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Originally Posted by Ducay
Generational should come through the league once a generation; your Orr, Howe, Gretz, types
Not McDavid, Crosby, Ovi, Matthews, Eichel, etc all within a 10 year span. Effectively contradicts the meaning of the word. Maybe players and training are just better now, but you have have multiple "best of the generations" at once.
Its a useless clickbait term now that TSN throws around like candy to hype up their own draft programming
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I agree with this.
To be generational, a player should not only be the best player of his era, but there should be a gap between him and everyone else.
Gretzky, Orr, Lemeiux and people like that.
For me, Crosby is borderline - definitely the best for many years, but not a very big gap between him and others.
McDavid is not generational. If he can continue to up his game and not only become the best player in the league, but create some separation, and do it for several years. THEN he would be generational.
Right now, he isn't even the best player yet. And we don't even know if he is going to be significantly better than Matthews (who arguably had a better rookie season than McDavid did)