense in PPG for all D is mostly just the leagues tilt towards more skilled players, the rule changes stemming from the lockouts is the biggest portion of this with things like 2 line passes being allowed and the league calling minor penalties like holding, hooking and slashing a lot more aggressively in the modern game, it has significantly lessened the defensive style of grind it out, wear them down hockey.

Makar can hang with pretty much any defenseman in history through this point in his career. Certainly offensively the only Dman to score at a significantly higher rate through his first 2.5 seasons in Paul Coffey. This is a little muddied of course by the fact that different players entered the league at various different ages but is fine for a quick precursory look.