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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Agreed. There is a reason this guy is borderline HOF. During his prime, he was THE BEST in the league. And this is with #99 and #66 still playing. Don't let his last couple of seasons fool you. Had he stayed injury free, we might be looking at one of the top 20-30 players of all time. Never before had the league seen a player with such a great combination of skill, scoring, toughness and physicality. A shame he couldn't learn to keep his head up.
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I think Mario Lemieux remains the most talented player to ever play the game and was every bit Lindros' physical equal. Lemieux just didn't enter the league as a burly player and didn't play the type of reckless power game that Lindros did, mostly because Lemieux didn't need to. But the stuff about Lindros being physically unstoppable was said about Lemieux.
A lot was made about Lemieux passing the torch to Lindros when Lindros' Flyers defeated Lemieux's Penguins (Lemieux retired for the first time afterwards). But I really don't think Lindros was ever the clearcut best player in the league the same way Lemieux and Jagr did.